Reviews & features: Visual art, Rachael Cloughton
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Victoria Crowe: Reflection
18 Aug 2010
Rich but congested series of studies of Venice
With so many shows in the Edinburgh Art Festival rigorously analysing the capital itself, Victoria Crowe’s show ‘Reflection’ offers an incongruous but welcome vacation from this theme. Instead of following the trends of site specificity or channelling…
Thomas Carlile's Landscapes of Memory
5 Aug 2010
Public art exhibition spread across the city interpretable by touch phones
Keen-eyed observers will spot a number of black and white square barcodes amidst the shop signs and fly posting that decorate Edinburgh’s streets. But what is their purpose? Rachael Cloughton explains: The first one I saw was stuck to the concrete…
Carmen Sylva
11 Aug 2011
Established artists take on a new and exciting identity
A procession of odd assemblages punctuates the centre of Sierra Metro’s exhibition space. They are Katharina Stoever and Barbara Wolff’s latest artistic response to Peles, a late 18th Century Romanian castle that has inspired their practice for over six…
Tamsyn Challenger: 400 Women
8 Aug 2011
Stunning artistic memorial to victims of gender violence
What unites the collection of heterogeneous portraits in 400 Women is the fate of each subject depicted. All are the victims of rape, abduction and murder, devastating crimes which have taken place on the Mexican border region of Ciudad Juàrez. In…
The Space Between
18 Aug 2010
Erratic mixed printmaking show
Taking the theme of ‘space’ as its departure, it is unsurprising that the selection of work in Amber Art’s current show is erratic: by its very nature all artwork deals with space. It appears instead that the term is a comfortable theme within which to…
Gemma Holt & Richard Healy: Shapes And Things
11 Aug 2010
Making art from the everyday
A partnership instigated by Edinburgh gallery Sierra Metro, ‘Shapes and Things’ is the first collaboration between London-based artists Richard Healy and Gemma Holt. Both work to manipulate and divert the language of design, injecting ‘newness’ into…
