The initial impression of Woman with a Red Hat upon entering the exhibition space is one of space and traditionalism; a wide white room lined with framed prints on each side. Yet this understated-ness leaves the viewer utterly unprepared for the incredibly intense, challenging and intelligent message of Dean’s work, which at once exposes and […]
Abortion Wars is a book that will make you angry. It is a reminder that, in a world where women are increasingly aware of their own rights and abilities, the autonomies of their bodies continues to be under attack. Indeed in the past week, a 14-year-old rape victim died whilst giving birth in Paraguay, a […]
Now in its eighteenth year, the BP Portrait Award celebrates the best of portraiture and offers the rare opportunity to see a collection of the best portrait work from around the globe. The curation of the exhibition presents interesting contrasts and manages to draw together threads of coherency in this densely-packed space. Brian Says’ compact […]
This month, the Traverse Theatre premieres Morna Pearson’s award-winning play How to Disappear. This tragi-comedy and social commentary, starring Kirsty Mackay, Sally Reid and Owen Whitelaw, combines the fantastical with the difficulty faced by benefit claimants in Tory Britain. How to Disappear masterfully blends the absurd and fantastical with the mundanely relatable. Few of us have experienced […]
Build Up is a collective exhibition at Gallery 23 showcasing the work of nine ECA final-year painting students. Through these snapshots into each artist’s work, the show seeks to demonstrate the diverse methods of creating an image in painting. There is no tight narrative binding these pieces together. Instead, the broadness of the brief has […]
Right Here Among Them is Glaswegian artist Jacqueline Donachie’s ambitious mid-career exhibition at The Fruitmarket Gallery. The exhibition encompasses pieces from across Donachie’s career in several mediums, including sculpture, print, sound and video. It explores the artist’s fascination with objects and spaces and the ways in which we interact with them. Right Here Among Them […]
Deerhart is the result of a collaboration between Northern Writer’s Award winning poet Yvonne Reddick and Royal College of Art Graduate Diana Zwibach. Through Reddick’s highly-descriptive prose and Zwibach’s dramatic charcoal drawings, the exhibition explores the chthonic, esoteric relationship between nature and humanity. Initially, this heady combination makes Deerhart feel overwhelming. The poems are incredibly […]
From Paper to Gold is Edinburgh Printmakers’ 50-year anniversary celebration. The name itself is a play on the traditional wedding anniversary gifts, with the first year being marked by paper and the fiftieth with gold. For the festivities, the studio and gallery has invited fifty resident or former-resident artists to contribute a piece of their […]