Index / Architecture
The Craft
Rebecca Bligh visits Monira Al Qadiri’s solo exhibition at Gasworks, 13 July - 10 September
Sex in Architecture
Has urbanism become too polite? Richard Williams explores the concrete evidence in Richard Rogers’s work
Sean Edwards and The Maelfa
Artist Sean Edwards reflects on The Maelfa, a shopping centre on the outskirts of Cardiff and focus of Edwards’ new exhbiition. The artist considers the building in relation to its historical and social functions as well as its current decline as a ‘ruin in reverse’
Sculpture Haven
Irene Kernan, director of Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop announces a big step forward for the organisation
NVA
Angus Farquhar, creative director of Glasgow-based public art agency NVA, looks to secure the future of the abandoned, yet inspirational, St Peter’s Seminary
In conversation: Tom Burr
American sculptor Tom Burr talks to Steven Cairns about ‘the persona of the artist’, being catagorised within genres, and the influence of great cities on his practice
Remarks: The Briggait reopens
Alison Fullerton of WASPS views The Briggait, a stunning new artist development in the heart of Glasgow, due to open in December 2009.
Remarks: The New Showroom
Emily Pethick, curator of The Showroom talks about its re-opening and upcoming programme
Residency: Simon Fujiwara
Oliver Basciano meets Simon Fujiwara to discuss his work and recent residency in LA
Cyprien Gaillard: Recycling the Ruins
Cyprien Gaillard recently witnessed the destruction of high rise buildings in Glasgow: acute observations of this are the subject of his new work. Joanna Fiduccia talks to him about his practice and the death and decay of modernism in urban architecture
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A Well-Cultivated Garden
Duncan McLaren visits a Glasgow show that seems custom-made for this Enlightenment issue
Monika Sosnowska
Using unexpected perspectives, this Polish artist alters spaces with her sometimes monumental sculpture. Moira Jeffrey, who has long been interested in her work, talks to here post ‘1:1’
Bear Compound
Artist Mark Dion describes his brush with the little known bears of Dundee and his scheme to build new vistas for them and for those on the human side of their enclosure. Bear Broch opened to the public in the winter of 2005
Portfolio: Nigel Peake
Deborah Jackson gets close to the drawings of Nigel Peake, a prolific sketcher and young emerging artist who recently showed work at Red Door Gallery in Edinburgh
Thomas Zipp
16 November 2007–13 January 2008, South London Gallery, London
Hayley Tompkins and Sue Tompkins
3 February–25 March 2007, Spike Island, Bristol