A New Voyage to the North Sea
I have a small painting given to me by Gregor Wright hanging on my living room wall. Titled ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’ it is an uncannily distinct painting despite the rudimentary figuration. A disembodied grinning face with luminous yellow eyes, framed by swirling ultramarine blues, greens and greys is pressed up against the upper edge of [...]
Press Release from Clipping Roses.
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Art review: Karla Black | Gregor Wright: Out of Space, Out of Time
Karla Black’s name is ubiquitous on lists of “names to look out for in 2009″. The Glasgow-based artist’s reputation has been growing steadily, and this year she will have major solo shows at Migros Museum, Zurich, Modern Art Oxford and Edinburgh’s Inverleith House (in November). This show of new work at Mary Mary is, perhaps, [...]
Susan Mansfield, The Scotsman, 16 January 2009
Art Review, The Metro, January 14 2009
James Garner, Art Review Gregor Wright, The Metro, January 14 2009
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Gregor Wright on Anti-Games
Francesca Gavin, Dazed and Confused, January 2009
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Tender Scene, The Map 11, 1st August 2007
This group show featuring the work of five already firmly associated artists contains much that is dark, executed with the lightest of touches. Alex Pollard curates and on the back of his recent solo show at Talbot Rice and international obligations, it might have been reasonable to expect a somewhat half-hearted display. However, there is [...]
John Millar, Tender Scene, The Map 11, 1st August 2007
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Works That Fizz With Unexpected Connections
A visit to the Changing Room gallery in Stirling always feels like a special treat. This might be down to its setting – the gallery is tucked away in a shopping arcade, rather than huddled together with other spaces in an artsy ghetto, or standing aloof on a grubby side-street impending gentrification – or the [...]
Jack Motram, The Herald, Jul 27, 2007
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Tender Scene: Group Show, The List 579, July 5 2007
After a successful exhibition at Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice as part of the third leg of his 2005 Venice Biennale contribution, Alex Pollard exhibits his work again, taking over as curator at Stirling’s Changing Room Gallery, exhibiting with Fiona Jardine, Clare Stephenson, and Gregor Wright. All of the artists (excluding Wright) are represented by Sorcha Dallas, [...]
Alexander Kennedy, The List 579, July 5 2007
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The List, October 7 2004
It is difficult to free drawing from the viewer’s expectation that it cathartically expresses something of the artist’s deepest nature. Country Grammar, confronts this expectation in such a way that what reigns is the justifiable lightness and capriciousness of mark making, generated by the weighty frivolity of Being. This exhibition of works on paper is [...]
Alexander Kennedy, Visual Art, The List, October 7 2004
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When A Picture Paints…
Modern art in Glasgow is taking a literary turn with a new exhibition. ‘Country Grammar’, a new exhibition of Glasgow artists at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, takes it names from a work by Sue Tompkins. Tompkins is a wonderful shape shifting artist whose work is impossible to pigeonhole. She is an inspired [...]
Moira Jeffrey, The Herald, September 2004
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