02/06/2009
New Commission for Threshold
In his first solo show in the UK, Igor Krenz creates new work for Threshold artspace’s permane
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02/06/2009
Art Under The Arches
Washington Garcia was established in 2006 with a series of exhibitions in the front room of a Victor
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02/06/2009
New Commissioning Award
Director Paul Hobson reveals the Contemporary Art Society’s key objectives for its ambitious n
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02/06/2009
Eastside Projects
Gavin Wade, curator of Eastside Projects, which opened in Birmingham at the end of 2008, talks about
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30/03/2009
How Not to Cook; Lessons learned the hard way - Aleksandra Mir
The Collective Gallery’s current project: How Not to Cook lessons learned the hard way a
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20/03/2009
Artist Rooms
Philip Long, senior curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, introduces the much-awai
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20/03/2009
Bucherest's new art space Pavilion Unicredit
Eugen Radescu is co-director of Bucharest’s latest contemporary art venue, Pavilion Unicredit.
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20/03/2009
Younger Than Jesus opens in New York
Lauren Cornell, executive director, Rhizome and adjunct curator for New Museum, New York, is co-cura
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20/03/2009
Lighthouse art space Sierra Metro announces programme
Sierra Metro, Edinburgh, opened in October 2008 as a new, independent, not-for-profit artist-run spa
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20/03/2009
CCA launches journal 2HB
2HB Louise Shelley announces a new publishing project for innovative creative art writing, to be lau
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24/01/2009
Edinburgh Art Festival - Call for Proposals
EDINBURGH ART FESTIVAL 5 AUGUST – 5 SEPTEMBER 2009CALL FOR PROPOSALSSubmission Deadline: 5pm,
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16/11/2008
Martin Boyce and the 53rd Venice Biennale
Judith Winter and Graeme Domke, Dundee Contemporary Arts, discuss their selection for Scotland and V
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16/11/2008
Katy Dove
Katy Dove discusses her two year residency at Platform, Glasgow, and how working with community grou
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16/11/2008
Moot Moves
Tom Godfrey, one of four artist/directors of Nottingham’s Moot organisation is excited about n
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16/11/2008
Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin
Thomas Eller discusses the new Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin and its significance to the city&quo
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24/10/2008
New Glasgow Sculpture Studios
Beagles & Ramsay have undertaken the first production residency at Glasgow Sculpture Studios&rsq
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19/08/2008
Edinburgh Art Festival
The burgeoning Edinburgh Art Festival opens in August under the directorship of Joanne Brown"Wh
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19/08/2008
2 Turin Triennial
Daniel Birnbaum, director of Portikus, Frankfurt, discusses the tasks of curating 2 Turin Triennial
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19/08/2008
MAGAZINE 08
Javier Marroquí and David Arlandis are Spanish curators working this summer at Edinburgh Scul
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19/08/2008
New Aberdeen Space
A new space for contemporary visual art in Aberdeen is scheduled to open by 2011. Lindsay Gordon, di
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12/06/2008
Three Blows
Curator Sarah Lowndes explains how she intends to highlight the work of Richard Youngs, Sarah K
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12/06/2008
Paulina Olowska
Featured in the latest issue of MAP, Polish artist Paulina Olowska opens an exhibition of new
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12/06/2008
Edinburgh Art Festival
The EAF opens this year on 31 July and includes work by Tracey Emin (Gallery of Modern Art), Richard
