Tag: Scotland

  • Mick Peter – interview: ‘The project was pleasingly indulgent, a free pass to propose almost anything’

    Amid the playful life-size figures at his new show, Gerroff!! (or User Feedback), Mick Peter discusses making sculptures that look like big drawings and how he hopes to subvert people’s interactions with public art

  • Ilana Halperin: There Is a Volcano Behind My House

    For one of her largest solo presentations to date, Ilana Halperin brings her multifaceted practice to the Isle of Bute, responding to the place’s geological and human histories with a mix of the personal, geological, corporeal and poetic

  • Claire Ashley – interview: ‘I’m not an artist who is scared about the word entertainment’

    Ashley makes vast colourful, oddball inflatables. She talks about giving life to these characters, taking up space, and allowing humour and entertainment as access points to her art

  • John Byrne at 80

    This celebratory exhibition of Byrne’s screenprints, along with a companion show of portraits of the artist, by his friend the photographer David Eustace, champions the camaraderie, craft and warmth of one of Scotland’s most admired and multi-talented artists

  • John Bellany and Alan Davie: Cradle of Magic

    From his collection, Damien Hirst has produced a tribute to the passionate and visionary work of two Scottish artists he admired

  • Joana Vasconcelos: Gateway

    Vasconcelos’s solo show offers a riot of colour and texture in this highly personal, curated sculpture park, celebrating the duality – the glamour and the grind, the dreams and the heartbreak – that typifies women’s lives, on a monumental scale

  • Arthur Watson: poetic conceptualist

    The work of Arthur Watson plays an important role in contemporary Scottish art. Characterised by a ‘poetic conceptualism’, Watson draws from a range of idiosyncratic experiences and predilections, all of which seem to be linked to his intimate knowledge of…

  • Empress Of The Sun

    Catherine the Great: An Enlightenment Empress National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh 13 July– 21 October 2012

  • Peter Doig

    A mid-career retrospective at Tate Britain is enough to cement the reputation of any artist, or else open them up to a critical lashing. Going on the evidence of his best works, Doig deserves his accolade, despite the impression that…

  • Millais

    Tate Britain, London 26 September 2007-13 January 2008 The autumn grand exhibition at Tate Britain is on the work of John Everett Millais (1829-1896), promoted as the greatest painter of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Millais is most notable to Pre-Raphaelite enthusiasts…