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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Festivals
Exploring EAF's Associate Artist Programme
For Edinburgh Art Festival 2021, Associate Artist Tako Taal has brought together six of the most interesting artists working currently to respond to a work by Isaac Julien, which pivots on the history of American abolitionist Frederick Douglass Read more »| 03 Aug 2021 -
Festivals
Edinburgh Art Festival: Platform 2021 preview
Platform is always one of the most exciting parts of Edinburgh Art Festival, offering up four emerging artists' practices with lightly curated themes between them, with this year's looking at care and support structures Read more »| 29 Jul 2021 -
Interviews
Scottish Community Arts and the COVID Pandemic
In the fourth in our series platforming emergent writers, produced with Edinburgh International Festival, we meet participants and organisers at WHALE Arts, NEMO Arts and Birds of Paradise to learn about their use of the arts to build community Read more »| 16 Jun 2021 -
Interviews
Local Heroes: Naomi Mcintosh's Quiet Garden
As her Quiet Garden installation continues at the London Design Biennale, Naomi Mcintosh talks about participating in one of this year’s most important international design events Read more »| 14 Jun 2021 -
Interviews
The Skinny on... Jimmy Cauty
K-Foundation's Jimmy Cauty brings his new work ESTATE, a dystopian model village experience featuring four abandoned concrete tower blocks at 1:24 scale housed in a 40-foot shipping container, to Scotland this month Read more »| 28 May 2021 -
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Vevar design, Brooklyn to Bridgeton
We meet Chantal Allen and Christopher McEvoy, the duo behind new design studio Vevar, to discuss launching their textile mill in Bridgeton just before lockdown and collaborating with Brooklyn artist Meghan Spielman to launch a range of lifestyle products Read more »| 19 May 2021
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Art
Class Politics: Introducing The Ignorant Art School
Transformative politics and social justice ambitions tie together Cooper Gallery's new programme, The Ignorant Art School Read more »| 12 Mar 2021 -
Interviews
Radical Perfumery: The UK's first scent library
A Library of Olfactive Material in Glasgow is a beautifully designed open access resource for scent education, experience and experimentation – we meet its Director, Clara Weale Read more »| 15 Feb 2021 -
Interviews
Stories Told On Silk: Emma Talbot on her DCA exhibition
Emma Talbot's upcoming exhibition at DCA sees her create exploded narratives around grief of 'failing systems' in the current 'point of crash', all within a deftly made, immersive installation of paintings, sculpture and film Read more »| 25 Jan 2021 -
Interviews
Why Making Matters: Curating in the Digital Space
Designers Morven Mulgrew and Stefanie Ying Lin Cheong discuss making and curating in the digital space with Instagram shopping channel Quality Craft Vision Read more »| 11 Jan 2021 -
Interviews
Nwando Ebizie on Kink and Accessibility in The Arts
We meet artist Nwando Ebizie for a virtual chat on her work-in-progress, Kink and accessibility Read more »| 14 Dec 2020 -
Interviews
Local Heroes: Shweta Mistry
Shweta Mistry is a Glasgow-based designer and artist whose rich influences include historical and modern Indian art and modern European art and design Read more »| 12 Oct 2020 -
Interviews
Local Heroes: Too Gallus
For the latest edition of our Local Heroes design column, we speak to Barrington Reeves about culture, creating creative experiences and the future for Too Gallus Read more »| 03 Sep 2020 -
News
Barrington Reeves on the Black Scottish Business Fund
The head of Glasgow-based design and branding agency Too Gallus discusses the Black Scottish Business Fund, his address to the Scottish Parliament, and what it means to be a Black creative in 2020 Read more »| 03 Aug 2020 -
Interviews
DIY Art and Glasgow Zine Library
We chat with three artists programmed for the now-cancelled Glasgow Zine Festival to discover what makes zine culture and DIY arts institutions so powerful Read more »| 30 Mar 2020