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12/02/2008
VISIBLE CINEMA
MAP presents artists' films18.30 CCA CINEMA, Sauchiehall StreetSunday 17 FebruaryRosa Barba / Duncan
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16/01/2008
RSVP: JIM LAMBIE
Straight from a solo show at the Hirshhorn Gallery in Washington DC and a group exhibition at Chicag
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01/11/2007
THREE SPACES
As the art market continues to grow despite a generally unsettled economic forecast, Ingleby Gallery
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01/11/2007
PAVEL ALTHAMER
Tate Modern curator Jessica Morgan explains the gallery’s acquisition of the stunning work by
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01/11/2007
LANDMASS
Ilana Halperin’s ongoing project Towards Heilprin Land explores geological shifts. Halperin pr
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01/11/2007
ONE MILE
In summer 2008, Collective Gallery’s One Mile project, lead by artist Kate Gray, will complete
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19/09/2007
LOVE AND FEAR
French artist Claude Closky’s newly commissioned work ‘Love and Fear’, 2007, joins
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19/09/2007
KRIS MARTIN
Since Belgian artist Kris Martin’s appearance in of mice and men, the 2006 Berlin Biennale, wi
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19/09/2007
EDINBURGH ART FESTIVAL
At the very outset of life, key dichotomies are laid down: art and nature, picturesque and sublime,
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19/09/2007
BIENNIALE DE LYON
Defined by curators Ste?phanie Moisdon and Hans Ulrich Obrist as an ‘archaeology of the presen
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19/09/2007
PIER ARTS CENTRE
Following a three year closure, Margaret Gardiner’s ‘gift’ to Orkney was re-opened
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19/09/2007
DOUBLE A-SIDE
Art and music developed a historic bond in the 20th century. Since Yves Klein’s famous ‘
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19/09/2007
NATIONAL TREASURES
With Venice now underway along with a number of other new biennals, national identity is increasingl
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28/06/2007
MONUMENTA
Anselm Kiefer, Richard Serra and Christian Boltanski are the first three artists to take part in Mon
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28/06/2007
MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
This brand new festival includes an unusual visual arts element. Il Tempo del Postino, curated by Ha
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28/06/2007
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
Michael Lin, Apolonija Sustersic and Richard Wright are making work for August’s Edinburgh Int
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28/06/2007
PERFORMA07
PERFORMA07 is the second biennial of visual art performance at PS1, New York, showing new work by es
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28/06/2007
YOU HAVE NOT BEEN HONEST
YOU HAVE NOT BEEN HONEST, a major exhibition of recent British film and video, opens at the Museo d&
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28/06/2007
Turner prize
This year’s prize is to be presented out of London for the first time since it began in 1984.
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28/06/2007
HENRY COOMBES, KENNY HUNTER, ROSS SINCLAIR and SIMON YUILL
HENRY COOMBES, KENNY HUNTER, ROSS SINCLAIR and SIMON YUILL were the visual artists chosen to receive
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28/06/2007
PETER DOIG
PETER DOIG’s painting ‘White Canoe’, 1991, sold at Sotheby’s London for &pou
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28/06/2007
KELVINGROVE ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM
KELVINGROVE ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM, Glasgow, is one of four short-listed museums and galleries in th
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28/06/2007
JACKIE ANDERSON
JACKIE ANDERSON is this year’s RSA Alastair Salvesen Scholar. She will use the £10,000 p
