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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InterviewsRavish the Senses: Sonica 2017 Preview
For Sonica 2017, Cryptic have assembled internationally renowned sound, performance, video and installation artists from across the world. Cryptic founder Cathie Boyd and associate artist Mark Lyken walk us through some of the vast programme Read more »| 13 Oct 2017 -
InterviewsPut into Practice: Laura Mulvey interview
Renowned theorist and writer Laura Mulvey gives an insight into her and Peter Wollen's collaborative film practice of the 70s and 80s Read more »| 02 Oct 2017 -
FestivalsKrafta Doc: Scotland's newest film festival
The creative process is under the spotlight at Krafta Doc, a new documentary film festival devoted to the work of artists, craftspeople and designers, from world famous creatives to unsung artisans Read more »| 19 Sep 2017 -
ArtInfinite Resistance: Sahej Rahal Interview
Ahead of his exhibition in CCA this month, Sahej Rahal discusses the protest politics and texts of resistance that inspired the work that he will show Read more »| 07 Sep 2017 -
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Comic Book Hero: Frank Quitely Interview
Frank Quitely (aka Vincent Deighan) talks about exhibiting at Kelvingrove Art Gallery as a comic book artist and the status of the medium today Read more »| 04 Sep 2017 -
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A look at Summerhall's political arts programme
Through Summerhall's arts programme this August, there's an observable trend towards politicised or protest work, considering issues relating to the refugee crisis, indigenous cultures, as well as Brexit and Trump Read more »| 01 Aug 2017
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Festivals
Sculptor Charlotte Barker on her solo show Flotilla
Charlotte Barker's elegant sculptures critically sit on the borderlines of art, design, craft, ornament and functionality. We meet her ahead of her upcoming solo show at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop Read more »| 28 Jul 2017 -
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Patrick Staff interview: EAF show Observers’ Walks
Patrick Staff presents a Collective Observers’ Walk which combines diligent history telling with sharing of erotic nighttime adventures on Calton Hill Read more »| 28 Jul 2017 -
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Platform 2017: Emerging Artists at Edinburgh Art Festival
Platform returns with a new crop of selected emerging artists, this year including those working diversely with alternate histories, 'retrofutures', large scale and functional sculpture (a fold-down bell tower) and science fiction filmic forms Read more »| 27 Jul 2017 -
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EAF 2017: Pester and Rossi and Walker & Bromwich
Edinburgh Art Festival includes two artist duos who each make use of celebratory and collaborative performance – Pester and Rossi, and Zoë Walker and Neil Bromwich. Read more »| 27 Jul 2017 -
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Stranger than Fiction: Manaf Halbouni on What If?
Manaf Halbouni speaks candidly about his recent new film work made in Huntly in Aberdeenshire, in response to Middle Eastern politics and the Syrians that have recently settled as new Scots Read more »| 27 Jul 2017 -
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Northern Soul: The Skinny North bids farewell
The North's finest. The Skinny North says a final farewell by asking some of our favourite people, what makes the North so special? Read more »| 10 Jul 2017 -
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MIF 2017: Phil Collins brings Engels back to Manchester
Friedrich Engels is coming home! Artist Phil Collins tells us why he's dragged a Soviet-era statue of the Communist Manifesto co-author across Europe to be permanently installed in Manchester Read more »| 07 Jul 2017 -
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This Will Ruin Everything: Recoat's 10th Birthday
As urban art specialists Recoat celebrate turning 10 with a 40-person exhibition in the Lighthouse, masterminds Amy Whiten and Alistair Wyllie assess the changing face of street art and design in Scotland Read more »| 05 Jul 2017 -
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Rachel Maclean introduces Spite Your Face
No stranger to these pages, video artist Rachel Maclean offers an insight into her dark Venetian fairytale, Spite Your Face Read more »| 31 May 2017