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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ReviewsErnst Logar @ Peacock Visual Arts
The transparency of the Scottish oil industry is tested by Austrian artist Ernst Logar Read more »| 22 Oct 2008 -
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Lila 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 -
ReviewsKate Davis @ Sorcha Dallas
A series of framed drawings runs across the two rooms of Sorcha Dallas gallery. In the first, a magazine page ground into gravel by a passing tyre, the word... Read more »| 16 Sep 2008 -
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Art Late @ Stills, 28 Aug
The Edinburgh Art Festival is drawing to a close, but there’s still just enough time to catch up on any of the shows that you’ve missed. Art Late... Read more »| 27 Aug 2008
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Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller @ The Fruitmarket
Everybody likes a little emotional manipulation. We pay for drugs, roller coasters and horror movies because they make us feel something, whether it be good,... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
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Alexander Heim @ Doggerfisher
Heim’s first solo exhibition in the UK questions the role of nature within the urban environment. The main wall of the gallery is interjected with ear... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
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Andrew Grassie @ Talbot Rice Gallery
Walking into Andrew Grassie’s first Scottish solo show feels a little like jumping head first into a masterclass for procrastinating postmodernist brai... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
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MAGAZINE 08 - Positive critical imagination
The Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop presents its annual show this August, ‘Magazine 08’, curated for the first time by two of Spain’s most pro... Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
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Edinburgh and Glasgow, two cities sitting on opposite sides of a small nation: it’s barely necessary to go into the age-old series of jokes, comments a... Read more »| 22 Jul 2008 -
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Altered States of Paint @ DCA
Andrew Cattanach gives the press releases a body swerve to look at an exhibition of rare scope and flair Read more »| 17 Jul 2008 -
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If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you @ The GRV
For the next 30 days, climbing the stairs to the GRV’s Studio Two takes you right into the liminal spaces at the edge of humanity – or so the kid... Read more »| 25 Jun 2008 -
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other things seen, other things heard @ Market Gallery
It hits upon entering the space, the vinyl spoiler immediately forcing you to read the work in a very particular way. Which is a shame as the work presented ... Read more »| 20 Jun 2008 -
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Lucy Skaer @ The Fruitmarket
Skaer's largest solo show to date, and also her most convincing, this exhibition suggests the Glasgow-based artist's creative muse is moving into full blosso... Read more »| 09 Jun 2008