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28/06/2007
SIMON STARLING
SIMON STARLING’s newly commissioned work, ‘Particle Projection (Loop)’, was shown
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28/06/2007
TATE MODERN
TATE MODERN plans for a £215m extension have been approved. Designed by Swiss architects Herzo
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28/06/2007
Dalziel + scullion
Dalziel + scullion have been commissioned to make a new work by An Tobar on the Isle of Mull as part
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28/06/2007
GANGHUT
GANGHUT are on a six-month residency at Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden, working with the vil
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28/06/2007
MOYNA FLANNIGAN
MOYNA FLANNIGAN exhibits new and existing work at the annual Mount Stuart exhibition, on the Isle of
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28/06/2007
JOHN CAGE (1912 – 1992) and MERCE CUNNINGHAM
JOHN CAGE (1912 – 1992) and MERCE CUNNINGHAM A rare opportunity to see drawings by this great
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28/06/2007
ROSALIND NASHASHIBI
ROSALIND NASHASHIBI selected a series of films and performances for Lux and Tate Britain’s Sel
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28/06/2007
AERNOUT MIK
AERNOUT MIK (see feature) is making new work for one of three Dutch contributions at the 52nd Venice
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28/06/2007
TORSTEN LAUSCHMANN
TORSTEN LAUSCHMANN has been awarded two UK residencies. The Glasgow-based artist will spend three su
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28/06/2007
KARLA BLACK
KARLA BLACK is presenting new site specific works alongside Ian Kiaer and Knut Henrik at Poor Thing,
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28/06/2007
THE ART EXTRAORDINARY TRUST
THE ART EXTRAORDINARY TRUST opens for its summer season with a new exhibiton by David Mackie Cook (5
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28/06/2007
MALCY DUFF
MALCY DUFF has self-produced more than 30 publications, latterly with his own Missing Twin imprint,
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28/06/2007
ICC + S-AIR 2007 EXCHANGE PROGRAMME
ICC + S-AIR 2007 EXCHANGE PROGRAMME is a three month residency in Sapporo, Japan aimed at artists/cu
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28/06/2007
JERWOOD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD 2007
JERWOOD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD 2007 is one of the UK’s most prestigious. Entrants must be in UK res
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28/06/2007
NEW WRITING SCOTLAND PROJECT
NEW WRITING SCOTLAND PROJECT, a Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, initiative, promotes new art writers
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28/06/2007
MOVING IMAGES
MOVING IMAGES East Ayrshire invites artists working in film, animation or video to apply for two res
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28/06/2007
MISS MO TAYLOR’S TRUST
MISS MO TAYLOR’S TRUST is a fund for impoverished artists, worth £800.Closing date 1 Jun
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31/03/2007
COLLECTIVE MYSTERY SCREENING
EXCLUSIVE EVENT - SATURDAY 31st MARCH6 - 9:30pm (including travel time) With the support of Visiting
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14/03/2007
CREATIVE SCOTLAND AWARDS
HENRY COOMBES, KENNY HUNTER, ROSS SINCLAIR and SIMON YUILL were all recipients of the generous Creat
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08/02/2007
WILHELM SASNAL
WILHELM SASNAL has won the 'Vincent van Gogh Biennial Award for Contemporary Art in Europe 2006, one
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08/02/2007
ARTANGEL OPEN 2007
RONI HORN, PENNY WOOLCOCK, PAUL PFEIFFER, CLIO BARNARD and ROGER HIORNS are the first recipients of
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08/02/2007
JANICE MCNAB
JANICE MCNAB's painting, 'The Philosopher's Ridge' was recently acquired by the Fleming Collection,
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08/02/2007
ANDY GOLDSWORTHY
ANDY GOLDSWORTHY returns to Yorkshire Sculpture Park, where he first completed a residency in 1987.
