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Out Yer Tree Walk and Talk Event
Coombe Abbey country Park, coventry
28 August - 17 September 2010
Work in alternative spaces is always interesting to view as is hearing practitioners discussing their work. It was with these opinions that I approached the out yer tree walk and talk event at Coombe Abbey country park on a somewhat questionable Read on…
Reviewed by: Ryan Hughes »
Posted: 2010-08-31
'Exquisite Trove'
Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
23 July - 2 October 2010
The art of objects : a review of Exquisite Trove, (House of Fairytales at Newlyn Art Gallery, 23rd July- 2nd October), and the art of everyday, found and historical objects. There is something about a cache of mysterious objects, that Read on…
Reviewed by: delpha hudson »
Posted: 2010-08-27
Creative Zone and Tone by Elizabeth Mansfield
Elizabeth Mansfield 2009, Inkeberrow
1 September 2010 - 30 December 2015
Creative Zone and Tone By Elizabeth Mansfield, MA, SAC Dip (Personal Fitness Training) The title drew me to this publication, I try to keep fit and liked the promise of something that could put me in the Zone - the author’s primary claim is Read on…
Reviewed by: Wanda Zyborska »
Posted: 2010-08-27
'The Self'
Crocus Gallery, Nottingham
17 August - 4 September 2010
"And remember, no matter where you go, there you are." Read on…
Reviewed by: Thomas Darby »
Posted: 2010-08-26
Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth Staged
The City Observatory, Edinburgh
30 July - 15 August 2010
First published in the Skinny http://tiny.cc/0u39g The title of Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth’s new Edinburgh Festival commission might suggest a work that is rather spectacular. ‘Staged’ is a term often used to allude to all Read on…
Reviewed by: Vanessa Bartlett »
Posted: 2010-08-25
Whitstable Biennale
Whitstable, Kent
19 June - 4 July
Whitstable, a small port situated at the mouth of the Swale in Kent and famous since Roman times for its oysters, now the playground of London weekenders, recently celebrated its fifth biennale with an eclectic programme of events ranging from film Read on…
Reviewed by: Rose-Marie O'Brien »
Posted: 2010-08-25
Samantha Donnelly: Chaste Glances Signify Missed Chances
Supercollider, Blackpool
5-27 June
Blackpool has long been in need of a PR makeover. The time may just be right. The football club has just reached the heady heights of the Premiership, the Grundy art gallery has been quietly transforming the expectations of the arts community, and, Read on…
Reviewed by: Brendan Fletcher »
Posted: 2010-08-25
Damir Očko
Castle & Elephant, Coventry
28 May - 19 June
The gallery’s two floors each contain a video work by Očko that muse on the history and attributes of sound, each apparently using the absence of one of the senses to present the viewer with an altered perspective on the works’ Read on…
Reviewed by: Reuben Henry »
Posted: 2010-08-25
The Glass Delusion
National Glass Centre, Sunderland
21 May - 3 October
‘The Glass Delusion’ is a fascinating ragbag of an exhibition, a jumble of artworks, artefacts and bric-a-brac (some of it glass, some of it not) which explores how over the centuries glass as a material has often been associated, Read on…
Reviewed by: Paul Usherwood »
Posted: 2010-08-25
Facehole a Secco
Dirty Square Gallery, London
1 - 31 July 2010
Two works: a collaboration.One. By Charlotte Warne Thomas. This is noticeable from quite a distance. A white frame at a 45 degree angle to the original Dirty Square Gallery perimeter: perfect. Last month a refurbishment and this time a renovation. Read on…
Reviewed by: Dawn Smithers »
Posted: 2010-08-23
Clean Square Gallery
Dirty Square Gallery, London
3 - 30 June 2010
So here we are again, at the end of Rivington Street. A rippling velvet drape covers the usual frame of the Dirty Square Gallery. Sitting across the road, waiting and waiting (I'm early) for people to come and then, suddenly: A cleaning van arrives Read on…
Reviewed by: Dawn Smithers »
Posted: 2010-08-23
Inventions of the Mind - Kirsty E Smith
Erasmus Darwin House, Lichfield
31 July - 23 August 2010
What would happen if Ziggy Stardust had a date with Barbara Windsor and spent the afternoon at the Science Museum? Artist Kirsty E. Smith might have the answer. Smith has a particular relationship with her sculptures, which she Read on…
Reviewed by: Kathryn Campbell Dodd »
Posted: 2010-08-23
The Impossible Peace
C/O Gallery Berlin, Berlin
12 December 2009 - 28 February 2010
Don McCullin. The Impossible Peace You would be daring in venturing the word “beautiful” in describing some of Don McCullin’s work, as the incomprehensibly large amount of pain and suffering documented in his work Read on…
Reviewed by: Benjamin Mengebier »
Posted: 2010-08-20
Dawnbreakers
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton 27 April - 19 June
'Dawnbreakers' is an exhibition inspired by transition in relation to irreverent fear, transition in light of technological advance, and a particular emphasis on transition from one era or mindset to another Although intellectually rigorous, Read on…
Reviewed by: Peter Bonnell »
Posted: 2010-08-19
Down Over Up
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
31 July - 31 October 2010
Cartoon-like playfulness arrives at the Fruitmarket gallery in Martin creed’s Exhibition ‘Down Over Up.’ Chairs, Tables, Cacti, Nails, boxes, are either piled up or lined up according to size, simultaneously ascending and Read on…
Reviewed by: Leigh Chorlton »
Posted: 2010-08-18
The Surreal House
Barbican Art Gallery, London
10 June - 12 September 2010
