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North South Divine
Platform A Gallery, Middlesbrough
17 May - 20 June 2013
Keeping it real - In Teesside and East London By Kate Brindley Although born into a family of cutlery makers and factory workers, I feel rather dislocated from making and Read on…
Reviewed by: Tony Charles »
Posted: 2013-05-20
Involutus Memet : Denise Zygadlo
The Mill on the Fleet, Gatehouse of Fleet
18 August - 23 September 2012
Involutus Memet : Denise ZygadloPhotocopies of the artist’s body variously wrapped in cloth then transfer-printed onto chiffon, canvas and calico make up series of works: hangings, wall pieces, and a ‘book of folds’. Read on…
Reviewed by: Jeremy Carlisle »
Posted: 2013-05-19
Speak, Clown!
Fold Gallery, London
11 May - 8 June 2013
★★★★ out of ★★★★ "The Bonzo pre-surrealist visionary circus is in town." -Speak, Clown! press release, Fold Gallery, 2013. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages, come one come all to Read on…
Reviewed by: Adam Kelly »
Posted: 2013-05-17
TRIBE
Peckham Space, London
7 May - 23 July 2013
For their exhibition at Peckham Space, Sarah Cole and the TRIBE of eleven young girls (from Southwark Youth Service) played and explored around the themes of female adolescence, feminism, group dynamics, hiding and inclusion. For the short Read on…
Reviewed by: lauren brown »
Posted: 2013-05-17
Virginia Verran
Centre for Recent Drawing, London
12 April - 25 May 2013
2010 Jerwood Drawing Prize Winner Virginia Verran's new solo exhibition features a broad spectrum of work, including her distinctive marker-on-canvas roundel works, as well as paintings that rely heavily on her drawing discoveries.A double series of Read on…
Reviewed by: Jack Hutchinson »
Posted: 2013-05-17
Navid Nuur: Phantom Fuel
Parasol Unit, London
13 March - 19 May 2013
The Heygate Estate is a run down area near Elephant and Castle in London that, besides being the moody backdrop to films such as Harry Brown, Attack the Block and soon to be released World War Z is also notable for the giant letters NOW Read on…
Reviewed by: Sunny Cheung »
Posted: 2013-05-14
Folklore: Gert & Uwe Tobias at Whitechapel Gallery
Whitechapel Gallery, London
16 April - 14 June 2013
Romanian-born twins b 1973. The woodcuts, collages and sculptures at the Whitechapel Gallery are a collaboration by the Romanian born twins Gert & Uwe Tobias. The works are filled with familiar forms or patterns that sometimes resemble a Read on…
Reviewed by: Lisa McKendrick »
Posted: 2013-05-13
Truth and Distortion
Atlas Gallery, London
11 April - 25 May 2013
If these reviews exclusively covered contemporary art, I would still make some sort of argument for these early twentieth century Hungarian photographs to be included. There is so much still to be played out in the art of that time, in the Read on…
Reviewed by: Eleanor MacFarlane »
Posted: 2013-05-10
Kris Martin
White Cube, Mason's Yard, London
18 January - 16 March 2013
When anticipating a show comprised of work by an artist with such a fluid and diverse rang of practices as those mastered by Kris Martin, there is an excitement and curiosity upon entering the gallery of what you will be greeted with. Read on…
Reviewed by: Hannah Ziolek »
Posted: 2013-05-10
20|21 Art Fair
Royal College of Art, London
11 - 15 May 2013
There is an extra pleasure to be had of art at art fairs as opposed to some museums or galleries, which is that all the work is available. Whether or not it is even feasible to buy something, it is that very availability which somehow democratises Read on…
Reviewed by: Eleanor MacFarlane »
Posted: 2013-05-10
Excavations and Estuaries: Q&A with Linda Ingham
Abbey Walk Gallery, Grimsby
24 April - 1 June 2013
The coastal landscape of North East Lincolnshire is explored in a major new series of exhibitions and events to be shown over two years starting on 24th April 2013 with a show at the Abbey Walk Gallery in Grimsby. The ambitious project Read on…
Reviewed by: James Smith »
Posted: 2013-05-10
Emma Talbot
Mrs Ricks’ cupboard, Nottingham
1 March - 3 May 2013
The extraordinary walk-in exhibition space that is Mrs Ricks’ cupboard (presumably an ex-stationery cupboard at the former school premises of Primary, Nottingham) takes on a sinister aspect with Emma Talbot’s representations of the cruel Read on…
Reviewed by: Andrew Brown »
Posted: 2013-05-09
Matt Calderwood: Paper Over the Cracks
Baltic 39, Newcastle
15 March 2013 to 23 June 2013
There's a clinical sense of the unknown in Calderwood's presentation at the Baltic's auxilliary project space siteBaltic 39, a feeling somehow that one has emerged in a strangely familiar yet completely alien land. On the Read on…
Reviewed by: Sunny Cheung »
Posted: 2013-05-09
Memory Foam (Fischli & Weiss, Flowers & Questions, A Retrospective
Tate Modern, London
11 October 2006 - 14 January 2007
Last year David Weiss, of the Swiss duo Fischli/Weiss, passed away. I was taken aback, feeling we had lost a great artist and so began searching through notes on exhibitions of theirs I had visited. I found, amongst others, notes and Read on…
Reviewed by: Ben Lloyd »
Posted: 2013-05-06
The Thread of Life
Kritsotopoulas, Kritsa, Lasithi, Crete
4 May - 25 October 2013
During a recent visit to Crete, Jane Ostler talked to Nigel Ratcliffe-Springall about Life, The Universe and Sculpture. Q How long have you been living here? A Ten years, or thereabouts. Q Was it always your original idea Read on…
