Mark-making is a game of construction: the gestural language of creation. In poetry and in painting, mark-makers build on two very distinct vocabularies in order to achieve diverse results. The processes, however, are not so dissimilar. At the Union G...
Sun 05 Feb 2012 by Delphine Tomes | Read more »
The Collective Gallery continues its endorsement of recent Scottish graduates through the New Work Scotland Programme 2011. Glasgow-based artists Amelia Bywater and Christian Newby collaborate to present the 34-minute video Historic Play Dissolving So...
Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Delphine Tomes | Read more »
Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder, so prepare your eyes to be bedazzled by the vision of artefacts currently on display at the Talbot Rice Gallery. Inspired by the ideas on aesthetics of Edinburgh University’s very own David Hume, Pat F...
Wed 30 Nov 2011 by Delphine Tomes | Read more »
At a time in art when beauty is venerated at the expense of the ugly, it seems apt that ugliness be given its own little space to exist. Global protests are only one of a myriad of examples demonstrating existing social ugliness, and it appears that th...
Wed 02 Nov 2011 by Delphine Tomes | Read more »
The eclectic work of over 100 Scottish artists and jewellers is on display at the ninth Edinburgh Macmillan Art Show, taking place at the Dovecot Studios on Infirmary Street. The event marks the centenary year of Macmillan Cancer Support and the 300 wo...
Thu 20 Oct 2011 by Delphine Tomes | Read more »