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Anna Sanders is a prolific filmmaker that never was. She’s an umbrella that conceals a fluidly dynamic film collective that transcends the confines of artform in order “to elude representation and replace it with presentation... to create Read on…
Reviewed by: Michael Cousin
Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London 13 August ? 12 September
What we have here is the simultaneous presentation of two solo shows: ?Temporary Tattoo? is a video showing a self-indulgent venture. The palm of a hand is sprayed with glue then dried rigorously with a hairdryer. After continual testing for Read on…
Reviewed by: Len Horsey
New Art Gallery Walsall 30 July ? 12 September
In ?Futurology? there is a work by Dave Beech titled Mapping the Future, in which the obsessive western practices of constructing maps and deliberating futures are brought together to try to ?empower young people to articulate their desire for Read on…
Reviewed by: Alberto Duman
Firstsite, Colchester
31 July – 4 September 2004
‘Coast’ is an exhibition that showcases specially commissioned works inspired by and created along the Essex coastline. Zoë Walker and Neil Bromwich’s photographs document their work How the Universe Sang Itself into Being. The Read on…
Reviewed by: Wil Bolton
Belfast Exposed, Belfast
13 August – 24 September
Mary Maclean’s works provoke an unsettling ambivalence, given that the objects themselves are so fixed, so physical, so right; while their subject matter – forensic-like considerations of the minutiae of guest houses – is deeply Read on…
Reviewed by: Gavin Weston
Crawford Arts Centre, St.Andrews
2 July ? 22 August
Gardening is in. Between the Tate’s latest exhibition ‘Art of the Garden’, and the Crawford Arts Centre’s current offering ‘What in the World is More Beautiful?’ we are reminded that art and gardening are not so very Read on…
Reviewed by: Catriona Black
Artsway, Hampshire
3 July ? 15 August
The work is in three spaces, that can be read left to right. In the first is what looks like evidence from a forensic investigation. Daly discovered by chance that a mythical character, a will–o’–the–wisp named Laurence, was Read on…
Reviewed by: Stephen Riley
Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich
3 July ? 21 August
Last week I saw the painting exhibition ‘Russian Landscape in The Age of Tolstoy’ at the National Gallery, London: all shimmering snow drifts, crystallised Christmas trees and unspoilt wild flower meadows. I then hopped on a train to Read on…
Reviewed by: Andrea Mason
Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich
3 July ? 21 August
Last week I saw the painting exhibition ‘Russian Landscape in The Age of Tolstoy’ at the National Gallery, London: all shimmering snow drifts, crystallised Christmas trees and unspoilt wild flower meadows. I then hopped on a train to Read on…
Reviewed by: Andrea Mason
Floating ip, Manchester
21 June ? 20 August
‘Do Something’ at the Floating ip gallery in Manchester is one of those shows that doesn‘t come round as often as it should. Resembling a miniature of Ilya Kabakov’s Palace of Projects the submissions for the open exhibition are Read on…
Reviewed by: John Murray
Waxham Barn, Norfolk
3–25 July
The North Sea is a stone’s throw away from Wrexham Barn, but since the place is protected by sea defences it feels very much part of the Broadland landscape. The cavernous interior is well suited to work related to the area which makes up the Read on…
Reviewed by: Caroline Fisher
S1 Artspace, Sheffield
18 June
From the moment the personal invite from Stanley Handson dropped through my letterbox, looking somewhat like a certificate you would have been awarded at school, the construct was underway. All that I, and fifty others, knew was that we had been Read on…
Reviewed by: S Mark Gubb
Limousine Bull, Aberdeen
6 June – 8 September
Intelligently curated by recent Gray's School of Art graduate Kirsty Anderson, 'Filter' brings together seventy or so diverse photographic works by sixteen artists – most of whom are members of Aberdeen-based collective Limousine Bull. This is Read on…
Reviewed by: Ken Neil
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
1 May – 17 July
'Everything You Can Imagine Is Real' profiles artists who have recently completed the Arts Council England, North West Setting Up Scheme. Some works have been produced in response to the Harris' own collection and building, which provides additional Read on…
Reviewed by: Fiona Candy
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
11 June – 29 August
London's east end: an area one hardly needs to introduce. A magnet within the magnet, it attracts thousands of artists and art lovers. Its outbursts of creative energy made a success of the 'Whitechapel Open'. After six years of silence, it's back Read on…
Reviewed by: Stephanie Delcroix
Hames Levack, London
12 June – 11 July
