Issues / #7 Autumn 2006
Diary: Theatre of Dreams
Patrick Semple reports from the terraces at this year’s Art Cup in remote Huntly, Aberdeenshire
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
Edward Summerton: Birds of the Devil
Is it a bird? Is it a book? Colin Martin, aka the Lonely Piper, takes flight with fellow Dundee-based artist, Edward Summerton, on the subject of both. Inspired by Ladybird illustration, Summerton’s book of feathered friends invites nostalgia, mild terror and connections with flu and civilisation. Read on…
Report: Can Video Thrive as a Marginal Activity?
Isla Leaver-Yap reports on the state of video art in Scotland
Emerging: Billy Teasdale
Dominic Patterson introduces an artist with sculptural interests in the body
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
Emerging: Richard Robinson & Robert Bermingham
Ruth Beale finds explorations of masculine fantasies in Wales
The Young Athenians
Edinburgh’s young artists move into the Royal Scottish Academy this autumn. Are they beating or joining the establishment game? Alex Kennedy tiptoes into hallowed spaces and asks a few of the players what side they are on.
Jacqueline Donachie and Darren Monckton: Tomorrow Belongs to Me
HUNTERIAN MUSEUM 9 JUN–2 SEP, 2006, Glasgow
The Poets Still Throwing Up Their Hands
THE CHANGING ROOM 29 APR–10 JUN, 2006, Stirling
Marcel Dzama: Tree With Roots
IKON GALLERY, BIRMINGHAM 24 MAY–16 JUL; CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, GLASGOW, 5 AUG–16 SEP, 2006
Seamus Harahan/Bedwyr Williams/ Margaret Salmon
COLLECTIVE GALLERY 10 JUN–22 JUL, 2006, Edinburgh
Zidane: a 21st Century Portrait
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL WORLD PREMIERE 23 APR EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 19/20 AUG, 2006, Cannes
East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe
Edited by IRWIN AFTERALL BOOKS, 2006, £24.95
Siren
Chris Watson BOOKSCAPES, 2006, £9.95 dp003: converse without leaving home Various contributors DISCPARC, DCA, 2006, £4
ANNIE LENNOX
The Eurythmics singer, who was recently honoured by both Edinburgh College of Art and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, reveals her artistic passions
Dada’s Boys: Identity and Play in Contemporary Art
27 May–16 July 2006, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh