In 1932 and again in 1947, all the 11-year-olds in Scotland participated in the ‘Scottish Mental Survey’, an intelligence assessment created to provide data for educational policy reforms at the time. After fulfilling its purpose, this data was...
The phenomenal experience of Jesse Jones’ Tremble Tremble begins at the edge of darkness – one which consumes the spectator into a phantasmagorical womb of the Giantess. Like a spectre, a performer floats around the Georgian Gallery, and with...
REFRESH is the product of a collective of six artists who all graduated from Gray’s School of Art. It is their second exhibition that they have constructed together. It demonstrates how artists with the same training, who have followed the same...
Either the art world is facing a crisis, or it has been in crisis for a fairly long time and we have just started talking about it. Every year from art colleges throughout Scotland, graduates are spilling out degree shows to exhibit some of their...
Growing Up with Books is an exhibition in Edinburgh’s Museum of Childhood, displaying a brief but beautiful history of children’s literature. The exhibition is situated in a small, dimly lit room at the back of the museum, setting up the aura of...
Emma Hart’s exhibition at the Fruitmarket gallery is a thought-provoking series of artworks which are hugely attractive to those appreciative of contemporary art. The exhibition comprises of two exhibitions by Hart; Mamma Mia and BANGER. These two...
To leave an exhibition more impressed with the person behind the artworks than the artworks themselves might not be what an artist desires, but such is the effect of City Art Centre’s Edwin G. Lucas: An Individual Eye. Throughout his life,...