Interviews
Have you ever wanted to explore the mind behind the masterpiece? Tormented or divinely inspired, The Skinny offers you a window into the minds of artists with interviews that delve into their practice and inspirations.
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Interviews
The Joy of the Impossibile: Soorin Shin's 3D printing
Glasgow’s Soorin Shin explores the ambiguous border between the digital and the physical worlds, creating objects using 3D-printed recycled plastic that interrogate our relationship between technology and nature Read more »| 16 May 2023 -
Interviews
Pavilion Pavilion: The contemporary stained glass studio
We meet Jack Brindley, the artist behind Pavilion Pavilion, creating immaculate work in contemporary stained glass Read more »| 12 Apr 2023 -
Intersections
Tell Us A Story: In conversation with Natasha Thembiso Ruwona
Ahead of Our Stories Between the Myths and Memories, curator Natasha Thembiso Ruwona discusses storytelling, museum spaces, and connecting communities Read more »| 11 Oct 2022 -
Interviews
The Artist is Present: Briana Pegado and Tanatsei Gambura
Tanatsei Gambura and Briana Pegado, two of Scotland’s leading cultural practitioners, discuss their experience of working in the Scottish creative industries Read more »| 10 Oct 2022 -
Interviews
Local Heroes: Donna Wilson introduces the Knit Shop
Local Heroes talk to Donna Wilson as her long-anticipated micro-factory Knit Shop opens its doors in Dundee this month Read more »| 06 Sep 2022 -
Festivals
Josè Campos on finding belonging and creating community
Hazel Peters meets Josè Campos (aka Studio Lenca) to discuss his practice. This piece was commissioned as part of Edinburgh Art Festival's Emerging Writers programme Read more »| 05 Sep 2022
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Interviews
Our Movement, Our Stories: Rhys Hollis on OMOS
We meet artist and performer Rhys Hollis as they prepare to open OMOS at the Royal Scottish Academy Read more »| 29 Aug 2022 -
Interviews
Ashanti Harris on the importance of Carnival
Hazel Peters speaks to Ashanti Harris about her exhibition Dancing a Peripheral Quadrille. This article was commissioned as part of Edinburgh Art Festival's Emerging Writers programme Read more »| 26 Aug 2022 -
Interviews
Artist Spotlight: Ragini Chawla
Curator and programmer Myriam Mouflih speaks to artist Ragini Chawla on the occasion of her exhibition at the Goethe-Institut, Glasgow Read more »| 05 Aug 2022 -
Festivals
Staying afloat with Pester & Rossi
We talk to Ruby Pester, one half of artist duo Pester & Rossi, about their Edinburgh Art Festival commission Finding Buoyancy, set around the city's Union Canal Read more »| 02 Aug 2022 -
Festivals
Emmie McLuskey on her Edinburgh Art Festival programme
We meet Emmie McLuskey, this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival Associate Artist, to discuss her collaborative, multi-disciplinary programme Channels Read more »| 26 Jul 2022 -
Interviews
The Skinny on... David Lemm
We talk to artist (and former employee of The Skinny) David Lemm ahead of his solo exhibition in Leith's Good Vibes Read more »| 14 Jul 2022 -
Interviews
The Skinny on... Morven Mulgrew & Kate Owens
Artists Morven Mulgrew and Kate Owens, whose collaborative exhibition SKU is currently showing in Sierra Metro, share their favourite (and not favourite) things Read more »| 14 Jun 2022 -
Interviews
Abbas Akhavan: Study for a Garden
We meet Abbas Akhavan to discuss his enchanting site-specific commission at Mount Stuart on the island of Bute Read more »| 09 Jun 2022 -
Interviews
Mock Trial: Secure Scotland's Wool Scouring Moot
Secure Scotland's Luke Padfield and Jessica Wheeler tell us about their upcoming moot, debating the environmental ethics of wool scouring in the textiles industry Read more »| 30 May 2022