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.
-
ReviewsKate Pollard @ Atticsalt
If you can navigate your way through the rather complex and slightly threatening entry system to the exhibition, you'll find yourself in a makeshift attic sp... Read more »| 07 Aug 2009 -
Reviews
Scottish Paintings: Old Master to Contemporary
This exhibition spans decades of Scottish painting, from the 1700s to the present, and is amazingly diverse. It seems surreal to view Sir Henry Raeburn's por... Read more »| 31 Jul 2009 -
ReviewsEAF: A Skinny Guide
It’s time for sensory overload for Edinburgh residents as the festivals descend on the city bringing along their screaming hordes and peerless art work... Read more »| 31 Jul 2009 -
Reviews
The Glasgow Collective
The Glasgow Collective is a group of recent graduates from Glasgow School of Art. Fighting the inevitable tide of stagnation that follows graduation, these s... Read more »| 29 Jul 2009 -
Reviews
Eva Hesse @ Fruitmarket
Fruitmarket’s contribution to the EAF programme promises, as ever, to be one of the most subtly challenging of the festival. In conjunction with a majo... Read more »| 21 Jul 2009 -
ReviewsJane and Louise Wilson @ Talbot Rice
During the Edinburgh Art Festival, Talbot Rice Gallery will be showing the work of London based video artists Jane and Louise Wilson. The exhibition will dra... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009
-
Reviews
Bob & Roberta Smith @ The Grey Gallery
Andrew Cattanach speaks to Bob and Roberta Smith about his forthcoming exhibition at The Grey Gallery, Edinburgh Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
ReviewsGSA Degree Show 2009
Degree shows are the most emotionally rife affairs on the art calendar, ripe for extended metaphors all round. If you can get past the queasy feeling that yo... Read more »| 23 Jun 2009 -
Reviews
They Had Four Years @ Generator
They Had Four Years, the annual exhibition of Duncan of Jordanstone graduates a year on from qualification, has by now established itself as a hardy perennia... Read more »| 04 Jun 2009 -
Reviews
Re-make
The title of the exhibition is somewhat hammered home: the works are re-made, re-represented and re-visited from pieces the artists made at college; the spac... Read more »| 05 May 2009 -
Reviews
Francesca Woodman @ Ingleby Gallery
Posthumous 1986 touring exhibition ‘Francesca Woodman, Photographic Work’ marked the first point of widespread public awareness for the work of t... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
Reviews
Edwyn Collins - Wildlife 1
When former Orange Juice man Edwyn Collins was hospitalised in 2005 following a major cerebral haemorrhage, his family were initially told to brace themselve... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
Reviews
Bruce Nauman @ Tramway
There is an exploratory element to Nauman's works which is exploited in this exhibition, with a particular interest in process becoming apparent. His work Ra... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
Reviews
Mass Damper @ Generator Projects
At the centre of George Henry Longly’s show Mass Damper, in the middle of a darkened gallery, a snake eats a mouse on an endless loop. The DVD is shot ... Read more »| 13 Apr 2009 -
Reviews
Hayley Tompkins: Autobuilding
The shells of old mobile phones guard the entrance and exit of Hayley Tompkins' first solo show in Scotland, transforming Inverleith House into a silent, tum... Read more »| 01 Apr 2009