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Rosie writes about contemporary art for a number of UK based journals.
The mind boggles at how many carefully constructed exhibition proposals must be rejected and binned by artists and galleries every day, for subjective, practical or personal reasons. British artist Peter Liversidge has turned this perennial problem Read on…
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
23 February 10 April
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
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 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
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
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 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