To someone who once spent several hours in a pub having the concept of the fourth dimension explained in the simplest terms with the use of beer mats (I’m still none the wiser), Matthew...
Photographs of photographs, patterns made from other patterns – the work of Sara VanDerBeek comes across as a kind of conceptual game: pleasurable and ornate, but also a serious study...
Michael Smith has for three decades worked with the figure of the ‘everyman’. Smith’s alter-ego, Mike (or ‘Blandman’), is a quizzical, comic nomad who wanders through...
It’s difficult to describe Jesper Just’s short films without digging into the depths of cinematic history. Just seems to have taken obscure elements of notable classics – from...
Rediscovering forgotten artists and revaluing those who have been undervalued is all the rage in the current world of art. Surly cynics would grumble that it’s the fault of a commercial...
In the anatomical-accuracy stakes, early natural history illustrators may at times have been way off the mark (such as ‘Amazing Rare Things’ at the Queen’s Gallery, TO 1962), but...
Xhibit 08 is a mess, but the selectors – including Yinka Shonibare and Transition Gallery’s Cathy Lomax – can’t really be blamed. I defy anyone to come out shining when...
The art world is full of commercial facilitators operating under different organisational guises, often to the benefit of artists and the public. Artprojx is one such chameleonic presence on the...
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