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The Glasshouse Gallery
1 January 2006 to 3 March 2006
‘In French, there is a phrase – petit mort, or ‘little death’ – that alludes to the orgasm. For me, photographing is like this. I am a pack of nerves while waiting for the moment, and this feeling grows and grows and Read on…
Reviewed by: Joelle Robinson
Ynysangharad Park, Pontypridd
2 February 2006 to 2 February 2006
On a cold, dark and wet Valentine’s Day evening I find myself in Ynysangharad Park, Pontypridd looking for ‘The Winter Garden’, a new installation by Jackie Chettur. Drawn by the only glow of light in the park to the bandstand, Read on…
Reviewed by: Matthew Richardson
Arnolfini
2 February 2006 to 2 February 2006
It doesn’t hurt at all Aboard the female Sexed Robot, lights flashing in my eyes, I come to the end of the third of Inbetween Time’s performance lecture series (Lecturama). Paul Granjon has led us through a brief history of his work, Read on…
Reviewed by: Niki Russell
Arnolfini
2 February 2006 to 2 February 2006
What does it mean to be a Vampire? What kind of monster am I? A crowd of eager creatures gathers around Simon Will (one member of performance company Gob Squad), questionnaires in hand. “I am just putting the results through the computer Read on…
Reviewed by: Niki Russell
Arnolfini
2 February 2006 to 2 February 2006
An image of a ‘matador’ Smurf figurine on the big screen over the performance space is accompanied by text claiming it was sold through eBay for £75 pounds. More items, more sales. Shortly eBay PowerSeller AC Dickson emerges to the Read on…
Reviewed by: Niki Russell
The Shop at Bluebird, King’s Road, London
24 March – 2 April
“Sorry I kept you waiting, Channel 4 was filming us for a documentary on erotomania. Do you know what that means?” With these words to start our rendezvous, I am led by US-born artist Kathe Izzo into the ‘Public Love Project’, a Read on…
Reviewed by: Emilia Telese
Qube, Oswestry
28 February – 25 March
‘Notion Nanny’ is a project by US-based artist Allison Smith in collaboration with curatorial team B+B, Sarah Carrington and Sophie Hope. Smith’s exhibition at Qube is the latest in a series of UK residencies that have seen the artist Read on…
Norwich Gallery, Norwich
9 March – 22 April
These are paintings – but only just. The exhibition as arranged by the painter looks a little cramped and dull, but when you look at the excellent accompanying catalogue you get an overwhelming impression of wide-ranging speculation and a Read on…
Reviewed by: Stephanie Douet
Haddon Tower, Birmingham
18-25 March
‘The 18th Storey’ is an exhibition of work in five flats in a soon-to-be-demolished 1960’s tower block in Birmingham. The building is positioned in a newly regenerated area of Lee Bank that, over a period of time, has seen the razing Read on…
Reviewed by: Mona Casey
22 March
Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
One of my favourite things about watching live art is trying to imagine the performers practising alone, at home, without any audience. The things that live artists do often seem so absurd that the thought of a solo performance tickles me, practised Read on…
Reviewed by: Nisha Duggal
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
7 February – 2 April
Those of us who went to school before the invention of the word processor will remember essay writing as a process involving several drafts existing on the same pages. Made up of scrawl, crossings out, overwriting and arrows – indecipherable to Read on…
Alma Enterprises
3 March 2006 to 4 April 2006
Alma Enterprises is one of the many gallery spaces in abandoned industrial units on East London’s Vyner St. It takes its name from the previous occupier, and has, since opening in October 2004, been showcasing some startling experimental visual Read on…
Reviewed by: Anthony Alexander
Ovada Gallery
1 January 2006 to 3 March 2006
For her installation ‘The Quest for the Inner Child- Souvenir shop, at Ovada Gallery artist Solveigh Goett has set up a souvenir shop, in which she explores different aspects of childhood through a variety of Read on…
Reviewed by: M Acharya Baskerville
www.youtube.com/watch? v=APkF8ajKgVI
3 March 2006 to 3 March 2006
Untitled (D'ya Think I'm Sexy) Felix Rial. This latest piece from Felix Rial is currently circulating the Internet at a prodigious rate. A continuation of his recent themes regarding male sexuality the male gaze and Greek mythology, this boy packs Read on…
Reviewed by: James Jones
Various Locations around Derry, Northern Ireland
2 February 2006 to 2 February 2006
People visit Derry to stroll along it’s Walls or to take a tour of the Bogside murals, I had gone with a different reason: to join a pack of Dogs in what they termed an occasion. I had received emails in the past, telling me about Read on…
