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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ReviewsEva 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 -
ReviewsBob & 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 -
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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 -
ReviewsRe-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
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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Craig Barrowman: Castlegate @ Peacock Visual Arts
The historic Aberdeen neighbourhood of the Castlegate is examined by a local artist Read more »| 27 Mar 2009 -
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Moult-in @ Duncan of Jordanstone
Two recent graduates of Fine Art at Duncan of Jordanstone, Lauren Gault and Ashley Nieuwenhuizen, have combined in an ambitious reference of allegorical lite... Read more »| 26 Mar 2009 -
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Richard Couzins: Free Speech Bubble
HICA (The Highland Institute for Contemporary Art) was set up last August by two artists in the front room of their converted sheep farm near Loch Ness. It... Read more »| 26 Mar 2009 -
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A Moveable Feast @ SWG3
Outside the warehouse I could hear muffled music, which always makes me a little excited when entering a show I know nothing about. Emerging from the dark co... Read more »| 24 Feb 2009