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Oriel 31, Newtown, Powys 13 January – 17 February
Institutional spaces and the remnants of the past that remain within them form the basis for Patricia MacKinnon-Day's work. From this foundation she creates installations that re-present facets of those spaces and through them elements of the nature Read on…
Reviewed by: Richard Noyce
The Mackintosh Library, Glasgow School of Art 16 January – 10 February
Received wisdom has it that time is money, but the work of Ral Veroni inverts that proposition. In the hands of this Argentinean painter and printmaker we discover that money may, in fact, be time. The surroundings of Glasgow School of Art's Read on…
Reviewed by: Moira Jeffrey
The Exchange Art Gallery, Nottingham 4 December – 12 January
This exhibition contained a good mix of work, with all the major disciplines being represented to varying degrees of success. Paul Frank Lewthwaite's Ship for the Sinking is an oversized rendering of an Airfix model kit with its snap-out pieces and Read on…
Reviewed by: S Mark Gubb
Stills, Edinburgh 22 November – 27 January
Contemporary art prizes always get the tabloid press treatment with the obligatory reference to soiled bed sheets and what a waste of money it all is. The inaugural exhibition of the Archibald Campbell and Harley WS Photography Prize was no Read on…
Reviewed by: Clark Dawson
The afterword to Things not worth keeping tells us that the project arose as a response to 'the spectacles of cultural pickling dominating Millennium preparations, in particular those ludicrous listings and packagings of 'the best of?'. In December Read on…
Reviewed by: David Kennedy
Various venues, Portsmouth and Southampton 21 November – 13 January
The violence and political upheaval in Central Europe seem to have been a constant in our news headlines, yet in the West we have had little exposure to the cultural history of this turbulent area of Europe. 'Aspects/Positions' aimed to provide an Read on…
Reviewed by: Rosemary Shirley
Bankley Studio Gallery, Greater Manchester 27 January – 11 February
In 'Tell the truth, shame the Devil', Amy Jones, Dean Melbourne and Laura Newey explore the connections between personal idiosyncrasies and socially constructed or imposed identities. Dean Melbourne's works are a visual critique on the contemporary Read on…
Reviewed by: Sebastian Schlicher
Modern Art, London 27 October – 17 December
These elegant enamel paintings derive from flash photographs of night-time woodland landscapes. Details of trees, bushes and foliage have been extracted from their photographic source, abstracted and transformed into a stark poetry of arabesques and Read on…
Reviewed by: Wil Bolton
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham 31 October – 14 January
Allegory – the once widely understood language of objects and stories which have a meaning other than their surface appearance – has long been relegated by modern art practices such as abstraction to literature alone. That it has made a Read on…
Reviewed by: Nick Lambrianou
Ffotogallery, Cardiff 11 November – 23 December
'West', Ffotogallery's new-format open biennial show, succeeds on many levels. Selecting less artists than previous years has left room for a natural thematic to emerge between individual works. The show succeeds as a survey of new work raising a Read on…
Reviewed by: Jennie Savage
Nature Centre is the culmination of artist and writer Brownrigg's residency at Grizedale last year. As well as her own writings in response to this particular Lakeland forest location, it includes the work of different visual artists-in-residence Read on…
Reviewed by: Paul Stone
What better symbol for a dysfunctional city than the lonely green of George Shaw's deserted urban playing field? 'Scenes from The Passion: The Goal Mouth' is conversely so irreligious and dispassionate, painted in flat characterless enamel that the Read on…
Reviewed by: Emma Safe
The Rope Store Gallery, Quay Arts Newport, Isle of Wight
Crossing the Solent from the fast, grey streets of Portsmouth to the relative calm of the scenic Isle of Wight is a good preparation for viewing Elaine McIntosh's 'The Art of Relaxation'. The Rope Store Gallery, sited in a complex of attractively Read on…
Reviewed by: Louise Thompson
Shockwave is a fantasy term promising technological wizardry to all who download. Notwithstanding the limits of PCs, the tools available to artists, or of the pressure of time spent online, there could be a pot of gold at the end of one's time-lag Read on…
Reviewed by: Tim Birch
Various venues, Liverpool
For artists in the uk, living outside of London, a good and simple strategy for career development is to ignore our capital and forge links overseas. A fast track to realising this could be to find out what town or city yours is twinned with, and go Read on…
Reviewed by: David Mackintosh
In today's climate of political apathy, it sometimes appears that people have become wary of expressing an opinion without irony. Not so the artists showing in 'Protest and Survive'. I can't remember having walked around whole roomfuls of Read on…
Reviewed by: Jo Coupe
We have sustained relationships with the objects in our homes, but seldom consider their effects on our emotional or intellectual lives. Domestic objects have always carried less intellectual weight than their counterparts in galleries, with whom we Read on…
Reviewed by: Stefhan Caddick
'Art Textiles 2' is a sequel to 'Art Textiles 1', initiated by Barbara Taylor at Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery in 1996. One of the exhibitors in 1996, Polly Binns, was this time one of four selectors, with Yinka Shonibare, Sarat Maharaj and Gill Read on…
Reviewed by: Victoria Mitchell
Selected from open submission by Lynne Cooke, senior curator at Dia Center for the Arts, New York, twenty-nine artists took part in the third annual 'Perspective' exhibition at Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast. This year's £6000 prize was split Read on…
Reviewed by: Ruth Jones
Camberwell College of Arts, London
The title does not refer to literal divestment but to self-revelation and concealment, primarily in the psychological sense. And the laying bare, or defamiliarisation, of the medium of the book is also a major concern and theme. What is a book? What Read on…
Reviewed by: Stephen Bury
