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FACADE - Art in public places
The Space. 58 Kings Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea
6 - 13 March 2010
Pulling into St Leonards Warrior Square railway station on Saturday night, I caught sight of the flicker of video projections in a nearby open space, marking the beginning of the evening programme of works at the FAÇADE Read on…
Reviewed by: Lucy Cran »
Accessible Art
Mander Centre,Mander House,, Wolverhampton
22 February - 12 March 2010
“Accessible art” As an advocate of accessible art I was thrilled to encounter the work of artist, George Clark-Roden within a vacant shop, housed in the Mander Centre shopping mall Wolverhampton. Contemporary art, in an everyday space, Read on…
Reviewed by: Helen Read »
Chris Ofili
Tate Britain, London
27 January - 16 May 2010
Turner Prize winner Chris Ofili’s retrospective at Tate Britain takes you on a spiritual journey, unsurprisingly beginning with his infamous dung paintings. Touching images of a mother weeping, overlaid with intricate lace-like dots in his Read on…
Reviewed by: Samantha Wiltshire »
'Crash: Homage to J.G. Ballard'
Gagosian Galley, London
11 February - 1 April 2010
‘Crash’ is a large group exhibition that brings together works my many artists including Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol and Helmut Newton and also younger contemporaries such as Jenny Saville, Roger Hiorns and Mike Nelson. Read on…
Reviewed by: rebecca dunn »
The Open West 2010
The Summerfield Gallery/Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Cheltenham
17 February - 21 March 2010
How can an exhibition originally centered as an art prize manage to place attention from poignancy, and what is to be viewed as supremely contemporary, over to an exploration for discrete nuances of expression? The Open West, now Read on…
Reviewed by: Robert Luzar »
Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
Whitechapel Gallery, East London
21 January - 11 April 2010
Where Three Dreams Cross is the current exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, open until April 11, 2010. It is a showing of 84 photographers native to India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh of over 400 photographs depicting the subcontinent from Read on…
Reviewed by: Kait Brudzinski »
Afield and Louphole - Simon Whitehead
Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown
6 February - 7 April 2010
Afield draws upon the work of an artist over fifteen years: fifteen years of walking in and reflecting upon different continents, contexts and communities. Simon Whitehead makes connections between locations; exploring the sensory experience Read on…
Reviewed by: Julia Dean-Richards »
A Site on the Edge of Public Memory.
The Rea Garden., Digbeth, Birmingham.
11 September - 11 December 2009
Engulfed by nature and lost to the city of Birmingham for almost twenty years The Rea Garden in Digbeth has now entered a new and more prosperous stage in its evolution. Reformed by creative trio, Arlene Burnett, Paul Newman and Leon Read on…
Reviewed by: Laurie Cantwell »
The sound of fruit - JULIAN WOODCOCK
Deda, Derby
23 January 2007 - 27 March 2010
As an art form painting has been around pretty much since Lascaux and the biggest single handicap when looking at anyone’s paintings between now, then and the middle bit is the frequently unhelpful problem of comparison. It is very, Read on…
Reviewed by: Tom Hackett »
Psychic Geography
Workplace Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
23 January - 20 February 2010
Psychic Geography unites the work of nine emerging and established artists in a deliberately ambiguous assemblage of painting, sculpture and video work. Simultaneously encouraging and eluding theoretical verification, its title Read on…
Reviewed by: Emma Cummins »
Brick by Brick: small scale wall works by 24 artists
Foundry Lane Studios, Newcastle upon Tyne
21 January - 6 March 2010
Essay by Emma Cummins Occupying the space of a single wall, Brick by Brick intervenes with the existing architecture of Foundry Lane Studios to create a project which conflates site specific objectives with a unique collaborative Read on…
Reviewed by: Nick Kennedy »
Michael Landy's Art Bin
South London Gallery, Peckham
29 January - 14 March 2010
I’ve always been an admirer of Landy’s work, ever since he destroyed all his possessions in full view of the public in a laborious factory-style procedure in 2001 entitled Breakdown. His willingness to share his most intimate Read on…
Reviewed by: Sam Clift »
The Meaning of Style
Nottingham Art Exchange, Nottingham
16 January - 10 April 2010
After watching the Channel 4 Series ‘Tower Block of Commons’, raising issues of gun and gang crime and the stereotypes that tower block residences are unfairly titled with, this exhibition at the NAE seemed fairly apt. ‘The Read on…
Reviewed by: Amy Shaw »
New Work Scotland Programme 2009/10
The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 5 December - 31 January
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…
Reviewed by: Rosie Lesso »
Pawel Althamer: Common Task
Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, 12 December - 7 March
A group of men from the Brodno housing estate in Warsaw don gold lamé jumpsuits and accompany artist Pawel Althamer on a journey to Mali in West Africa. Visiting the Dogon people, they join in traditional dances and try to persuade local Read on…
Reviewed by: Tracey Warr »
Conrad Ventur: Forever and a Day
