Making art for the digital age
Originally Submitted 8th February 2022 “Imagine walking into the National Gallery,” a digital artist recently told me, “with a bunch of people who’d never even seen a painting before. Auction…
Is it just a bunch of wank?
CW: Sexual Content A student at the ECA has been the latest victim in a long history of artistic censorship: that is one way of looking at the controversy that…
The Venice Biennale: A disrespect to the modern art world
“The Venice Biennale is a Tesco’s Finest mixed platter at best. “ The Venice Biennale is a focal point in the art world, often heralded as the “art-world Olympics”: it is…
To NFT or Not to NFT? That is the question.
Picture this: it’s 2030. Galleries as we know and love (or hate) them are redundant. Now, there are no queues, travel expenses, coat checks or pretentious middle-aged white men explaining,…
New Arrivals From Salvador Dalí to Jenny Saville
The (free!) exhibition that opened at the Scottish National Gallery Modern One this weekend displays their newest acquisitions spanning 110 years, hence the title New Arrivals: From Salvador Dali to Jenny…
Cut and Paste at Modern Art Two
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two presents Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage. Spanning across six rooms, the exhibition traces the development of collage across the Western…
Tremble Tremble and At the Gates, Talbot Rice Gallery
The phenomenal experience of Jesse Jones’ Tremble Tremble begins at the edge of darkness – one which consumes the spectator into a phantasmagorical womb of the Giantess. Like a spectre,…
REFRESH, Patriothall Gallery
REFRESH is the product of a collective of six artists who all graduated from Gray’s School of Art. It is their second exhibition that they have constructed together. It demonstrates…
