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 OctoberKarla Black’s Abstraction
Briony Fer examines the tone and texture of the Glasgow-based artist’s workLucy 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 serendipityGray 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 installationsNew 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 collaborationHayley Tompkins: Hypothetically Seeing
Joanna Fiduccia visits Glasgow to meet Hayley Tompkins, in whose work she discovers abstraction of an extended, visionary natureEmerging: Phoebe Unwin
Rebecca Geldard discovers a savvy painter whose clever balance of good and bad taste is propelling her towards successGerhard 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 workMerlin James: Yes Yes Yes
Sherman Sam finds an uneasy longing, coupled with affirmative gesture, in the work of contemporary painter Merlin JamesAndreas Dobler: Uncertain Scenes
Steven Cairns examines the fundamentals of painting in the work of Andreas DoblerEmerging: 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 SasnalEmerging: Ben Jones
New York comic artist takes zine culture to a deadpan high in a new body of icon paintingsEmerging: Ann Bowman
Hollywood to Glasgow, this young American artist explores fantasy and glamour with a sharp film-maker’s eyeStudio: 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 roofVictor Man: Plural Solitude
Alessandro Rabottini discovers a quiet but resolute multiple voice in the painted and sculpted installation work of Romanian artist Victor ManTony 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 landscapesCarol 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 McKenzieStudio: Callum Innes
With the turps drying on his survey show in September, Callum Innes welcomes Catriona Black and Luke Watson into his busy Edinburgh studioStudio: 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 2005Alex Pollard
11 October–2 November, 2008, Whitechapel Project Space, LondonSilke Otto-Knapp
4 July–13 September, 2009, Modern Art Oxford, OxfordChristopher Orr
24 May–1 August, 2009, IBID PROJECTS/Hoxton Square, LondonDavid 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, EdinburghCarol Rhodes
1 December 2007–24 February 2008, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, EdinburghLive Undead
29 January–23 February 2008, Transmission Gallery, GlasgowLuke Fowler & Charlie Hammond
19–24 January 2008, Buccleuch Street, GlasgowAmsterdam
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 StigterLisa Yuskavage
18 October–18 November 2006, David Zwirner/Zwirner & Wirth, New YorkNeal Tait: Now is the Discount of our Winter Tents
15 September–21 October 2006, White Cube, LondonCallum Innes
30 September–19 November 2006, The Fruitmarket Gallery, EdinburghFrancis Bacon: Portraits and Heads
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 4 June–4 September, 2005
#4 - December 2005
Review