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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Interviews
AdesignStorie: Design for Climate Change
We meet Alicia Storie, award-winning eco-interior designer and the founder of AdesignStorie, the Edinburgh-based design studio bringing sustainability to the core of a variety of design processes and projects Read more »| 12 Mar 2024 -
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House Proud: Orla Stevens' unique curling artwork with Hendrick's Gin
We speak with artist Orla Stevens, commissioned by Hendrick's Gin to create a series of artworks frozen into the ice at this year's Scottish Curling Championships Read more »| 23 Feb 2024 -
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Monumental Manifestations: Josie KO on the year ahead
We catch up with Josie KO, the recipient of The Skinny Prize 2023, to find out more about her practice and her exciting plans for 2024 Read more »| 06 Feb 2024 -
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Designer dreams with pyjama brand Irregular Sleep Pattern
We speak to the founders of Glasgow-based pyjama and bedding brand Irregular Sleep Pattern, Jolene Crawford and Mil Stricevic, to find out more about their eclectic patterns, dazzling colourways and new collection In Your Dreams Read more »| 18 Jan 2024 -
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Resisting Complicity: Art Workers For Palestine Scotland on their activism
The Skinny meets activists and organisers from Art Workers For Palestine Scotland to find out more about how they are challenging Scotland and the UK’s complicity in the genocide of Palestinian people Read more »| 10 Jan 2024 -
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Who 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
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Intersections
Reimagining 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 -
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Tanatsei 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 -
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In 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 -
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Crafted 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 -
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Occult 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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The 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 -
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Manifestin' 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 -
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Studio 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 -
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Dualchas: 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