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Spike Island, Bristol
27 February - 4 May
'Nanoq:Flat Out and Bluesome' by artists Bryndis Snaebjornsdottir and Mark Wilson is a large-scale installation comprising ten taxidermy polar bears. Each bear has been borrowed from a UK museum, given a new plinth and been re-housed in a modern Read on…
Reviewed by: Jennie Savage
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea 22 January – 28 March
Holz's glass sculptures are made with the use of lampworking, a glassblowing technique invented for the production of laboratory equipment. Peristaltic, the largest exhibit, comprises four bulbous, organic tubular forms resembling a huge perineum. Read on…
Reviewed by: Emile Verheule
Crafts Council Gallery, London
5 February – 4 April
The idea of 'Boys who sew' immediately raises issues of gender, sexuality and identity. Textiles is such a traditionally female medium that an exhibition of textile works made only by men inevitably creates sexual and political tensions. Work by Read on…
Reviewed by: Lucy Wilson
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
13 February – 28 March
The idea of the signage being more on the move than the film's protagonist is a telling point in Mark Leckey's single-screen projection, Parade. Starring the artist, the neon promenades past the models rather than the other way round. As Leckey Read on…
Reviewed by: Jo Manby
South Hall Gallery, Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham
14 January – 14 March
South Hall Gallery, Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham 14 January – 14 March 'Switches and Other Works' is a body of work by East Midlands-based artist Stephen Monger. It is an ongoing series, shown in part in Read on…
Reviewed by: S Mark Gubb
Stills, Edinburgh
16 January – 14 March
Stills gallery's latest exhibition 'New Europe and the Balkans' feels alive with Dragana Zarevac's wailing video art dominating the gallery space, Vladimir Nikolic's dance track, and an ever-changing programme of Balkan video art. Even the Read on…
Reviewed by: Catriona Black
Published by Sheffield Hallam University
The starting point for this book is a series of talks by emerging and established artists and creative practitioners, that took place at the Showroom Cinema in Sheffield during 2002. The talks programme was co-organised by the Fine Art department at Read on…
Reviewed by: Andrew Bannister
Jerwood Space, London
14 January – 15 February
A few days after Elizabeth Price's show opened, London's Barbican Centre staged a full-length performance of Erik Satie's Vexations. The sheet music for this piano piece contains only a couple of simple musical phrases and the instruction that Read on…
Reviewed by: Peter Suchin
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
2 December – 31 January
The latest exhibition at the recently refurbished John Hansard Gallery is the first of a two-part series "which celebrate[s] contemporary painting? a snapshot of current practice amongst a younger generation of artists, all of whom have trained and Read on…
Reviewed by: Steve McDade
Redux, London
10-31 January
Can a thousand words paint a picture? See Peter Suchin's wall display A Conceit of Fiches, 700 index cards bearing the artist's own scribbled note-making from 1990 to the present. Forming the rest of this exhibition are a large acrylic on canvas, Read on…
Reviewed by: Jessica Houghton
Impressions Gallery, York
13 December – 14 February
The two upstairs rooms at the Impressions Gallery have become twin ciphers for the concepts of shadow and light, black and white, positive and negative; ideas that form such an essential part in the history of photography and the expressive arts in Read on…
Reviewed by: Richard Jevons
DCA, Dundee
2 November – 11 January
The starting point for this exhibition, Kurt Schwitters' Mz. 299, is a delicate balance of chance and choice, one that results in a composition that is fluent, edgy, generous and beguiling. Schwitters' studio provides a site for a strict approach to Read on…
Reviewed by: Dan Howard-Birt
New Art Centre, Sculpture Park and Gallery, Salisbury
29 November – 25 January
Zebedee Jones rarely titles his work, and none of the new paintings, made with the classical landscapes and open spaces of the New Art Centre in mind, bears a title. They are identifiable only by their dimensions. This absence of descriptor negates Read on…
Reviewed by: Rosemary Shirley
f a projects, London
28 November – 17 January
The last time I saw Neal Rock's work it was canvas-based with an immediate reference to the painting tradition and possessed more overtly decorative and commercial aspects. The latter, very often, is an inevitability that many emerging artists are Read on…
Reviewed by: John Deller
conversations in art and science
Published by the Wellcome Trust
Over the past decade there has been a growing fascination with art/science collaborations; this reflects a growth in collaborative art practice generally. That practice has been non-gallery based, involved artists working with people from other Read on…
Reviewed by: David Butler
Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes
13 December – 25 January
'Inside Out: Investigating Drawing' is a speculation on the position of drawing within contemporary practice. It comprises work by eight selected artists who demonstrate an interest in drawing and the figurative. The exhibition implicitly recalls Read on…
Reviewed by: Anna C Pike
Stroud House Gallery, Stroud
1 November – 6 December
Although metal was the given theme of this group show, you could not apply the term 'heavy' to a lot of the work here. That's if you put aside Sidney Brouet's great Pile of Pants – a work whose cerebral lightness is inversely proportional to Read on…
Reviewed by: Dominic Thomas
Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
20 October – 30 November
I've sometimes wondered what would happen if you were able to draw a map of the art world, all the lines and networks, the threads of connection, the intersections and the divergences. What would it look like? Or what if you could plot your day on Read on…
Reviewed by: Gemma Tipton
Oriel Davies, Newtown
8 November – 3 January
The fascination of the box has attracted artists for many years, and this exhibition demonstrates clearly that it continues unabated. The renovation programme at Oriel Davies is only half complete, but this exhibition – in the first of the new Read on…
Reviewed by: Richard Noyce
Phoenix Arts, Leicester
27 October – 7 December
Carl Rowe's work is built on a strong mixed-media background and has a photo-graphic conviction, offering seductive digitally-rendered images. The seven lightboxes in 'Domestic Haz-Chem' are derived from assigned industrial symbols used to denote Read on…
Reviewed by: Carol Leeming
Lost Properties
Published by England & Co
The cover of Lost Properties shows items seized by Customs at Heathrow Airport – metal shelves holding objects made from animal skins, among them stuffed crocodiles and cowboy boots. The incongruity of these objects, like a collection of Read on…
Reviewed by: Lucy Wilson
Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts
Centre, Coventry
27 September – 5 December
Adam Dant's traditional-looking comic strips don't at first look hip, but he is an international star. He won the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2002 for his Anecdotal Plan of Tate Britain, 2001, and recently had his second show at the Adam Baumgold Read on…
Reviewed by: John Cornall
TheSpace@inIVA, London
16 October – 22 November
This is a short film set in public and private spaces in Lahore, Karachi and London which reveals a number of personal stories, in light of the quote by President Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan. The president promised to provide nuclear weapons Read on…
Reviewed by: Lisa Wigham
Rufford Craft Centre Gallery, Newark
23 September – 2 November
'Land and Sea' presents a breadth of work by twenty-five applied and fine artists whose works span many disciplines including painting, photography, jewellery, furniture, textiles and ceramics. Leading the exhibition are examples of powerful and Read on…
Reviewed by: Erica Just
Pentagon Business Centre, Glasgow
29 September – 31 October
'Contra-flow' is an exhibition created by the group 5 Sited +, a core of site-specific artists and invited members. It sets out to explore the environment of the Pentagon building and its positioning within the city. The most memorable works are Read on…
Reviewed by: Janie Nicoll
Various locations, Manchester
10-18 October
Of the three pieces of work in this exhibition, Jai Redman's installation This Is Camp X-Ray had the greatest intrigue factor. Redman had built a replica of the Guantanamo Bay Camp X-Ray site on unused land in Hulme, an area of regeneration in the Read on…
Reviewed by: Clare Gannaway
Percy Miller Gallery, London
5 September – 10 October
One senses an aberrant enthusiasm in the work of Tom Ellis: his subject matter refers to the rarefied worlds of the modelling enthusiast, particularly that one where the scaled-down simulation of old railways is painstakingly undertaken. We Read on…
Reviewed by: Roy Exley
X-ray factory, Smethwick
27 September – 11 October
Set in a previously derelict space in post-industrial Birmingham, 'Re:Location' is the kind of project that artists often talk about but somehow never quite manage to achieve. It is a huge, sprawling show with over sixty artists whose works touch Read on…
Reviewed by: Simon Webb
Streetlevel Photoworks, Glasgow
2 September – 11 October
In 'Superficial or Inherent', an exhibition composed of digital drawings, photographs and projected computer animations on the general theme of identity, Julie Read has wisely chosen not to embellish the exhibition's title with a question mark; if Read on…
Reviewed by: Susannah Thompson
Various venues, Nottingham
1 September – 16 November
The Drawing with Light photography festival uses every major arts venue in Nottingham, profiling internationally acclaimed figures to emerging regional talent. At the Angel Row Gallery, Eileen Perrier's 6-8 series portrays museum and gallery Read on…
Reviewed by: S Mark Gubb
