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Site Gallery, Sheffield
3 May - 14 June 2008
Knowing what something is not is not the same as knowing what something is. It is possible to display certainty in the elimination and refutation of one classificatory order, yet remain uncertain about the validity of claiming other categorical Read on…
Reviewed by: Emma Cocker
Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Berlin
8 November 2007 - 24 February 2008
JANNIS KOUNELLIS THE LABYRINTH - A RETROSPECTIVEWith his latest installation of the labyrinth, as an environment for his retrospective at the Neue Nationalgallerie in Berlin, Jannis Kounellis has produced a remarkable piece of work. The Read on…
Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes
16 April - 8 June 2008
The current exhibition at the excellent Milton Keynes Gallery is a series of paintings and scattered sculptural works by Glasgow based artist and newly announced, Turner Prize nominee Cathy Wilkes. Three cavernous galleries contain assembled groups Read on…
Reviewed by: Clare Carswell
Modern Art, Oxford
2 April - 1 June 2008
‘It is the new way of doing things’, I overheard a woman recently say to her friend as they were viewing the art currently on display in the lower gallery at Modern Art Oxford. Given the gallery we were in it seemed a surprisingly Read on…
Reviewed by: Clare Carswell
Site Gallery, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool
11 April - 14 June 2008
I first mistook the Martha Rosler collection as a 'touchable' archive of artists' books. Which I felt rather excited about as this was a rare and bold thing to do. As summer heats up so does the activities of artists' books, with Read on…
Reviewed by: Margaret Tran
David Miles, Brighton
9 May 2008
David Miles works extensively with paper, creating mobiles and cut-card works, and so an artist’s book is an almost inevitable development in his practice. Forest was produced for the exhibition Papercuts at Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery in Read on…
Reviewed by: Nancy Campbell
Hanley City Centre, Stoke on Trent
18 April - 3 May 2008
With a bombardment of art exhibitions, public art interventions and music and video events across the city Axis and AirSpace have given Stoke on Trent a glimpse of how fun and inspiring art in the city can be. In the Gallery: Read on…
Reviewed by: Katie May Shipley
Hormazd Narielwalla, London
1 May 2008 - 8 September 2025
Hormazd Narielwalla wears an elegant polka-dot necktie which might have caused Jeeves to raise an eyebrow, and a bright white kurta under a Burberry Macintosh. His outfit perfectly corresponds to the crisp white and fawn tones of his new book, Dead Read on…
Reviewed by: Nancy Campbell
Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
9 February - 9 May 2008
SOMETIMES IT HAPPENS AT NRLA. YOU’RE SHUTTLING FROM ONE PERFORMANCE TO ANOTHER, DIVING IN AND OUT OF QUEUES, NOT HAVING TIME TO EAT AND BEING CAUGHT UP IN THE MADNESS. THEN YOU STUMBLE ACROSS SOMETHING PERFECT, SOMETHING JUST FOR YOU AND JUST Read on…
Reviewed by: Rachel Lois Clapham
Venues across Glasgow, Glasgow
11 - 27 April 2008
Glasgow International was founded in 2004 and this year’s incarnation offers a theme that is loosely described by director Francis McKee as ‘public and private’. The project has slowly expanded to 40 exhibitions, occupying not only Read on…
Reviewed by: Jack Hutchinson
Leeds Met Gallery, Leeds
17 April - 17 May 2008
“Familiar space provides an environment which has unexpected edges.” The Freudian concept of an instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time is central to Unheimlich, a group show running Read on…
Reviewed by: Jack Hutchinson
Various, Glasgow
11 - 27 April 2008
Glasgow International Think about the things that really make life worth living - love, sex, creation, attraction, destruction, wild places - then think of golf. It's disgusting.[1] There was a TV above the Read on…
Reviewed by: Matthew Mackisack
Scotland Street School Museum, Glasgow
12 April - 5 May 2008
Exhibited in one of the old classrooms at Scotland Street School Museum, a Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed building south of the Clyde (the last one he worked on apparently), Multi Module is a ceiling height floor-based sculpture. It is shown Read on…
Reviewed by: Stephen Palmer
Bracknell Gallery, South Hill Park Art Centre, Bracknell, Berkshire
29 March - 11 May 2008
What would you think about the iconic images of England? About such icons as the Union Jack, the Palace of Westminster, the Royals, the Beatles, the ever so charming weather or the ‘pound’? How then do we construct a narrative out Read on…
Reviewed by: Yifang Chen
CCA, GoMA, Royal Concert Hall, In Transit, Glasgow
11 - 27 April 2008
I finally got to visit Glasgow's GI Festival after a mix up with my ticket booking, albeit on the last weekend, knowing that I would only get to see a glimpse of the vast array of work on show all over Glasgow town. My first stop was Read on…
