- James North Art Crawl: May
Because this month’s Art Crawl review is longer than most, I won’t go on at length with any preamble except to say that something really peaked this time around - not only in the number of venues to take in, but also in the overall quality of work to be enjoyed. As ever, discussing it […]
- Lip(stick)service
I didn’t realize that arts award season was well and truly upon us until my morning skim of the BBC news feed heralded the announcement of this year’s Turner Prize nominees with the usual distancing panache designed to further mystify contemporary art for the general populace. This year’s opening zinger…
An artist who uses make-up and […]
- James North Art Crawl: March
After a run of underwhelming Art Crawls, I went into this month’s iteration with an uncharacteristic swell of optimism, bolstered by the foreknowledge of interesting prospects on the horizon of spring. Thankfully, that instinct proved promising right off the top of the evening with my first visit to The Print Studio and Brendan Fernandes’ (buli).
(Full […]
- James North Art Crawl: January
Considering that I was unable to review the last three Art Crawls, I can thoroughly sympathize with the spirit of hibernation that seemed to prevail during this month’s iteration of what is now a fully established fact of the Hamilton art scene. Perhaps that over-familiar routine is breeding complacent content and fatigue; more likely, my […]
- Top Five Hamilton Hits of 2010
As I’ve done now for the past two years, I’m taking advantage of the lull afforded by the end of the holiday season and a lingering cold to reflect back upon the best of what Hamilton’s art scene had to offer in 2010.
While tracing back through the year’s exhibitions and events, I was gratified to […]
- James North Art Crawl: September
As much as I’m still reluctantly dragging my way back into a dual artist-writer mindset after a steady month of studio focus, it proved hard to ignore the onset of yet another Art Crawl when I was able to see its imminence growing from my perch behind the drafting table facing my second-floor window overlooking […]
- James North Art Crawl: June
Even before this month’s Crawl kicked off, I had suspected it would be a busy one, and I wasn’t half-right about that one. It wouldn’t be any exaggeration to say this was easily the most successful instalment of the Crawl in recent years, for crowd and atmosphere as much as for the quality of the […]
- Gauthier and Ratcliffe in Cambridge
I chose this past Saturday for a long-overdue visit to Cambridge on account of the Printmaking Fair taking place at Cambridge Galleries‘ Design at Riverside space, but aside from a couple curious finds I didn’t see anything that especially rocked my world. Not one to waste an afternoon out, I made up the difference by […]
- James North Art Crawl: March
Despite the chilling sort of rain that half-tempted me to just stay in for the evening (to say nothing of a new episode of Caprica on Space), traffic at this month’s art crawl was going strong such that I spent the first twenty minutes circling the neighbourhood in search of parking. Great for the crawl, […]
- James North Art Crawl: February
One of the unspoken tensions of the Art Crawl is the extent to which the event revolves around spaces rather than their contents. There is a predictable assortment of galleries along the street that establish an art crawler’s routine more than the prospect of the art itself (if only because oftentimes the exhibitions are poorly […]
