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South Hill Park, Bracknell
15 September - 11 November 2007
This moving image and video art exhibition focuses on Asian and Black artists who practise in digital moving image, photography, animation, video and installation. It is a part of the Flicks International Film Festival that runs between the 14 Read on…
Reviewed by: Joanne Seaton
Wyer Gallery, Clapham Junction
11 October - 10 November 2007
‘Kin’ the new show of paintings by Richard Moon at Wyer gallery draws you in instantly as they are painted with sensitivity and compassion. The collection of figures and portraits seem to relate intentionally to our own long lost cousins Read on…
Reviewed by: Nigel Tomlinson
The Photographers' Gallery , London
12 September - 3 November 2007
In Darkness Visible at The Photographers’ Gallery presents the new body of work by Nicholas Hughes. These dark brooding photographs combine an experience of pure aesthetic pleasure with an ambiguous discomfort: there is no denying the Read on…
Tate Modern, London
29 September 2007
Starting at the end of the talk; ‘the questions and discussion section’ created a strange atmosphere that rippled through the past two hours and shifted all that had been discussed. The paraphrased question: “An Read on…
Reviewed by: Alexandria Clark
Donkleywood, North Tyne valley, Falstone, Northumberland
1 September - 28 October 2007
FLOW : four ponds , four artists J ulie Livsey , Julia Barton, Karen Rann , Susan Grant Curated by Cynthia Morrison-Bell and the artists and organised by Art Circuit Touring Read on…
Reviewed by: Josie Bland
Lowsalt Gallery, Glasgow
5-7 October 2007
Spontaneous Combustion Renfrew St Social Club - Bobby NivenFriday 5th October, Lowsalt Gallery, Glasgow. Imagine a gallery where something fresh and spontaneous happens every week, where you can come along, take part and feel involved; a Read on…
Reviewed by: Janie Nicoll
Jerwood Space, London
19 September - 18 October 2007
The eleventh annual Jerwood Drawing Prize aims to reward excellence and talent in contemporary drawing. In contrast to last years exhibition the work here is more diverse, encompassing works on paper, DVDs, animated drawings, projections and Read on…
Reviewed by: Jack Hutchinson
Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, Penzance
6 July - 8 August 2007
Maggie Matthews –Painter of the Coastline EdgeMaggie who lives and works in West Penwith has commented about her approach to her subject matter," ......the land itself has been reduced to islands of form, hanging in space. I walk on the Read on…
Reviewed by: George Care
Serpentine Gallery Pavillion, London
28 September 2007
Christmas came to London early this year with a perfomance of the famous Danish fairy-tale ‘The Emporers New Clothes’ held at the Serpentine Gallery Pavillion. The Pavillion was designed by artist Olafur Eliasson and Read on…
Reviewed by: Andrea Kim Valdez
Black Dog Publishing
Edited by Johanna Billing, Maria Lind and Lars Nilsson
Taking the matter into common hands originated from a two-part symposium of the same name organised by Maria Lind of Iaspis in conjunction with Johanna Billing and Lars Nilsson in Stockholm in 2005. The subsequent publication is a collection of Read on…
Reviewed by: Mona Casey
Southwell Artspace, Southwell, Nottinghamshire
15 September – 13 October 2007
The Moot brand, almost a jedi-like force, is strong in the current exhibition at Southwell Artspace. Jonathon Velardi’s Fortune Teller easily assumes centre stage: a bright and mesmeric video work presented on four large screens, each split Read on…
Reviewed by: Bianca Winter
ICIA Art Space 2, Bath
12 September 2007 – 4 January 2008
On walking into the ICIA in Bath University to view Margareta Kern’s exhibition ‘Clothes for Death’, I was disappointed to find most of her photographic works and one of her video works obstructed by the temporary boarding and Read on…
Reviewed by: Edward Adam
Arnolfini, Bristol
15 September – 11 November 2007
As part of a global network, ports are places of constant flux, facilitating the movement of goods, people and information. Central to this exhibition is the notion of the port city as a “symbolic site of cultural exchange”. While this Read on…
Reviewed by: David Trigg
Chisenhale Art Place, London
14-16 September 2007
Couldn’t make it to Venice this year? Engaged in a sanity or environmentally-motivated boycott of the biennale? You could have done worse than the charms of the ‘Chisenhale Biennale’, housed in an old spitfire factory on a canal Read on…
Reviewed by: Julliete Brown
Skulptur Projekte 07 and Documenta 12, Munster and Kassel, Deutschlan
7-12 September 2007
Designed, by Ellie Harrison, for ‘curators, artists and general artfolk’ from Nottingham and the surrounding areas, ‘Notts on Tour’ set off for a good ol’ bonding session over a shared interest in art. A Read on…
