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Tony Swain »

Diet of Omissions, Tony Swain. 2010

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If a reviewer were being facetious he might say that Tony Swain’s subject is The Guardian. In his new exhibition at the Fruitmarket, the ubiquitous broadsheet is pasted, painted, and generally altered to the artist's content. But Swain does more than ...

Wed 09 May 2012 by Isaac Nugent | Read more »

RSA Contemporaries 2012 »

Octopi by Joanna Lyczko & Seila Susberg. 2011

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It’s that time of year again. 57 of the best graduates from last year’s degree shows have been chosen by a panel of Royal Scottish Academy members as worthy of exhibition. What could be more exciting than young fresh graduates? Surely we ca...

Sun 08 Apr 2012 by Isaac Nugent | Read more »

If you meet my doppelganger please make sure you kill him »

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Eccentricity is something that is often ignored by artists. Intellectually dry, minimal and ultimately tedious work is all too present in the contemporary art gallery today. If you see my Doppelganger please make sure you kill him, the new exhibition a...

Fri 09 Mar 2012 by Isaac Nugent | Read more »

Dead Guys »

Dead Guys

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This week Superclub has faced an invasion of Dead Guys. Fifteen or so artists and illustrators have put their imaginations to work according to the tagline of ‘some weird lookin' dudes bereft of consciousness and self awareness, vacuous and a bit...

Thu 01 Mar 2012 by Isaac Nugent | Read more »

War at Sea »

The Forth Bridge by Sir John Lavery. 1914

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As we approach nearly 100 years since the end of the First World War, the newly refurbished Scottish National Portrait Gallery has undertaken an exhibition of John Lavery’s work as a naval war artist. Unfortunately these seem like the paintings o...

Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Isaac Nugent | Read more »

RSA Open 2011 »

Two Planes by Jake Harvey

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Just in time for Christmas and opposite the premier shopping hub of Princes Street, this RSA exhibition makes its yearly concession to the commercial end of the contemporary art spectrum. The RSA Open turns the lower galleries of the Academy into somet...

Wed 30 Nov 2011 by Isaac Nugent | Read more »

Inches Carr Trust »

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Dovecot Studios are unique among Edinburgh exhibition spaces in that they are devoted solely to crafts; prescribing the label ‘makers’ to its exhibitors instead of ‘artists’. This is shown clearly in this exhibition celebrating ...

Tue 08 Nov 2011 by Isaac Nugent | Read more »

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