https://www.theskinny.co.uk/ Latest articles from The Skinny en-us Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:18:06 +0100 From techno-nihilism to tenement living, students at the Glasgow School of Art present work that shifts between personal expression and political commentary https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/gsa-degree-show-2026-the-review https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/gsa-degree-show-2026-the-review hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:29:58 +0100 At Stills in Edinburgh, Åsa Johannesson's photography exhibition reconfigures the queer gaze and plays with the relationships between sitter, photographer and viewer https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/asa-johannesson-the-queering-of-photography-stills-edinburgh https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/asa-johannesson-the-queering-of-photography-stills-edinburgh hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Fri, 29 May 2026 12:50:12 +0100 Paloma Proudfoot symbolically avenges Jean-Martin Charcot’s 'hysteric' patients in a sprawling multimedia exhibition https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/paloma-proudfoot-glass-delusion-collective-edinburgh https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/paloma-proudfoot-glass-delusion-collective-edinburgh hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:12:16 +0100 A new photography exhibition does much to capture the post-industrial city's evolving identity, but its nostalgic slant is overbearing https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/still-glasgow-goma-glasgow https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/still-glasgow-goma-glasgow hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:37:54 +0100 From the vantage point of disability, four interdisciplinary artists challenge ableism in the arts in a new group show at Dundee Contemporary Arts https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/we-contain-multitudes-dca https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/we-contain-multitudes-dca hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:10:00 +0000 From Bradford to Glasgow, this striking group photography show documents heartfelt stories of community https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/nationhood-memoryand-hope-street-level-photoworks https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/nationhood-memoryand-hope-street-level-photoworks hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:01:00 +0000 A survey exhibition at Fruitmarket raises vital questions of land stewardship and offers tender insight into the life of the late artist-activist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/jaune-quick-to-see-smith-wilding-fruitmarket-edinburgh https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/jaune-quick-to-see-smith-wilding-fruitmarket-edinburgh hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:33:00 +0000 A giant tentacled creature and its tiny co-conspirators occupy Tramway, as Rae-Yen Song’s world-building reaches hypnotic heights https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/rae-yen-song-tua-mak-tramway https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/rae-yen-song-tua-mak-tramway hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Tue, 09 Dec 2025 10:56:08 +0000 Esther Gamsu's larger-than-life sculptural installation is layered with irony and ambiguity, demonstrating the maturing of the artist's craft https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/esther-gamsu-medium-david-dale-gallery-glasgow https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/esther-gamsu-medium-david-dale-gallery-glasgow hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Mon, 03 Nov 2025 12:31:00 +0000 The Glasgow artist's new body of work is a shapeshifting explosion of paint that is both subtle and moving https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/hayley-tompkins-surroundings-the-modern-institute https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/hayley-tompkins-surroundings-the-modern-institute hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:25:00 +0100 Among the varied programme of the 2025 Edinburgh Art Festival, three exhibitions in the city are threaded together through a shared interrogation of transformed space and memory https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/mike-nelson-sian-davey-host-edinburgh-art-festival-2025 https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/mike-nelson-sian-davey-host-edinburgh-art-festival-2025 hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:54:00 +0100 An EAF25 X The Skinny Emerging Writer responds to a tender film that connects queer stories with Historic Environmental Scotland sites https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/who-will-be-remembered-here-eaf-pavilion https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/who-will-be-remembered-here-eaf-pavilion hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Thu, 04 Sep 2025 09:55:00 +0100 Robert Powell's solo exhibition at Edinburgh Printmakers is a hypnotic and whimsical exploration of the passing of time https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/robert-powell-hall-of-hours-edinburgh-printmakers https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/robert-powell-hall-of-hours-edinburgh-printmakers hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Mon, 01 Sep 2025 11:05:00 +0100 Holly Allan, an Edinburgh Art Festival X The Skinny Emerging Writer, considers what it means to observe Wael Shawky’s solo exhibition in a city with a colonial past https://www.theskinny.co.uk/festivals/edinburgh-festivals/art/wael-shawky-talbot-rice-edinburgh https://www.theskinny.co.uk/festivals/edinburgh-festivals/art/wael-shawky-talbot-rice-edinburgh hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Mon, 28 Jul 2025 10:15:00 +0100 Artist-filmmaker Margaret Salmon compellingly examines the impact of austerity on Glasgow communities through an evolving installation at The Hunterian https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/margaret-salmon-assembly-review https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/margaret-salmon-assembly-review hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Thu, 