• Preview: Back Buffer – New Arena Paintings

    Exhibition: Back Buffer: New Arena Paintings, The Hannah Maclure Centre,  Dundee, February 13 – April 30 2010 It is hard to imagine Jackson Pollock on a computer. But artist and inventor Julian Oliver has developed what you might call virtual action painting. Instead of attacking a canvas, Oliver uses software which gamers have long been …

    February 12, 2010
  • Preview: Ian Breakwell – The Elusive State of Happiness

    Exhibition: Ian Breakwell – The Elusive State of Happiness, QUAD Gallery, Derby, February 13 – April 18 2010 Ian Breakwell led a well-recorded life. Between the 1960s and his death in 2005 he captured many of its details in a largely unpublished visual diary. Some is typed, some handwritten. There are drawings, photos and collages. …

    February 12, 2010
  • Review: Clare Rojas – We They, We They

    Exhibition: Clare Rojas – We They, We They, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, until March 21 2010 Stepping into the first UK museum show by Clare Rojas is like stumbling upon the private chapel of a slightly mad Pagan with plenty of time, paint and a tall step ladder. Four walls in the first gallery are covered …

    February 11, 2010
  • Preview: André Stitt – Substance

    Exhibition: André Stitt – Substance, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, until March 6 2010 The 1970s and 1980s were André Stitt’s formative years. He lived in Belfast. Conflict and trauma may be his greatest artistic influences. In a city where people took sides, Stitt chose a truly committed medium: performance art. His work is hard hitting, …

    February 6, 2010
  • Preview: Richard Grayson at De La Warr Pavilion

    Exhibition: Richard Grayson – An Exhibition, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, until March 14 2010 The show is simply called An Exhibition, but music and words feature as heavily as visual art in this five-year retrospective of works by Richard Grayson. A Country & Western band, from Australia, play tunes that occasionally borrow …

    February 6, 2010
  • Preview: Star City – The Future Under Communism

    Exhibition: Star City: The Future Under Communism, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, February 13 – April 18 2010 With horizons sealed off by climate change and economic meltdown, it may be time to look backwards in order to start looking forwards again. Star City at Nottingham Contemporary presents visions of the future from behind the Iron Curtain. …

    February 6, 2010
  • Art must-sees of the month: February

    After a freakishly cold January, it is time to take a reading of the artistic temperature up and down the land. Here’s our guide to what’s hot in February. Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool Europe, North America, Africa and South America are connected by two important things, black culture and a …

    February 5, 2010
  • Preview: Party! at the New Art Gallery Walsall

    Exhibition: Party!, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, February 12 – April 18 2010 The birthday bash of a 10-year-old can easily get out of hand. It certainly looks that way with an exhibition called Party! at the New Art Gallery Walsall. More than 50 artists feature in the show, which celebrates a decade since …

    February 5, 2010
  • Preview: Simon Whitehead – Afield & Louphole

    Exhibition: Afield & Louphole by Simon Whitehead, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Powys, February 6 – April 7 2010. With a background in both geography and dance, Simon Whitehead has an unusual CV. But it does mean he is well placed to stage physical encounters with landscape. Whitehead has been using ‘pedestrian practices’ to investigate the …

    February 4, 2010