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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ReviewsCharles Avery @ Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Charles Avery’s Islanders is an astonishingly good exhibition. ’Good’ is necessarily too facile a term: it is fascinating, entrancing, a tr... Read more »| 26 Jan 2009 -
ReviewsUrban Reflections @ Stills
Forget postcard images of glittering skyscrapers, iconic buildings and national monuments, the five artists in this exhibition portray a much grittier readin... Read more »| 26 Dec 2008 -
ReviewsKeep Calm and Carry On
This exhibition, featuring students from Edinburgh College of Art, never skips a beat, from Ross Christie’s amply stocked zine hut to Liam Crichton&rsq... Read more »| 19 Dec 2008 -
ReviewsTwo Alasdairs Retrospective
Apart from their name and the fact that they attended Glasgow School of Art, Alasdair Gray and Alasdair Taylor do not appear at first glance to have a lot in... Read more »| 16 Dec 2008 -
ReviewsJean Muir @ National Museum of Scotland
Though perhaps not as instantly recognizable outside the fashion industry as her contemporary, Barbara ‘Biba’ Hulanicki, designer Jean Muir&rsquo... Read more »| 03 Dec 2008 -
ReviewsLanglands + Bell @ Talbot Rice Gallery
Having spent the preceding week building up our critical stamina by bench-pressing the hardback big-print version of Gombrich's History of Art, The Skinny gl... Read more »| 01 Dec 2008
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ReviewsUNNATURALHISTORIE: Douglas Gordon @ Le Palais des Papes, Avignon
Our roving art reviewer Andrew Cattanach kicks off his coverage of the contemporary Grand Tour with a show by a familiar face on the Glasgow art scene. Read more »| 01 Dec 2008 -
ReviewsNeville Rae @ Sierra Metro Review
Neville Rae is the artist lucky enough to have the inaugural show of Sierra Metro, the new gallery housed in a disused warehouse in Granton. The work... Read more »| 20 Nov 2008 -
ReviewsAlex Frost @ Sorcha Dallas
The first gallery is sparse, containing only two works: a wall-hung ceramic mosaic of a cereal that claims to lower cholesterol, and, on a column in the cent... Read more »| 19 Nov 2008 -
ReviewsRichard Forster | Ruth Claxton @ Ingleby Gallery
On the floor of the Ingleby's Gallery 2 lies a spunk-like trail of mother of pearl droplets inset into the boards. This remnant of the inaugural exhibition,... Read more »| 03 Nov 2008 -
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Gregor Laird @ Q! Gallery
A key motif in the stylised landscapes of Gregor Laird’s Plastic Pastorals, the Edinburgh artist/designer/DJ’s offering to this year's Glasgay!, ... Read more »| 24 Oct 2008 -
ReviewsErnst Logar @ Peacock Visual Arts
The transparency of the Scottish oil industry is tested by Austrian artist Ernst Logar Read more »| 22 Oct 2008 -
ReviewsLila de Magalhaes @ Collective Gallery
Lila de Magalhaes' offering to Collective's New Work Scotland Programme makes for a strong, moving and deeply humorous start to the now greatly anticipated ... Read more »| 10 Oct 2008 -
ReviewsRSA Research Exhibition
Concealed behind closed doors, down a discreet corridor to the left of the main gallery entrance, this year’s Research show at the Royal Scottish Acade... Read more »| 09 Oct 2008 -
ReviewsEmergent Artists: Christy Cole And Manu Kurewa
Of the hundreds of artists that step out of its doors each summer, Glasgow School of Art chooses to bring a couple back every now and again and showcase thei... Read more »| 03 Oct 2008