January 1988
January (Art Review Letter from Scotland) Edinburgh International, Royal Scottish Academy
Denis Peploe, Esme Gordon, Scottish Gallery Edinburgh
The Chosen Few, Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh, Tom Wilson
Indonesian Archipelago, Mercury Gallery Edinburgh
Ian Hughes appointed as Artist in Residence at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
January (for ALBA) Edinburgh International, Royal Scottish Academy, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Richard Deacon, Alison Wilding, Rebecca Horn, Stephen Huber, Scottish Arts Council
8 January (Herald Friday Feature) Critical Realism, Smith Art Gallery Stirling, Deborah Hasse, Ken Currie
Denis Peploe, Scottish Gallery Edinburgh
Port Glasgow Arts Project, George Wyllie
The Photographic Postcard, Stills Gallery Edinburgh
9 January Henry Moore in India
January (Art Review London Letter from Scotland)
Maggi Hambling, Richard Demarco Gallery Edinburgh
Terry Frost, Maclaurin Gallery Ayr
The Chosen Few, Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh, Tom Wilson
Winifred Nicholson, Aberdeen Art Gallery
Alexander Frazer, Harvey Daniels, Artspace Aberdeen
Marie Barbour, Glasgow Arts Centre
15 January (Herald Friday Feature) Terry Frost, Maclaurin Gallery Ayr.
`’Introducing with Pleasure” Catalogue by Isobel Johnston, Hilary Lane, Denis Farr
20 January (for ALBA) 1990 European City of Culture, McLellan Galleries Glasgow
22 January Maggi Hambling, Richard Demarco Gallery Edinburgh
Winifred Nicholson, Harvey Daniels, Aberdeen Art Gallery
Marie Barbour, Glasgow Arts Centre
Indonesian Archipelago, Mercury Gallery Edinburgh
The Chosen Few, Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh, Tom Wilson
Kingfisher Gallery Edinburgh, The Stiven Family
26 January (Feature) Richard Demarco
29 January (Herald Friday Feature) Boyd Webb, Fruitmarket Edinburgh
California Women in Photography, Stills Gallery Edinburgh
369 Gallery Edinburgh, Margaret Hunter, Callum Innes, Alistair Wallace
Stephen Lawson, Talbot Rice Edinburgh
Geoff Squire, Glasgow School of Art
February 1988
February (Art Review Letter from Scotland) James Hardie, Compass Gallery Glasgow
5 February (Herald Friday Feature) Old Master Drawings, Huntarian Gallery Glasgow
David Taylor JD Kelly Gallery Glasgow
Sol Lewitt, Graeme Murray Gallery Edinburgh
Scottish Art College Prints, Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop
McKnight Kauffer, Collins Gallery Glasgow
Saltire Awards, The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland Edinburgh
12 February Letter to RSA proposing exhibition, Jack Knox, Arthur Watson, Sandy Moffat, Will Maclean
12 Feb Herald Friday column, Yugoslavia Sarajevo Winter Festival, Arthur Watson, Richard Demarco, Paul Neagu, John Bellany, David Mach.
