A Celebrity Love Island What Makes Beagles and Ramsay Different? The Power to Shock: So Moira Jeffrey Is Relieved That in Their Latest Artwork, at Least They've Got Their Clothes On

The Herald › February 24, 2006

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THERE'S always a moment of slight anxiety when you're about to encounter a new artwork by Glasgow duo Beagles and Ramsay. Their double self-portraits in photographs, film, drawings and rather more unconventional materials (black pudding being the most extreme to date) are always comic but sometimes rather grim.

In recent years, in shows at home and overseas, the artists have portrayed themselves as flatulent old men, flaccid sex toys and sinister ventriloquist's dummies.

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A Celebrity Love Island What Makes Beagles and Ramsay Different? The Power to Shock: So Moira Jeffrey Is Relieved That in Their Latest Artwork, at Least They've Got Their Clothes On

It's rather a relief in encountering their latest work, Glitter Island - in a group exhibition, What Makes You and I Different, at Glasgow's Tramway - to see that they've got their clothes on and the surgeon's masks and sharp kn...

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