Red Chalk: Raphael to Ramsay at the Scottish National Gallery

This spring a fascinating new exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery will explore the versatile and beautiful drawing medium of red chalk. Comprising some 35 works from the Gallery’s world-class collection, Red Chalk: Raphael to Ramsay will showcase a diverse range of exquisite drawings by distinguished artists such as, Peter Paul Rubens, Salvator Rosa, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Francois Boucher and David Allan....

Turner in January 2012 with a new a major new acquisition at the Scottish National Gallery

The National Galleries of Scotland is delighted to announce a major new acquisition, Rome from Monte Mario (1820) by J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851).  This stunning watercolour has recently been allocated to the Scottish National Gallery through the Acceptance in Lieu of Tax scheme and will take pride of place in the Gallery’s much-loved Turner in January exhibition.  Rome from Monte Mario will strengthen this...

The Sculpture Show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art announces definitive look at 110 years of Sculpture including works from Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas through to Ron Mueck and 2011 Turner Prize winner, Martin Boyce. A major new exhibition, which will use the extraordinary collection at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art to explore the development of sculpture over the last 110 years, will open in Edinburgh this week....

Séance On by Emma McKay and Lila de Magalhaes at the Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow

Séance On is an exhibition by Glasgow-based artist Emma McKay and Lila de Magalhaes, currently undertaking an MFA in Los Angeles, USA. The artists will present new works based loosely on conversations surrounding ideas of communicating with the dead, the mask as identity and the act of stepping over the a threshold into a subtly altered reality. “I wanted to ask questions but I could scarcely keep pace as he...

Dovble Trovble at the Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow

Usually, artwork is exhibited, documentation is published and, if on a digital platform, the Internet becomes the means of its dissemination.It’s Our Playground investigates the cohabitation of the virtual and the real, by setting up a physical exhibition and an online one. The project will look at artworks existing in different mediums (for example, sculpture and JPEG, installation and GIF). There will be...

No Vacancy by Alan Stanners at the Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow January 2012

No Vacancy presents a new body of paintings by Alan Stanners, influenced by a manifesto written by the artist in 2011. The Qualmlessist Manifesto offers the artist and audience a set of equally serious and laughable frameworks from which to make, and ‘understand’, his paintings. A number of the paintings presented in No Vacancy draw on wide references to current political and cultural circumstances. Works that...

Anna Barham and Bea McMahon Warp and Woof by Hailey Maxwell

Although rich in conceptual content, Anna Barham and Bea MacMahon’s first joint exhibition Warp and Woof somewhat remains an enigma. The artists share a fascination with the complex systems that are the underlying mechanics of the universe, having both studied mathematics before exhibiting as artists. Held in Glasgow’s CCA Warp and Woof explores metaphysical issues using a variety of media. In her video Cats,...

‘Raise Your Eyes to Our Heavens’ by Struan Kennedy

Unlike my last article ‘Dire Green Place’ where the focus was on a painterly representation of the street I would now like to turn my attention to the street itself. I wish this to be a direct, urgent connection with the architecture not a secondary, distanced representation of it. The street in question is Buchanan, one third of the so-called ‘golden Z’ of Glasgow’s city centre shopping. I chose this one...

‘Dire Green Place’ by Struan Kennedy

With a name like the Royal Glasgow Institute for Fine Arts attached to the Kelly Gallery you might expect a weighty authority and grandeur to the building. However the Kelly Gallery is a very modest one-room speck in a little offshoot from Sauchiehall Street. This should do nothing to deter a true follower of art, as he/she should know that in order to follow art one must sometimes tread the sideways as well as the...

The Fossil Grove Review by Struan Kennedy

What was I doing here? A 22 year-old recent graduate and would be art journalist surely I should be somewhere else. I should be amongst my own kind- other eager wit buzzing around the latest offerings from the bright and breezy contemporary art scene. Instead where did I find myself? In one, small room faced with some sunken features, which were, in turn, contained within a sunken pit before me. Wasn’t I meant to...