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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InterviewsLiverpool's Illuminations: The Skinny Guide to LightNight
Now in its sixth year, LightNight is more epic than ever. We chat to organisers Open Culture and some of the participating artists about what makes this city-wide festival so special – and select our highlights Read more »| 04 May 2015 -
FestivalsRobert Burns Reggae: Interview with Graham Fagen
Graham Fagen discusses his new body of work, set to be exhibited in the 2015 Venice Biennale Read more »| 30 Apr 2015 -
FestivalsTo the Hills: Lakes Ignite brings interactive art to the Lake District
Celebrating 'imaginary journeys,' the Lakes Ignite festival brings four impressive new artistic commissions to the Lake District this spring. Curator Aileen McEvoy tells our Art editor more Read more »| 30 Apr 2015 -
Interviews"It's All About Beauty": Interview with Maripol
Legendary photographer, designer and stylist Maripol is the subject of an exhibition in Dundee Contemporary Arts, part of this year's Ignite Dundee. Here she speaks about her 35-year career Read more »| 28 Apr 2015 -
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Be My Guest: Glasgow Open House Festival 2015
Glasgow Open House Festival is set to be the most exciting and genuinely unique art festival of this year. We talk to the organisers Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
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1 Royal Terrace: Conversations About Art
We catch up with the founders of up and coming Glasgow gallery 1 Royal Terrace in advance of their second programme of exhibitions, now underway Read more »| 01 Apr 2015
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Northern Greats: Future Artists
Over the next few issues, we’ll be profiling some of the creative thinkers currently occupying Manchester’s Great Northern Warehouse. First, an introduction from the arts collective in charge Read more »| 11 Mar 2015 -
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Digital Distress: exploring mental health and technology at FACT
As an exhibition exploring the relationship between technology and mental health opens at FACT, artist Katriona Beales talks about her new commission dealing with internet addiction Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
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RSA New Contemporaries: All Hail the Class of 2014
A mainstay of the Scottish art calendar, the annual RSA New Contemporaries exhibition lives up to the hype with the brightest graduates of 2014 Read more »| 01 Mar 2015 -
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This Business of Art: Interview with David Eustace
Successful photographer David Eustace discusses his career ahead of his solo show at The Scottish Gallery Read more »| 06 Feb 2015 -
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Sound and Vision: Prem Sahib and Listening
Included in the new Hayward Curatorial Open exhibition, Listening (recently opened at Liverpool’s Bluecoat), and with an ICA solo show on the horizon, Prem Sahib caught up with us about throbbing noise, white cubes and touring your work Read more »| 06 Feb 2015 -
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Rachel Levine: Soft Chaos
Winner of The Skinny Award at RSA New Contemporaries 2014, Rachel Levine describes the "small things, shifts and turns" that have informed her upcoming show at the CCA Read more »| 06 Feb 2015 -
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Towering Ambitions: Ponte City at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse explain how they directly address the architecture of apartheid and its appropriation in their Deutsche Börse Prize nominated exhibition, Ponte City Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
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The Mysterious Island: Interview with Collette Rayner
Satellites Programme participant Collette Rayner discusses her show at Collective Gallery Read more »| 01 Dec 2014 -
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Painting After Punk: Interview with Christopher Orr
Christopher Orr discusses his show in the Talbot Rice Gallery, punk, Vermeer and Bosch. Read more »| 01 Dec 2014