17 February David Bomberg, Tate London
19 February (Herald Friday Feature) The Animal in Photography, Glasgow Arts Centre
Wally Beasties, Kelvingrove Gallery Glasgow
A Scottish Bestiary, 90s Gallery Glasgow
James Hardie, Compass Gallery Glasgow
Eileen Naismith, JD Kelly Gallery Glasgow
Willie Doherty, Third Eye Centre Glasgow
Glasgow Photographers Group, Hillhead Library Glasgow
26 February (Art Review Letter from Yugoslavia) Richard Demarco, The Scottish Sculpture Trust, Peacock Printmakers, British Council
26 February (Herald Friday Feature) Scottish Photography 1938-88, National Portrait Gallery Edinburgh, Ron O’Donnell, Calum Colvin, Thomas Joshua Cooper
True Stories & Photofictions, Collins Gallery Glasgow
Personal Visions, Stills Gallery Edinburgh
Face of Egypt, Robbie Jack, Filmhouse Edinburgh
Land of the Pharaohs, Fine Art Society Edinburgh
Sam Bough, Bourne Fine Art Edinburgh
Vasile Toch, Richard Demarco Gallery Edinburgh
March (for The Field) New Scottish Art, Peter Howson, Ken Currie, Adrian Wiszniewski, Steven Campbell including correspondence with Julie Spencer
March 1988
March (for ALBA) New Directions, New Attitudes, Yugoslavia
March (for ALBA Mayfest issue) Royal College of Art 150th Anniversary Exhibition
4 March (Herald Friday Feature) Oversite, Talbot Rice Gallery Edinburgh, Art in Ruins
Sicilia Perduta, Glasgow University Library
Space Kids, 90s Gallery Glasgow, Gordon Davidson
8 March Mario Merz in Scotland, Richard Demarco Gallery Edinburgh
11 March Phil Braham, Peter Howson, Scottish Gallery Edinburgh
Students Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh
Patrick Herson, Chessel Gallery Moray House College Edinburgh
Gitz Johansen, Danish Institute Edinburgh, Fiona Dean
11 March (Art Review Letter from Scotland) Mario Merz, Richard Demarco Gallery Edinburgh
Art in Ruins, Talbot Rice Gallery Edinburgh
Photography in Scotland, Scottish Education Department, Stills Gallery Edinburgh
18 March Wall to Wall, Smith Art Gallery Stirling
Exchanges, Graeme Murray Gallery Edinburgh
New Photo Works, Glasgow School of Art
Peter McLaren, Compass Gallery Glasgow
20 March Old Master Paintings from the Thyssen Collection, Royal Academy London
25 March (Art Review Letter from Scotland) Phil Braham, Peter Howson, Scottish Gallery Edinburgh Wall to Wall, Smith Art Gallery Stirling, Patricia Leighton
Students Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh
26 March Jacki Parry, Third Eye Centre Glasgow
Richard Hamilton, Fruitmarket Edinburgh
James Cowie, Gerber Fine Art Gallery Glasgow
Three Artists, Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh, Ed Summerton, Elizabeth Blackadder, Gordon Macdonald
29 March (Herald Tuesday feature) The Scottish Sculpture Trust
29 March (Herald Tuesday feature) Fiona McLeod new Fruitmarket director
April (Art Review Letter from Scotland) Paul Neagu, Richard Demarco Gallery Edinburgh
Collective Gallery Edinburgh
Art in Fashion, Fine Art Society Glasgow
Lesley Main, Main Fine Art Glasgow
April 1988
1 April The Self Portrait, Collins Gallery Glasgow
Gene Lambert, Third Eye Centre Glasgow
Hannah Hoch, Glasgow Arts Centre
Richard Rodgers, The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland Edinburgh
Collective Gallery Edinburgh
3 April (Feature) Apathy, Glasgow and Edinburgh towards Capital of Culture 1990, Glasgow Garden Festival, Scottish National Galleries
7 April (for Studio Magazine London) New Directions New Attitudes Yugoslavia
