Sorcha Dallas

Featuring work in various media by 15 artists and creatives who have enjoyed caravan residencies at Claylands dairy farm near Loch Lomond, Open Field is a hit-and-miss affair. Though not without its merits, it features too much unmemorable work.

The idea of enabling people to send time away from the city in an artists’ colony deserves support, but judging by the statements of those who spent time there, you have to wonder how much time they spent fixing leaky caravans or soaking up the scenery rather then working.

Pieces that stand out include Sara Kenchington’s In mY Box, a horse trailer that contains a variety of instruments for mechanical orchestra performances; Anne-Marie Copestake’s Violence Of Order (pictured), an intriguing wire, wood and video work of a woman who seems to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown; and Belinda Gilbert Scott’s Falling Into The Basin, an evocative oil on canvas that hovers between abstraction and reality.

There is also a selection of archive material that gives you a better idea of what the initiative entails and the work that has gone before, but it can’t make up for a show that doesn’t really add up to much.