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Oriel Wrecsam, Wrexham
30 August - 11 October 2008
I visited Steffan Jones - Hughes' exhibition again last week, this time back in the role of one of his students, and listened to Steffan speak about his work. The design of the exhibition has a formal graphic power and elegance. The Read on…
Reviewed by: pam newall
Oriel Wrecsam., Wrexham.
30 August - 11 October 2008
I lie awake at night and listen to the birds sing. In a world accustomed to irony and subversion, it is refreshing to encounter the work of Steffan Jones Hughes in this engaging solo show. Through intaglio and screen prints, delicate sculptures, and Read on…
Reviewed by: Frances Carlile
Penlee House, Penzance
20 September - 22 November 2008
“This exhibition presents a selection of rarely seen drawings and etchings by artists from the Newlyn School including Stanhope Forbes, Walter Langley, Elizabeth Forbes, Laura Knight, Charles Napier Hemy and W.H.Y. Titcomb. From drawings and Read on…
Reviewed by: George Care
Tatton Park, Knutsford
3 May - 28 September 2008
We were led straight through the orchard and various decorative gardens of the Tatton Park estate, passing by the numerous and anonymous botanical species and colourful collections of plants and flowers along the way as we headed into the Read on…
Reviewed by: Kevin Hunt
Cloud Dance Festival @ the Chisenhale Dance Space, London
26 - 28 September 2008
There is something about the jaunty cosiness of the Chisenhale Dance Space which seemed to suit the Cloud Dance Festival just perfectly. Something perhaps in the warmth of the careworn, mismatched furniture which bedecks the lobby…and equally Read on…
Reviewed by: mary kate connolly
Tate Britain, London
30 September - 18 October 2008
It is that time of year again , the hype, the glory and oh yes the art. Is it worth it? and does the Turner Prize really mean something? these are the sort of questions that arise yearly. The first thing that I encountered as I approached the Tate Read on…
Reviewed by: Maggie Tran
Galeri, Caernarfon
26 September - 1 November 2008
I should start by pointing out that I am related to the artist Jeanette Orrell and so there is naturally some kind of bias to this review. I'm a fan! The work on show in the Lle Celf/Art Space at Galeri in Caernarfon spotlights two groups Read on…
Reviewed by: Steffan Jones-Hughes
A-Foundation, , Liverpool.
20 September - 22 November 2008
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2008. In the centre of Liverpool, opposite the A-Foundation’s Greenland Street complex, is an ice-cream van garage. It came as some surprise that at least one of the exhibitors in 2008’s Bloomberg Read on…
Reviewed by: Paul Cordwell
Winchester Discovery Centre, Winchester
8 August - 19 October 2008
The object in question is a plain white robe made from a cotton duvet. It’s a garment – suspended mid-air on its ordinary wooden hanger – that simultaneously evokes the public presence of an intimate interior space, and Read on…
Reviewed by: Lesley Saunders
New Life Gallery, Berlin
31 May - 15 June 2008
‘What are the main themes of New Life Berlin?’ questions the wooloo website rhetorically. Answer: ‘Transnational Communities…Artistic Social Responsibility…[and] Participation and Intervention’.In realising New Read on…
Reviewed by: mary kate connolly
Tate Liverpool, as part of Liverpool Biennial - Made Up, Liverpool
20 September - 30 November 2008
Lewis Biggs, director of the Liverpool Biennial, tells us during a curatorial breakfast that Made Up, the title of this years Biennial, can be interpreted in various different ways. It is a phrase especially fitting to Liverpool as ‘to be made Read on…
Reviewed by: Samuel Mercer
Open Dialogues @ New Life Berlin, Berlin
31 May - 15 June 2008
My what a delight; a delectable retinue of recollection, supposition and wordplay. A trove of roving consciousness in a scroll, a stream of reams and reams of descriptions, tripping downwards to where it all began….Members of the New Life Read on…
Reviewed by: mary kate connolly
New Life Berlin Shop, Berlin
7 June 2008
How many artists does it take to build a house? Answer: as many as show up at secret location in Berlin’s city centre at 10pm tonight! A Welsh tradition borne out of rural poverty, necessity and an ancient legal loophole forms the Read on…
Reviewed by: mary kate connolly
Alexander Platz, Berlin
7 - 8 June 2008
As the gritty city heat of midsummer lapsed into stale dusk last eve, the inhabitants of Berlin magnetically grouped into tight groups at pavement cafes. With the fixed stares of guinea pigs in fiendish sensory experiments, they appeared first Read on…
Reviewed by: mary kate connolly
AirSpace Gallery, Hanley, Stoke on Trent
20 September - 4 October 2008
The current exhibition at the AirSpace Gallery gives another twist to the status of the celebrity. A mixture of smiling and disgruntled faces greets you as you enter the gallery space; familiar faces such as Jade Goody and Victoria Beckham are Read on…
Reviewed by: Katie May Shipley
Attingham Park, Shrewsbury
25 September 2008 - 27 September 2009