8 April Paul Neagu, Richard Demarco Gallery Edinburgh
Phil Duthie, Collective Gallery Edinburgh
Peter Howson, Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop
8 April (Art Review Letter from Scotland) Fiona McLeod new Fruitmarket director
Bill Smith, Duncan of Jordanston Dundee
Prince of Wales visit to Glasgow School of Art
Jacki Parry, Third Eye Centre Glasgow
Lord Haig, Scottish Gallery Edinburgh
12 April (Herald Tuesday Feature) Garden Festival Sculpture, Isabel Vasseur, Jim Buckley, Richard Deacon
15 April (Herald Friday Feature) Art in Fashion, Fine Art Society Glasgow
Sheila MacFarlane, Compass Gallery Glasgow
Jim Gorman, 90s Gallery Glasgow
James Watt, JD Kelly Gallery Glasgow
26 April Paul Cezanne, Royal Academy London
27 April (Herald Tuesday Feature) Sculpture from Scotland, Economist Plaza London, Fiona Dean, Frances Pelly
29 April 162nd Annual Exhibition, RSA Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh
30 April (feature for Weekender Herald) MAYFEST, Bet Low, Compass Gallery Glasgow
May 1988
May (for the BBC) Glasgow School of Art Graduates interview, Ken Currie and Tessa Jackson
May (for ALBA Mayfest issue) Royal College of Art 150th Anniversary Exhibition
May (Art Review Letter from Scotland) Mayfest, Peter Brooks, Glasgow Garden Festival
Willie Rodger Scotrail Exhibition Centre
4 May Adrian Wiszniewski, Glasgow Print Studios
6 May (Herald Friday column) David Finn, Fischli & Weiss, John Bonis, The Third Eye Centre Glasgow
Fotograpia Buffa, Collins Gallery Glasgow
Flowers, Fine Art Society Glasgow, Christine McArthur)
Main Fine Art
6 May (Herald feature) Mayfest Visual Arts
May (for ALBA) News from Paris, Degas Retrospective
12 May Garden Festival Sculpture
20 May (Art Review Letter from Scotland) Glasgow Print Studio new gallery, Adrian Wiszniewski
20 May Horatio McCulloch at Kelvingrove; Fruitmarket Open Exh, Ed; Glasgow GSA students Crawfurd Theatre Jordanhill. Pier Gallery Orkney at 369 Gallery Ed.
20 May Art Review Letter from Venice
24 May David Mach, BBC Week of British Art
25 May Opening of Tate of the North Liverpool, Bruce McLean, David Ward
27 May Phillips Collection, Angry Penguins, Hayward Gallery London
27 May (Herald Friday Feature) Birth of Modernism, Hunterian Gallery Glasgow
Rarer Gifts than Gold, Hanging Gardens of Asia, The Burrell Collection Glasgow
Dominic Snyder, Sean Hudson, Glasgow Art Centre
Bath Art Fair
30 May New Tate Gallery Liverpool
June 1988
3 June (Herald Friday Feature) Inverclyde Biennial, McLean Museum Greenock.
Paisley Art Institute Annual
Willie Rodger, Scotrail Exhibition Centre Glasgow
Glasgow Garden Festival, Neil Finlayson
Ian Hamilton Finlay, Hughson Gallery Glasgow
9 June Paolozzi Portraits, National Portrait Gallery London
June (for ALBA) Henry Moore in India
10 June Scottish Gallery Edinburgh, Glasgow Print Studio Printmakers, Joan Eardley, Steven Campbell, Peter Howson, Neil Macpherson, Fiona Rae, Adrian Wiszniewski, Baajie Pickard
Helen Wilson, Compass Gallery Glasgow
Three Painters, JD Kelly Gallery Glasgow, David Donaldson
Glasgow Group Annual, McLellan Galleries Glasgow
17 June (Art Review feature) Sculpture at the Glasgow Garden Festival
June Glasgow School of Art Degree show notes and invite
21 June Glasgow Print Studios Midsummer ball, The Briggait Glasgow
24 June Lucien Freud, Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh. Wasps exh at Collins Gallery; Visual Arts Studio, Kelvingrove.
