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Orleans House Gallery, Riverside, Twickenham
15 Feb – 4 May
If the neologism 'Digi-Monde' led one to expect that the charmed quarters of the Orleans House Gallery were going to be humming with processors, what one actually discovered in this open exhibition was something very catholic and diverse. The Read on…
Reviewed by: Morgan Falconer
The Crafts Council, London
6 February – 23 March
Content can be form and form can be content. Formalist painting, for example, takes its form as its content. While conceptual art takes its concept is its form and its realisation becomes its content. Curated by the artist Jonathan Parsons, Read on…
Reviewed by: Frederika Whitehead
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
31 January – 19 March
It is not unusual for artists to look to their heroes for inspiration. The three artists in 'Remain in Light' do just that: their own art at once a celebration and a pastiche of the ideas and formulas employed by their art heroes. Using the language Read on…
Reviewed by: Stephen Palmer
The Old Museum Arts Centre, North Belfast
10 January – 8 February
In a way, OMAC's latest venture could be read as something of an artistic comeback for Damien Coyle. One only has to scan through his impressive resume to note how creative and industrious he has been over the last few years – his employment Read on…
Reviewed by: Gavin Weston
Millais Gallery, Southampton
10 January – 1 February
The production of images through mechanical and digital technologies has long been associated with the pursuit of false perfection. Blemishes were first airbrushed and are now 'Photoshopped' out of existence. 'Bad Quality' explores the opposite end Read on…
Reviewed by: Stephen Riley
Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
11 January – 15 February
Eighty faces stare at you as you walk among the closely hung walls of Gracefield Studios. This is an exhibition of contrasts from eight artists linked to Dumfries and Galloway. Alexander Robb's Bea is unsettling, almost tragic. It reveals the sitter Read on…
Reviewed by: John Hudson
Catto Contemporary, London
10 January – 3 March
"Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville from Jackass, and this is 'I'm DESPERATE...Love Me!!!" Knoxville hasn't seen this exhibition yet – he's probably with his buddies riding the LA freeway on toilet seats, butt-naked with fireworks clenched between their Read on…
Reviewed by: Len Horsey
Siân Bowen: Ream
11 January – 8 February
Both of these exhibitions present novel approaches to drawing. Susanna Heron's 'Elements' consists of seven, long elliptical forms – or 'elements' – transcribed one on each of seven walls of the main partitioned gallery. These shapes Read on…
Reviewed by: John Cornall
Firstsite, Colchester
8 February – 29 March
'Generator' brings together a number of works exploring ideas of generation. Some use mechanics, some text, some sound, some digital media. What they all have in common however is a certain element of self-generation. Whether organically or Read on…
Reviewed by: Wil Bolton
Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey
25 January – 5 March
'Get Fresh', instigated by the Devon Guild of Craftsmen, was a showcase for recent applied arts graduates based in the south west of England. It wasn't trying to repeat the degree show experience, but was offering something potentially more useful Read on…
Reviewed by: Emma Maiden
Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin
6 January – 22 March
Following her success as the 2002 Citigroup Photography Prize winner, Shirana Shahbazi's current show 'The Garden' continues her exploration of the themes of banality and the everyday in photographic practice. The geographical location of 'The Read on…
Reviewed by: Justin Carville
There's a wonderful essay by naturalist and travel writer Barry Lopez entitled Effleurage: The Stroke of Fire in which Lopez lovingly describes the excitement and mystery of working with a wood-fuelled anagama kiln called The Dragon. It is just such Read on…
Reviewed by: John Cornall
Andrew Kötting is one of the UK's most intriguing artists, and perhaps the only contemporary film-maker who could be said to have taken to heart the spirit of visionary curiosity and hybrid creativity exemplified by the late Derek Jarman. Read on…
Reviewed by: Gareth Evans
Video works rarely entice you to watch the whole thing. Graham Fagen's Radio Roselle, in contrast, is one you want to keep watching. In a darkened, chair-lined room – more club mock-up than gallery space – a large screen depicts a DJ Read on…
Reviewed by: Susannah Thompson
Set in the context of Manchester Art Gallery's collection of landscape painting – particularly its Dutch landscapes – and conceived as an opportunity to reconsider contemporary and historical representations of the land, Jeff Wall Read on…
Reviewed by: Jo Manby
f a projects, London
1 November – 14 December
