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It is the premise of conceptual art, presumably, that artists conceive of a project they can then get others to do. Looking across the Great Hall of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery at John Flaxman’s white marbled statue of Scotland’s bard, glorifying Robert Burns as something heroic and pure, one feels Douglas Gordon’s vision of […]
Fly 2016 – Visual Art Scotland
There is no longer an art college in Scotland that teaches a dedicated ceramics degree. Which makes the ceramics on show at this year’s Visual Art Scotland winter exhibition more emphatically interesting. Susan O’Byrne graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in design and applied art in 1999. Her wall of fantastical animal heads in the […]
In the front row of an intimate Fringe venue on Saturday night audience a young woman kept turning around to look at me, and others behind her, with her eyes open wide, her expression clearly asking – what is going on here? How am I meant to react? What am I watching? In show I witnessed in my […]
Union Gallery – Reunion When Alison Auldjo began converting a former charity shop into the second incarnation of the Union Gallery, removing a lowered ceiling and turning a pokey back storage room into a well-lit stairwell, she knew exactly the picture she wanted in the space. It was Phil Braham’s Ophelia Bathing, a painting she had […]
Art Market
Friend of Peter: Andrew Cranston
The Hawick painter Andrew Cranston, 50, was for twenty years a lecturer at Gray’s art college in Aberdeen, until 2017. Three or four years ago dealer Richard Ingleby visited his Glasgow studio and was stunned by what he found. A book on him has got glowing words from Peter Doig, the Scots […]
IF ART sales need confident buyers it was not the most auspicious week for the London Art Fair. Theresa May’s Brexit speech was reverberating during the VIP opening while Friday brings the strange new world of President Donald Trump. Soaring rents and rates in central London have seen two important venues for Scottish art close their doors in the past year, amid […]
Fly 2016 – Visual Art Scotland
There is no longer an art college in Scotland that teaches a dedicated ceramics degree. Which makes the ceramics on show at this year’s Visual Art Scotland winter exhibition more emphatically interesting. Susan O’Byrne graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in design and applied art in 1999. Her wall of fantastical animal heads in the […]
Coburg House Christmas Open Studios
So there’s a simple joy, and the hope of a certain Scottish parsimony, in buying Christmas gifts direct from the maker. Nowhere better to start this weekend than at Coburg House studios in Leith, whose denizens have a refreshingly engaged attitude to the whole enterprise and where artists’ egos, and sensibilities, are disarmingly lacking. “I work in wood […]
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