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Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery, Peterborough
5 September – 16 November
Mike Stubbs' Jump Jet is part of a strand of his work you might call 'horsepower art': noisy macho artworks in which the man-machine relationship takes centre-stage. Stubbs claims that when young he had "a fascination with power and speed" that has Read on…
Web Demographic is a process-led web artwork by mixed-media experimentalists Talking Birds, as part of the Hothaus commissions from West Midlands-based media art organisation Vivid. The project proposes Ten New Theories About the World which viewers Read on…
Reviewed by: Jessica Loseby
Linda Weintraub
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
At the beginning of this century the scope of visual arts practice is vast and appears to be expanding. One might be tempted to say it is complex, but surely that is just because a great deal of what is happening in the name of art – be it the Read on…
Reviewed by: Janet Summerton
Hotbath Gallery, Bath
6 August – 17 September
'Into the Light' is an open exhibition initiated by the Bath Area Network for Artists (BANA) and consists of fifty artworks contributed by members of this expanding organisation. The exhibition is part of a major research project for BANA to develop Read on…
Reviewed by: Julia Moszkowicz
Rhodes + Mann, London
24 July – 14 September
A black cat has jumped onto a plinth at Rhodes + Mann, knocking over a priceless fourth century terracotta vase. Fortunately this is only in the imagination of Paul McDevitt, whose inventive line drawings form part of an exhibition focusing on Read on…
Reviewed by: Jacqui McIntosh
North Light Gallery, Huddersfield
16 July – 27 September
'Northern Sculptors' profiled three artists, all of whom are in their mid-career, involved in outdoor commissions and working in the north of England. Each artist had a separate space and used differing modes of presentation. Joanna Mowbray made Read on…
Reviewed by: Christopher Bamford
Brixton Market, London
3 May –26 July
Brixton-based curator Indra Khanna presented one artist per week in the bustling South London marketplace. Thirteen contemporary exhibitions were installed on a barrow amongst the chandlers of Brixton's Saturday market. The artists were presented Read on…
Reviewed by: Jason Cunningham
Middleton, the National Botanic Garden of Wales, Carmarthenshire
5 July – 31 October
'Explorations' at Middleton, the National Botanic Garden of Wales, is currently showcasing site-specific works from eleven international artists. The diverse pieces range across various disciplines and conceptual concerns presenting engaging and, Read on…
Reviewed by: Peter Bodenham
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
21 June – 3 August
'Exodus' could be enjoyed purely as a fascinating series of original photographic prints chronicling the 1869 Ordnance Survey of the Sinai Peninsula by Sergeant James McDonald and a team of Royal Engineers who set out to record the route of the Read on…
Reviewed by: Jane Evans
Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute
5 June – 24 August
For some artists the chance to create work in response to a particular location might be viewed as an opportunity, for others it provides a set of unwelcome constraints. When the site is as visually and socially loaded as Mount Stuart – an Read on…
Reviewed by: Moira Jeffrey
Fabrica, Brighton
21 June – 25 August
It isn't often that I feel compelled to stay with an installation for a prolonged period of time but Finnish artist Kaarina Kaikkonen's installation Cast Off proved hard to walk away from. The piece, which dominates the redundant church in which it Read on…
Reviewed by: Jessica Curry
The Science Museum, London
26 May – 14 September
Forget the prying of long-lens paparazzi and forget the ambulance-chasing of tabloid hacks, the greatest act of personal intrusion is child's play: looking in other people's medicine cabinets. It's there that the mask really falls and every aspect Read on…
Reviewed by: Morgan Falconer
Bearspace, Deptford
5 June – 19 July
The word 'collective' brings to the fore the idea of working under one name, in a community, or as a group. As part of Deptford X Contemporary Arts Festival, nine artists have eschewed the authorship, commercial values and individual acclaim or Read on…
Reviewed by: Lucy Wilson
'New Strains' will be at The Greenhouse, Abbey Street, Melrose from 23 August – 6 September.
Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh
7-21 June
From Botticelli to Beuys artists have been fascinated by the potential of botany as a basis for their works. Whilst Botticelli used detailed renderings of plants and trees in his Allegoria della Primavera, Beuys, in a work such as Vitex Agnus Read on…
Reviewed by: Giles Sutherland
Firstsite, Colchester
7 June – 3 August
Subtle developments are evolving through Marion Coutts' largest exhibition to date. Concerned with social forces and collective behaviour, Coutts reinforces her work with everyday objects and basic materials and in so doing, reflects upon the Read on…
Reviewed by: Ron Sims
Easyexercises.com, a website by Adèle Prince, is inspired by Bruce Tegner's book Isometric Power Exercises, which suggests ways of integrating exercises into daily routine. Prince's re-interpretation purports to apply this technique to Read on…
Reviewed by: Vicky Isley
Easyexercises.com, a website by Adèle Prince, is inspired by Bruce Tegner's book Isometric Power Exercises, which suggests ways of integrating exercises into daily routine. Prince's re-interpretation purports to apply this technique to Read on…
Reviewed by: Paul Smith
Oriental Museum, Durham
31 May – 31 August
The Oriental Museum's collection enables us to view Ivar Mackay's studio porcelain alongside his influences – the Chinese ceramics of the early dynasties. Although the curation makes no direct connection between individual pieces, Mackay's Read on…
Reviewed by: Matthew Blackman
Oriental Museum, Durham
31 May – 31 August
The Oriental Museum's collection enables us to view Ivar Mackay's studio porcelain alongside his influences – the Chinese ceramics of the early dynasties. Although the curation makes no direct connection between individual pieces, Mackay's Read on…
Reviewed by: Matthew Blackman
Manchester Craft and Design Centre, Manchester
26 April - 31 August
Nestled amongst the encroaching developments of Manchester's Northern Quarter is the Craft and Design Centre – a haven of peace and stability in an area of the city undergoing rapid regeneration. For over twenty years it has championed the Read on…
Reviewed by: Jennifer Vickers
Cubitt, London
21May – 22 June 2003
Gareth Jones' new commission for Cubitt, now under the curatorship of Emily Pethick, takes the form of a variance on the basic structure of a small gallery plinth. Spread across the gallery floor are nine quasi-literal permutations on the humble Read on…
Reviewed by: Chris Noraika
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
October 2002 – 31 July 2003
Since October 2002, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has seen a number of unusual events: monks washing floors, indoor archaeological excavations, families reunited only to be split apart once more. Or has it? In the fictive art of Roma Tearne, Read on…
Reviewed by: Tom Freshwater
Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland
9 April – 16 May
Life can be drab, tedious and sometimes boring. The world portrayed in Paul Rooney's video works and songs is one where, on the face of it, not much happens. Paul Rooney used to record his own songs as part of the band Rooney. Five early songs are Read on…
Reviewed by: Stephen Palmer
Millenium Library
Norfolk and Norwich
6 January – 6 July
Catherine Cookson has suffered two grave dishonors this year: first JK Rowling replaced her as the UK libraries' most borrowed author – upsetting Cookson's seventeen-year run in the top spot – and now she's had her novels hacked apart, the Read on…
Reviewed by: Jennifer Kabat
ICA, London
4 April – 18 May
The winds of social activism have blown over this year's nominees for 'Beck's Futures'. Adopting an idiosyncratic attitude, the artists have taken a historical perspective to bypass the art of their immediate predecessors. Humorous references such Read on…
Reviewed by: Stephanie Delcroix
National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford
11 April – 15 June
'Fabula' is an exhibition of photography and film that blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction, reality and unreality. The seven artists – Jeanne Faust, Jenny Gage, Todd Hido, Matt Hulse, Laure Prouvost, Christopher Stewart and Sharon Read on…
Reviewed by: Brendan Fletcher
The Gallery, Stratford Leisure and Visitor Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon
10-30 March
Prince Charming, Siamese Orchid, Blue Danube, Rare Earth, Sublime Sun: these could be clothing labels, rare plants or race horses. In fact they are part of the list of colours in Shelflife – the centrepiece of Matt Golden's solo show that Read on…
Reviewed by: Simon Webb
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
8 March – 27 April
The Victoria Art Gallery used low ambient lighting when it hosted ceramic sculptor Felicity Aylieff's travelling exhibition 'Sense and Perception' organised by Manchester City Galleries. This level of illumination set me thinking of a De Chirico Read on…
Reviewed by: Ian Wilson
A Space, Southampton
14 March – 6 April
'Look but don't touch', is a childhood mantra from the same parental phrase book as 'walk don't run' and 'look both ways'. In this exhibition fourteen photographers have explored the meanings held within this familiar cautionary yet tantalising Read on…
Reviewed by: Rosemary Shirley
Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London
22 March – 19 April
Nestled in the aromatic splendour of the east end of London lies the non-commercial, artist-run Jeffrey Charles Gallery. The press release for this current exhibition declares an interest in "the process of making art, rather than expressing a Read on…
Reviewed by: Len Horsey