Rokeby, London, 13 January - 19 February
In the documentary on Ray Johnson How to Draw a Bunny (2000), Billy Name remembers the first time Andy Warhol came to the regular 'hair salons' he improvised in his flat covered with silver foil from floor to ceiling. "It was when Andy just got the Read on…
Reviewed by: Coline Milliard »
ArtSway Open 09
ArtSway, Hampshire, 21 November - 24 January
Upon entering the main room at ArtSway Open 09, the artworks inhabit the space in a composed and respectful wait. Even the piece placed in central position, a large sculpture reminiscent of a wooden telescope, does not steal the viewer's attention Read on…
Reviewed by: Eleonora Schinella »
Emergency 4
Aspex, Portsmouth, 14 November - 24 January
The opportunity pages of this magazine contain a cornucopia of notices inviting artists to submit work for juried exhibitions. One of the most outstanding is Aspex's 'Emergency' competition, now in its fourth incarnation and boasting a stellar Read on…
Reviewed by: Peter Bonnell »
Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
Whitechapel Gallery, London
21 January - 11 April 2010
Where Three Dreams Cross presents photography of the Indian subcontinent between 1860 and today, with special emphasis on all images being created by native-born artists. Inevitably, this conjures up questions of self-representation beginning Read on…
Reviewed by: Nette Hargreaves »
Testing Grounds
South Hill Park, Bracknell
31 October 2009
Strange noises resonated through the historic building of South Hill Park, Bracknell on the 31st of October. These noises came, not from Halloween revellers, but from artists experimenting with performance and sound. Testing Grounds, a live art Read on…
Reviewed by: Alice Brooke-Smith »
For the blind man in a dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there
ICA, London
3 December 2009 - 31 January 2010
One of many exhibitions that I have attended in the last few weeks that really stands out for me was For the blind man in a dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there at the ICA. The title is derived from a quote attributed to Darwin Read on…
Reviewed by: Christopher Collier »
Jim Goldberg: Open See / Sara Ramo: Movable Plains
The Photographers' Gallery, London
16 October 2009 - 17 January 2010
I recently took a trip up to the Photographers Gallery in Central London where I saw exhibitions by Jim Goldberg and emerging Spanish/Brazilian artist Sara Ramo that certainly affected me both intellectually and on a more emotional level, at the Read on…
Reviewed by: Christopher Collier »
Unfinished Business
Waterside Project Space, London
6 February - 4 March 2010
The new exhibition at the Waterside Project Space between Islington and Shoreditch on Wharf Road is one of the strongest at Waterside that I can remember and was definitely worth a visit. Unfinished Business is characterised by its absences and its Read on…
Reviewed by: Christopher Collier »
Measure and Purpose
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
9 - 13 February 2010
The idea of pseudo-scientific artwork is one that intrigues me greatly, as it embraces the oddly linked worlds of art and science in their lust for knowledge, explanation and understanding. At the same time however, there is a certain gauche Read on…
Reviewed by: Susie Cochrane »
Measure and Purpose
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
9 - 13 February 2010
Measure and Purpose is an intriguing exhibition that combines a series of different materials such as ceramics, painting and technical displays. It engages with the concepts of pseudo-scientific study and the human drive to integrate with Read on…
Reviewed by: Sarah Finch »
What Structures, Kate V Robertson
Intermedia, CCA, Glasgow
12 - 19 February 2010
… I watched enthralled from the empty deck as, every day, for the space of a few minutes, in all quarters of a horizon vaster than any I had ever seen before, the rising and the setting of the sun presented the beginning, development and Read on…
Reviewed by: Alex Hetherington »
The Never Ending Multi-story
Airspace, Stoke-on-Trent
21 November - 18 December 2009
The Never Ending Multi-Story - Airspace The Never Ending Multi-Story is a collaboration of four artists, each exploring the idea of alternative existences to that which they have become accustom to. With each artist recently graduating Read on…
Reviewed by: Stacey Booth »
Naomi Terry: 'In a City Not Too Far Away...'
The Wasp Room gallery, Nottingham
4 - 21 February 2010
Naomi Terry: ‘In a City Not Too Far Away…’ TETHER, The Wasp Room gallery Artist group Tether have a relationship with cardboard. In past exhibitions we have seen gigantic cardboard antlers from artist Deborah Swann and Read on…
Reviewed by: Susie Cochrane »
Strangeness and Charm
Viktor Wynd Fine Art Inc, London
5 February - 14 March 2010
What an intriguing place is Viktor Wynd Fine Art Inc. Both shop and gallery; library and museum; art setting and theatrical backdrop. To step through the front door on Mare Street is to enter an alternate world. I feel like Alice, and this is my Read on…
Reviewed by: Zoe Finch »
Theo van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde
Tate Modern, London
4 February - 16 May 2010
Theo van Doesburg was one of the leading figures in the development of geometric abstraction, founder of the De Stijl group and editor of the magazine of the same name. He developed contacts with such artists as Bart van der Leck, Anthony Kok, Read on…
Reviewed by: Jack Hutchinson »