27 June (Herald Feature) Venice Biennale, Tony Cragg, Jasper John, Andy Goldsworthy
29 June Glasgow Garden Festival, Richard Groom
June (for Studio Magazine) New Directions New Attitudes, Yugoslavia
July 1988
1 July (Art Review Letter from Scotland) Pavel Buchler, Third Eye Centre Glasgow
Glasgow Group, McLellan Galleries Glasgow
Helen Wilson, Compass Gallery Glasgow
Gardens, Fine Art Society Glasgow
Kelvingrove Sun Gardens, Kelvingrove Gallery Glasgow, Glasgow Arts Centre
1 July (Herald Friday Feature) Scottish Tapestry Today, Talbot Rice Gallery Edinburgh
Gardens, Fine Art Society Glasgow
Royal Academy Artists, Kingfisher Gallery Edinburgh
Anna Atkins, Kelvingrove Gallery Glasgow
4 July Glasgow Print Studio, workshop re-opens, John Taylor, Stuart Duffin, Murray Robertson
8 July (Herald Friday Feature) 10th Anniversary, 369 Gall Edinburgh
Neville Brody, Fruitmarket Edinburgh
Lucien Freud, National Gallery of Modern Art
The Metal Vessel, Mardi Barry, Scottish Gallery Edinburgh
Dorothy Park, Daphne Garret, Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh
Lighthouse Studio Artists, McGavigans Gallery Glasgow, Joe Davie
10 July McLellan Galleries Glasgow refurbishment
15 July (Art Review Letter from Scotland) On arts administration funding and pay before Glasgow 1990, Paul Nesbitt at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, Andy Goldsworthy
16 July (Herald Feature) Andy Goldsworthy interview, Penpont.
19 August (Art Review Edinburgh Festival Supplement) Glasgow-Edinburgh the Great Divide
22 July Glasgow Garden Festival fax paper from Isabel Vasseur director
22 July (Herald Friday Feature) Shape & Form, Collins Gallery Glasgow
The Cenotaph Project, The Pearce Institute Govan
Hew Lorimer, Talbot Rice Edinburgh
German Printmakers, Glasgow Print Studio
25 July (Art Line) Travels with a Pencil 1987-88
St Magnus Festival Orkney, Venice Biennale, Glasgow Garden Festival, India, Yugoslavia
29 July (Herald Friday column) Ed FESTIVAL Picabia and the Magical Mirror, Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh
29 July (Art Review Letter from Scotland) Ken Currie, Third Eye Centre Glasgow
10th Anniversary Show, 369 Gallery, Edinburgh
Glasgow Garden Festival and publication
Shape and Form, Collins Gallery Glasgow, Tracy Mackenna. Philip Power
Glasgow Girls Women at the Glasgow School of Art 1880-1920
August (Art Review Feature) Edinburgh Festival Clare Henry’s Top Ten
Picabia and the Magical Mirror, Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh
Photography Workshop Edinburgh, Jane Brettle, Gloria Chalmers
Thomas Joshua Cooper, Graeme Murray Gallery Edinburgh
John Muir Wood, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Rory McEwan, Botanic Gardens Edinburgh
Hugh MacDiarmid, Richard Demarco Gallery Edinburgh
Rod Carmichael, City Art Centre
Prescote Art and Design, Edinburgh College of Art
Marion McIntosh, Sarah Honeyman ,Open Eye Gallery (featuring portrait of daughter Zara)
Krzysztof Wodiceko, Artangel, Fruitmarket Edinburgh
August 1988
August (for ALBA) Opening of TATE Gallery Liverpool
5 August (Herald Friday FESTIVAL Feature) John Muir Wood, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Photography Workshop Edinburgh, Jane Brettle, Gloria Chalmers
