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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ReviewsChildren's Exhibition @ Tramway
The Children's Exhibition at Tramway is an exciting proposition, but falters in its execution Read more »| 02 Aug 2018 -
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Obeying Durations @ 16 Nicholson Street
Obeying Durations is a diverse three-person show that considers various implications of presence, time and collectivity Read more »| 26 Jul 2018 -
ReviewsInner City @ Gallery of Modern Art
Michael C McMillen’s impressively detailed model of an imagined LA slum provides the first literal nod to the urban context that brings together the four exhibiting artists of Inner City. Read more »| 06 Jul 2018 -
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Eve Fowler @ DCA
Eve Fowler's DCA show engages with the work of Gertrude Stein as a reminder of the radical malleability of language and its capacity as a mode of political resistance Read more »| 02 Jul 2018 -
ReviewsA Kaleidoscopic Smattering: Gray's Degree Show 2018
The Aberdeen cohort display, as always, a different take on the degree show fare and make a trip to the edge of Aberdeen more than worth it Read more »| 20 Jun 2018 -
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A Barrage of Talent: GSA Degree Show 2018
At GSA, the 2018 cohort make a virtue of diversity and distinction, as The Skinny struggles to muster up some thematic patterns, before indulging in the barrage of talent in all its many forms. Read more »| 06 Jun 2018
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ArtBetraying Expectations: ECA Degree Show 2018
This year's Edinburgh College of Art graduation show is an exciting showcase; full but manageable, it displays the wealth of talent finishing this year, and is peppered with moments of poignancy, confrontation, resistance and protest Read more »| 01 Jun 2018 -
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Minimal/Poor/Present @ Pearce Institute
For one evening, pioneering 81-year-old Spanish artist Esther Ferrer performed alongside emerging Scottish-based artists Read more »| 01 Jun 2018 -
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iQhiya @ Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
South African collective iQhiya's Glasgow International exhibition is a DIY-feeling show that considers the histories and reality of poor representation of black womxn artists across the Glasgow cultural scene and beyond. Read more »| 28 May 2018 -
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Dundee Degree Show 2018: Brilliantly bizarre
A brilliant showcase of work by Dundee's most exciting artists at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) degree show Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
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House Party @ Project Ability, Glasgow
Renowned French artist Esther Ferrer's 1998 recording of her home, routine and chores, is put together with the work of several emerging artists as a means of drawing out the uncanny aspects from familiar settings and actions. Read more »| 03 May 2018 -
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Intervals @ CCA, Glasgow
Raydale Dower's simple mathematical splitting of a 71 minute concert into a 71 hour light and sound installation is a shockingly visceral subversion of time and space. Read more »| 27 Apr 2018 -
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Shonky @ Dundee Contemporary Arts
Artist John Walter seeks to organise his own work around a group show of contemporary and established artists, and positions their work as united under the "aesthetics of awkwardness" Read more »| 19 Apr 2018 -
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Margaret Salmon @ Tramway
Margaret Salmon's works so far are the subject of a large scale retrospective at Tramway in Glasgow, as they present an exhibition of the previous 20 years of her experimental film practice alongside elements of her working archive Read more »| 02 Mar 2018 -
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Rehana Zaman @ CCA, Glasgow
Rehana Zaman's first solo show in Scotland is an installation containing three variously connected and distinct video works that nimbly negotiate intimate documentary interviews with structural, formal and experimental elements Read more »| 02 Mar 2018