Spin cities: Behind the Art
Spin organises events across Edinburgh and Glasgow that help bring contemporary art to life, giving an insight into how the work is made and selected for exhibition. Here we talk...

Spin organises events across Edinburgh and Glasgow that help bring contemporary art to life, giving an insight into how the work is made and selected for exhibition. Here we talk...

Glasgow-based artist Alex Frost and Steev from Errors have teamed up to make a portrait in the form of a record, available during the Glasgow International Festival this April. We...

We talk to painter Alan Robb ahead of his show at Dundee's McManus art gallery and museum

Photography of the atomic city of Pripyat, abandoned after Chernobyl, and video work exploring the hotel room location of a Hamas leader's murder – Jane and Louise Wilson arrive at...

Method Furniture received Starter for 6 funding three months ago and it's given them the chance to improve their business and receive some valuable development training. They tell us what...

Little Riot is an interaction design company initially set up by Duncan of Jordanstone graduate Joanna Montgomery to develop Pillow Talk, which is due to hit the market next year....

Set up by two Glasgow art school graduates, GRID has been mapping the galleries and institutions of city for over a year now. We chat to creators Sebastian Kalvik and...

Glasgow-based Secret Wars finalists Rogue One and Conzo tell us about their art, and we explore a potted history of the scene, right from its early days in Brooklyn...

Artist and Illustrator Jamie Johnson contributes regularly to Skinny and will soon be selling limited edition prints through The Skinny Shop on CultureLabel.com. Here he discusses his unique style and...

We catch up on all the changes taking place at CCA in Glasgow while the centre’s programmer Jamie Kenyon gives us a taster of what to expect in 2012

First term sees new students illuminating studios with bright ideas – but how switched on are they about industry that awaits them? Illustrator Johanna Basford helps us read between the...

Glasgow's biennale, the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, have just announced the programme for their fifth outing, which will run from 20 Apr – 7 May 2012. This year...

Good Wives and Warriors were first Showcased in The Skinny in 2008. Now based in London, and making a name for themselves in Europe, they have produced a set of...

Glasgow-based, German-born artist Torsten Lauschmann's star has been on the rise in recent years. We popped round his house for a chat ahead of his solo exhibition at Dundee Contemporary...

Boosh star pours his art out.

Artist Norman Shaw is showing at Edinburgh's RSA, a gallery supported by the Own Art scheme, as part of their Resident 11 exhibition. The Skinny asked him to tell us...

Martin Boyce is one of two Scotland-based artists nominated for this year's Turner Prize. Showing at the Baltic, Gateshead, from 21 October as part of the prize's annual show, we...

Firmly established as a development programme for emerging artists, New Work Scotland now wants its participants to talk to each other. The Skinny chats to Rhianna Turnbull and Gordon Schmidt...

RESIDENT: 11 brings together ten of the artists who've taken part in residency schemes across Scotland in the last year for an exhibition in Edinburgh's RSA. We caught up with...

You may recall that last year the Fruit Tree Foundation brought together a stellar array of Scottish songwriting and recording talent to make an album and series of gigs in...