24 Jul 2025 10:59:00 +0100 A permanent space for Palestinian art and stories in Edinburgh's New Town explores themes of resistance and perseverance in the face of brutality https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/palestine-museum-edinburgh https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/palestine-museum-edinburgh hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Mon, 30 Jun 2025 10:32:00 +0100 Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa’s exhibition at Glasgow’s Tramway probes humanity’s symbiotic relationship with the Earth through large-scale sculptural works created between Glasgow and Brazil https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/solange-pessoa-pilgrim-fields-tramway-glasgow https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/solange-pessoa-pilgrim-fields-tramway-glasgow hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:21:00 +0100 Emerging artists at the Edinburgh College of Art find inspiration in mythology, the natural world and the domestic sphere https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/eca-degree-show-2025-the-review https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/eca-degree-show-2025-the-review hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Wed, 04 Jun 2025 08:59:00 +0100 From hedonistic hook-ups to the dynamism of Glasgow's streets, the Glasgow School of Art students translate their personal perspectives into painting, film and sculpture https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/gsa-degree-show-2025-the-review https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/gsa-degree-show-2025-the-review hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:03:00 +0100 Students graduating from visual art courses at Duncan of Jordanstone in Dundee grapple with AI, climate change and shifting ideas of selfhood https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/djcad-degree-show-2025-the-review https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/djcad-degree-show-2025-the-review hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Wed, 28 May 2025 16:29:00 +0100 Canadian-Irish artist Ciara Phillips impresses with her dynamic large-scale prints that transform Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/ciara-phillips-undoing-it https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/ciara-phillips-undoing-it hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:55:00 +0100 This group exhibition at Collective takes a refreshing anti-institutional stance, with leading artists – not curators – selecting the early-career artists on display https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/jerwood-survey-iii https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/jerwood-survey-iii hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Thu, 27 Mar 2025 10:51:00 +0000 In St Andrews, an exhibition stands firm against exclusionary and oppressive feminisms, defying transphobic and anti-sex work backlash https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/say-no-art-activism-feminist-refusal-wardlaw-st-andrews https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/say-no-art-activism-feminist-refusal-wardlaw-st-andrews hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:57:00 +0000 Swedish artist and filmmaker Petra Bauer’s film is a powerful look at the day-to-day work of Southall Black Sisters https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/petra-bauer-sisters-review https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/petra-bauer-sisters-review hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Sat, 01 Mar 2025 20:17:00 +0000 The first-ever retrospective of artworks by Edinburgh-based and Tanzania-born Everlyn Nicodemus is poignant, intimate, potent and bold https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/everlyn-nicodemus-national-galleries-of-scotland https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/everlyn-nicodemus-national-galleries-of-scotland hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Mon, 03 Feb 2025 13:57:12 +0000 Graduates from Edinburgh College of Art's Fine Art degree show this year examine nationalism, gender identity and coastal ecologies https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/emerging-artists/edinburgh-college-of-art-degree-show-2024-the-review https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/emerging-artists/edinburgh-college-of-art-degree-show-2024-the-review hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Thu, 27 Jun 2024 10:15:00 +0100 The Glasgow School of Art's undergraduate degree show sees graduates invoking childhood memories, family lineages and concerns about our natural environments https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/emerging-artists/glasgow-school-of-art-degree-show-2024-the-review https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/emerging-artists/glasgow-school-of-art-degree-show-2024-the-review hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Wed, 26 Jun 2024 14:28:00 +0100 Students graduating from Fine Art courses at DJCAD this year explore experiences of landscape, the sex work industry and human belief systems https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/djcad-dundee-degree-show-2024 https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/djcad-dundee-degree-show-2024 hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Fri, 14 Jun 2024 17:31:00 +0100 Art Night in Dundee upended the misconception that encounters with art are static – here, interaction is encouraged, rather than frowned upon https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/art-night-dundee-saoirse-amira-anis-tai-shani https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/art-night-dundee-saoirse-amira-anis-tai-shani hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Wed, 12 Jul 2023 15:01:00 +0100 This year's degree show at Glasgow School of Art sees graduates thoughtfully addressing chronic illness, queer representation and working class pride https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/glasgow-school-of-art-degree-show-2023-the-review https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/reviews/glasgow-school-of-art-degree-show-2023-the-review hello@theskinny.co.uk (The Skinny) Fri, 30 Jun 2023 13:20:16 +0100