In an introduction to this exhibition we learn that the curators of Hames Levack invited applications from UK artists aged eighty years and over. We also learn that in doing this they challenged their own assumptions on artwork created by this age Read on…
Reviewed by: Lisa Wigham
Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea
8 May – 19 June
In 'Twenty Shadows' Andy Lock and Richard Page bring together two originally disparate photographic series that work together through their underlying sense of unease, unresolved narratives and notions of home. Both series speak of surveillance, Read on…
Reviewed by: Francesca Genovese
PM Gallery and House, London
30 April – 4 July
'Trackers', a show coordinated by Charles Danby and Alejandro Ospina, takes Luke Rhinehart's approach in Dice Man in its concerns of chance and negating the authorship of curating. Twenty-one artists were asked to produce work to be placed within Read on…
Reviewed by: Andrew Clarkin
20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe
13 March – 26 June
At first glance around 20-21's courtyard you could be forgiven for thinking that a tidal wave had washed up a collection of flotsam and jetsam. The objects give the appearance of being 'found' rather than constructed, their previous histories still Read on…
Reviewed by: Sarah Watson
Matt's Gallery, London
21 April – 13 June
Gunning's installation looks at the strange ways that humans behave when trying to escape the trap that their world has become. Combining video and sculptural elements, the first video shows a series of ramshackle tree-houses occupied by a community Read on…
Reviewed by: Nina Madden
An Tuireann Arts Centre, Portree, Isle of Skye
1 May – 12 June
In May each year, An Tuireann Arts Centre organises a studio trail to attract attention to the work of artists living in the area. The gallery showcases the work and an attractive map and passport are offered to encourage visitors to the studios and Read on…
Reviewed by: Morag Henriksen
Folly, Lancaster
26 March – 7 May
'States of Matter' explores themes inspired by the story of The Almond Tree by the Brothers Grimm. The story begins, as all good stories do, with "A long time ago?" yet goes on to tell the less predictable tale of a tree that enables Immaculate Read on…
Reviewed by: Claire Norcross
Studio Voltaire, London
16 April – 30 May
'Tonight' ambitiously brings together fifty artworks by a selection of British and international artists, including Lawrence Weiner, Liam Gillick and Elizabeth Price, within a single space in the Studio Voltaire complex in Clapham, South London. Read on…
Reviewed by: Nick Lambrianou
Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
27 March – 2 May
Consisting of recent work by three artists using film and video and utilising just the downstairs gallery and foyer of Modern Art Oxford, 'Recall' investigated ways in which history is constructed, edited, remembered and received. Although most of Read on…
Reviewed by: David Trigg
The Phillips Gallery, Taunton
17 April – 22 May
'Lightfall' is an exhibition of striking beauty. Images by each of the four artists on show have physical qualities that are unusual in photography: sumptuous colour appears to permeate light-sensitive paper in a manner more readily associated with Read on…
Reviewed by: Deborah Robinson
Published by Thames and Hudson (World of Art series)
Launch date 4 May
Internet Art seeks to historicise net art, suggesting its usefulness as a textual 'portal' that provides an introduction to the internet art community. Its author, Rachel Greene, is perhaps best known as the executive director of Rhizome.org. The Read on…
Reviewed by: Jessica Loseby
Millennium Galleries, Sheffield
11 February - 18 April
Cardiff is best known for her audio 'walks' made over the past decade. Alongside these she has made audio-visual works for the gallery, many in collaboration with her partner George Bures Miller. On display at Millennium Galleries are four joint Read on…
Reviewed by: Meriel Herbert
Debenhams Store, Manchester
27 February ? 22 May
Just off Manchester?s Market Street, an enterprising partnership between Debenhams and Comme Ça Art continues to capture the imagination and attention of inadvertent audiences opportunely passing by. For the past four years the store?s Tib Street Read on…
Reviewed by: Jennifer Vickers
Royal College of Art, London
13 March - 4 April
Observing the political manipulation underlying recent events in Madrid, and the evidence used to justify last year's conflict in Iraq, it was difficult not to applaud the morbid topicality of this intelligent selection of crafted narratives and Read on…
Reviewed by: Dan Wilkinson
St Paul's Gallery, Birmingham
14 February - 10 April
Photographic reality is a funny thing, and much of this impressive show of contemporary painters using photo-realist techniques manages to confuse it further. 'Blow Up' is a large show in Birmingham's only serious commercial gallery featuring some Read on…
Reviewed by: Simon Webb