Reviewed by: Sharon Mangion
Fieldgate Gallery (ended) / Cafe Gallery Projects, London
2 April - 4 May 2008
Dark Materials A taste for a sumptuous kind of darkness has resurfaced in contemporary art. Leaning towards the grotesque, but with a seductive turn that separates it from the abject, this is Romanticism’s twisted cousin: the most recent Read on…
Reviewed by: Emily Candela
The Macbeth, London
14 - 28 April 2008
Andrew Walter, a recent graduate of the illustration programme at Kingston University, is exhibiting some drawings in the upstairs rooms of the arty Hoxton pub, The Macbeth. They first look old fashioned: pen-and-ink, monochromatic and Read on…
Reviewed by: Matthew Mackisack
Leeds Met Gallery, Leeds
18 April - 17 May 2008
Unheimlich is usually translated as Uncanny. Freud wrote an essay on the subject during one of his rare forays into aesthetics. His basic thesis was that something that disturbs, or even horrifies us, is not the opposite of something safe and Read on…
Reviewed by: Bryan Eccleshall
Leeds Met Gallery, Leeds
18 April - 17 May 2008
It always surprises me that we are so habituated to the everyday stuff of existence that life does not seem strange to us most of the time. There is probably a good evolutionary reason for this as experiencing the Uncanny on a regular basis Read on…
Reviewed by: Sharon Mangion
KW Institute for Contempoary Art, Neue National Gallery, Berlin
15 April - 15 June 2008
5th Berlin Biennial Off I trotted to the 5th Berlin Biennial, to find out what it was all about. It is spread over four sites, the Mies Van Der Rohr designed Neue National Gallery, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, the Schinkel Pavilion, and Read on…
Reviewed by: Lucinda Holmes
Cornerhouse, Manchester
1 February - 23 March 2008
The three prints that make up Gregor Neurer’s New Tenant (2001) piece depict empty domestic environments, capturing the subtle marks left behind where we can only imagine furniture once stood. The aesthetic is minimal but the dark traces, of Read on…
Reviewed by: Amelia Wood
Birmingham, Birmingham
5 - 12 June 2008
NGA Birmingham – 5th – 20th June www.newgenerationarts.co.uk Last year I had the good fortune of visiting the graduation show at Birmingham City University, at the time I remembered seeing a number of works that Read on…
Reviewed by: Nathaniel Pitt
OVADA , Oxford
5 April - 24 May 2008
GIFT showcases work by The Ideas Exchange, a group of artists working in and around Oxfordshire. The ‘gift’ theme expresses the group’s commitment to exchange and reciprocity. On entering the gallery the viewer immediately Read on…
Reviewed by: Helen Statham
Ikon , Birmingham
2 April - 18 May 2008
Review by Charlie Levine The kitsch space ship has landed at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, where the first museum exhibition by local artist Ruth Claxton is currently on display. ‘ Land’s End ’ is a complex Read on…
Reviewed by: Harminder Judge
The Manchester Museum, Manchester
19 January - 27 April 2008
Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan, two artists collaborating for the Alchemy fellowship at the Manchester Museum, draw upon both cultural and natural history in their practice, with an emphasis on myth and folklore. The exhibition is part of an Read on…
Reviewed by: Laura Clarke
The Booth Museum Of Natural History, Brighton
16 June 2007 - 15 June 2008
It is interesting how a specific exhibition detailing the life’s work of Edward Thomas Booth: huntsman, collector of specimens and curator, is being shown at a time when taxidermy seems to be re-kindling as a desirable medium, rather than Read on…
Reviewed by: Laura Clarke
Artists' Book, Brussells
1 January 2008
At times, the line between the critical and the cathartic gesture can become blurred. There is sometimes little to distinguish the self-consciously resistant or creative action from a ‘coping mechanism’ or some other form of Read on…
Reviewed by: Emma Cocker
White Cube, Hoxton Sq, London
29 February - 29 March 2008
The incessancy of time is one that looms over our modern society. The pressure to always be somewhere, the thought that I might be late or could be using time more wisely is both blessing and curse. The opportunity to take time to stop Read on…
Reviewed by: Dan Green
C4RD, London
10 April - 2 May 2008
On entering the Centre for Recent Drawing's intimate space, I was pleasantly stunned by Mia Pearlman’s Eye - a giant swirl of cut and inked paper, lit from below, casting shadows, as it expanded onto the ceiling and walls. This work had Read on…
Reviewed by: Lucinda Holmes
University of Plymouth, Plymouth
25 - 28 March 2008
Megan Calver has been standing in her garden at dawn, holding up a yolky-yellow pole almost as tall as her house. She’s been using it to mark a period of attention to birdsong: "The song is the flag, the colour that the pole hopes to Read on…
Reviewed by: Gabrielle Hoad
![Katri Walker, 'Aguamiel [honeywater]', video installation, 2008. Photo: Katri Walker. Courtesy: Katri Walker.](/an_images/428494-1.jpg)
