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Ken Neil

Ken Neil is Head of Historical and Critical Studies at The Glasgow School of Art.

k.neil@gsa.ac.uk

Reviews

Lorna Macintyre [1 March 2007]

The windy press release for this solo exhibition floats the idea that Macintyre is once again preoccupied with the ‘liminal’ (sic) space between the spheres of nature and culture. Yes, there is evidence enough by virtue of buildings,  Read on…

Mary Mary, Glasgow
20 January – 23 February

AndersonMacgee – AM01:III [2 May 2006]

A conspicuous crew of culture consumers stands, temporarily of course, in a typically earthy Torry pub, contra-socially gazing out of the window. Outside, seen through frosted glass, is Bryony Anderson. In requisite tartan-alia, she performs an  Read on…

Limousine Bull, Aberdeen
21 April – 6 May

Comfort [6 March 2006]

Volume is a Glasgow-based artists’ collective formed in 2003 by Fine Art Photography graduates from Glasgow School of Art. Late last year, founders Barbara Wilson, Betty Meyer, Celine McIlmunn, John O’Connell, Kate Jo and Kate V Robertson,  Read on…

The Art Gallery, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen
20 January – 19 February

Steven Duval – Abergreen: A social laboratory [4 July 2005]

With July’s salient case-study of G8 dignitaries convening behind the impressive perimeter fence which surrounded Perthshire’s Gleneagles Hotel, much recent civic and artistic attention in Scotland has understandably been focused on what  Read on…


Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
8 April – 24 June

PACE Commissions [30 September 2004]

One can be forgiven for approaching art in hospitals with trepidation. As we all know, artwork can be at its most mawkish in such an environment: on a background of puce, tremulous line drawings of foreign sunspots meet perennial nativity scenes in  Read on…

Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital, Aberdeen
Permanent commissions

Filter [19 July 2004]

Intelligently curated by recent Gray's School of Art graduate Kirsty Anderson, 'Filter' brings together seventy or so diverse photographic works by sixteen artists – most of whom are members of Aberdeen-based collective Limousine Bull. This is  Read on…

Limousine Bull, Aberdeen
6 June – 8 September