Alastair Mackie

Alastair Mackie creates spheres out of mouse skulls, panels out of wasp heads and fabric out of owl sick, refining a recent trend towards alternative taxidermy as a canvas for…

Deutsche Borse Photography Prize 2011

One of our favourite photography prizes is showcasing its 2011 shortlist. Images are as varied as they are magnificent, but this year with The Photographers’ Gallery closed for refurbishment the…

Moniker International Art Fair

When is street art not street art? I guess when bunged into a gallery or exhibition. The aim of the Moniker International Art Fair is to provide a contrast to…

Alexander Ponomarev

It’s not often that you get the chance to see a solo show in a commercial art gallery that exhibits such diversity, originality or skill as is seen in Alexander…

Fourth Plinth

Artists' Laboratory

The Royal Academy of Arts has a polluted reputation amongst Bright Young Things.Re-visiting this bastion of British art, in order to view Artists’ Laboratory 01: Ian Mckeever, reminded me how…

The Surreal House

Surrealism is probably the most misunderstood and oversimplified art movement in the public consciousness. I assumed that The Surreal House at the Barbican Gallery was going to be a rather…

Damian Griffiths

In Damian Griffiths’s latest instalment of his artist in residence project The Humiliations of Man at Studio 1.1, the viewer is confronted by what appears to be a disparate little…

Free Range: Art

For art historians and art writers, graduate shows should be the stuff of nightmares, crammed with the pseudo and the meaningless.The Free Range: Art show is on the whole pleasantly…

The Borrowed Loop

Rarely do you find an art show in a London commercial gallery that is as beautiful as The Borrowed Loop at Man&Eve gallery in Vauxhall. Beauty tends to be shunned…