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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Liverpool City Centre
10 October 2006 to 10 October 2006
Liverpool Live was commissioned by Bluecoat Arts Centre and The Live Art Development Agency as part of the Liverpool Biennial 2006 and took the context of the city of Liverpool as its focus. The festivals specific subject matter of Liverpool's Read on…
Reviewed by: Rachel Lois Clapham
One Small Step
10 October 2005 to 12 December 2005
It is good to see students at rival art institutions collaborating and exhibiting together. Joseph Richards an RCA graduate and Jonty Lees from the Slade both take a playful look at the possibilities in drawing through other media, such as, paint, Read on…
Reviewed by: Sharon Mangion
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth
22 October – 26 February
The Russell-Cotes is part-museum, part-art gallery, and it houses the bequeathed collection of the Russell-Cotes family, who travelled the world in the era of the Grand Tour, collecting artefacts, sculpture and paintings. The first impression, Read on…
Reviewed by: Stephen Riley
Station, Bristol
6 November – 17 January
In response to the architecture of Station, Lisa Scantlebury has enveloped the building in its surrounding environment. Three sides of the building are shielded with a photographic screen depicting the immediate view of the area, erasing the Read on…
Reviewed by: Laura Mansfield
Artsway, Hampshire
3 December – 19 February
Senses, sensibilities and desires are confronted by a large range of work at ArtSway’s Open Exhibition this year, which is, for the first time, unrestricted by theme. Appealing to the eye, the mind, the mouth, the ears and the fingers, works Read on…
Reviewed by: Laura McLean-Ferris
Space Station Sixty-Five, London
3 December – 27 January
While the earlier show ‘Thy Neighbours’ Ox’ in 2003 took a ‘shared right’ stance to the ownership of art objects, ‘Thy Neighbours’ Ox 2’ recently showing at Space Station Sixty-Five wants to celebrate a greedy Read on…
Reviewed by: Sharon Mangion
Ffotogallery, Penarth
26 November – 8 January
Drawing from a new body of work developed during a 2002 Cywaith Cymru/Artwork Wales residency at Cardiff International Airport, ‘Moth’ examines the impact of low-cost travel and the slick, impersonal architecture of airports. Designed as a Read on…
Reviewed by: Debra Savage
Tate Modern, London
11 November 2005 to 4 April 2006
"…..another example of meritless gigantism …..". Brian Sewell, London Evening Standard, 10 October 2005 Predictably, the poisoned pens were put to paper once again. If art reviewers aren't capable of Read on…
Reviewed by: Ann Isik
Tate Modern
10 October 2005 to 4 April 2006
Rachel Whiteread has described her artistic motivation as being to communicate through the language of sculpture, her vocabulary becoming more sophisticated as her work evolves. Whiteread tends to cast the space around or within domestic objects, Read on…
Reviewed by: Dr Helen Pheby
Albemarle Gallery, Winter Salon
11 November 2005 to 1 January 2006
People’s relationship to landscape is complex and important: it is a public favourite, although it is mass culture and consumption (‘the public’) that threatens it most. This contradiction interests Fred Fabre in his series of Read on…
Reviewed by: Katie McCracken
Georges Pompidou Centre
10 October 2005 to 1 January 2006
There are not many who, when asked to explain Dada, can offer a lucid and clear account of its principles and general aims without faltering. This of course is largely due to the fact that this movement’s principal aim was to show that Read on…
Reviewed by: Emily Jenkinson
Albemarle Gallery
11 November 2005 to 1 January 2006
‘Artistic temperament is the refuge of the amateur’, so said Oscar Wilde and The Winter Salon at the Albemarle Gallery is no refuge, . The ‘new horses’ on display in this group show have an impressive parentage and Read on…
Reviewed by: Kate Moorish
John Hansard Gallery
12 December 2005 to 1 January 2006
King Tat is a newly commissioned installation by Shaun Doyle and Mally Mallinson at the John Hansard Gallery in Southampton. Even before arriving at the gallery, one question arises: who was King Tat? Is he a composite of peoples, of people who the Read on…
Reviewed by: Peter Bonnell
The Arts Gallery, University of the Arts, London
7 November – 23 December
‘Future Map 05’ was another chance for the public to see the achievements and potential of last year’s art and design graduates from London universities. Selection was made from painting, installation, sound, photography, ceramics, Read on…
Reviewed by: Lisa Wigham