James Ireland's sculptural assemblages transform heavy DIY fixtures and fittings into a wealth of delicate landscape illusions. In All my dreams, sunset images are stuck to the gallery wall with masking tape, providing the backdrop for a dreamscape Read on…
Reviewed by: Louise Coysh
Bankfield Museum, Halifax
28 September – 12 January
An exhibition that plays riot with the concepts of tradition and the familiar, 'Loop' seeks to jolt viewers from their complacent admiration of the – albeit stunning – collection of textiles at Bankfield Museum. Placing itself within and Read on…
Reviewed by: Justine Brooks
Geffrye Museum, London
26 September – 19 January
As winner of the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize in 1999, Michael Marriott cemented his role as a major player in the world of contemporary UK furniture design. In 'Mies Meets Marx: mmm' we gain an insight into Marriott's aesthetics, design philosophy Read on…
Reviewed by: Hilary Williams
Baltic, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
26 October – 26 January
This exhibition is the first to take full advantage of Baltic's flexibility not just for showing but for making art. The title work, A place like that is a compact three-storey structure of steel, wood, aluminium and glass supported by six sturdy Read on…
Reviewed by: Gillian Nicol
Sainsbury Centre For Visual Arts, University Of East Anglia, Norwich
1 October – 8 December
'Slip' brings together work by nineteen well-established artists and designers who have undertaken residencies at the Netherlands' European Ceramic Work Centre (EKWC) over the past decade. For many of the artists, their residency with clay has Read on…
Reviewed by: Natasha Soobramanien
Chapter, Cardiff
28 September – 10 November
'Art For Networks' is a collection of works brought together by artist Simon Pope. The works seek to subvert and explore remote systems of communication, adopting text messaging and the internet as tools, as well as exploring more physical networks Read on…
Reviewed by: Sally Shaw
Who is Donald Cappy? And why does he deserve a biography? Although every fact you could possibly want to know (or not) about the man is detailed in Living and Loving No1: The Biography of Donald Cappy, this full-colour glossy broadsheet by Read on…
Reviewed by: Chris Brown
Broadmarsh Bus Station, Nottingham
18 October – 3 November
Night bus, by desperate optimists, was a video installation premiered in the waiting room of Nottingham's Broadmarsh bus station. It tells the late night 'micro-narratives' of three young women awaiting buses. The audience is transported from the Read on…
Reviewed by: Terry Doohan
Architectural Association, London, in collaboration with White Space Gallery
11 October – 8 November
The emotional juxtaposition of joy and misery is surprising. One minute I'm a miserable commuter and the next enveloped in joy peering at a collection of life-sized stuffed animals in glass-walled sheds dotted around Bedford Square Garden. 'A Read on…
Reviewed by: Len Horsey
Elveden Hall, Suffolk
26 October
Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery
8 – 12 October
(blueprints)
Taxi Gallery, Cambridge
19 October – 20 November
Artists Matt Rogalsky and Chloë Steele join forces to create 'Perfect Imperfect' a series of responses to Elveden Hall, an empty building combining Sikh and western interior architecture, previously owned by the last ruler of the Read on…
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London 14 September – 19 October
When presented with a group of sculptures associated by their relationships to architecture, it would be easy to expect works on a grandiose scale. Instead, 'EU2', an exhibition of sculpture by ten European artists, looks at the unexpected Read on…
Reviewed by: Lucy Wilson
Cube, Manchester 11 September – 2 November
Commissions in response to a three-year body of academic research by the Urban Memory in Manchester team at Manchester University's School of Art History and Archaeology gave six artists carte blanche to mine this extensive resource on the history Read on…
Reviewed by: Jo Manby
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham 7 September – 2 November
From behind the counter of a mobile café trailer on the A591 in Cumbria, between requests for tea and fry-ups, Alan and Chris talk about their new business partnership, their career histories and of course, their passion for Bruce Springsteen. Read on…
Reviewed by: Matt Price
Sitting in a caravan in the north west Highlands of Scotland, I feel a long way from anywhere I can contemplate contemporary art, until I switch on my computer and type in www.the-cyber-kitchen.com. In a few cyber-seconds, I have found my way to the Read on…
Reviewed by: Kirsty Walker
Wrexham Arts Centre, Wrexham 14 September – 26 October
This third biennale celebrating the possibilities of drawing in Wales contains 130 works selected by Len Massey, Head of Drawing at the Royal College of Art, from an open submission of over 450. Perhaps inevitably, many of the selected works relate Read on…
Reviewed by: Richard Noyce