Reviewed by: Jane Ostler »
Posted: 2013-05-04
Anya Lewin, Chez Paulette on the Sunset Strip
Peninsula Arts Gallery, Plymouth University, Plymouth
27 April - 31 May 2013
Chez Paulette on the Sunset Strip offers a scene of expanded cinema, of film as a series of events, spilling and spreading beyond the immediate moment of the screening, the immediacy of being seated in a cinema seat, and watching. The skin Read on…
Reviewed by: Mark Leahy »
Posted: 2013-05-03
All Front Looking Back
The Royal Standard, Liverpool
13 April 2012 - 28 May 2013
"Gentlemen," concluded Napoleon, "I will give you the same toast as before, but in a different form. Fill your glasses to the brim. Gentlemen, here is my toast: To the prosperity of The Manor Farm! " Napoleon Pig in George Orwell’s Animal Read on…
Reviewed by: Richard Shields »
Posted: 2013-05-03
In the Face of Wonder
The Exchange, Penzance
6 December 2008 - 28 February 2009
A letter to Partou Zia from Kate Walters. (on the occasion of your show at The Exchange, 2009). (Opening the window, the white bird flies in) . Partou, my dear, I brought Read on…
Reviewed by: Kate Walters »
Posted: 2013-05-02
Seven: MA Fine Art Contemporary Practice Interim Show
CMR Gallery & Project Space, Redruth
19 - 21 April 2013
Consisting of work from seven MA Fine Art: Contemporary practice students the aptly named ‘Seven’ exhibition took place at the CMR Gallery in Redruth. It played host not only to conventional canvas art but room sized installations, Read on…
Reviewed by: Laura Menzies »
Posted: 2013-04-30
Beastly Hall
Hall Place, Bexley
28 March - 1 September 2013
On Beastliness in Contemporary Art. By Nicole Mollett April 2013 What is it about strange monsters and mythological beasts that compel me so? In an attempt to answer this question I visited the exhibition of over 25 highly acclaimed Read on…
Reviewed by: Nicole Mollett »
Posted: 2013-04-30
Calder after the War
Pace, London
19 April - 7 June 2013
Commercial galleries are increasingly putting on shows to rival public museums and galleries. Think of Gagosian's Picasso show a few years ago, Blain Southern's retrospective of Lucian Freud's drawings last year, or even Pace's recent Read on…
Reviewed by: Mark Liebenrood »
Posted: 2013-04-29
Jeurgan Staack - Sakha
Konrad Fischer Galerie,, Berlin
18 January - 2 March 2013
Language, a component which is instilled within every one of us, communicating life and establishing relationships wether verbally or through physical visual gestures. There is a vast collection of communication dictionaries compiled of multi Read on…
Reviewed by: Helen Newman »
Posted: 2013-04-29
Curiouser and Curiouser
The home of Judith Alder, Eastbourne
30 March - 17 May 2013
Curiouser and Curiouser Review of Judith Alder retrospective – by Cathryn Kemp “’Curiouser and curiouser!’ cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good Read on…
Reviewed by: Cathryn Kemp »
Posted: 2013-04-27
Surveyed
Arnolfini, Bristol
20 - 28 April 2013
The Pink Glass Swan tacked to the wall. “ …the trip from oil on canvas to ideas on Xerox was, in retrospect, yet another instance of "downward mobility" or middle-class guilt “. Lucy Read on…
Reviewed by: Rachel Falconer »
Posted: 2013-04-27
Those Who Can't...
Creative Hinckley Gallery, Hinckley
1 April - 10 May 2013
An exhibition of work by Creative Arts Staff at North Warwickshire and Hinckley College takes its title from the old maxim 'those who can, do, those who can't, teach' (origin unknown). This maxim has been a thorn in the side of artist-teachers Read on…
Reviewed by: Peter Berry »
Posted: 2013-04-26
Misdirect Movies
The Royal Standard, Liverpool
15 - 31 March 2013
A HYBRIDISED CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE Misdirect Movies is a touring exhibition that occupied Liverpool’s The Royal Standard during the last half of March. It is a group show featuring a dozen works by seven artists using different media, Read on…
Reviewed by: cahal argue »
Posted: 2013-04-25
Brendan Lancaster - Open Country
Motorcade/Flashparade, Bristol
19 - 28 April 2013
On setting foot into 'Open Country' there is an immediate visual assault akin to the aural discombobulation of stumbling into a smoky jazz club: you are not immediately sure where to focus your attention. The paintings ahead of you all Read on…
Reviewed by: Martyn Cross »
Posted: 2013-04-25
Laure Prouvost - Farfromwords
Whitechapel Gallery, London
20 March - 7 April 2013
“This voice is the sun touching your face… feel the sun in your mouth.” Laure Prouvost's exhibition Farfromwords at the Whitechapel Gallery explores the sensory and sensual possibilities of landscape. Her provocatively titled Read on…
Reviewed by: Anneka French »
Posted: 2013-04-22
Sinead O'Donnell, 'Art of Begegnung Comes Tomorrow Slowly'
IBT13: In Between Time at Arnolfini, Bristol
17 February 2013
2:46 PM - 17 Feb 13 · #IBT13 #SineadODonnell - she clasps a stack of plates, as tall almost as she is; they curve away from and to her body, and sway slightly; // - the stack catches the light in two verticals of bright Read on…
Reviewed by: Mark Leahy »
Posted: 2013-04-19
Martin O'Brien, Breathe for Me
IBT13 at Arnolfini, Bristol
15 February 2013
5:04 PM - 15 Feb 13 Martin O'Brien #IBT13 - hand out before him, he can't see through the latex hood, he feels with his foot, touching his toe to find the edge. / he checks his blood, takes his temperature, urinates, eats a biscuit, Read on…
Reviewed by: Mark Leahy »
Posted: 2013-04-17