The Common Guild, Glasgow until August 2nd Four stars It's the brightest and airiest of environments that have housed Hayley Tompkins' floor-based bird's-eye picture postcard views of holy-hued rainbows, high-rise city-scapes, earth-bound stone formations, tranquil blue seas and fog-bound multi-lane traffic surges thus far. Originally seen as part of Scotland's contribution to Venice 2013 and now forming part of the nationwide GENERATION programme, these off-the-peg images contained in plastic trays play with the full light-and-shade spectrum of the Common Guild's high-windowed town-house interior they've been reconfigured for on the floor alongside an empty chair to take in the view. The painted stick on the wall, half-consumed bottles of coloured liquid, fake steaks, baguette and a plastic salad sandwich in the hall suggests the left-over souvenirs of an off-piste picnic in some man-made make-believe utopia. Upstairs, newer works, on the wall
An archive of arts writing by Neil Cooper. Effete No Obstacle.