Euan Taylor @ ROXY Art House
By . Published 24 March 2010
Last year The Skinny selected our favourite artist from the New Contemporaries exhibition and gave him a prize. It was a tough selection in a strong field, but we finally,...
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Kevin Reid & Rachel MacLean @ Market Gallery
By . Published 05 February 2010Kevin Reid, founder of GANGHUT, is going solo for the first time in years. Yes, the man who began that unique art collective, based around notions of collaboration, inclusiveness, and...
Martin Creed @ The Common Guild
By . Published 03 February 2010Martin Creed is to have his first ever solo exhibition in Scotland. Remarkable when you consider he spent his childhood in Glasgow before moving to London to study art. But...
Warehouse of Horrors vs Way Out Is The Way Out
By . Published 26 October 2009It’s all getting a bit spooky in SWG3 as the Embassy invades with a horror-themed exhibition opening to coincide with Halloween, while over in Edinburgh SWG3 present a group show...
A Spot of b)other
By . Published 19 October 2009There is already a wealth of material for artists to address on issues surrounding the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, but GoMA's upcoming show A Spot of b)other also...
Mike Inglis @ The Arches
By . Published 08 October 2009For his new Arches show, Inglis goes back to his original printmaking and street paste-ups. Shadows Fade – titled after a headstone inscription in Inglis’ Scottish seaside town – focuses...
North East Open Studios 2009
By . Published 15 September 2009Aberdeen City and Shire Arts Community Pull Together to Promote Their Wares
Inverness – Re-Imagining the Centre
By . Published 09 September 2009For the next five days, Inverness will host more than 20 artists from all over the UK, including some of its finest local talent. In a new version of the...
Lilah Forever
By . Published 01 September 2009I meet up with the artist Lilah Fowler at a café in Crouch End, London, to discuss her forthcoming show at the Corn Exchange Gallery, Edinburgh. The once Victorian suburb...
Art Late!
By . Published 24 August 2009Thursdays might be the official late-shopping days, but this week will be different. From 6pm onwards, art galleries throughout Edinburgh will welcome visitors while local and international artists present a...
Aileen M. Stackhouse @ Sierra Metro
By . Published 03 August 2009As one of the 11 new spaces at this year’s EAF, Sierra Metro is making its inaugural show count. In keeping with the sculpture trend awash over the rest of...
EAF: A Skinny Guide
By . Published 31 July 2009It’s time for sensory overload for Edinburgh residents as the festivals descend on the city bringing along their screaming hordes and peerless art work. The Edinburgh Art Festival (EAF) once...
The Enlightenments
By . Published 22 July 2009Weaving its way through the city from the Georgian Library of Talbot Rice, through the Collective gallery and on to the Dean is The Enlightenments, an exhibition exploring the theme...
Nashashibi / Skaer @ doggerfisher
By . Published 22 July 2009With one of this year's Turner nominees under their roof, doggerfisher can do no wrong. Shimmying up to the plate for the EAF is a newly commissioned film work by...
Rough Cut Nation @ Scottish National Portrait Gallery
By . Published 21 July 2009In an art world constantly chasing the new and the unexpected, perhaps the biggest surprise of the EAF comes from that most unexpected of venues, the Scottish Portrait Gallery. Currently...
Eva Hesse @ Fruitmarket
By . Published 21 July 2009Fruitmarket’s contribution to the EAF programme promises, as ever, to be one of the most subtly challenging of the festival. In conjunction with a major new body of research, Briony...
Jane and Louise Wilson @ Talbot Rice
By . Published 20 July 2009During the Edinburgh Art Festival, Talbot Rice Gallery will be showing the work of London based video artists Jane and Louise Wilson. The exhibition will draw on the sisters’ extensive...
Bob & Roberta Smith @ The Grey Gallery
By . Published 20 July 2009Andrew Cattanach speaks to Bob and Roberta Smith about his forthcoming exhibition at The Grey Gallery, Edinburgh
Enlightenment Now (The Enlightenment and Contemporary Creative Experimentation)
By . Published 20 July 2009Ahead of this year's Edinburgh Festival season, and the International Festival in particular, The Skinny has organised what is set to be a fascinating discussion about the most exciting trends...
The Annuale 09
By . Published 01 June 2009What to expect of the Embassy-run art festival as it turns six this month? A super reliable internet source profiles the developmental milestones of a six-year-old as such: they will...