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08/02/2007
RICHARD CALVOCORESSI
RICHARD CALVOCORESSI has been appointed director of the Henry Moore Foundation, which holds the grea
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08/02/2007
FRUITMARKET GALLERY
FRUITMARKET GALLERY, Edinburgh was runner up in the fifth annual Art Newspaper & AXA Art Prize f
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08/02/2007
KEVIN REID
KEVIN REID, nominated by Bedwyre Williams, was selected for Axis' Open Frequency. The on-line portfo
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08/02/2007
ALEX POLLARD, CAROL RHODES, KARLA BLACK and KATE DAVIS
ALEX POLLARD, CAROL RHODES, KARLA BLACK and KATE DAVIS have each been awarded £15,000 by the S
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08/02/2007
MARTIN BOYCE, JEREMY DELLER and SUSAN PHILIPSZ
MARTIN BOYCE, JEREMY DELLER and SUSAN PHILIPSZ all feature in Sculpture Projects Munster 07. The rev
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08/02/2007
VICTORIA MORTON and KATY DOVE
VICTORIA MORTON and KATY DOVE show together for the first time in Sun by Ear at Tramway, Glasgow in
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08/02/2007
HAYLEY and SUE TOMPKINS
HAYLEY and SUE TOMPKINS are exhibiting in the newly refurbished Spike Island, Bristol. The artists&r
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08/02/2007
DONALD URQUHART, ALEX FINLAY, THOMAS A CLARK and KEN COCKBURN
DONALD URQUHART, ALEX FINLAY, THOMAS A CLARK and KEN COCKBURN have all completed newly commissioned
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08/02/2007
ILANA HALPERIN
ILANA HALPERIN participates in the Sharjah Biennial 8, United Arab Emirates, which focuses on art en
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08/02/2007
LIFE WITHOUT BUILDINGS
LIFE WITHOUT BUILDINGS Will Bradley, Chris Evans, Robert Johnston, and Sue Tompkins are due to
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08/02/2007
NESTA
NESTA have launched a new £200,000 fund for research into collaborations between the arts and
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08/02/2007
SCOTLAND AND VENICE 2007
CHARLES AVERY, HENRY COOMBES, LOUISE HOPKINS, ROSALIND NASHASHIBI, LUCY SKAER and TONY SWAIN are rep
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08/02/2007
ROSS SINCLAIR
ROSS SINCLAIR exhibits with Victorian painter Sir Edwin Landseer in a project conceived by curator a
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08/02/2007
BP PORTRAIT AWARD
BP PORTRAIT AWARD is now open. In its 18th year, the prize of £25,000, to a single artist, aim
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08/02/2007
NEW WORK SCOTLAND
NEW WORK SCOTLAND programme from the Collective Gallery, Edinburgh promotes recent graduates working
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08/02/2007
COVE PARK
COVE PARK This three month residency, running from May – August is open to international profe
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08/02/2007
RSA JOHN KINROSS SCHOLARSHIP
RSA JOHN KINROSS SCHOLARSHIP enables final year students from any of the four Scottish art schools t
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08/02/2007
KATRINA BROWN
KATRINA BROWN is leaving Dundee Contemporary Arts after nine years as curator, during which time she
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08/02/2007
TOBY PATERSON
TOBY PATERSON has been commissioned as lead artist in a project to transform the facade of BBC Scotl
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08/02/2007
HENRY COOMBES, KENNY HUNTER, ROSS SINCLAIR, LUCY SKAER and SIMON YUILL
HENRY COOMBES, KENNY HUNTER, ROSS SINCLAIR, LUCY SKAER and SIMON YUILL are among the 20 artists/writ
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08/02/2007
ABERDEEN GRANTS
ABERDEEN now has a new visual arts award. With Scottish Arts Council support, Gray’s School of
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08/02/2007
JEFF NUTTALL
JEFF NUTTALL (1933 - 2004) artist, writer and performer – author of the influential, 196
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08/02/2007
WASPS ARTISTS' STUDIOS
WASPS ARTISTS’ STUDIOS have been offered a £3m pledge to move out of revenue funding sta
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08/02/2007
MADE AT DCA
MARTIN BOYCE, SIMON STARLING and LOUISE HOPKINS, are among many others to feature in Made at DCA, an
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17/10/2006
ROSALIND NASHASHIBI
ROSALIND NASHASHIBI was one of six artists to win the Arts Council England's deciBel Award 2006. One
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17/10/2006
RACHAEL FLYNN and LISA FINDLAY
RACHAEL FLYNN and LISA FINDLAY were awarded residencies at Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden, on
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17/10/2006
WASPS TRUST
WASPS TRUST is to establish a new studio complex for Glasgow. Working in partnership with Wasps Arti
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17/10/2006
SMITH/STEWART and DOUGLAS GORDON
SMITH/STEWART and DOUGLAS GORDON are included in Into to me / Out of me, an exhibition curated by Kl
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17/10/2006
LAURA AULDRIDGE
LAURA AULDRIDGE joins the committee of Transmission, Glasgow, as Iain Hetherinton and Lucy McEachan
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17/10/2006
OLIVER GODOW
OLIVER GODOW embarks on his one-year residency at Durham Cathedral. Godow graduated from the MFA in
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17/10/2006
TOBY WEBSTER
TOBY WEBSTER curated a group of Modern Institute artists for a show in Israel. Works by Martin Boyce
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17/10/2006
MARYANNE AMACHER
MARYANNE AMACHER appeared at this year’s edition of Instal at the Arches, Glasgow, 15 October.