The Brutalism of the Barbican Estate's architecture is like an awkward cousin of Modernism. Honest unabashed concrete fills your whole field of vision as you look out around the Barbican Centre to the flats and avenues and the three sky-rise towers: Read on…
Reviewed by: Ruth Solomons »
Posted: 2010-08-18
"bloom"
Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance
23 July - 16 August 2010
“bloom” by Maggie Matthews Maggie Matthew’s latest exhibition is an extended display of biodiversity. She has discovered a new passion in shrubs, plants and flowers. She comments, "A new direction. I’ve wandered Read on…
Reviewed by: George Care »
Posted: 2010-08-15
Book Review: Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary art since the 1960's
MIT Press, Massachusetts
13 March 2010
This book is the catalogue for an exhibition at the San Antonio Museum of Art. According to the blurb on the inside of the dust jacket "This eye-popping book offers a visual history of the psychedelic sensibility". It Read on…
Reviewed by: Tamany Baker »
Posted: 2010-08-14
ALEXANDRA DEMENTIEVA: FEEL LIKE I FEEL
Interactive Installations, NY, Brussels, Moscow
1 August 2004 - 1 September 2010
What's best about the interactive installations of Moscow-born artist Alexandra Dementieva is how psychologically compelling they are. Technically proficient, visually striking, fundamentally simple despite the mechanical and computational Read on…
Reviewed by: Barbara Rosenthal »
Posted: 2010-08-11
Invitation to the Graduates
Oriel Scala, Prestatyn
4 - 31 August 2010
A bold new initiative by Oriel Scala’s co-operative of artists in inviting recent North Wales graduates to join them as guest members during August is proving to be a fantastic success. The Scala Artists’ Co-operative Read on…
Reviewed by: Susie Liddle »
Posted: 2010-08-11
Digitalis
Oldham Gallery, Oldham
31 July - 19 September 2010
There is definitely a whiff of dry-as-a-bone academia about Oldham Gallery’s current ‘Digitalis’ exhibition, featuring as it does five artists who all lecture in fine art, all with a background training in painting, and all being Read on…
Reviewed by: paul cordwell »
Posted: 2010-08-10
Haris Epaminonda: Chronicles
Site Gallery, Sheffield
11 June - 21 August 2010
I was in Sheffield on Thursday and I called into Site Gallery to see Haris Epaminonda’s exhibition which runs there until 21st August 2010. This is her first solo exhibition in a UK independent gallery, and features a newly commissioned video Read on…
Reviewed by: Steffan Jones-Hughes »
Posted: 2010-08-07
Glam'd Out
Tactile Bosch, Cardiff
18 - 31 July 2010
This show is a re-presentation of Glamorgan University's BA graduate show. The eclectic collection of works illustrated perfectly the ethos of experimentation and exploration imbued by the course. The diverse and compelling exhibition Read on…
Reviewed by: Julia Rowlands »
Posted: 2010-08-03
We Have The Mirrors, We Have The Plans
Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno
22 May - 4 September 2010
We Have The Mirrors, We Have The Plans: Oriel Mostyn Gallery The current exhibition was planned to celebrate the reopening of the Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno after it was closed in 2007. The works on show are from twenty five artists from Wales Read on…
Reviewed by: Dorothy Harrison »
Posted: 2010-08-02
The Half Remembered Memoirs of a Wayward Brother
Neo's Gallery at Café Renroc, Edinburgh
30 July - 27 August 2010
On a rainy Sunday, in an inconspicuous nook of Edinburgh, Café Renroc appears through the grey light; a welcome bustle of warm-faced tourists, all jangling tea cups and cordialy dropping crumbs from buttery flapjacks. But enter this Read on…
Reviewed by: Iris Priest »
Posted: 2010-08-02
One On One Festival
BAC, London
6 - 18 July 2010
We live in an age of increasing social isolation. Communication technologies and globalisation are causing us to live and work in a way that is more mobile, yet more solitary. The gradual decline of organised religion has yielded an absence of Read on…
Reviewed by: Vanessa Bartlett »
Posted: 2010-07-31
Flooded McDonald's
South London Gallery, London
16 January - 9 May 2009
My first encounter with Superflex was during a period of research for an undergraduate essay titled Can Art Change the World? This was my first experience of socially engaged art practice and as such, it planted the seeds of an ongoing fascination Read on…
Reviewed by: Vanessa Bartlett »
Posted: 2010-07-31
A Ritual for Elephant and Castle
Cornet Theatre, Elephant and Castle, London
5 June 2009
I made a special trip to London for this because projects that put visual artists on stage always fascinate me. (See also II Tempo del Postino as part of Manchester International Festival for an even more esoteric helping of artists in the Read on…
Reviewed by: Vanessa Bartlett »
Posted: 2010-07-31
Marina Abramovic Presents
The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
3 - 9 July 2009
Performance Art has always appealed to my sense of austerity. While gallery goers pursue white cube spaces at their own pace and are permitted to feel disinterested and walk away when work is not to their taste, performance traditionally demands Read on…
Reviewed by: Vanessa Bartlett »
Posted: 2010-07-31
Pistol and Fur
WE ARE OPEN Pop Up Gallery, Middlesbrough
6 July - 7 August 2010
Pistol and Fur New Contemporaries If, like many other people, you sometimes feel that the gap between art and real life feels more like a chasm, then this is the show that you should see. Here, the immediate, the mundane throw away Read on…
Reviewed by: Norma Kyle »
Posted: 2010-07-30