Reviewed by: Alexandria Clark
Five Years Gallery, London
29 September - 7 October 2007
Apparently there is something strange happening in and around the Five Years Gallery: the A.A.S. are investigating a ‘zone of instability’ and are trying to avert a disaster. The peculiar happenings seem to be originating from East End Read on…
Reviewed by: Lucinda Holmes
Matts Gallery, London
19 September - 18 November 2007
'Three songs - The Devil is Afraid of Music, What have they done to my song, Ma and How does it Feel to Feel? - were performed and filmed in the exhibition space of Matt’s Gallery, creating an open recording session and film set for three Read on…
Reviewed by: Rachel Lois Clapham
Burgess Park, London
15 September 2007
In March of this year, the UK government announced it would divert £675 million of lottery money from funding for the arts in order to offset the costs of the 2012 Olympic Games. This included an immediate £29 million drop – Read on…
Reviewed by: Theron Schmidt
Whitechapel Gallery, London
6 September 2007
Inclusion With the all renovations going on, the Whitechapel Gallery recently had a spare room for an afternoon. In a display of conspicuous inclusivity the institution opened its doors for artists to talk about being Outsiders and put Read on…
Reviewed by: Matthew Redmond
The Photographer's Gallery, London
13 September - 11 November 2007
Index of the unfamiliar? A checklist of photos from Taryn Simon's exhibition at the Photographers Gallery reads like a A-Z of iconic American cultural symbols: death row, plastic surgery, satellite news, playboy, great white shark, such variety Read on…
Reviewed by: David Foster
TART
9 September 2007 to 10 October 2007
Some kind of unstructured modifications/Tart elastics This show suggests a kind of psychological analytical theatre, a stage set full of poignant ‘props’ (that quietly talk to each other, their own script, part improvisation, a devise Read on…
Reviewed by: Alex Hetherington
Waterloo Gallery
9 September 2007
This was the first solo exhibition by rising artist Cos Ahmet, and it offered an excellent opportunity to view a large collection of his work in one venue, and to appreciate his progress and the development of his themes. The body, specifically the Read on…
Reviewed by: Paul Davies
Waterloo Gallery, London
10 October - 11 November 2007
Thin Skinned pulls together the work of four printmakers; LUCE, Katherine Jones, Wuon Gean Ho and Steve Edwards, to create an understated, yet acutely penetrating body of works. Each artist exhibits a different approach to printmaking which presents Read on…
Reviewed by: Anna Hales
Victoria Miro Gallery
9 September 2007 to 9 September 2007
In this installation Sarah Sze takes gaudy domestic dross and forms it into fantastic ecosystems of the everyday. Presenting an expansive landscape of densities and tension, where fuzzy felt scraps swarm over pieces of timber amidst an Read on…
Reviewed by: Lucy Leonard
Photographers' Gallery
9 September 2007 to 11 November 2007
Taryn Simon’s exhibition at the Photographers’ Gallery is a spatial interpretation of Simon’s catalogue, “An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar”. Having spent four years of committed research, Simon has Read on…
Reviewed by: Alanna Lawley
Penlanole Farm
9 September 2007
Penlanole Farm near Llandrindod Wells hosts an exhibition by Georgina Barney. A high beamed barn houses the work, which as a culmination of the project ‘Great British Farming' provides a suitably peaceful setting in which to digest the Read on…
Reviewed by: Helen Thompstone
Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport
9 September 2007 to 11 November 2007
Southport open. The show at the recent Sefton open 2007 was lacking in creatively of new work by relied on work associated with the seaside town of Southport, the typical landscapes and nice pictures were on scene here. The selection of new work Read on…
Reviewed by: Chris Boyd
OFOTO Gallery
7 July 2007 to 8 August 2007
Several years ago, I was leafing through a large packet of curling black and white photographic prints. Taken by a relative as he roamed the streets of his home city, Shanghai, under siege in 1937, they captured both the smouldering tragedy in Read on…
Reviewed by: Catherine Wilson
Fieldgate Gallery
9 September 2007 to 10 October 2007
‘Intervention’; Well it certainly isn’t interventional. Moving on from the misleading title, this exhibition was overflowing with experimental and imaginative works. Sarah Pucill’s film ‘Taking My Skin’ being by Read on…
Reviewed by: Lucinda Holmes
Waterloo Gallery
9 September 2007
'Life Force' was an inspiring and interesting first Solo exhibition of work by artist Cos Ahmet, showing etchings, paintings and textile pieces. The work was pertinent and highly personal and mapped out a life journey. This touched many people who Read on…
Reviewed by: Barrie Gabbott
