Jon Blackwood

It's a busy week next week in Edinburgh, as Friday night sees the opening of an exhibition that has been a long time in the making; the arrival of six contemporary artists from the Republic of Macedonia for the exhibition Captured State. Macedonia is not a country with a high profile contemporary art "scene", unlike … Continue reading Captured State : New Art from Macedonia →

I am very much looking forward to my talk at the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh soon- looking at apsects of Patrick Elliot's show on British realism in the inter-war years. It's been a while since I was last at the gallery and the talk also provides an opportunity to look again at material … Continue reading Lecture in Edinburgh on British Realism Exhibition 2 October →

I am really looking forward to this event hosted by fermynwoods contemporary arts in Corby, Northants next week. If you are in town or nearby and interested, the event is going to be in Corby's Irish Centre. Kick off on Tuesday 5 September is at 1900hrs. "Join football fans, an artist and a writer, at … Continue reading Art, Fans & Football @ fermynwoods, Corby →

7 October - 30 November, Sciennes Gallery, Summerhall Opening 6 October (performance, 1830 : main opening, 1930) OPA (Obsessive Possessive Aggression) Keep Calm and Eat Chocolate Captured State features the work of six contemporary artists from the Republic of Macedonia, all exhibiting in Edinburgh for the first time. In the last decade, Macedonia has found … Continue reading Captured State →

  This coming Wednesday, there will be a rare opportunity for gallery visitors to engage with contemporary video art from Bosnia-Herzegovina at the Horsecross Arts Space in Perth. Highlights of the afternoon will be a showing of six video works by key artists currently active in BiH: the works of Adela Jušiċ, Lana Čmajčanin, Irena … Continue reading 3 Generations of Women Artists :Horsecross Art Space, Perth, 8 March →

  Opening at Edinburgh's Summerhall in January, a show of contemporary Scottish art entitled Archipelago, runs until the 17th March. David Blyth contributed two rooms full of new print works, The exhibition also features the work of painter Derrick Guild, from Perth, and Dunfermline’s Alan Grieve. Alan Grieve’s work at the entrance to ArchipelagoThe exhibition … Continue reading Archipelago, Summerhall, Edinburgh →

Imaginarium : Contemporary Video Art from Macedonia The UK’s biggest exhibition of contemporary video art from the Republic of Macedonia was on display in Aberdeen in November.  OPA (Obsessive Possessive Aggression), Eternal Body, 2013. Video Installation ‘Imaginarium: Contemporary Video Art from Macedonia’ ran at Gray’s School of Art from  November 4 -18, featuring work from 12 … Continue reading From November 2016 : Imaginarium : Contemporary Video Art from Macedonia →

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  My book Critical Art in Contemporary Macedonia will be published this Friday, the 9th September, and will be launched at Menada in Skopje. The book is based on several years of participatory observation and research into Macedonian visual culture and contemporary art practice. I have tried to be as open and democratic as possible … Continue reading Critical Art in Contemporary Macedonia →

I first went to Macedonia in 2008, and it is a land and a people that I quickly grew to love. In my work on the art of the former Yugoslavia, I found a huge amount of interesting material, on monumental Yugoslav modernists such as Borko Lazeski, and the dynamic architectural and sculptural duo, Jordan … Continue reading Critical Art in Contemporary Macedonia →