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'Minus 20' is a series of nine commissions from web-based www.e-2.org. When the call went out for submissions, the main consideration was that any work submitted had to be less than a 20k file size, thereby removing the often-torturous downloading Read on…
Reviewed by: S Mark Gubb
The Lowry, Salford Quays and Static, Liverpool 26 January – 28 April
Walking through the large elongated space of the Lowry where David Walker's sizeable photographs are installed is a lonely experience. As one close-up of detritus follows another, we are presented with the bleak details of abandoned rubbish, toys Read on…
Reviewed by: Simon Webb
105-111 Westminster Road, Handsworth, Birmingham 1 – 22 February
For one month five three-storey derelict Victorian houses, destined for demolition in the Birmingham suburb of Handsworth, were transformed into a labyrinthine temporary exhibition space. This initiative follows a previous exhibition 'Alchemy' Read on…
Reviewed by: Krystyn Finn
Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, Shrewsbury 12 January – 2 March
Over the past decade, Russian artist-cum-anthropologist Vladimir Arkhipov has been compiling his Museum of Self-Made Things – a collection of handmade and improvised objects made by other people. His project exists within the context of Read on…
Reviewed by: Richard Noyce
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge 12 January – 3 March
'Flights of Reality' brings together new and recent works by five artists who attempt to make concrete some of the incredible norms of science. Curator Simon Groom introduces the works enticingly as "thoughts in progress, mapping out the possible, Read on…
Reviewed by: Stephanie Douet
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham 19 January – 2 March
'House Work' combines the work of fifteen artists who creatively explore the house, the home and domestic life. As you enter the gallery you are pulled to your right by a streak of loud wallpaper that leaps out from the stark white spaces that Read on…
Reviewed by: Michelle Vacciana
South Pier and Claremont Pier, Lowestoft.
Permanent Installation
For this commission, David Ward has installed two sculptural pieces at the ends of South Pier and Claremont Pier. One of these piers is inaccessible, wooden and rickety, whilst the other is more modern and functional – a balance of settings Read on…
Reviewed by: Wil Bolton
G39, Cardiff 12 January – 10 February
Running concurrently, 'Blinc' and '...But Still' are linked not by any common theme or motive but by their apparent divergence. 'Blinc', a series of night-time screenings showing new video work deals with the moving image. '...But Still', a Read on…
Reviewed by: Heather Phillipson
Spacex Gallery, The Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and Exeter Cathedral, Exeter 24 November – 2 February
'Patterns' is a multi-site project coordinated by Spacex Gallery and Art + Location in Exeter. One of the participating venues is the city's Islamic centre, a one-storey concrete prefab in the corner of an unmade car park, it is hardly pristine, Read on…
Reviewed by: Cherry Guillespie
20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe 17 November – 16 February
'Love, Loss and Betrayal' is a mixed media show featuring five contemporary British artists: Robin MacFarlan, Colin Rose, Glynis Owen Jones, Emma Wigg and Néo Henry. The work ranges through traditional sculpture and printmaking, abstract Read on…
Reviewed by: David Kennedy
The Bull Theatre
Barnet, London
Adam Reynolds has created a site-specific sculpture for the Bull Theatre in Barnet, an eighteenth century edifice which once served as a magistrate's court before becoming a pub early in the last century. With infectious humour the artist gently Read on…
Reviewed by: Keir Smith
High Street, West Bromwich and Limited Edition CD 23 November – 19 December
"It's weird. A flock of seagulls? An alien invasion?" "No, I think it's someone inside the building trying to whistle the theme tune to the The Sweeney!" Schoolboys walking home along West Bromwich's High Street are bemused and amused by Hewitt and Read on…
Reviewed by: John Cornall
Windows, Michael Atavar's new four-part 'e-say' (an online essay) commissioned for BBCi Arts, is one of a series of web-based artworks that examines "virtual reality, plasticity and a world beyond interface". Earlier e-says in the series include Read on…
Reviewed by: Andrew Ford
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow 26 October – 23 December
The Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) has finally moved back to its original home in Sauchiehall Street. The new surroundings look impressive and feel optimistic with an ambitious programme to accompany the new environment – including music, Read on…
Reviewed by: Mark Dawes
Museum of Classical Archaeology, University of Cambridge 3 November – 19 December
Three contemporary artists have been chosen to exhibit their works within the museum's collection of plaster casts of classical sculptures.The majority of the works shown have been created specifically with this site in mind and are designed to form Read on…
Reviewed by: Wil Bolton
