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What art have I seen? Adventures of the Black Square
Whitechapel Gallery’s first class exhibition, Adventures of the Black Square. They take us for a very interesting walk following the black square in the 20th Century art, dance, design, architecture...
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What art have I seen? Joseph Kosuth
Joseph Kosuth’s neon works installed Spruth Magers. The banding on the photo is I assume a frequency related to the neon/camera interaction. This work in the basement made the Greek myths into daily...
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The Question of Light: Tilda Swinton’s speech at the Rothko Chapel |...
Having been to the Rothko Chapel and having lived in Scotland for more than thirty years and spending the best (and worst) of that working with artists, this resonates… the older I get, the more I...
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What art have I seen? Drawing at RSA
Scottish Drawing exhibition at the RSA in Edinburgh – a few thoughts on what was unexpected, familiar, unfamiliar, obsessibe, a reminder, revealing, evocative, relational, quiet, surprising, severe,...
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Terry Pratchett RIP
In about 1990/91 I was knocked off my bike and spent 3 weeks in St Thomas’. My brother brought me a paperback of Weird Sisters. I laughed so much. Mind you I was on morphine based painkillers.
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Write, Erase, Do It Over: On Failure, Risk and Writing Outside Yourself
Toni Morrison interviewd about failure. She has a very clinical approach to it. It needs excised. Its about discipline. Its nothing to do with fear....
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What art have I seen? Danish Diaspora Scotland
At Roselle House Galleries including work by Nickolai Globe who also has work installed in the new South Glasgow University Hospital
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Moving Image Season: Clyde Reflections, from art-science team Hurrel and...
Originally posted on Gallery Of Modern Art:‘Still from video: Hurrel & Brennan (from underwater footage by Howard Wood)’ courtesy and © the artists There are a host of brilliant events and openings...
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What art have I seen? Ian McNicol
Ian McNicol is featured artist at Glasgow Print Studio at the moment
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Help Place of Origin
We need your help. Kemnay Community Councillor David Evans just contacted me about a proposal to further surround Place of Origin with housing. Some of you will know that when I was Director of the...
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What art have I seen? Escher and Avery
M.C.Escher exhibition at the Dean Gallery. Charles Avery at the Ingleby.
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What art have I seen? Joseph Kosuth
Joseph Kosuth’s neon works installed Spruth Magers. The banding on the photo is I assume a frequency related to the neon/camera interaction. This work in the basement made the Greek myths into daily...
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Collective Futures Final Report — #COFUTURES
#CoFutures Report is a really valuable source on Collectives across art, design and craft in Scotland – used design thinking methods, residents, events and tools to understand character, issues and...
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Cultural leadership and the place of the artist
Originally posted on On The Edge Research:On The Edge has secured a new £100,000 international project to develop professional engagement with its research into artistic and cultural leadership at...
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The Hope of Something Different – a piece for A Restless Art
Invited piece for Francois Matarasso’s A Restless Art unpacking some of the similarities between community/social and environmental/ecological art practices.
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What art have I seen? Simon Starling
Nine Feet Later by Simon Starling at The Modern Institute. Nice evocation of multiple timescales, almost an iteration of Latham’s Time Base Roller in a group of objects (from bamboo to fossilised...
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What art have I seen? Another Minimalism
Another Minimalism: Art After California Light and Space at The Fruitmarket, Edinburgh – I saw Robert Irwin’s 2 year installation at the Dia in NYC in 2000 in deep midwinter. The exploration of formal...
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A postcard from Brussels
Originally posted on On The Edge Research: I’ve always loved travelling through Maelbeek metro station, as I often do when staying at my regular apartment in Brussels, going from local stop Merode...
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Questioning cultural leadership
Originally posted on On The Edge Research: Who do you depend upon to make your role in the arts possible? Who looks to you for support? What form of change would you most like to see happen – and who...
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