Art
The Skinny art guide. We bring you the latest in emerging artists, art exhibition previews, reviews, interviews, and features. Find out the latest art news for Scotland with our news columns, and view emerging artists' portfolios in our monthly Showcase.
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FeaturesTokens of Affection: Valentine's Design Gifts
Our design correspondent helps you to find your sweet spot as February brings the subject of love to the fore Read more »| 11 Feb 2025 -
InterviewsMaud Sulter and The Living Archive of Diaspora
Curator Pelumi Odubanjo tells us how she’s reimagining Sulter’s legacy through a participatory events programme at Tramway Read more »| 11 Feb 2025 -
FeaturesNational Galleries Scotland: Three Women
This month Lucy Askew, Chief Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at National Galleries Scotland gives us an insight into three works by women artists which have been added to the national collection Read more »| 03 Feb 2025 -
ReviewsEverlyn Nicodemus @ Modern One, Edinburgh
The first-ever retrospective of artworks by Edinburgh-based and Tanzania-born Everlyn Nicodemus is poignant, intimate, potent and bold Read more »| 03 Feb 2025 -
NewsScottish Art Events & Exhibitions: February 2025
Exhibitions and events across February include a Derek Jarman deep dive, a discussion of printmaking as a political tool, and a show exploring the feminist power of saying no Read more »| 03 Feb 2025 -
InterviewsBe United: Celebrating ten years of activism
Be United turned ten years old in 2024 and in 2025, the organisation has more huge ambitions for Black creatives in Scotland. We meet co-founder and director Emma Sithole to find out more Read more »| 16 Jan 2025
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InterviewsCosy Craft: Meet interior design duo Granite + Smoke
We speak to the founders of Granite + Smoke – recently shortlisted for a Dezeen award – to find out more about the duo putting joy into January Read more »| 14 Jan 2025 -
NewsSummerhall to host Edinburgh Fringe programme in 2025
Things are looking brighter at Summerhall – the troubled arts venue now have HMRC off their back and now Summerhall Arts have confirmed they will deliver a Fringe programme this August Read more »| 10 Jan 2025 -
InterviewsNational Galleries Scotland: Beagles & Ramsay
Beagles & Ramsay's Sanguis Gratia Artis (Black Pudding Self Portrait) is on display for the first time since being added to Scotland's national collection. We talk to the artists about making work with their own blood Read more »| 09 Jan 2025 -
FeaturesArts Under Pressure: Scotland's Art Scene in 2025
Venue closures. Funding chaos. A cost of living crisis. Last year was not a banner one for Scotland's arts and culture sector. We ask some members of this community how things might improve in 2025 Read more »| 09 Jan 2025 -
NewsScottish Art Events & Exhibitions: January 2025
While the first month of the year is undoubtedly a quiet one, there's still plenty of exhibitions to see across Scotland this January Read more »| 06 Jan 2025 -
FeaturesA Rift in the Scottish Arts
Over the last 14 months there has been growing discontent at Scottish arts organisations and their response to the genocide in Palestine – Glasgow-based artist and writer Hussein Mitha tells us more Read more »| 12 Dec 2024 -
InterviewsGabrielle Goliath on new exhibition Personal Accounts
We meet Gabrielle Goliath, the artist behind Personal Accounts, a decolonial and collaborative project of repair now on show at Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh Read more »| 06 Dec 2024 -
InterviewsThe Art of Climate Action: Waters Rising at Perth Museum
Waters Rising, a newly-opened exhibition at the Perth Museum, explores the story of the flood through the lens of ecological breakdown Read more »| 05 Dec 2024 -
NewsGlasgow artist Jasleen Kaur wins 2024 Turner Prize
While picking up the UK’s biggest arts prize for her solo exhibition Alter Altar, Jasleen Kaur spoke out for Palestinian people and urged arts institutions to listen to artists’ calls for an immediate ceasefire Read more »| 04 Dec 2024