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Reviewer

Wil Bolton

I am a freelance art critic based in Norfolk. I specialise in contemporary visual art, with a particular interest in new media. I have a BA in Art History and an MA in Arts Criticism. I am also an electronic musician and sound artist, and run music label Boltfish Recordings.

wil_bolton@yahoo.co.uk

Reviews

Coast [20 September 2004]

‘Coast’ is an exhibition that showcases specially commissioned works inspired by and created along the Essex coastline. Zoë Walker and Neil Bromwich’s photographs document their work How the Universe Sang Itself into Being. The  Read on…

Firstsite, Colchester
31 July – 4 September 2004

Generator [3 April 2003]

'Generator' brings together a number of works exploring ideas of generation. Some use mechanics, some text, some sound, some digital media. What they all have in common however is a certain element of self-generation. Whether organically or  Read on…

Firstsite, Colchester
8 February – 29 March

Pier and Ocean [28 February 2002]

For this commission, David Ward has installed two sculptural pieces at the ends of South Pier and Claremont Pier. One of these piers is inaccessible, wooden and rickety, whilst the other is more modern and functional – a balance of settings  Read on…

South Pier and Claremont Pier, Lowestoft.
Permanent Installation

Pressing Flesh [31 December 2001]

Three contemporary artists have been chosen to exhibit their works within the museum's collection of plaster casts of classical sculptures.The majority of the works shown have been created specifically with this site in mind and are designed to form  Read on…

Museum of Classical Archaeology, University of Cambridge 3 November – 19 December

New Labour [30 June 2001]

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…

The Saatchi Gallery, London 3 May – 19 August

David Johnson: Imaginary Light [31 March 2001]

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…

The Roundhouse, London 26 February – 25 March

Clare Woods [31 December 2000]

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…

Modern Art, London 27 October – 17 December