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November 2011
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An interview with Jonathan Owen in his studio in...
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Ian Davenport Interview after Lineage exhibition...
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August 2011
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Review: Brian Cheesewright
Brian Cheeseright - Tresh.hold
Superclub
11th - 15th August
Now approaching its seventh month, Superclub has been carving out an appealing name for itself in the midst of Edinburgh’s artistic landscape. Brian Cheeswright’s solo show - the second in an ambitious summer programme of weekly changing exhibitions - presents a generous collection of new and older paintings which are framed by an...
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Review: Heimat
Hemiat
Patriothall Gallery
1st - 28th August
“Boys who sew, girls who weld” reads the show’s billing as listed in The List magazine – but don’t let that put you off. If you can ignore the troubling outmoded gender stereotypes, the show is actually all about making; sculpture with a capital S. The show’s title, Heimat, is a Germanic word meaning ‘home’ or ‘homeland’, conjuring thoughts of...
Review: Hayashi Takeshi
Hayahi Takeshi: Haku-u
Corn Exchange Gallery
28th July - 22nd September
Hayashi Takeshi’s solo exhibition is comprised of two large-scale stone sculptures which inhabit the floor and the walls respectively. Haku-u (2008) is a composition in white stone whose material plane is fractured by an illusory undercurrent. The smoothened skin of Haku-u (meaning ‘White Rain’) is punctuated with distended...
Review: Tony Cragg
Tony Cragg: Sculptures and Drawings
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
30th July - 6th November
It was an exhibition that had the potential to be a continuation of sculpture on plinths in one rectangular room, but isn’t. Instead, we are invited to walk down the central corridor that lets us into the mind and genius of Tony Cragg. The array of watercolours, aquatints and pencil drawings should...
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Grassroots Activity: Underground at the Edinburgh Art Festival.
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‘Heimat,’ 31st July - 28th August. Tues – Sunday, 12 -6pm. Patriothall.
Group show featuring the work of Andrea Geile, Michi Graper, Emma Herman-Smith, Tanja Romer and Duncan Robertson.
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SUPERCLUB Summer Programme: Superclub Studios,11a Gayfield Square
SUPERCLUB is committed to a DIY approach to creating and disseminating...
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An Amateur piece of Writing on Amateurism within...
If we consider an amateur to be someone practicing without license or below par, the idea of ‘an amateur conference’ is steeped in a contradictory professionalism. However, is it as an oxymoronic in practice as it is semantically? An Amateur Conference was facilitated by the nascent Amateurist Network, (AN) at E:vent Gallery, London, in November 2010, where the resulting answer was a resounding...
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July 2011
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Agitate! Educate! Organise! ...
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When a seventy year old Hamish Henderson sang Freedom Come All Ye at the Pearce Institute in Govan, Glasgow in January 1990 , it was the ultimate folk-song cabaret. Here, after all, was the man who’s co-founding of the School of Scottish Studies in 1951 had kick-started the Scottish folk revival, and here was singing the song he’d penned that many believe to be...