Joined Up: Contemporary Collaborative Drawing — The Vault Gallery

Reviewed by Kev McVeigh
“[Collaboration] kind of runs counter to the auteur theory but you have to look at it case by case” — William Gibson (1)
Case by case what is obvious in Joined Up is just how many ways of collaboration there are.  I am struck first of all that it is something odd in [...]

Mikey Kenney Speaks

Mikey–Is it true you only play in tune on your own recordings……. and a bit out of tune on everyone else’s? 
Surely you of all people, Dan Haywood, should know the answer to that one; when did I begin recording ‘New Hawks’ with you? It’s been a long time; it’s been like a 5000 piece jigsaw [...]

La Decision Doypack — Paul Rooney at The Storey Gallery

Reviewed by Kev McVeigh
La Decision Doypack is a 27 minute film presentation by Paul Rooney.  Prior to the showing viewers are shown into a waiting area, the resource room it is called.  There they can sit and wait or peruse books by Rooney or volumes by other writers and artists.  It seems a selection deliberately [...]

Richard Davis — An Apology

By Kev McVeigh
Having spoken to Richard Davis it appears that I may have conflated conversations I had with him and Joseph Glen initially, and subsequently misinterpreted my memory of those conversations to attribute remarks to Mr Davis that I accept he did not say.  
I have no desire to offend Mr Davis, whose work and ceaseless [...]

Volcano The Bear

Local Artist Supported – A Reprise

Posted by Norman Hadley
In the summer, the Lunecy Review hosted some…er…. lively debate on the alacrity or otherwise with which big chains support local artists. What did the debate achieve? Well, it brought a torrent of traffic to the site, quadrupling advertising revenues from zero to zilch and that’s got to be good. But, even [...]

Spotlight Club November at The Storey

Reviewed by Kev McVeigh
November’s Spotlight was the busiest for some time, in part due to active promotion by one performer at least, and partly I think due to the consistent strength of the bill in recent months. It is obviously great to see new faces come to support a friend, and the hope is [...]

Superfluous — Adrian Pritchard — The Storey

Tucked away in the bold white Thomas Storey Room off the bar/reception area in The Storey is an art installation of vivid colour and motion by Adrian Pritchard. ‘Superfluous’ comes with approving comments by Lauren Laverne no less, not that that matters.
The work consists of a slowly rotating paint dispenser above a mesh from [...]

The Existence Of Harvey Lord CD

Reviewed by Kev McVeigh
The Existence Of Harvey Lord is a CD infused with a sense of the Romantic Sublime. Harvey has gathered an 11-piece band to convey his mission musically, a vision of loss and hope, one man’s place in a landscape, a desiderium in a folk-jazz mode.
The classicism at the heart of his [...]

Body Collective 2 — Mona House, Morecambe

Reviewed by Kev McVeigh

The second Body Collective exhibition opened last night at Mona House in Morecambe. On entry visitors were handed a brown envelope labelled Body Collective Report which served as the catalogue for the show, a huge step up from the unidentified work that was a part of BC1 a few months ago. [...]