The Embassy: Edinburgh Artist-Run Gallery: Press

	Press 33Selected Essays and Reviews
	Alasdair Gray & Stuart Murray Neil Mulholland January 2007 "While Alasdair Gray may be primarily renowned as a writer, it's important to remember that he hasn't stopped drawing and painting since he left Glasgow School of Art in 1957. It's extraordinary to discover that this modest outing is his largest exhibition since 1986..." click here for the full extract... Published issue 104 frieze
	Edinburgh Art Festival and the Annuale Jack Mottram November 2005 "... In the spirit of the Annuale, The Embassy presented Teaming, a show devoted to art made collaboratively, including a live performance by art-rockabilly group Uncle John & Whitelock and archive footage of a 1965 Boyle Family performance, Oh What A Lovely Whore, which saw the audience run amok, gleefully smashing pianos and after Mark Boyle opening proceedings with the words, 'If you want an event, you'll have to do it yourselves'... " click here for the full extract... Published in The Map
	Keith MacIsaac at The Embassy Neil Mulholland October 2005 A Vancouverite in the 'Old World,' MacIsaac is enticed by European heritage that is often brushed off in the rush to live in the future. With their genial repartee and spirited historical nuggets, his filmed travelogues lie somewhere between earnest Scottish hillwalking television series Weir's Way and docusoap satire The Office. click here for the full extract... Published in Flash Art International #244
	Steep Annuale Growth at the Fringes Susan Mansfield 23rd August 2005 Every gallery in Edinburgh pulls the stops out in August. Last year, for the first time, the main city galleries publicised their shows under the banner of the Art Festival. Not to be outdone, the artist-run initiatives got together under their own banner, The Annuale." click here for the full extract... Published in The Scotsman
	An Act of Balancing Catriona Black August 2005 "...The world of formal balance comes crashing down in Teaming at the artist-run Embassy gallery, not least in a previously unseen work by the Boyle Family. In 1965 Joan and Mark Boyle organized a performance at ICA which instructed the audience to make their own entertainment." click here for the full extract... Published in The Sunday Herald
	Edinburgh Annuale Aurora, The Embassy, Total Kunst, Magnifitat and Wuthering Heights Neil Mulholland October 2004 "The Edinburgh Festival is so jam packed that it would take years to attend all the proceedings. Given this cultural glut, why launch an Annuale in August? The Festival, consisting of a few insipid blockbusters and a spattering of Sunday painters, is not exactly legendary for pioneering visual arts programming..." click here for the full extract... Published in Flash Art
	Fire and Brimstone Neil Mulholland October 2004 "The Embassy has the unenviable position of competing with the Salisbury Crags, a magnet for Edinburgh's spiritual dissidents, form the Beltane fire of the Pagans to the tub-thumping of the covenanters. 'Fire and Brimstone' is a fitting epithet for zealots who, bathed in wispy pockets of red light, preached divine malediction on tyrannical authority from the Crags..." click here for the full extract... Published in Frieze