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17/10/2006
JENNY SAVILLE
JENNY SAVILLE’s early self portrait, formerly bought by Friends of the Glasgow School of Art,
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17/10/2006
CHARLOTTE HODES
CHARLOTTE HODES was this years recipient of the £6000 Jerwood Drawing Prize. Organised by Wimb
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17/10/2006
ALEC FINLAY
ALEC FINLAY's publications are on view at The Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh. This survey exam
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17/10/2006
KATE DAVIS
KATE DAVIS’ book Bread was celebrated with a launch featuring Torsten Lauschmann baking 20 loa
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17/10/2006
SCALO PUBLISHING
SCALO PUBLISHING filed for bankruptcy on 19 September. Founded in 1991 by Walter Keller and George R
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17/10/2006
LUCY MCKENZIE
LUCY MCKENZIE has sublet part of her exhibition space at Talbot Rice to fashion designer Beca Lipsco
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17/10/2006
NATIONAL GALLERIES OF SCOTLAND and TATE
NATIONAL GALLERIES OF SCOTLAND and TATE have formed an ‘alliance’ to acquire the Anthony
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17/10/2006
MARK NEVILLE and PAVEL BUCHLER
MARK NEVILLE and PAVEL BUCHLER were commissioned by the Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, to make a coll
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17/10/2006
YOUNG ARTISTS' BIENNIAL IN BUCHAREST
MIRANDA BLENNERHASSETT, MARCUS COATS, WILL DUKE, STUART MURRAY, OLIVIA PLENDER, LOUISA PRESTON, TOBI
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17/10/2006
BEAGLES AND RAMSEY
BEAGLES AND RAMSEY are to launch a catalogue of recent work at Tramway. Produced in collaboration wi
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17/10/2006
NICK EVANS
NICK EVANS solo show at Tate St Ives reviews work made on his recent residency. The fourth artist in
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17/10/2006
RICHARD DEMARCO
RICHARD DEMARCO was awarded an Honorary Doctoral Causa from the Wroclaw Academy of Art, Poland, 18 O
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17/10/2006
HOSPITALFIELD RESIDENCY
Artists are once again being invited to apply for the Royal Scottish Academy’s three-month lon
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17/10/2006
THE ALISTAIR SALVESEN SCHOLARSHIP
THE ALISTAIR SALVESEN SCHOLARSHIP offers up to £10,000 for travel. The finalist will have a so
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17/10/2006
EAST INTERNATIONAL 2007
EAST international 2007 the annual open call exhibition, held at Norwitch Gallery and Norwich School
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17/10/2006
ROSALIND NASHASHIBI and LUCY SKAER
ROSALIND NASHASHIBI and LUCY SKAER were commissioned by Spike Island, Bristol to create new film wor
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17/10/2006
KIRSTEN LLOYD and AMY SALES
KIRSTEN LLOYD and AMY SALES have commissioned artists Aileen Campbell and Mark Melvin to create new
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23/08/2006
PRIZES AND OPPORTUNITIES
JERWOOD ARTANGEL OPEN This ambitious newb £1 million commissioning initiative invites artists
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23/08/2006
Book Fair at the CCA Open Day
on Saturday 26th August. The Open Day offers tours of the building and exhibition talks, Inter
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22/08/2006
A PUBLIC ONLINE SURVEY
has been launched on the Scottish Arts Council’s website to assess interest in the formation o
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22/08/2006
JENNY BROWNRIGG
is one of five curators involved in this autumn’s international biennial of young artists, whi
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22/08/2006
UBU
gallery has sold its entirev inaugural show on its openingnight. Founded by Richard Hopkins, formerl
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22/08/2006
MOMENTUM
is the fourth Nordic festival of contemporary art. Featuring work by 28 artists, including Sue Tompk
