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Reviewer

Rosie Lesso

Rosie writes about contemporary art for a number of UK based journals.

rhlesso@hotmail.com

Reviews

New Work Scotland Programme 2009/10 [22 February 2010]
 

In its twenty-six years the Collective Gallery has always aimed to pacify those dreaded first few years out of art college, providing a platform for exhibiting and a peer group. Ten years ago then director Sarah Munro devised The New Work Scotland  Read on…

The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 5 December - 31 January

Jeanette Sendler: Brown Linen [24 November 2008]
 

Women in corsets and bustles, young children in white crocheted dresses and tailors with long fabric tape measures and yards of linen; Jeanette Sendler recalls with misty-eyed reverence these sartorial moments from eighteenth and nineteenth century  Read on…

St Andrews Museum, Fife
13 September - 2 November

N55 Services [31 October 2007]
 

N55 is the curious name of a Danish artists’ collective, derived from both a street name and the latitude of Copenhagen, their home city. Highly critical of the inequality brought on by consumerist society, they instead promote sharing and the  Read on…

Collective and other locations, Edinburgh
5 October – 3 November

Alex Hartley [3 September 2007]
 

When comparing the great mountains of the Scottish landscape with modern Scottish architecture, the former could represent freedom, the latter utility and restraint. In this exhibition Hartley questions this divide between the urban and rural  Read on…

Fruitmarket, Edinburgh
26 July – 21 October

Alex Hetherington: House/Lights [31 July 2007]
 

A random arrangement of cameras, monitors and wires face us on the empty stage before Alex Hetherington enters the room. Waiting in anticipation is artist Janie Nicoll, wearing a pair of devilish horns and blood red lipstick, ready to play the  Read on…

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
19 July

Alex Pollard: Black Marks [1 May 2007]
 

Alex Pollard is an artist well-versed in mind games, where what initially seems playful and light-hearted is proves to be cerebral or time-consumingly constructed, and this show is no exception. He has recently linked his practice with the  Read on…

Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
21 April – 2 June