Scotland's up-and-coming young artists show off their work
Some art, a gallery, and some publicity: check out the Skinny Showcase for a glimpse at the work of some of our favourite local artists
Art :: Review 10 Oct 2008
Nancy Katz: Lila de Magalhaes' offering to Collective's New Work Scotland Programme makes for a strong, moving and deeply humorous start to the now greatly anticipated annual exhibiting programme. For me, laughs engendered here are inherently personal, linked to ...
Art :: Review 09 Oct 2008
Annika Kristensen: Concealed behind closed doors, down a discreet corridor to the left of the main gallery entrance, this year’s Research show at the Royal Scottish Academy was, from its modest outset, always doomed to disappoint. Showcasing the work of ten artists...
Art :: Review 03 Oct 2008
Sam Stead: Of the hundreds of artists that step out of its doors each summer, Glasgow School of Art chooses to bring a couple back every now and again and showcase their progress thus far. In the third edition of the annual Emergent Artists programme, 2006 gradua...
Art :: Preview 01 Oct 2008
Rosamund West: 2008 is starting to feel like a year of new beginnings in Edinburgh’s art world. First The Embassy were cruelly evicted from their gallery (to make way for some rather more profitable studio spaces, if rumours are to be believed); then we had th...
Rosamund West: Arika, the team behind Glasgow’s Instal festival, return to Dundee with another helping of Kill Your Timid Notion. For those who have missed the previous instalments, the festival is a weekend-long series of events, film screenings, performances ...
Art :: Feature 01 Oct 2008
Rosamund West: Firstly I’d like to ask you about how you got here, what the steps were that you took to own your own commercial gallery just a decade after leaving art school? Well, I graduated from drawing and painting at Glasgow 10 years ago, and about six m...
Art :: Heads Up :: Preview 25 Sep 2008
Fergus Ray Murray: Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School makes a triumphant return to Edinburgh next weekend, and very glad we are to see it too. The burlesque life drawing class came to the capital in 2006, and it's been encouraging artists and amateurs alike to whip out their ...
Art :: Heads Up :: Preview 24 Sep 2008
Ariadne Cass-Maran: On Saturday 27 September about seventy grand old buildings will open up, giving us the chance to satisfy our curiosity about what weird and wonderful lands may lie beyond their often hallowed doors. The city's guts are briefly, quiveringly, exposed; th...
Deviance :: Film :: Theatre :: Art :: Clubs :: Preview 23 Sep 2008
Margaret Kirk: There is plenty of queer work these days that tickles mainstream tastes: like a larger than life character on Big Brother, or a token edgy story-line on your favourite daytime soap, sexuality is a useful signifier of exoticism that can actually work to...
Art :: Review 16 Sep 2008
Rosamund West: A series of framed drawings runs across the two rooms of Sorcha Dallas gallery. In the first, a magazine page ground into gravel by a passing tyre, the words “I want” outlined upon the top, backwards. On the other side of the room stands a...
Art :: Heads Up :: Preview 11 Sep 2008
Ariadne Cass-Maran: One Creative Scotland may well be one of the most satisfyingly messy events Glasgow sees this month, with artists from a huge spectrum of disciplines getting together to exhibit their work against a backdrop of live music. It's a brilliant idea &ndash...
Art :: Heads Up :: Preview 08 Sep 2008
Jaco Justice: Art pilgrims to Aberdeen take note: the city isn’t on fire. That smoky atmosphere you see hanging overhead is (we like to think) actually a creative harr formed by the many artists that reside in and around its environs. And coming northwards th...
Art :: Feature 05 Sep 2008
Paul Mitchell: "An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one." Of course, Turner-winning art galactico Tracey Emin thinks American sociologist Charles Horton Cooley failed, as it were, to see the bigger picture, with her oft quoted perspective that "Taste cannot ...
Art :: Preview 27 Aug 2008
Rosamund West: The Edinburgh Art Festival is drawing to a close, but there’s still just enough time to catch up on any of the shows that you’ve missed. Art Late is a final trip around the programme now that the crowds have largely dispersed, a night-time ...
Art :: Heads Up :: Preview 27 Aug 2008
Rosamund West: As a fitting ending to the Annuale 08, The Embassy and The Skinny are teaming up to bring you a closing tour/party on Sunday 31st August. In a bid to provide access to some of the more satellite venues, as well as having a generally gay old time, we&rs...
Art :: Review 18 Aug 2008
Nancy Katz: Everybody likes a little emotional manipulation. We pay for drugs, roller coasters and horror movies because they make us feel something, whether it be good, invincible or scared shitless. This exhibition does all these things. Now, admittedly for some...
Jennifer Felton: Heim’s first solo exhibition in the UK questions the role of nature within the urban environment. The main wall of the gallery is interjected with earthenware bowls mounted at varying heights. These thick, earthy bowls hold jewel-like incrustati...
Rebecca Pottinger: Walking into Andrew Grassie’s first Scottish solo show feels a little like jumping head first into a masterclass for procrastinating postmodernist brainstormers. Described as elliptical orbits, the disorientating shunt of the collection of photo-...
Art :: Review 11 Aug 2008
Nina Goldberger: The Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop presents its annual show this August, ‘Magazine 08’, curated for the first time by two of Spain’s most prominent curators, Javier Marroquí and David Arlandis. I managed to pick their brains for...
Fashion :: Art :: Feature 08 Aug 2008
Lindsay West: Installation 1: Gilbert & George by Tatty Devine The biform, eccentric world of art stars Gilbert & George has been delightfully extended to incorporate a range by London-based jewellery geniuses, Tatty Devine. Highlights include gin bottle p...