Mid Pennine Gallery, Burnley 3 November – 22 December
Take a brick, some bathroom plugholes and a few light bulbs and you can make a nice table lamp. One of the dangers facing designer Jason Taylor is that it's quite tempting to rip him off and make your own versions of his work. His other lights Read on…
Reviewed by: Martin Vincent
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Hastings 15 September – 2 January
Hastings Museum houses an eclectic collection of art and historical objects ranging from stuffed birds to native American artifacts. The venue provides a fitting backdrop for one of three simultaneous exhibitions entitled 'Acknowledged Sources', Read on…
Reviewed by: Anna Dumitriu
The Craft Centre & Design Gallery, City Art Gallery, Leeds 3 November – 12 January
If you are a dog lover, interested in ceramics and have some money to spare this show is definitely for you.The seven makers included in the exhibition all use dogs as a focus for their work, skilfully manipulating a variety of ceramic techniques to Read on…
Reviewed by: Karen Watson
Various venues, Sheffield 13 October – 24 November
Over the last couple of decades art students using photography, film or video have tended to be conceptually concerned with the shadow play of media conventions and manipulations. Yet the culturally questioning and even politically subversive Read on…
Reviewed by: Robert Clark
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
29 September – 25 November
'In-Print' offers a conspectus of recent printmaking in Britain. Unusually for an exhibition of this kind, it includes up to six works by each selected artist. They vary in scale, from the giant woodcuts of Emma Stibbon to Andi McGarry's tiny Read on…
Reviewed by: David Briers
Spike Island, Bristol 21 October – 9 November
In negating the hierarchy that exists in the gallery – between object and observer – Donachie subverts our expectations of the exchange between the work, the artist and the audience. Installing South as a site-specific response to the Read on…
Reviewed by: Jennie Savage
Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Kendal
15 October – 21 December
Hughie O'Donoghue established his artistic reputation as a painter. In 1995 he produced The Way Home, his first work using the carborundum process – a printing method using a granular compound of carbon and silica. This exhibition highlights Read on…
Reviewed by: Hughie O'Donoghue
Millais Gallery, Southampton 19 October – 1 December
Through this photographic series of rockfalls from tidal cliffs, river mouths, estuaries and landlocked ponds, Jem Southam presents us with a geological sense of duration which is difficult to conceive. The images of rockfalls bring together two Read on…
Reviewed by: Rosemary Shirley
Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham 1 September – 11 November
A touch of madness is probably a very healthy thing. This exhibition, the largest of its kind in London since 1979, brings together a collection of unusual and untrained artists – past and present – whose inspired, eccentric and Read on…
Reviewed by: Jessica Houghton
National Glass Centre, Sunderland 15 September – 4 November
Jane Mulfinger, Annie Cattrell and Jane Simpson – three artists bonded by a common desire to execute their ideas through the medium of glass – have created a visually varied show. Whilst united in their chosen material, each artist has Read on…
Reviewed by: Kirsteen Aubrey
Crafts Council Gallery, London 13 September – 28 October
This year's Jerwood Applied Arts Prize is another open submission contest with an exhibition attached. Its real significance is the £15,000 prize for the lucky winner (Jerwood 'fine art' prizes are worth twice that, but we won't linger there). Read on…
Reviewed by: Anatol Orient
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 14 September – 4 November
Collected together in the Ikon Gallery and displayed in the window of Birmingham's Habitat, Julian Opie's new and recent works are as pervasive and numerous as the visual shorthand we encounter on a daily basis through signage and Read on…
Reviewed by: Krystyn Finn
Ashburton Gifts and Gallery, Ashburton, Dartmoor 15 – 27 September
Suky Best's current work forms part of an ongoing project organised by DA2 and Aune Head Arts – a non-profit organisation whose aim is to record contemporary Dartmoor. Commonplace details of daily travel undertaken by local residents provided Read on…
Reviewed by: Deborah Robinson
The De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea 29 July – 16 September
Opened in 1935 and designed by Eric Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff, the Grade I listed building of De La Warr Pavilion on Bexhill sea front is one of the most stunning and best preserved examples of modernist architecture in the country. It is Read on…
Reviewed by: Anna Dumitriu
Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool 2 August – 15 September
Beck's – not a bad bottle of beer; 'BECK'S Futures' – big money. With a total prize fund of £65,000, it outstrips the Turner Prize in purely cash terms. With the commendable aims of identifying and supporting the most promising young Read on…
Reviewed by: Lucienne Cole
