THE LIST

"Cumgirl8 on their approach to creativity: ‘Restoring art is our purpose on this planet'"
Interview with the post-punk band ahead of European tour and release of debut LP The 8th Cumming.
September 2024

"James Rowland Dies At The End Of The Show: Intimate and spontaneous"
Edinburgh Festival Fringe theatre review.
August 2024

"Beyond Krapp: Flashes of poignant beauty"
Edinburgh Festival Fringe theatre review.
August 2024

"Stevie Martin: Clout – Playing social media for laughs"
Edinburgh Festival Fringe comedy review.
August 2024

"Eleanor Morton: Haunted House – Smatterings of spooky laughs"
Edinburgh Festival Fringe comedy review.
August 2024

"Pali And Jay’s Ultimate Asian Wedding DJ Roadshow: Bhangra bursts and steady reveals"
Edinburgh Festival Fringe theatre review.
August 2024

"Apocalypse Now?"
On Katie Paterson's Future Library, a project to commission 100 literary works over 100 years, to be printed in 2114 from a custom-grown forest. Edinburgh Festivals guide.
July 2024

"Will Cooper on George Wyllie: 'The Geopolitical Aspects of His Work are Often Missed'"
On new art gallery The Wyllieum, based in Greenock Ocean Terminal, housing the permanent collection of Glasgow-born artist George Wyllie.
April 2024

"Judas Priest, Invincible Shield: A Clarion Call for Tolerance"
Album review.
March 2024

"Wende on the Power of Songwriting: ‘Songs are Like Little Rituals. They Keep Everybody Connected’"
Adelaide Festivals preview.
January 2024

"Soaring in the Summer: Our Music Picks for Adelaide Festivals 2024"
Adelaide Festivals preview.
January 2024

"Sarah Wood, Project Paradise: Stirring Video Work on Ecology and Ethics"
Review of filmmaker Sarah Wood's video essay responding to Joseph Beuys and Richard DeMarco's Black and White Oil Conference of 1974.
January 2024

"The Recent: Fine Addition to The Deep Time Canon"
On group show The Recent at Talbot Rice Gallery Edinburgh, bringing together artists working in response to deep time.
December 2023

"Smothered: Contemporary Romcom with Twists"
November 2023

The List Hot 100 2023
Entries on Sculpture House Collective, Jasleen Kaur, Helen Nisbet, and Rachel Maclean.
November 2023

"They're Letting Us Do Some Crazy Things in There: Voices in Buildings"
Interview with sculptor and filmmaker Ben Owen about his experimental performances series.
November 2023

"Emma Hart: Big Time."
'Art of the month' feature on the London-based sculptor's colourful, glazed ceramic sundials at Hospitalfield, Arbroath, exploring themes of class, leisure, and capitalism.
September 2023

"Bdrmm bassist Jordan Smith on Rock Action: 'There's A Reason That Group is So Well Thought of in The Industry'."
Interview ahead of the shoegaze band's performance at Edinburgh Psych Fest.
August 2023

"Nat McCleary on Thrown: 'We Have A Culture Now Where Noone is Listening Because Everyone is Speaking'."
Interview-based feature on the Scottish playwright's debut theatre-work, about an all-women's wrestling team competing in the Highland Games.
August 2023

"Blood of the Lamb: A Tale of Two Americas"
Edinburgh Festival Fringe theatre review
August 2023

"Let The Bodies Pile High: Covid meets Dr Death"
Edinburgh Festival Fringe theatre review
August 2023

"Sam Lake: Aspiring DILF - Riding the Zeitgeist with Vim"
Edinburgh Festival Fringe comedy review
​August 2023

"There Will Be Blood: Andronicus Synecdoche"
On Song of the Goat Theatre's dance-opera version of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.
August 2023

"Woodhill"
Review of dance-theatre piece on corruption in the prison system.​
August 2023

"Daniel Foxx: Villain"
Edinburgh Festival Fringe comedy review
​August 2023

"Aaron Simmonds: Baby Steps"
Edinburgh Festival Fringe comedy review
August 2023

"Grand Old Opera House Hotel"
Edinburgh Festival Fringe review
August 2023

"Annea Lockwood on History of the Present: 'When the Wind Blows, Do The Peace Lines Make Sounds?'"
Interview-based feature on the sound-art icon's soundtrack for Maria Fusco's opera-film.
August 2023

"Lawrence Abu Hamdan: 45th Parallel"
On the artist and activist's new film at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh.
August 2023

"Scottish Landscapes: A New Generation"
On the group show at Dovecot Studios, curated by Siobhan McLaughlin.
August 2023

"Leonor Antunes: The Apparent Length of a Floor Area"
Review of the sculptor's solo show interrogating modernism at Fruitmarket, Edinburgh.
August 2023

"Chat Pile on Making Another Album: 'I'm Going to Get That Off My Chest'"
Interview with noise rock band Chat Pile, from Oklahoma, ahead of their performance at Core Fest, Glasgow.
July 2023

"Five Acts to See at Core Fest"
Ahead of the Glasgow-based heavy music festival  in August 2023.
July 2023

"An A-Z of Grayson Perry"
Listicle on the occasion of Perry's major solo retrospective at Edinburgh Art Festival 2023.
July 2023

"Jala Wahid: Conflagration"
Review of a sculpture show exploring the historic relationship between Western Europe and Kurdistan.
July 2023

"Peter Howson: When the Apple Ripens & Banksy: Cut and Run (joint review)"
Focusing on major retrospectives at the City Arts Centre, Edinburgh and Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow.
June 2023

"Dominique Cameron: Up with the Larks"
Preview of an exhibition of abstract and figurative paintings at Fidra Fine Art, Gullane.
May 2023

"History of the Present: The Opera Film Depicting the Troubles"
On the experimental feminist opera-film by Maria Fusco, Margaret Salmon, and Annea Lockwood exploring the Troubles in northern Ireland and their connections to bodily trauma.
June 2023.

"Pen Reid, Behind the Curtain"
Review of the painter's exhibition at Compass Gallery, Glasgow.
June 2023.

"Meet The Innovative Minds behind Sculpture House"
Article on Sculpture House, a community arts space and artists' studio hub set up by Laura Aldridge, James Rigler, and Nick Evans in Ferguslie Park, Paisley.
April 2023.

"Ifeoma U Anyaeji, Ijem Nke Mmanwu M (The Dance of My Masquerade)"
Review of the NIgerian artist's show at Tramway, Glasgow, featuring sculptures made of braided waste plastics.
April 2023.

"'Time is Important with Whisky': Ronald Wimberly"
Interview with the famous US cartoonist about his work on a graphic novel with Ardbeg Whisky.
April 2023.

"Jasleen Kaur: Alter Altar"
Preview of the Pollokshields-born artist's solo exhibition at Tramway, Glasgow.
April 2023.