Reviews
The latest exhibitions, festivals and art shows reviewed by The Skinny’s art writers. You’ll find reviews of art exhibitions, analysis of artist and curators' choices, and expert insight on Scotland's best art exhibitions.
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ReviewsDavid Austen @ Dundee Contemporary Arts
David Austen's solo show Underworld astutely observes the human condition, at the same time as he creates other worlds in dreamlike drawings, sculptures, video and paintings Read more »| 23 May 2019 -
ReviewsStrangely Familiar: DJCAD Degree Show 2019
2019's Degree Show season kicks off with Dundee's cohort exploring themes of the grotesque, the domestic and the body and mind Read more »| 17 May 2019 -
FestivalsAlchemy Film and Moving Image Festival: 2019 Report
We look back at the highlights from the ninth edition of Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, where melancholic woodland creatures wandered the high street and hallucinatory work was playing on screen Read more »| 17 May 2019 -
ReviewsPia Camil @ Tramway, Glasgow
Pia Camil's Bara Bara Bara is a stunning repurposing of worn out t-shirts and jeans, making an ambitious space for interaction and imagination Read more »| 16 May 2019 -
FestivalsAnything Can Be News: Venice Biennale 2019 review
The Venice Biennale 2019 is a (mostly) topical and politicised edit of artists' practices from across the world, and its best artworks challenge audiences' complacent world views borne of hands-off and uncritically smartphone-based spectatorship Read more »| 14 May 2019 -
ReviewsDomestic Bliss @ Gallery of Modern Art
Gallery of Modern Art deconstructs home life in Domestic Bliss, a huge group show from the Glasgow public collections Read more »| 13 May 2019
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ReviewsPrunella Clough @ 42 Carlton Place, Glasgow
Prunella Clough (1919-1999) created an expansive body of work as an abstract painter. 42 Carlton Place displays the enviable breadths of her practice and interests Read more »| 15 Apr 2019 -
ReviewsAndrew Kerr @ The Modern Institute, Glasgow
Andrew Kerr's solo show at The Modern Institute showcases his complicated semi-abstract landscapes Read more »| 29 Mar 2019 -
ReviewsMaking Ground @ Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
The three artists in the Embassy group show Making Ground each deal with the persistence of the physical and social violence of colonialism Read more »| 11 Mar 2019 -
ReviewsDependency @ 16 Nicholson Street
James St. Findlay's new exhibition at 16 Nicholson Street is an absurd yet poignant look at typical relationship roles Read more »| 28 Feb 2019 -
ReviewsMargaret Tait @ Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
A number of Margaret Tait's films are on show in Gallery of Modern Art, giving an overview of the Orcadian filmmaker's practice and legacy Read more »| 08 Feb 2019 -
ReviewsCécile B. Evans @ Tramway
AMOS' WORLD is the most ambitious installation yet by Belgian-American artist Cécile B. Evans, and deconstructs an emotional and challenging feature length film into episodes spread across a large scale installation in the Tramway main space Read more »| 01 Feb 2019 -
ReviewsSisters, My Sisters: Tremble, Tremble
Artist Niamh Moloney makes a poetic response to her role in Jesse Jones' Tremble Tremble, a performance work that is now on show in Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh Read more »| 14 Jan 2019 -
ReviewsJill Todd Photographic Award @ Street Level Photoworks
The Jill Todd Photographic Award 2018 brings together a range of recent graduates of Photography disciplines from across Scotland; their work is diverse, but with traceable intentions that bring the emerging practitioners together Read more »| 14 Jan 2019 -
ReviewsEster Krumbachová @ CCA
Ester Krumbachová was a key figure in the Czech New Wave cinema in the 1960s before she was forced underground and all but prevented from making art during Soviet "normalisation" Read more »| 11 Jan 2019