Interviews
Have you ever wanted to explore the mind behind the masterpiece? Tormented or divinely inspired, The Skinny offers you a window into the minds of artists with interviews that delve into their practice and inspirations.
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InterviewsWho Is The Designer? celebrates Dundee's design
Who Is The Designer? seeks to highlight the creatives behind design projects in two UNESCO Cities of Design – Montréal and Dundee Read more »| 20 Nov 2023 -
IntersectionsReimagining Art School with The Otolith Group
There's more than one way to learn. Cooper Gallery’s third iteration of The Ignorant Art School series welcomes The Otolith Group with an exhibition of moving image works and a series of workshops-as-provocations Read more »| 17 Nov 2023 -
InterviewsTanatsei Gambura on new installation Nzira Yeparuware
Tanatsei Gambura's new installation at Edinburgh Castle fuses the sounds of Harare and Scotland's capital city – and discusses their inevitable entanglement Read more »| 17 Nov 2023 -
InterviewsIn conversation with Wooosh Gallery
The Skinny speaks to Dundee-based Wooosh Gallery about institutional voices, disrupting curatorial practices, and setting up an art gallery in a car park Read more »| 08 Nov 2023 -
InterviewsCrafted Selves: Cat Dunn on curation and identity
As she prepares to open Crafted Selves: The Unfinished Conversation at St Andrews Museum, The Skinny meets curator Cat Dunn to talk about her new touring exhibition Read more »| 13 Oct 2023 -
InterviewsOccult Visions: Sekai Machache at Mount Stuart
Sekai Machache’s immersive installation at Mount Stuart draws our attention to who was, and who is, absent in the archive – a reverent call to reinstate and to invoke those who have been silenced Read more »| 10 Oct 2023
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InterviewsThe Art of Disruption: Hazel Peters on No Permission Needed
The Skinny speaks to Hazel Peters about online and print platform No Permission Needed as they prepare to start work on their third publication Read more »| 30 Aug 2023 -
InterviewsManifestin' Joy: Christian Noelle Charles at Edinburgh Printmakers
The Skinny meets Christian Noelle Charles to discuss her current exhibition WHAT A FEELING! | ACT I at Edinburgh Printmakers Read more »| 30 Aug 2023 -
InterviewsStudio Frostwood: Sustainable Ceramics
We talk to Studio Frostwood, an Edinburgh-based ceramics studio led by contemporary designers Hazel Frost and Natalie J Wood, about crafting a sustainable practice Read more »| 03 Aug 2023 -
InterviewsDualchas: Design and its peripheries
Much of our recent writing about contemporary design explores how it overlaps and intersects with other artforms; we speak to writer and film director Peter Marsden about his work on the Dualchas installation at the Venice Architecture Biennale Read more »| 03 Jul 2023 -
InterviewsThe Joy of the Impossibile: Soorin Shin's 3D printing
Glasgow’s Soorin Shin explores the ambiguous border between the digital and the physical worlds, creating objects using 3D-printed recycled plastic that interrogate our relationship between technology and nature Read more »| 16 May 2023 -
InterviewsPavilion Pavilion: The contemporary stained glass studio
We meet Jack Brindley, the artist behind Pavilion Pavilion, creating immaculate work in contemporary stained glass Read more »| 12 Apr 2023 -
IntersectionsTell Us A Story: In conversation with Natasha Thembiso Ruwona
Ahead of Our Stories Between the Myths and Memories, curator Natasha Thembiso Ruwona discusses storytelling, museum spaces, and connecting communities Read more »| 11 Oct 2022 -
InterviewsThe Artist is Present: Briana Pegado and Tanatsei Gambura
Tanatsei Gambura and Briana Pegado, two of Scotland’s leading cultural practitioners, discuss their experience of working in the Scottish creative industries Read more »| 10 Oct 2022 -
InterviewsLocal Heroes: Donna Wilson introduces the Knit Shop
Local Heroes talk to Donna Wilson as her long-anticipated micro-factory Knit Shop opens its doors in Dundee this month Read more »| 06 Sep 2022