Gabrielle Hoad

Who doesn't like to peek in other people's windows to see how they live? This intriguing video and audio installation, produced by Devon-based art collective Blind Ditch, turns the tables ...

A mysterious monster in a Welsh lake, a selection of decommissioned Cold War bunkers, a DIY lifeguard chair, fake safety cones on a Bristol industrial estate...

Named as Britain's number-one 'clone town' by the New Economics Foundation in 2005, Exeter is the perfect starting point for Volkhardt Mueller's examination of contemporary British life...

Christina the Astonishing was a medieval visionary who, it's claimed, levitated to escape the stink of human sin. She's the focus of a new site-specific work Glissando by Candida Powell-Williams...

It could have been a bank heist, a kidnap or an urban chase. Instead it was a phone call to a melancholy woman who wanted to talk quietly about the thoughts and memories wrapped up in...

The first ever visit of the British Art Show to Plymouth has created a welcome surge of visual arts activity across the city. Yet few of the resulting fringe projects...

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Sparkly, naughty and not a little camp, Island of True Stories draws its inspiration from a novel by Alexander Dumas that I've never read and a series of films that I've never seen...

Involving more than 10 artists and a semi-derelict warehouse the size of a cathedral, 'DIY', organised by Surface Arts, isn't short on ambition...

The title 'Modern Sculpture' suggests plain-speaking accessibility, along with deadpan humour and a gentle nod to Herbert Read's classic textbook of the same name...

Part social drama, part lifestyle commentary, Emily Wardill's disturbing seventy-six minute film reminds me more than anything of American Psycho...

When artists, writers and curators responded to an open call to join 'Control Point' they probably knew they were part of Plymouth Arts Centre's agenda...

No frames, no titles, no labels: Lara Viana's little paintings cling to the pristine gallery walls like lonely fragments salvaged from some larger narrative...

Go walking in the city at 2.00am with only a weather vane as your guide. A weather vane fixed to a helmet on your head, mind, just to make sure you look really odd...

Megan Calver has been standing in her garden at dawn, holding up a yolky-yellow pole almost as tall as her house. She's been using it to mark a period of attention to birdsong...

What role might an artist play in a museum show commemorating the 1807 act to abolish slavery? 'Human Cargo' sees interventions by five contemporary artists that challenge...

Haldon is a working forest: a scene of constant death and renewal as timber is felled and trees replanted. In the midst of it all, Peter J Evans looks like a man preparing his own coffin...

From making photographs and sound recordings to unravelling our own DNA, we increasingly understand the world by reducing it to a string of ones and zeroes...

According to modern myth, if the entire population of China jumped at the same time, the force would be sufficient to shift the earth out of its usual orbit...

On a hot Friday afternoon, Jordan McKenzie manhandles a white wooden cube through the crowded streets of Exeter...

Dragged from the forest to the manicured lawns of Haldon Belvedere, a broken beech branch takes on new life as a kayagum: a Korean stringed instrument...