Reviewed by: Fred Connor
Touchstones, Rochdale
28 January – 19 March
Three artists, Jason Minsky, Beryl Graham and Maria Bracken, have been chosen to join forces to transform the Touchstones main gallery into a ‘Games Room’. The rationale for the show is to examine the relation between art and Read on…
Reviewed by: Mike Dawson
Room, Bristol
2 February – 5 March
Scenery is a working collective and three of its members have joined forces with a further five artists to produce, under the curatorship of Simon Morrissey, ‘Picnic Area (dumb interior)’. Scenery began their operation in 2003 with Read on…
Reviewed by: Charles Danby
The Art Gallery, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen
20 January – 19 February
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…
Reviewed by: Ken Neil
Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby
21 January – 5 March
I put it to you that painting would be dead if it was not for the invention of photography. All contemporary artists are influenced by the history of photography and the photographic image. Ben-Zenou, the winner of the Vickers Art Prize 20051, has Read on…
Reviewed by: Michael Forbes
Baltic Centre of Contemporary Art, Gateshead
21 January –26 March
‘You Shall Know Our Velocity’ at Baltic features sixteen artists from the north east of England, and this would seem to be the limit of its curatorial ambition. The result looks like an ‘open’ exhibition with all the faults Read on…
Reviewed by: Mike Golding
S1 Artspace, Sheffield
26 January, 9 and 23 February
‘Salon’ is a season of screenings organised by S1 Artspace in Sheffield. Selected from submissions to an open international call and screened in three parts at S1 Artspace, ‘Salon’ is composed of films created by artists all over Read on…
Reviewed by: Bianca Winter
Plymouth Arts Centre and Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery
14 January – 25 February
Walking through Plymouth on the eve of Chinese New Year, through a city centre currently being ‘regenerated’, past groups of Chinese students at the university and the Sizzling China Takeaway, I’m greeted at the Arts Centre by the Read on…
Reviewed by: Zoe Shearman
seventeen
2 February 2006 to 2 February 2006
The curious world of Tony Heywood’s Super Botanics Fascination, Repulsion, Desire, Curiosity, Beauty, Imagination – are among a cascade of Read on…
Reviewed by: Colin Glen
Ucheldre Centre, Holyhead
7 January – 4 February
Iwan Lewis’s confident and joyful use of paint and colour spills over into various styles and subject matter, but he seems most at home in the lush, flat images of his larger paintings. His principal concerns are colour and surface, with figure Read on…
Reviewed by: Wanda Zyborska
Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury
20 January – 25 February
We are all aware that the world has gone mad. News bulletins and headlines in papers celebrate this daily and since 9/11, for many of us reality has become more surreal. ‘World Gone Mad’ seems a most unlikely title, therefore, for a show Read on…
Reviewed by: Jessika Worrall
Fred, London
11 January – 12 February
Describing a film by Stuart Croft is usually a many-worded task, and can threaten any writer’s word count, but thankfully one needn’t mince words with Century City: the plot is all rather inconsequential here. Nevertheless, let me run it Read on…
Reviewed by: Tom Morris
Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews
13 January – 5 March
The entrance to Pamela So’s exhibition at the Crawford Arts Centre boasts the least macho homage to minimalism that it’s possible to imagine. Fifteen squares of plastic grass sit in a neat grid on the floor. As well as strictly geometrical Read on…
Reviewed by: Catriona Black
Tramway, Glasgow
13 January – 5 February
Like the best of Doherty’s work, Eternal Rotation is structured around anticipation. In a previous work, Waiting to Fall, Doherty filled himself with whisky and sleeping pills, donned a white crash helmet and recorded himself attempting to Read on…
Reviewed by: Ross Birrell
Falmouth Arts Centre
12 December 2005 to 12 December 2005
Wharf was the inaugural exhibition for the “Level Two” Artists Led Initiative, whose members have each worked in studios at the Falmouth Wharves on the banks of the Penryn River in Cornwall. The exhibition reflects the sites rich Read on…
Reviewed by: Megan Wakefield
The Workstation, Sheffield
1 January 2006 to 1 January 2006
Baxter and MacGabhann’s exhibition looks very inviting through the window of the Workstation, in the heart of Sheffield’s cultural quarter. The show feels strongly curated. Hanging the strikingly different work of Baxter and Read on…
Reviewed by: Sarah Gittins
