Index / Painting
My Favourite Sister’s Uncle
Colin Herd responds to an exhibition by Charlie Billingham and Zin Taylor at Independent Régence Brussels, 7 September - 7 October
Karla Black’s Abstraction
Briony Fer examines the tone and texture of the Glasgow-based artist’s work
Lucy Stein and Manuela Gernedel share thoughts on Carole Gibbons as inspiration
Three women painters have shared a common address. Two have a conversation embracing their muse, home, practices, generation and serendipity
Gray Matters
To celebrate the brilliant life and work of Alasdair Gray, who died on 29 December 2019, we republish an article from 2010 by Neil Mulholland that examines the life’s work of the Glasgow artist/writer who chronicled, in words and pictures, the city and the lives of his friends through the lens of a startlingly unique imagination
#24 - November 2010
Emerging: Audrey Reynolds
Gemma Sharpe probes the mixing of incidental and appropriated materials in Audrey Reynolds’ paintings and installations
New Work Scotland
Collective Gallery director Kate Gray announces the gallery’s dynamic annual programme. Jacob Kerray / Shelly Nadashi 16 October–28 November. Nicolas Party / Catherine Payton 11 December 2010–30 January 2011
#22 - June 2010
Fiona Mackay, Morag Keil and Manuela Gernedel: 84 Paintings
Barry Schwabsky talks to Fiona Mackay, Morag Keil and Manuela Gernedel about their unique collaboration
Hayley Tompkins: Hypothetically Seeing
Joanna Fiduccia visits Glasgow to meet Hayley Tompkins, in whose work she discovers abstraction of an extended, visionary nature
Emerging: Phoebe Unwin
Rebecca Geldard discovers a savvy painter whose clever balance of good and bad taste is propelling her towards success
Gerhard Richter: Radical Senses
One of contemporary art’s most revered artists, a seminal and inspirational figure for many of his own and younger generations, Gerhard Richter makes paintings with an instinct that is as visually keen as it is intellectually demanding. Keith Hartley looks back at early days in Düsseldorf, in the light of his abstract period and more recent work
Merlin James: Yes Yes Yes
Sherman Sam finds an uneasy longing, coupled with affirmative gesture, in the work of contemporary painter Merlin James
Andreas Dobler: Uncertain Scenes
Steven Cairns examines the fundamentals of painting in the work of Andreas Dobler
Emerging: Alan Stanners
Darren Rhymes finds the work of this young Glasgow-based painter full of surreal intentions and growing towards abstract confidence
#13 Spring - March 2008
Wilhelm Sasnal: Deluxe Punk
‘You are telling me things, but what do you actually mean by that? Whats your point? Lukasz Ronduda digs deep into the work of Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal
Emerging: Ben Jones
New York comic artist takes zine culture to a deadpan high in a new body of icon paintings
Emerging: Ann Bowman
Hollywood to Glasgow, this young American artist explores fantasy and glamour with a sharp film-maker’s eye
Studio: Alison Watt
Writer Diana Hope travels with photographer Luke Watson to the National Gallery in London to find painter Alison Watt in a studio under that hallowed roof
Victor Man: Plural Solitude
Alessandro Rabottini discovers a quiet but resolute multiple voice in the painted and sculpted installation work of Romanian artist Victor Man
Tony Swain: Concrete Planes
Isla Leaver-Yap visits Tony Swain’s studio in Glasgow and finds him among stacks of yellowing newsprint reworking 20th century techniques towards uncharted landscapes
Carol Rhodes, Lucy McKenzie: Paint
Despite attempts to consign it to an early grave, painting remains a vibrant force in contemporary art. Sherman Sam explores the detached landscapes of Carol Rhodes. Barry Schwabsky analyses the mood of familiar strangeness that marks the work of Lucy McKenzie
Studio: Callum Innes
With the turps drying on his survey show in September, Callum Innes welcomes Catriona Black and Luke Watson into his busy Edinburgh studio
Studio: Paula Rego
Hannah McGill and Luke Watson visit the London studio of painter Paula Rego and find it a ‘repository for thrilling objects’
Portfolio: Dining on Imagination
Introducing the work of emerging artists, Portfolio focuses this issue on the paintings of Rabiya Choudhry, first seen at the Collective Gallery’s New Work Scotland Programme 2004. Choudhry has since been selected to exhibit at the Prague Biennale 2005
Alex Pollard
11 October–2 November, 2008, Whitechapel Project Space, London
Silke Otto-Knapp
4 July–13 September, 2009, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
Christopher Orr
24 May–1 August, 2009, IBID PROJECTS/Hoxton Square, London
David Burton, Ruth Ewan, Brian Moran
27 March–8 May, 2010, Rob Tufnell at 1 Sutton Lane
#24 - November 2010
Review
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
31 October–6 February, Inverleith House, Edinburgh
Carol Rhodes
1 December 2007–24 February 2008, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Live Undead
29 January–23 February 2008, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Luke Fowler & Charlie Hammond
19–24 January 2008, Buccleuch Street, Glasgow
Amsterdam
Morag Keil, 3 March–14 April, Grimm Fine Art 14 / Lucy Stein, 3 March–14 April, Galerie Martin van Zomeren / Sue Tompkins, 3 March–7 April, Galerie Diana Stigter
Lisa Yuskavage
18 October–18 November 2006, David Zwirner/Zwirner & Wirth, New York
Neal Tait: Now is the Discount of our Winter Tents
15 September–21 October 2006, White Cube, London
Callum Innes
30 September–19 November 2006, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Francis Bacon: Portraits and Heads
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 4 June–4 September, 2005
#4 - December 2005
Review
James Lumsden and Andrew MacKenzie
Sarah Myerscough, London 30 September-29 October 2005
This Drove My Mother Up The Wall
Susan Finlay reviews Katharina Grosse at South London Gallery, 28 September - 3 December
New Waves: Mohamed Melehi and the Casablanca Art School
The Mosaic Rooms 12/04/19–22/06/19. Review by Kylie Gilchrist
Mardi Barrie and her transpositional quest
‘It is not women’s inferiority that has determined their historical insignificance: it is their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.’ Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949. Lauren Dyer Amazeen is drawn to the work of this Edinburgh artist
Paradoxical Paintings
In our final review which involved a venue visit, Gwen Burlington visits Pacita Abad, Life in the Margins, Spike Island, 18 January 2020—closed until further notice
Introduction
Susannah Thompson and Marianne Greated introduce a MAP mini series, part of their recently launched, ongoing project Women Painting: Scottish Art 1940-1980
she didn’t paint the sea, after Joan Eardley
by Daisy Lafarge
tangents: letters on Etel Adnan PART ONE
Katy Lewis Hood and Maria Sledmere correspond
tangents: letters on Etel Adnan PART TWO
Katy Lewis Hood and Maria Sledmere correspond