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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ReviewsDarren Banks @ Sierra Metro
Perfectly offset by Sierra Metro’s dark room and white pillars, Banks’ new installation work is centrepieced with a heap of various domestic obje... Read more »| 27 Jan 2010 -
ReviewsKarla Black @ Inverleith House
An artist who has described her own work as “in no way supposed to look like a landscape”, Black was faced with a challenge in the form of Inverl... Read more »| 25 Jan 2010 -
ReviewsGary Fabian Miller @ Ingleby Gallery
Admittedly some people love them, but this writer finds nothing more tedious than a room full of photographs. So it was with some trepidation that I stepped ... Read more »| 21 Jan 2010 -
ReviewsMeat Hook @ ECA
Forget Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and the rest of the middle-aged ‘Young British Artists’. If you want to know what the rising stars of the art wo... Read more »| 18 Jan 2010 -
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New Work Scotland 09: Rachel Adams
Stepping into the gallery space at the Collective is much more like setting foot into an extremely contemporary living room than the white cube, empty galler... Read more »| 13 Jan 2010 -
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Martin Boyce: No Reflections @ DCA
Following the success of his commission for the 2009 Venice Bienale, Martin Boyce’s lyrical installation No Reflections arrives in the comparatively pr... Read more »| 15 Dec 2009
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Hilary Lloyd @ Tramway
Standing, for what seems like an eternity, before the static quietude of Lloyd’s video stills of classical sculpture, there occurs a dawning reali... Read more »| 23 Nov 2009 -
ReviewsMircea Cantor @ The Common Guild
Cantor’s show rises to the occasion of the Common Guild. The viewer is confronted by a catalogue of interconnected fragments of an enigmatic narrative,... Read more »| 18 Nov 2009 -
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Lara Favaretto @ Tramway
As anyone who had the misfortune of watching Final Destination 3D will tell you, the Car Wash can be a pretty treacherous place. I’m reminded of this u... Read more »| 11 Nov 2009 -
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Frieze your tits off
First and foremost, Frieze Art Fair is about looking at people. It is a warren of voyeurism. The art – glitzy, unaffordable, and on the whole, mediocre... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
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Frieze or I'll shoot: Frieze Art Fair 09
For those that don’t know, Frieze Art Fair is more or less a market place where art is sold instead of fruit and veg. But whilst fruit and veg is sold ... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
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New Work Scotland 09: Michael White, Anna Tanner & Jennifer Grant
First out of the trap for the tenth instalment of New Work Scotland are three artists: Michael White and Anna Tanner inside the gallery, and Jennifer Grant w... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
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Bik Van Der Pol @ CCA
Subdued and with a small turnout for a CCA opening at the dawn of the art school term, perhaps the GSA freshers were put off by the exhibition's distinctly c... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
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It’s Burning Everywhere: Thomas Hirschhorn @ DCA
In the supplementary notes to Thomas Hirschhorn’s show It’s Burning Everywhere, there’s a telling quote from Dostoyevsky’s The Posses... Read more »| 07 Oct 2009 -
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Sometimes it Makes Me Wonder What I Fought For: Katri Walker @ SWG3
Upon entering the dark warehouse, Katri Walker's video triptych dominates the far wall. The three projections side by side create an atmosphere while buildin... Read more »| 28 Sep 2009