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Tate Modern
6 June 2005 to 8 August 2005
There’s nothing like a good fact to grab someone’s attention. Here’s one; ‘for the first time in history, 50% of the world’s population are living in cities!’ Here’s another; ‘cities produce 75% of the Read on…
Reviewed by: Henry Carroll
Outpost, Norwich
2 July – 21 August
Anglia Square stands within a vortex of fetid Feng shui channels just outside the historic heart of Norwich, draining a swirl of pushchairs, litter and shopping trolleys into the maelstrom of its concrete heart. Five of its empty shops are being Read on…
Reviewed by: Stephanie Douet
Gone Tomorrow Gallery, London
7 July – 5 August
As a person who walks around hardware shops in a state of ecstatic awe due to the huge array of objects (that have a purpose which is often meaningless to me), I was excited about seeing Stewart Gough’s new sculpture The Mighty Quinn. It is Read on…
Reviewed by: Lucinda Holmes
Beverley Knowles Fine Art
4 April 2007 to 5 May 2007
Turning off Golborne Road into Bevington Road, your eye is caught by a splash of pink: Beverley Knowles' gallery. In the window hangs Marguerite Horner's Large seascape, Faith Pours from Your Walls II, its contemplative greys Read on…
Reviewed by: Ilinca Cantacuzino
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
5 May 2007 to 9 September 2007
Thus, like the moon, a lonely suppliant invisible myself, I sail apart until the sun reveals me with its beams. In Michelangelo Buonarroti’s sonnet, Veggio co’be’ vostr’occhi un dolce lume, the artist likens himself and Read on…
Reviewed by: Holly Slingbsy
University of Brighton Gallery, Brighton
7 July - 8 August 2007
If you live in Brighton, call yourself an artist and miss this then you're an idiot. I'm referring to John Goto's travelling exhibition New World Circus. A secondary title is Portrait of the Artist as a Clown so you might be one (a fool Read on…
Reviewed by: Micheal O'Connell
Photographers Gallery
6 June 2007 to 9 September 2007
Trained as a painter in the 1950s, Keith Arnatt gained recognition as a conceptual artist in the late 1960s. Like other conceptual artists Arnatt's work was self reflexive and self-critiquing and sought to free itself from the colonising effect Read on…
Reviewed by: Andrew Bryant
Outdoors in the Circular Green
7 July 2007 to 9 September 2007
“Does not slavery itself depress the mind, and extinguish all its fire and every noble sentiment?”* For some of those visiting ‘To Do Justly, To Love Mercy’, this may also be a first opportunity to see the garden behind Read on…
Reviewed by: Christy Symington
Manchester (Manchester Opera House)
7 July 2007 to 7 July 2007
Five o'clock, and eleven of us put our visors on, seeing normally for the last time. Half the world disappears; replaced by an upside down sliver of it. Soon the sickness starts, feeling nauseous, cold sweats... but after an hour or so, the fun Read on…
Reviewed by: Benjamin Hargrave
Centre for the Urban Built Environment
7 July 2007 to 8 August 2007
CUBE Open Exhibition 2007Artist-curators Hilary Jack and Paul Harfleet have done their bit in relaxing the often strained relationship between artists and architects by curating the Centre for the Urban Built Environments (CUBE) first open Read on…
Reviewed by: Paul Cordwell
rednile Studios
7 July 2007 to 7 July 2007
Three artists from Kangaroo Kourt, Bristol, and the three that make up rednile Projects, from Sunderland have collaborated on a two site project called ARTCAST. Each group visited the other's city and worked in the space there. The spaces were Read on…
Reviewed by: Bryan Eccleshall
Toynbee studios, Artsadmin
6 June 2007 to 6 June 2007
Durational Performance as part of the Artsadmin summer Season Written and directed by La RibotPerformed by Marie-Caroline Hominal, La Ribot, Delphine RosaySound Design and Performance Clive Jenkins For more info see Read on…
Reviewed by: Rachel Lois Clapham
The Northern Print Studios
7 July 2007 to 7 July 2007
A small but perfectly formed exhibition Jill Smith's collection of photography is a bold and contemporary comparison between interior and exterior and the character we create in our surroundings inside and out. The exhibition appropriately Read on…
Reviewed by: Sarah Fleming
Royal College of Art, London
1 June 2007 - 19 June 2008
I have just been in the bath filming my knob. Now my camera is in the kitchen trying (in vain) to focus on one of the legs of the tripod it's standing on. My knob and balls were just floating there so serenely I thought they'd look good on Read on…
Reviewed by: Andrew Bryant
Permanent Gallery
5 May 2007 to 6 June 2007
A tangle of pulsating neon, reflecting its aurora in the twisted copper, articulates something one would not expect to find encased in an oak vitrine. This is one of twelve immaculately crafted cases, each containing fragments of a voyage by Read on…
Reviewed by: Lisa Maddigan
Bonington Building
6 June 2007 to 6 June 2007
No intriguing or pretentious title; no generalised theme: Nottingham Trent Fine Art Degree Show 2007 does not pretend to be anything it is not. The end of three years exploration, study and growth has developed a wide range of new and well Read on…
Reviewed by: Alexandria Clark
Beverley Knowles Fine Art,
4 April 2007 to 5 May 2007
BEVERLEY KNOWLES FINE ART TRANSITIONS 7 April – 26 May 2007 Turning off Golborne Road into Bevington Road, your eye is caught by a splash of pink: Beverley Knowles’ gallery. In the window hangs Marguerite Horner’s large Read on…
Reviewed by: Beverley Knowles
Ex-Iraqi Embassy
7 July 2007 to 7 July 2007
Da Gallery Invades and Occupies Ex-Iraqi Embassy www.dagallery.co.uk Da Gallery a group of artists who invade unused buildings and then turn it into a ‘gallery’ until the structures of control evict them. They are temporarily free from Read on…
Reviewed by: Lucinda Holmes
Artsdadmin, Toynbee studios, Arts Bar and Caf',
6 June 2007 to 6 June 2007
Part of Artsadmin Summer Season Question: why is a pub quiz Art? Answer: Because the quiz mistress says it is, and the quiz mistress is always right. This is how sometime stand-up comedienne and live art artist Yara El-Sherbini holds fort in Read on…
Reviewed by: Rachel Lois Clapham
The Count House Workshop, Botallack, West Cornwall
6 June 2007 to 7 July 2007
Just Re-located: Heritage Centre 2025 The other project that was launched in June was Just Re-located, at the Count House in Botallack near St Just in the far west of Cornwall. Installed for two weeks this featured the work of 3 artists, all Read on…
Reviewed by: Bruce Davies
Artonomy, Truro, Cornwall
6 June 2007 to 8 August 2007
What is conceptual art, or more particularly, what does conceptual art look like now? In their own different ways the three artists showing at Artonomy this Summer all make conceptual art. They all allow their works to grow systematically and in Read on…
Reviewed by: Rupert White
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
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
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
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
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
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
