George Rickey A Life In Balance – Clare Henry
George Rickey was a lone star who created new, mesmerising, enthralling sculptures defined by movement.
3 January 2022
Clare Henry
Ken Currie: Unknown Man Scottish National Portrait Gallery – Clare Henry
Ken Currie, undoubtedly among the most significant painters of our time, is known for his dark side, his bleak, black pictures
24 May 2021
ULAY: A Personal Reminiscence – Clare Henry
ULAY, who died last week at 76, was tall, handsome, clever, charismatic. In the 1980s he was also half of the world’s golden couple of performance art Ulay & Abramovic.
9 March 2020
Glasgow School Of Art: A Burnt-Out Toxic Culture – Clare Henry
There have been few iconic institutions more beloved that Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art.
16 February 2020
Victoria Crowe: Half Century Of Painting – Edinburgh – Clare Henry
Beauty. Not a word used much today. Not a popular concept. Not necessarily an accolade. Yet Victoria Crowe creates beauty with her every brushstroke, line, smudge, highlight, shadow. Superb draughtsmanship combined with a perfect painterly touch and humane sensitivity produces overarchingly intelligent pictures, rarely encountered in 21st-century art galleries.
20 October 2019
Five Academicians: Glasgow Print Studio – Clare Henry
You have to be reasonably senior to be an Academician of any sort. Put five together? The result is an exciting and extremely varied show.
2 December 2018
Jenny Saville A Passion For Flesh And Paint – GMA – Clare Henry
JENNY SAVILLE’S show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh is long, LONG overdue.
27 March 2018