Lost Lake, Chalk Burst @ Generator Projects
By . Published 22 November 2011
At once poetic and arbitrary, Lost Lake, Chalk Burst is named after two colours of Dulux paint. The title would seem to cutely explore the gap between art and descriptive...
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Against Anti-Intellectualism @ SWG3
By . Published 25 October 2011On the exhibition’s poster is written its title in block capital letters in black tape. Its visceral nature little correlates with what one imagines a pro-intellectualist might produce and instead...
Warp And Woof @ CCA
By . Published 24 October 2011Artists Anna Barham (London) and Bea Mahon (Dublin) show together for the first time at CCA’s exhibition Warp and Woof. Both originally studied mathematics at prestigious universities before taking up...
Christian Newby @ Transmission
By . Published 19 September 2011A large-scale, intensely patterned marbled-ink drawing decorates a freestanding wall in Transmission’s basement space. It’s stunning and compelling, but the work – and your visual pleasure – do not go...
Dundee Masters Show @ DJCAD
By . Published 14 September 2011With just over fifty students and six disciplines exhibiting, the Dundee Masters Show offers a much smaller package than its undergraduate counterpart, but with a breadth of work that is...
Ruth Ewan @ DCA
By . Published 01 September 2011Where art meets history may be the most appropriate way to summarise Ruth Ewan’s enlightening and often wonderfully nostalgic collection of objects, installations and drawings. Under the title Brank &...
Peles Empire @ Sierra Metro
By . Published 29 August 2011Not often do you see contemporary art and marvel at its opulence – artists today are an ascetic bunch. Peles Empire, the ongoing project by Katharina Stoever and Barbara Wolff,...
The Indirect Exchange of Uncertain Value @ Fettes College
By . Published 23 August 2011There’s a snippet of academic art speak that can still bring me out in hives five years after graduating from Glasgow School of Art. The context is half the work...
Ingrid Calame @ Fruitmarket Gallery
By . Published 23 August 2011Unfortunately, identifiable with a style of modernism appropriated by every homeware store, you could be excused for thinking you’ve seen it all before when it comes to Ingrid Calame’s paintings...
SMILE @ Embassy
By . Published 17 August 2011A spaced-out cosmic bliss suffuses much of the work at the Embassy’s new show. Channelling the spirits of Sienna Miller and the 21st century satirist Michel Houellebecq, we’re promised a...
David Mach @ City Art Centre
By . Published 16 August 2011The city has found God, or rather David Mach has found him, and decorated the City Art Centre with his image. Mach’s show Precious Light – unmistakably one set up...
National Museum of Scotland Reopens
By . Published 04 August 2011It was a scene that would have had Jeff Goldblum’s heart racing. A little after 9am, on a temperate Friday morning in Edinburgh, a Tyrannosaurus Rex came rampaging down Chambers...
Nina Rhode: Friendly Fire / Cara Tolmie: Read Thou Art And Read Thou Shalt Remain @ DCA until 31 July
By . Published 04 July 2011Dynamic, multi disciplinary installations unite the work of Glasgow born Cara Tolmie and Berlin based Nina Rhode in this intriguing pair of solo exhibitions at Dundee Contemporary Arts this summer....
British Art Show 7: It’s Time
By . Published 27 June 2011The British Art Show is sprawling across Glasgow with more art than you can shake a stick at. The Skinny finds it operates across time as well as space
Glasgow School of Art Degree Show 2011
By . Published 24 June 2011Perusing the offerings of tomorrow’s art stars is always overwhelming. We make our annual pilgrimage to the Central Belt degree shows, hoping to emerge with some senses intact
Jeff Koons @ Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
By . Published 10 May 2011It’s hard to decide if Jeff Koons is laughing with us, at us, or all the way to the bank. Despite his work comprising mainly of colourful kitsch, he’s one...
Kit Leffler @ Patriothall Gallery
By . Published 09 May 2011What more suitable way for a late-April art show to open, than with a homage to the impending Royal wedding? In her work, Kit Leffler appropriates images from the daily...
Patricia Cain @ Kelingrove Art Gallery and Museum
By . Published 05 May 2011“Patricia Cain’s work on the Riverside Transport Museum uniquely documents the geometric complexity and structural integrity of the museum’s design,” says the architect behind Glasgow’s new Museum of Transport, Zaha...
Narcissus Reflected @ Fruitmarket Gallery
By . Published 04 May 2011When Narcissus gazed upon his reflection in a pool of water he fell in love. Unable to embrace this watery heart-throb, he pined away and became immortalised by the gods...
Jeremy Millar @ CCA
By . Published 04 May 2011The first piece encountered in Jeremy Millar’s current show, Resemblances, Sympathies and Other Acts, is one that hauntingly resonates after viewing. Commissioned by the CCA, the unsettling Self-Portrait as a...
