Street art

I took my son to a tennis match on the south side of Glasgow tonight. He's really getting into tennis - the Andy Murray effect, I think, but fab all the same.

What is not to like about your boy slugging it out on a tennis court in the cold and dark for three hours? Beats slugging it out on a PS3 .

I always remember my mum's posh cousin at a family funeral talking about how 'she never went south of the river'.

Well, we went ' south of the river' tonight and I ended up spending time at the Whole Foods Market in. Giffnock. For the uninitiated, this is an emporium of culinary wonder. I'd read about it but had never been.

Food glorious food. Hello?

Outside, I found a sculpture - or 'twisty jobby' as my daughter put it.

It was by Hill Jesphson Robb (born. 1970). The setting for its plaque reminded me of works by the Boyle Family, whose trademark is street art - as in hoiking out a bit of street and making it into sculpture.

I got an email today saying the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art is about to showcase more than 100 new additions to the gallery’s collection.

Taking up the whole top floor of Modern One, the Gallery’s principal site at Belford Road in Edinburgh, new acquisitions feature works that have been added to the collection over the last two years, including major paintings by Joan Eardley and John Bellany, ‘Glasgow Style’ masterpieces of the early 1900s by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh and Frances MacNair, and one of the 'defining' works of postwar British art; Boyle Family’s Tidal Series, 1969.

This plaque reminded me of the Boyle Family's work... although true to anti-arty bollox form, my daughter insisted the sculpture above it was a 'twisty jobby'.

See us? See anti-art speak?

Note to self: must go see this new display...