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Elvis has finally left the building. This time though there will be no shiny white stretch limo, but a battered old Hackney cab driven by artist Stephen Skrynka. This bizarre sight was seen in and around Glasgow as part of the bartering system set Read on…
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton 27 July – 1 September
British photographers Andrew Cross and Dan Holdsworth share an interest in the notion of place and non-place, presenting works that magnify our impulsive desire to be directed and find direction. The initial encounter with the outlying regions of Read on…
Reviewed by: Joann Drew
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 8 July – 21 October
Brazil has escaped the voracious cultural tourism that has made contemporary Chinese art fashionable. Like the earlier demand for Russian work, such markets respond to the capitalisation of communist economies. Unsurprisingly, the demand is for work Read on…
Reviewed by: Mark Harris
Lantern House, Ulverston, Cumbria 2 August – 1 September
For artists working in rural environments the trauma of the Foot and Mouth epidemic is an enormous challenge. 'Picking Up The Threads' at Welfare State International's (WSI) Lantern House reflects aspects of this catastrophic phenomenon in Cumbria Read on…
Reviewed by: David Haley
Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
16 June – 2 September
So you think you are the audience? Think again! The three artists involved in this exhibition (part of the Japan 2001 event taking place nationally) state their intention as being to remove the 'please don't touch' limitation often enforced on Read on…
Reviewed by: Cassie Thompson
The New Art Centre Sculpture Park and Gallery, Salisbury 6 July – 23 September
In a departure from her distinctive organic forms, Daphne Wright has filled the elongated space of The New Art Centre with two giant industrial constructions – a replica of the Soviet Mir space station. Wright has used tightly folded strips of Read on…
Reviewed by: Rosemary Shirley
The New Art Gallery, Walsall
2 June – 9 September
Walsall-born Darren Lago has produced work that is informed by the local manufacturing companies with whom he collaborated closely during this project. Duchamp's ground-breaking use of the everyday, manufactured and found object, witty verbal and Read on…
Reviewed by: Krystyn Finn
Stroud House Gallery, Stroud 7 July – 4 August
Now in its third year, 'The Stroud Open' presented the work of thirteen artists. Tristan Sean Bryan's Spatial exercise 2.1, was perhaps the most challenging of the works. It consisted of several corrugated cardboard wedge shapes, made to fit the Read on…
B16 Gallery, Birmingham 17 June – 22 July
Flat planes of muddied colour, thinly scrubbed and partially over-painted, some masked, others freehand, combine in multifaceted spatial arrangements to create a show of stale air. Everything is drab in the world of Stuart Purdy, where corners are Read on…
Reviewed by: Nigel Prince
Bothy Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield 10 June – 27 August
Sue Mundy's reduction-fired stoneware vessels and textured ceramic forms seem to fall into two distinct categories. Her early work is characterised by an obsession with natural forms and textures such as pebbles, rocks and other objects hewn from Read on…
Reviewed by: Elizabeth de Stanford Wallitt
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth 19 May – 22 July
Overlooking scenic Poole bay, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum is an extravagant architectural mix of Italianate villa and Scottish baronial mansion, with a no less eclectic collection of work inside. The loftier pretensions of the nineteenth Read on…
Reviewed by: Joann Drew
Berwick Gymnasium, Berwick upon Tweed 26 May – 8 July
A visit to the dentist, chairs in a theatre, millions of mountains and the best condom picture I have seen. These comments are all taken from the visitor's book at Berwick Gymnasium, and have been inspired by the work of Daniel Sturgis. Others Read on…
Reviewed by: Kirsty Walker
Watershed, Bristol 19 June – 5 August
Alan Russell's panoramic photographs of landscapes and cityscapes taken around the UK demonstrate an innovative use of a digital process called QTVR (QuickTime Virtual Reality). The technique – enabling images to be digitally sewn together Read on…
Reviewed by: Carolyn Black
Tramway, Glasgow 4 May – 10 June
David Sherry is the first of five recipients of the Dark Lights Commission 2000 to show new work at Tramway, Glasgow this year. Sherry devises gently provocative and humorous projects that challenge our established modes of interaction and Read on…
Reviewed by: Tina Fiske
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea 1 April – 1 July
'Lateral Design in the City', curated by Ralph Turner is part of a series of exhibitions at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery. The aim of the series is to expose an exciting and vibrant mix of concerns running through contemporary design, and to Read on…
