- ‘Not Quite How I Remember It’ at The Power Plant
I’m writing these impressions of The Power Plant’s summer show, Not Quite How I Remember It, from the other side of a somewhat fuzzy Canada Day weekend that stands as a handy temporal buffer between the moment of viewing the exhibition and my writing on it now - it’s a gesture that is either an […]
- Andrew McPhail in thirds: ‘all my little failures’ at Cambridge Galleries Preston
The first time I came across Andrew McPhail’s work was during the arduous selections process last autumn with Hamilton Artists Inc. Somehow, in the midst of what can be a truly mind-numbing experience, I found myself completely riveted by these images of vaguely biomorphic shapes made entirely out of band-aids. Initially, it was simply the […]
- James North Art Crawl: June
When I set out in spite of spotty weather to take in this month’s Art Crawl, it was largely on account of the fact that the night featured the last of the New Harbours series of performances at Christ’s Church Cathedral. The sudden thunderstorm certainly made an extended stay in the Cathedral an attractive prospect, […]
- Artist employment and other rant-worthy enterprises
The question of employment in contemporary art has been an especially weighty one from a personal standpoint ever since I was handed my shiny MFA degree in some especially gorgeous hall of the University of Glasgow. Like many other self-proclaimed ‘artists’, I am woefully underemployed and am therefore none too picky about where I find […]