I met up with Anne de Charmant at the entrance to the large walled garden at Attingham Park. Anne is the director of Meadow Arts a non-physical gallery based in Ludlow, they describe themselves as a peripatetic organisation, acting as a sort of Read on…
Reviewed by: Nathaniel Pitt
The Foyer Restaurant & Gallery , Aberdeen
18 August - 4 October 2008
Aberdeen in the Northeast of Scotland has a thriving and developing art scene, this is in part due to the inspirational work of key players such as Sally Moir from Smart Consultants who works with the oil industry and the Foyer Gallery to offer Read on…
Reviewed by: sally moir
A Foundation (Liverpool Biennial), Liverpool
20 September - 22 November 2008
On Friday 19th September 2008, a huge party overtook an industrial area near central Liverpool. Within the masses of people wanting their free drinks and overpriced Paella were three exhibitions. Yet one of these, by the ego free Read on…
Reviewed by: Carl Delver
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
20 September 2008 - 4 January 2009
Now in its 50th year, the 25th John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize presents a selection of new British painting. The prize has historically been the turning point of several highly prominent artists careers, including Peter Doig, David Hockney Read on…
Reviewed by: Jack Hutchinson
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
20 September 2008 - 4 January 2009
McDONALD's PAINTING WINS PRIZE Fear not. The headline does not mean that some toddler's scribble at a McDonald's food joint has ironically won the nation's premier painting prize. The luminaries gathered at Walker Art Gallery, Read on…
Reviewed by: Tim Birch
Tate St Ives, St. Ives
24 May - 21 September 2008
The bright August sunshine gently infringes upon Tate St. Ives; as beach-wear clad visitors leave a scattered trail of sand they emphasise the move from brightly patterned tourist town to the cool, calm and contemplative interior of the Read on…
Reviewed by: Rebecca Wombell
Space X Gallery, Exeter
11 - 12 September 2008
Green plastic bags pulled through the leg holes of white pants effect and denote a sector where curiosity and familiarity intercede. A zone in which we perceive human shoulders and a neck: bones and skin organized into a discernible structure. Yet, Read on…
Reviewed by: Mark Greenwood
Ed. by Kobena Mercer, Co-published by inIVA and The MIT Press, 2008, 224pp, ISBN: 978-1-899846-45-0
1 January - 31 December 2008
Over the past 15-20 years, there has been a growing legacy of texts and art exhibitions that have addressed issues of exile, displacement and migration, especially in relation to issues of globalisation. However, Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers, Read on…
Reviewed by: Catherine Wilson
House Gallery, London
1 - 13 September 2008
At the entrance to Beggars Banquet, visitors are greeted by two large (child sized) anthropomorphic figures. They are works from Cathy Hart and Esther Jervis’s individual sculptural practices. One, by Hart, is made from striped fabric and Read on…
Reviewed by: Rachel Lois Clapham
AirSpace Gallery, Hanley, Stoke on Trent
5 - 13 September 2008
Tales from a Changing City Danny Hill and Darren Washington The opening of the current show at the AirSpace Gallery saw many familiar faces; it’s great to see so many people supporting local artists. The artwork Read on…
Reviewed by: Katie May Shipley
Ffotogallery, Cardiff
6 September - 19 October 2008
My occasional visits to ffotogallery, are occasional because of the psychological barrier that makes me think it’s further away than it is. The train journey that is usual pretty simple and quick (although this time landslides and biblical Read on…
Reviewed by: Samuel Hasler
Redgate gallery, London
27 June - 3 July 2008
“who can I tell my private nightmares to, if I can't tell them to you?” asks Samuel Beckett, and this forms the title and context of Nazir Tanbouli's first solo show in London. The Egyptian-born artist has assembled a monochrome Read on…
Reviewed by: Gillian McIver
Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
1 August – 13 September
Despite having lived in Edinburgh for twelve years, I still get surprised each year when August arrives and the festival period lands, as if from space, seemingly overnight. The city swells into a great alien beast of performing arts; every nook and Read on…
Reviewed by: Juliana Marie Capes
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
8 August – 21 September
Watching Feature – the fifty-five minute long centrepiece of this exhibition – is both bewildering and enjoyable. A series of episodes form a loose narrative: some (a bar scene with saloon girls and cowboys drinking whisky that descends Read on…
Reviewed by: Amelia Crouch
Folkestone town centre, Folkestone
14 June - 14 September 2008
Reflections on the Inaugural Folkestone Triennial, June 14 to Sept 14, 2008 As I was walking up the stair I saw some art that wasn't there... Half-way down the Zig Zag path that takes you from the Leas to the Lower Sandgate Read on…
Reviewed by: Terry Fairman
