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Kirklees Media Centre
6 June 2007 to 7 July 2007
I found what I'd read about in a printed program weeks before and sped through a first look round on a busy day last week so those animated and networked works were barely registering on that skim read. There were no other viewers and I left Read on…
Reviewed by: Anton Harding
Salthouse Church
5 May 2007 to 6 June 2007
Site specific installations in historic spaces are high risk undertakings. If exhibitors are not attuned to the spirit of place, the addition of artworks to existing design creates visual cacophony. Picture a church on a hill overlooking the Read on…
Reviewed by: Marion Arnold
Opera house, Manchester
7 July 2007 to 7 July 2007
Finally sitting down after the tricky, ascent up to the our seats, we hear a piano somewhere down, or... up, on stage. I've been wearing these upside down glasses for eight days, so sometimes I forget. The chatting stops and the lights dim, Read on…
Reviewed by: Benjamin Hargrave
Grey Area
6 June 2007 to 7 July
Intuitively eight sculptural and video pieces in Brighton's independent Grey Area is too much for the space. As it happens this was most definitely not so for Jonathan Gilhooly's recent show there: now you don't. Read on…
Reviewed by: Micheal O'Connell
Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World
7 July 2007 to 7 July 2007
Haldon is a working forest: a scene of constant death and renewal as timber is felled and trees replanted. In the midst of it all, Peter J Evans looks like a man preparing his own coffin. Using only hand tools, he's planing a large block of lime Read on…
Reviewed by: Gabrielle Hoad
Oriel Davies Gallery
5 May 2007 to 7 July 2007
In conversation with Michael Corris, on the Mal Pope show on BBC Radio Wales, Yvonne Buchheim described how her ongoing project Song Archive started out as an investigation of 18th century philosopher Johann Herder's theory, that the cultural Read on…
Reviewed by: Ian Patrick Freely
Dorchester Abbey
5 May 2007 to 5 May 2007
Thin Air draws from and builds on the sonic life of religious buildings. We hear in Thin Air the dying moments of a choral piece that the space has already suggested to us or the fragments of conversation that we unconsciously dreamed when we saw Read on…
Reviewed by: Felicity Ford
Dorchester Abbey
5 May 2007 to 5 May 2007
Thin Air Dorchester Abbey 23 May 2007 We aren’t used to silence, patience and reflection; aspects that places like Dorchester Abbey lend themselves to. Thin Air very subtly inhabited the spaces at the east end of Dorchester Abbey. I Read on…
Reviewed by: Jo Plimmer
1000000mph Project Space
6 June 2007 to 7 July 2007
There is much to protest about these days, but how to go about it in an era when The Who's “Won't Get Fooled Again” rattles around the brain at the (non) election of a new Prime Minister, whilst doubling as the title music for Read on…
Reviewed by: Bryan Eccleshall
Stroud Subscription Rooms
20 June
Conflict has been on my mind a lot recently. Even in the chip shop getting my kids meals just before Fiona Kam Meadley’s screening of films on the theme of conflict and conciliation, I couldn’t help overhearing the details of a domestic Read on…
Reviewed by: Colin Glen
Various venues and online
Throughout June, July and August
‘More’ comprises a series of diverse artist-led projects across Cornwall throughout summer. As an initiative it takes the ‘Liverpool Independents’ as a precedent, in that the shows deliberately coincide with ProjectBase Social Read on…
Reviewed by: Megan Wakefield
Saltburn Artists’ Projects, Saltburn-by-the-Sea
25 May – 2 July
The exhibition ‘Work and Play’ at Saltburn Artists’ Projects seems to possess a simplicity that belies the conceptual stance taken by this artist in her approach to the questioning of the Fine and Applied Art disciplines. The first Read on…
Reviewed by: Peter Richard Heselton
Foyer Gallery, Aberdeen
7 May – 30 June
Having seen a selection of Colin Brown’s earlier work from the late 1990s in a catalogue of his exhibition in Hanover, I was sure I knew what to expect from his latest work on display at The Foyer Restaurant and Gallery, Aberdeen. However, his Read on…
Reviewed by: Kerry Russell
The Old Postal Museum, Bath
25 May – 9 June
Curated by artist Mariele Neudecker for Bath Fringe Arts, the works in ‘Identity’ are hosted in the former Old Postal Museum and now temporary home to the Bath-based artists’ initiative South Central. Neudecker has skilfully employed Read on…
Reviewed by: Edward Adam
Spacex, Exeter
19 May – 14 July
From making photographs and sound recordings to unravelling our own DNA, we increasingly understand the world by reducing it to a string of ones and zeroes. Encoding and decoding, digitising and processing. Peter J Evans seems both fascinated and Read on…
