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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ReviewsWolfgang Tillmans @ The Common Guild
You’ll rarely find a lone artwork by Wolfgang Tillmans. His photographs – some of them large, some of them small – are more or less always ... Read more »| 24 Apr 2012 -
ReviewsNew Contemporaries 2012 @ RSA, 17 Mar-11 Apr
Now in its fourth year, RSA New Contemporaries brings together a select group of fine art graduates from Scotland's five art schools (Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dun... Read more »| 29 Mar 2012 -
ReviewsAnna Barriball @ Fruitmarket
The work of Anna Barriball smudges the lines of traditional art disciplines; simultaneously both drawing and sculpture, hers is a practice that occupies an e... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
ReviewsMatthew Darbyshire @ Tramway
In what is Darbyshire’s largest public exhibition to date, he has sought to fill the massive space of Tramway 1 with an installation that simulates a b... Read more »| 27 Feb 2012 -
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Beholder @ Talbot Rice
The show’s premise is bold: a diverse group of artists, institutions and academics are invited to nominate an artwork that explores contemporary notion... Read more »| 02 Feb 2012 -
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Alan Robb: Child's Play
We talk to painter Alan Robb ahead of his show at Dundee's McManus art gallery and museum Read more »| 01 Feb 2012
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ReviewsThe Turner Prize @ Baltic
The Turner Prize exhibition is in the Baltic this year and features Karla Black, Martin Boyce, Hilary Lloyd and George Shaw. Read more »| 23 Nov 2011 -
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Lost Lake, Chalk Burst @ Generator Projects
At once poetic and arbitrary, Lost Lake, Chalk Burst is named after two colours of Dulux paint. The title would seem to cutely explore the gap between art an... Read more »| 22 Nov 2011 -
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Against Anti-Intellectualism @ SWG3
On the exhibition’s poster is written its title in block capital letters in black tape. Its visceral nature little correlates with what one imagi... Read more »| 25 Oct 2011 -
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Warp And Woof @ CCA
Artists Anna Barham (London) and Bea Mahon (Dublin) show together for the first time at CCA’s exhibition Warp and Woof. Both originally studied mathema... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011 -
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Christian Newby @ Transmission
A large-scale, intensely patterned marbled-ink drawing decorates a freestanding wall in Transmission’s basement space. It’s stunning and compelli... Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
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Ruth Ewan @ DCA
Where art meets history may be the most appropriate way to summarise Ruth Ewan’s enlightening and often wonderfully nostalgic collection of objects, in... Read more »| 01 Sep 2011 -
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Peles Empire @ Sierra Metro
Not often do you see contemporary art and marvel at its opulence – artists today are an ascetic bunch. Peles Empire, the ongoing project by Katharina S... Read more »| 29 Aug 2011 -
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The Indirect Exchange of Uncertain Value @ Fettes College
There’s a snippet of academic art speak that can still bring me out in hives five years after graduating from Glasgow School of Art. The context is hal... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
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Ingrid Calame @ Fruitmarket Gallery
Unfortunately, identifiable with a style of modernism appropriated by every homeware store, you could be excused for thinking you’ve seen it all before... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011