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22/08/2006
TOTAL KUNST's
summer exhibition What Is Lady Cum? (8 – 29 July) focused on themes of female fantasy, masturb
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22/08/2006
NICOLA ATKINSON-DAVIDSON
will be celebrating the short but colourful life of glamrocker Marc Bolan in East Kilbride. As part
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25/07/2006
JOHN LOWRIE MORRISON'S ARTS PRIZE
A major new arts prize, funded by the artist John Lowrie Morrison (who paints under the name Jolomo)
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12/07/2006
THE SCOTTISH ARTISTS' UNION
has announced its free public liability insurance cover for all members, in response to artists incr
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12/07/2006
LOUISA PRESTON
has been awarded funding for a month-long research trip to Tokyo. The artist and trainee gallery ass
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12/07/2006
AN TUIREANN
on Skye is one of four international art galleries working together to create the JIPB Cube Gallery.
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12/07/2006
RUARI GARDINER
has unveiled a design for a purpose-built space for the Demarco Archive. Gardiner, a fourth-year arc
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12/07/2006
VARIANT MAGAZINE
has celebrated its 20th birthday with the launch of a complete online archive. Every issue since its
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12/07/2006
SCOTT LAVERIE
has been invited to create a large new sculptural work for the Scottish Book Trust’s ‘hi
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12/07/2006
SCOTT MYLES'
work has been included in Tate Modern’s latest permanent collection re-hang. The Glasgow-based
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12/07/2006
ALISON DUNLOP
has become the first artist-in-residence at Limousine Bull in Aberdeen. The Glasgow-based artist was
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12/07/2006
RUTH EWAN and KEITH FARQUHAR
are among 25 artists selected for the annual East International exhibition. Ewan is one of five to b
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12/07/2006
SYLVIA GRACE BORDA
is another artist drawing inspiration from East Kilbride. During a year-long project, she has rebuil
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12/07/2006
DAVID SHRIGLEY and SIMON STARLING
feature in a new book project 'Home For Lost Ideas' a project developed by Catherine Griffiths and D
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12/07/2006
SIMON STARLING
unveiled his new work ‘Autoxylopyrocycloboros’ at Cove Park on 1 July. After acquiring D
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12/07/2006
MARGARET ATWOOD
is to take up residence at Cove Park in September. The highly-acclaimed Canadian novelist was recent
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12/07/2006
BACK GARDEN BIENNALE
held its inaugural launch in the relaxed environs of artist Sara Sinclair’s Edinburgh back gre
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12/07/2006
ANNIE LENNOX and ANTHONY D'OFFAY
were awarded honorary fellowships by Edinburgh College of Art, during the graduation ceremony at McE
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12/07/2006
CORRECTION
In our review of 'The Armory Show' in 'Map' 6, a video work by David Sherry was mistakenly attribute
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12/07/2006
LYNN PAINTER-STAINER'S PRIZE
is calling for entries to its second annual painting competition worth £22,500. Artists are in
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12/07/2006
THE JD FERGUSSON ARTS AWARDS
are seeking exhibition proposals. The winner will receive £2,500 and be offered a solo show in
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12/07/2006
BIRNAM INSTITUE
is looking for artists to exhibit during 2007/08. The Perthshire space invites artists to submit por
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12/07/2006
SCOTTISH SCULPTURE WORKSHOP
has announced the artists due to take part in their summer residency programme. The one month long r
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