Browsing Category: site specific art

  • Tom Dale, Machine Borders (2025)

    The Gosport ferry takes five minutes and shuttles back and forth across the Solent all day long. I was very pleased by its existence because Maps was advising me to somehow walk on water to get from Portsmouth Harbour to Gosport Museum and Art Gallery.  As we rode the high seas, I took in the …

    March 3, 2025

  • Sam Ayres, Work Programme 28

    When even the pawnbrokers are strapped for cash, you know we are in trouble. This sign, using poor materials, was a focal point in Sam Ayres’ recent show at CAC. Other exhibits included a local church made from cardboard boxes and thatched with the pages of homeless-vendor magazine Big Issue. The slates had apparently been …

    January 20, 2014

  • Klaus Weber, Sandfountain (2012)

    If gardens are symbols of mankind’s dominion over the natural world, then fountains are the suggestion of a triumph over physics. That’s one in your face, gravity. Having said that, there is nothing too agressive about the many spouts of water you can find in many a city square, many a palace or not-even-stately home. …

    July 20, 2012

  • Liverpool Biennial/Manchester Weekender

    Two long-ish previews written this week for Culture24 and I’m looking forward to both: Preview: Liverpool Biennial 2010 Preview: Manchester Weekender 2010

    August 27, 2010

  • Meaning Decoration Mass at Grey Area

    Just as there is decorative art, so too is there decorative news. The lightweight stories in freesheets like Metro are there to soothe. The editorial is designed to sell advertising, and this is more or less true for any commercial publication. But as soon as a newspaper is used to decorate a gallery, meaning returns …

    August 22, 2010