Reviewed by: Jennie Savage
The Saatchi Gallery, London 3 May – 19 August
The artists currently on show at the Saatchi Gallery's 'New Labour' exhibition are grouped around the idea of handicraft. Proposed as a prevailing concern amongst contemporary makers of art, this conception of hand-crafted work is presented through Read on…
Reviewed by: Wil Bolton
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee 28 April – 24 June
The latest offering to land on the banks of the Tay direct from the international merry-go-round was the man synonymous with award-winning, plaza-worthy sculpture. Surprising then that this was Deacon's first solo show in Scotland since 1984, and Read on…
Reviewed by: Rob Hunter
Arnolfini, Bristol 18 March – 13 May
I sometimes find it quite strange viewing the work of a living artist in the context of a retrospective exhibition – it's similar to a compilation of greatest hits by a pop group that is yet to split up. There remains an unanswered question as Read on…
Reviewed by: Michael Stanley
Album pacifica published by Autograph, London
You find a tin of old family photographs: small black and white images, many unrecognisable without the assistance of elderly relatives; place and date – unless scribbled on the back – are guess work (dependent on fashion or car Read on…
Reviewed by: Stephen Bury
Wakefield Museum, Wakefield
Dancer by Charles Quick is a new, permanent lightwork on the façade of Wakefield Museum, and is located on Wood Street amongst the grand institutional architecture of the police station, law courts and town hall. Quick has considered the fact Read on…
Reviewed by: Andrew Hewitt
Wakefield Museum, Wakefield
Dancer by Charles Quick is a new, permanent lightwork on the façade of Wakefield Museum, and is located on Wood Street amongst the grand institutional architecture of the police station, law courts and town hall. Quick has considered the fact Read on…
Reviewed by: Melanie Jordan
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool 6 April – 24 June
Much has been written of late about the apparent resurgence of abstraction. There is a case put that a new breed of painting is evolving that embraces a broad range of elements, languages and fields of aesthetic interest. But what does this new Read on…
Reviewed by: Paul Peden
Huntly, Aberdeenshire 29 March – 14 April
Jonathan Claxton's three-month residency at Gordon Primary School, Huntly, has culminated in a series of exhibitions that were linked by the skyline of the hills surrounding Huntly. Murals on the school walls, resulting from workshops with the Read on…
Reviewed by: Deborah Schultz
The Old Seager Distillery, Deptford, London 30 March – 1 April
'Hit and Run' is the brainchild of Mr E Winkleman, a curator based in New York. He hit upon an idea to subvert the disappointment of post-preview night audience tapering. You know how it works: you plan, you graft, you install, and then it's opening Read on…
Reviewed by: Len Horsey
ArtSway, Sway, Hampshire 17 March – 29 April
'Closer Still' is a collection of paintings by six artists who take photography as their source. Unlike photorealist responses, these works are shadows rather than reproductions, they take an impression from their photographic origins and remain as Read on…
Reviewed by: Rosemary Shirley
Turnpike Gallery, Leigh 24 February – 21 April
Turnpike Gallery's latest exhibition brings together the work of two artists who seek to challenge traditional memorials, through the appropriation of new materials, formats and language. Kenny Hunter's plastic works make reference to classical Read on…
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham 20 January – 10 March
This exhibition came about in a very organic way. Artist-curator Maggie Ayliffe approached one artist who, in the course of conversation, identified another artist with whom she felt a certain affinity, and so the chain went on until they arrived at Read on…
Reviewed by: S Mark Gubb
Brighton ongoing from 1 January
The Little Paradise Garden – Part 2 marks the development of a project by Barbara Ryan that began in the Galerie Assel, Berlin, in 1992. The first part explored the safety of Eden, the original paradise garden; the second part is located in the Read on…
Reviewed by: Deborah Schultz
Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery, Leeds 16 February – 31 March
'Deliverance' was an all-male show, which, in the current climate, could be considered unfashionable – but this was a reinvestigation of "men in the modern world". The work of Yuen Fong Ling took up the initial area of the gallery. His were Read on…
Reviewed by: Mike Dawson
The Roundhouse, London 26 February – 25 March
The dark cavernous rooms and passageways of the Roundhouse have found themselves home to a series of curious hybrid creations. David Johnson has constructed these sculptures and installations with a lucid fusion of found objects and elemental Read on…
Reviewed by: Wil Bolton
