Reviews: Walter Dahn: Nick Evans: Charles Avery: Abram Games: Starling's daft shed experience won't ever beat a shared one

From: The Scotsman | Date: December 13, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

WALTER DAHN *** MODERN INSTITUTE, GLASGOW

NICK EVANS *** SORCHA DALLAS, GLASGOW

CHARLES AVERY - THE ISLANDERS *** DOGGERFISHER, EDINBURGH

ABRAM GAMES **** GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART

IF TITIAN, Cezanne or even Picasso were entered for the Turner Prize, they would not win. These are artists of towering originality, but the criteria that seem to operate among the judges and the claque of opinion they reflect would exclude them as not different enough. That is all it boils down to now - not true originality, but simply difference, what it is that sets one person apart from another. So the search ...

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