Issues / #8 Winter 2006

Paul Carter: You’re Not Alone
4 March 1970-12 August 2006 Earlier this year, Edinburgh artist Paul Carter tragically died. These thoughts and memories of the man and his work have been contributed by colleagues and friends
Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard, Jason Pierce
The collaborators behind Silent Sound on their Liverpool Biennial performance based around the idea of spiritualism
Report: Art fair power and glamour is confirmed
Isla Leaver-Yap reports on art world activity.
Emerging: In the Fields
We introduce two pairs of artists who attracted attention at the Edinburgh Art Festival 2006; and two individual artists who are making a visible mark on the landscape of environmental art
Emerging: Ben and Holly
We introduce two pairs of artists who attracted attention at the Edinburgh Art Festival 2006; and two individual artists who are making a visible mark on the landscape of environmental art
Emerging: Maria Pires
We introduce two pairs of artists who attracted attention at the Edinburgh Art Festival 2006; and two individual artists who are making a visible mark on the landscape of environmental art
Journey Eight: Nürnberg
In his latest voyage for MAP, Duncan McLaren follows artist Nicola Atkinson-Davidson to Germany, where she spent the long, hot summer holding up a mirror to the west of Scotland
Emerging: Ettie Spencer
We introduce two pairs of artists who attracted attention at the Edinburgh Art Festival 2006; and two individual artists who are making a visible mark on the landscape of environmental art
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
Jacqueline Donachie / Christine Borland: The Doctor will see you now.
John Calcutt examines the role of the artist in a medical vein, taking the work of Jacqueline Donachie and Christine Borland as his guide. He opens with two very different tales …
David Shrigley: Top Drawer
David Shrigley is astonishingly prolific. Outside the mainstream, but embraced by it, he makes T-shirts and posters, but is also bought by the Tate. Neil Cooper visits him in his Glasgow studio and finds the man very much like his work.
#8 - November 2006
Ice Station Isis
The Canadian duo Fastwürms post their Map Commission from the twin norths of Ontario and Aberdeenshire.
Absent without leave—Second Young Artists Biennial
12 October–16 November 2006, Bratianu Palace, Bucharest
The Four
19 August–23 September 2006, Collins Galery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Killing Time
9 September–5 November 2006, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
Neal Tait: Now is the Discount of our Winter Tents
15 September–21 October 2006, White Cube, London
Kenny Hunter
29 July–5 November 2006, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
How to Live Together
7 October–17 December 2006, 27th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil
Callum Innes
30 September–19 November 2006, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Chris Burden
15 September–5 November 2006, South London Gallery and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London