Andrew Weiner; Brian Griffin, Stills Gallery Edinburgh
12 August Jack Goldstein, Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh
Rod Carmichael, City Art Centre
Marion McIntosh, Sarah Honeyman ,Open Eye Gallery
15 August Krzysztof Wodiceko, Artangel, Fruitmarket Edinburgh
22 August 21×21, 21st B-day exh, Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop
August Thomas Joshua Cooper, Graeme Murray Gallery Edinburgh
23 August Rory McEwan, Botanic Gardens Edinburgh
25 August Edinburgh College of Art, Anne Hartree.
29 August (Art Review Letter from Dublin) Rosc, Sculpture Festival, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Anthony Gormley, Richard Deacon, Davida Allen, Keith Looby, Rebecca Horn, Jenny Holzer
September 1988
September (Art Review Letter from Scotland) Edinburgh Festival Funding, Glasgow 1990
1 September Edinburgh Festival Fringe
6 September Avant Garden, Glasgow Print Studio
9 September Camouflage, Third Eye Centre, Louise Scullions, Micky Donnelly
11 September Scottish Woodcuts, Glasgow Print Studio
17 September (Herald Friday Feature) Dublin Rosc, Sculpture Festival, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Anthony Gormley, Richard Deacon, Davida Allen, Keith Looby, Rebecca Horn, Jenny Holzer
20 September Henry Moore, Royal Academy London
20 September (for Ikebana Ryussei Magazine Japan) Valerie Pragnell
23 September Scottish Society of Artists, SSA at RSA, Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh, Will Maclean
30 September (Herald Friday Feature) Voyage around coast of Scotland, Kelvingrove Gallery
John Lavery, Fine Art Society Glasgow
Felim Egan, Scottish Gallery Edinburgh
New Generation Scotland, Mercury Gallery London
Nigel Greenwood London, Flowers Gallery London
October 1988
October (Art Review) Elizabeth Blackadder, Mercury Gallery London
7 October (Herald Friday column) Naum Gabo, Kelvingrove Gallery Glasgow
New Sculpture in Scotland, Cramond sculpture park Edinburgh
Rajasekharan Nair, WASPS Glasgow
7 October (Art Review Letter from Scotland) New Sculpture in Scotland, Cramond sculpture park Edinburgh, Kate Thomson
Scottish Society of Artists, Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh, Will Maclean
John Lavery, Fine Art Society Glasgow
Felim Egan, Scottish Gallery Edinburgh
14 October Dhruva Mistry, Collins Gallery Glasgow
Ffyffe Christie, Gerber Fine Art Gallery Glasgow
Gary Anderson, JD Kelly Gallery Glasgow
Royal Glasgow Institute, McLellan Galleries Glasgow
16 October (Herald News Feature) Denis Stevenson appointed as Tate chairman
20 October (for Ikebana Ryussei Magazine Japan) Jacki Parry
21 October (Herald Friday column) Crossing Boundaries, Compass Gallery Glasgow
Lys Hansen, Edinburgh City Art Centre
Margaret Hunter, 369 Gallery Edinburgh
Murray Robertson, Glasgow Print Studio
Barbara Rae, William Crozier, Crawford Adamson, Scottish Gallery Edinburgh
Elizabeth Blackadder, Mercury Gallery London
Archie Forrest, Royal Glasgow Institute
21 October (Art Review Letter from Siena)
21 October (Art Review Letter from Scotland) , William Crozier, Barbara Rae, Scottish Gallery Edinburgh
Lys Hansen, Edinburgh City Art Centre
Margaret Hunter, 369 Gallery Edinburgh
Dhruva Mistry, Collins Gallery Glasgow
27 October Alan Davie, Lillie Art Gallery Millingavie
Glasgow Arts Centre, Alistair Keddie, Paul Chambers
JD Ferguson, Ewan Mundy Fine Art Glasgow
Lesley Main, William Hardie Gallery Glasgow
28 October David Hockney, TATE London
November 1988
4th Oct Margaret Hunter, Vanessa Devereux gallery London
4 November (Art Review London) Margaret Hunter, Vanessa Devereux London
4 November (Art Review Letter from Scotland) John Clark, Paisley Abbey
