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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Pennwood House, Cassington, Oxford
21 April – 2 June
This exhibition uses the framework of tourism to reflect on British culture and heritage, aiming to “celebrate everything that makes Britain unique”. Such an agenda is potentially problematic and, whilst the tourist’s detachment may Read on…
Reviewed by: Sally Davies
Gloucester Cathedral
2-28 May
Kathleen Herbert’s new film Stable was produced during her residency at Gloucester Cathedral. Its genesis lies in a throwaway comment made by one of the cathedral’s tour guides who mentioned that horses were once kept there. After further Read on…
Reviewed by: David Trigg
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
Limousine Bull
5 May 2007 to 5 May 2007
Approaching Limousine Bull last Thursday evening (the 17th of May 2007) for the preview of Jane Frazer's audio and textile installation ‘4th Dimension', which is part of the Six Cities Design Festival, I became increasingly Read on…
Reviewed by: Kerry Russell
Stockport Art Gallery
6 June 2007 to 6 June 2007
Can the idea that ‘the machine is the idea that makes the art'* make the art?* Sol Lewitt This is the type of question that preoccupies Tenneson & Dale, two artists who are obsessed with constrictive systems of order that rule our Read on…
Reviewed by: Bronwen Simpson
The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
5 May 2007 to 7 July 2007
The Hayward touring exhibition: ‘A Secret Service’ features a cornucopia of secrets. Fragmented and somewhat hard to follow, the layout and curator-ship mimics the theme; ‘Art, compulsion, concealment’. From Schwitters Read on…
Reviewed by: Annabelle Williams
Leicester City Art Gallery
3 March 2007 to 4 April 2007
Sometimes a foil is needed through which to conjure reflection. The same foil might yet be used as a ruse to misdirect or lead astray. At times a scene is set, only to test another's script: a frame drawn in order to expel the gaze beyond. Read on…
Reviewed by: Emma Cocker
Rockwell, London
4 April 2007 to 5 May 2007
In The Exaltation of the Tamarin Isabel Young's paintings play on our expectations of still life, mixing traditional subjects with more unexpected guests that lurk in amongst her platters of fruit or fish: miniature monkeys sit against a Read on…
Reviewed by: Rachel Fleming-Mulford
Intermedia Gallery, CCA
5 May 2007 to 5 May 2007
Gertrude Stein observed that there is a permanent discrepancy between a performance in progress and the emotions and experiences of its audience; she suggests: ".. your emotion as a member of the audience is never going on at the same time as Read on…
Reviewed by: Lorna Shields
www.greatbritishfarming.co.uk
1 January 2007 to 8 August 2007
Associations between Art and farming are not overwhelmingly obvious however the two may have more in common than one would imagine. Georgina Barney explores the relationship between art making and the farm in her current project ‘Great British Read on…
Reviewed by: Helen Thompstone
Penzance Art Gallery
5 May 2007 to 6 June 2007
Alison Blaney's large photographs are intriguing and haunting. She explains that she has always been captivated by the wild, the free and beautiful, indeed the adored, Rebecca depicted in this case by the enigmatic looks of Hannah Turk-Richards. Read on…
Reviewed by: George Care
SALT Gallery, Hayle
5 May 2007 to 5 May 2007
A faint scent of powder-paint reaches me as I enter the room, evoking memories from childhood. This impression is cemented by the garishly pure yellow pigment of Lucy Willow’s “carpet”. Stencilled with a floral design, the powder Read on…
Reviewed by: Megan Wakefield
Limousine Bull (Artist's Collective)
4 April 2007 to 5 May 2007
As Jeremy Lorne Inglis points out in his artist's statement, modern art is often considered elitist and separate from popular culture. As minimalists, conceptualists and avante garde artists strive to break the mould and give the art world Read on…
Reviewed by: Kerry Russell