Reviewed by: Gabrielle Hoad
Cell Project Space
6 June 2007 to 7 July 2007
Stuart Murray is a Spy Crap jobs I have had include:Putting the walnuts in walnut whips [I only did this for a day but the girl next to me fainted on the conveyor belt (imagine this bit)] Peeling potatoes by the sack Read on…
Reviewed by: Lucinda Holmes
Battersea Arts Centre
6 June 2007 to 6 June 2007
Shown as part of Brunel University's MA Contemporary Performance Making Showcase Festival Like millions of women across the UK, Ellen Duckenfield has an unhealthy obsession with food. However, her obsession does not stem from a modern concern Read on…
Reviewed by: Rachel Lois Clapham
UCLAN, Preston
6 June 2007 to 6 June 2007
Though the Great War may almost be beyond living memory, Janet Manogue seeks to record and remember its effect on lives and landscape through her poised and accomplished artwork. This elegantly hung work (way above the standard of her peers), uses Read on…
Reviewed by: Bryan Eccleshall
Bonington Building
6 June 2007 to 6 June 2007
With the general confusion and claustrophobia of the Private View night over, the degree show exhibition at Trent comes into its own; at once a wonderland of childhood fantasies, a paradise of strange imaginings and pseudo-scientific flights of Read on…
Reviewed by: Rachel Eite
Artsadmin
6 June 2007 to 6 June 2007
The Artsadmin summer season launched on the 5th June with Screenings 1 and Monitors Programme 1. The two programmes were presented in different areas of Toynbee Studios with Screenings 1 in the Steve Whitson Studio and Monitors Programme 1 in Read on…
Reviewed by: Rachel Lois Clapham
Tesa Della Nuovissima 105 / Arsenale di Venezia
6 June 2007 to 8 August 2007
(I am not finished with this yet !!!) .. About the, already known to be elusive, Hamsterwheel at the Venice Biennale... When I still hadn't found this show on the 3rd day of the opening weekend I dedicated an afternoon of blister Read on…
Reviewed by: Birgit Deubner
South London Gallery
5 May 2007 to 6 June 2007
As I entered my kitchen this morning, eyeballing last nights washing up on the draining board, I pulled open the blind and stared at the ever present sight of the downstairs tenants backyard. It's full of rubbish. Not that you can really tell Read on…
Reviewed by: Martyn Cross
Rockwell, London
13 April – 10 June
Rockwell presents its last show. This artist-run space opened in May 2003 on the top floor of a commercial building. The premises are divided into three areas, several studios on one side, living space on another and a central exhibition space Read on…
Reviewed by: Capucine Perrot
White Cube
6 June 2007 to 7 July 2007
I was very excited to see Hirst's glitter ball of a skull. I'd planned my visit to Hoxton Square White Cube and booked my ticket. However, the first disappointment was that it was not made clear that the media hyped skull was actually at Read on…
Reviewed by: James Ford
Campbell Works gallery, Stoke Newington
5 May 2007 to 5 May 2007
Forthcoming and foreshortened, probing the shrubbery of private view I am overwhelmingly aware of what this show is and isn't. More in the form of questions than otherwise. No artist knows what they will see when they first enter the exhibition Read on…
Reviewed by: Miriam Craik-Horan
Transition Gallery
5 May 2007 to 6 June 2007
Apocalypse now? The Arboreal exhibition features 4 up and coming artists exploring man's interaction with the world and with fellow humans and tackles all sort of topical issues such as consumerism, social status and the ever tricky world of Read on…
Reviewed by: Fabienne Jenny Jacquet
One One One, London
24 May - 9 June
‘Anticipation’, the title of the opening show at One One One (referring to the street address on Great Titchfield Street) appeared less to encapsulate an individual or collective sentiment within or between the works, and more an external Read on…
Reviewed by: Charles Danby
11 Wolstenholme Square, Liverpool
25 May - 8 June
A noisy stopwatch dangled in the middle of the room attached to both the floor and ceiling. Scattered around it, up the walls and inserted into the floor were the wires, clocks and electronics of a bigger installation. Putting on a pair of Read on…
Reviewed by: Kevin Hunt
The A.M.U.T.I Gallery
6 June 2007 to 7 July 2007
The A.M.U.T.I Gallery is currently host to the work of Tom Wilmott, whose paintings and photographs present an engaging look at the immediacy of experience. Wilmott's new body of work maintains strong visual connections to previous pieces, Read on…
Reviewed by: Anna Hales
Various venues, Leeds
14-27 May
Inaugurated in 2005, ‘Situation Leeds’ returned this year with an ambitious line-up of over seventy projects. The festival was centrally marketed but artists took responsibility for realising their own work. Following the theme Read on…
Reviewed by: Amelia Crouch