Polish Realities Fesitval Glasgow, Edwards Dwurnik, Leon Tarasewic, Foksal Gallery
Crossing Boundaries, Compass Gallery Glasgow Jimmy Cosgrove, Pete Bevan, Lys Hansen Murray Robertson, Glasgow Print Studio
JD Ferguson, Ewan Mundy Fine Art Glasgow
Royal Glasgow Institute, McLellan Galleries Glasgow
The Fine Art of Deception, Glasgow Art Centre
4 November (Herald Friday Feature) The Staffa Project, Kelvingrove Gallery, Tom Joshua Cooper, Ian McKeever
4 November (Herald Feature) Polish Realities Season Glasgow, Hannah Luczak, Krzysztof Pruszkuwski, Tadeusz Kantor
7 November Five Year Retrospective, Transmission Gallery Glasgow
Castle Toward,(37th year) Belahouston Park Glasgow
Graham Munro, Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh
Callum Innes, 369 Gallery Edinburgh
The Day Book, Richard Demarco Gallery Edinburgh
David McClure, Fine Art Society Edinburgh
John Clark, Paisley Abbey
11 November Polish Realities Season, Third Eye Centre Glasgow
14 November, Monday. Herald Art Column: John Boyd, Barclay Lennie Fine Art Glasgow
Ian Robertson, Collective Gallery Edinburgh
Alison Watt, Janice Grey, Scottish Gallery Edinburgh
Artists from Tillicoultry, WASPS Gallery Glasgow
Dorothy Black, Claudia Petretti, Steps Gallery Edinburgh
Carola Gordon, Lillisleaf Pottery, Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh
Cart Art, Glasgow Arts Centre
Marine Paintings, Calton Gallery Edinburgh
Fields of the Bomb, Edinburgh Printmakers
18 November (Art Review Letter from Scotland) Polish Realities Season Glasgow
18 November (Herald Galleries Guide) Janet Patterson, Talbot Rice Gallery Edinburgh
James Cox, Scottish National Portrait Gallery Edinburgh
Gilman Collection, French Institute Edinburgh
Profiles, Portfolio Gallery Edinburgh
November (Galleries magazine) Francis Cadell, Portland Gallery London, Bourne Fine Art Edinburgh
Samuel Peploe, Francis Cadell, Lefevre Gallery London
21 November Winter Collection, Gerber Fine Art Glasgow
McTaggart to Eardley, Huntarian Gallery Glasgow
Colour in Scottish Painting, City Art Centre Edinburgh
Flying colours Gallery Edinburgh
Rolf Nesch, Richard Demarco Gallery Edinburgh
22 November Compass Gallery Glasgow Scottish Art Council cut funding
23 November John Clark, Paisley Abbey
28 November Michael Main Fine Art Glasgow
90s Gallery Glasgow
Scottish Society of Water Colour Artists, Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh
Tom Joshua Cooper, Serpentine Gallery London
Five NYC artists, Graeme Murray Fine Art Edinburgh, Joel Fisher
Feast of Colour, Step Gallery Edinburgh
Christmas Show, Torrance Gallery Edinburgh
December 1988
December (Galleries magazine) Glasgow 1990 funding, Collins Gallery, Glasgow Print Studio
1 December (Herald Friday column) Glasgow Society of Women Artists, Lillie Gallery Milingavie
Joe Keogh, Ware on Earth Gallery Edinburgh
Graeme Murray, Venice architecture, Edinburgh College of Art
2 December (Herald Friday Feature) Hock-Aun Teh, 369 Gallery Edinburgh
Five NYC artists, Graeme Murray Fine Art Edinburgh, Joel Fisher
Family, Stills Gallery Edinburgh, Helen Chadwick
2 December (Art Review Letter from Scotland) Scottish Gallery opening London
Los Angeles Art Fair LA
Christmas Show, Compass Gallery Glasgow
16 December Los Angeles Art Boom, LA Art Fair
23 December Glasgow Museums
Glory of the Page, Burrell Collection Glasgow
30 December (Herald Friday column) cancellation of Vienna 1960. Exhibition and point of view, Scottish National Galleries
Three Realist Sculptors, Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh
Birgit Jurgenssen, Graeme Murray Fine Art Edinburgh
Beryl Cook, Edinburgh City Art Centre
Scottish Art Archive 