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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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 -
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Steven Campbell @ Tramway, Glasgow
Love presents a less recognisable slice of renowned painter, multimedia artist and New Glasgow Boy Steven Campbell's prolific practice Read more »| 14 Feb 2018
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Kate V Robertson @ Dundee Contemporary Arts
Kate V Robertson's installation in Dundee Contemporary Arts combines monumental scale with material precarity to provide insight into concepts of productive failure Read more »| 11 Jan 2018 -
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A Synchronology @ Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow
A new Hunterian exhibition tracks and celebrates some of the artists that have formed the programme of Glasgow gallery The Common Guild's first decade of programming. Read more »| 08 Jan 2018 -
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Amanda Ross-Ho @ Tramway
Amanda Ross-Ho uses scale and repetition to good use in Tramway's large exhibition space. Read more »| 08 Dec 2017 -
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Arika Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist @ Tramway, Glasgow
A quickfire run-through of the many events that formed Arika Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist. Read more »| 07 Dec 2017 -
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Sonica: Dear Esther Live @ Tramway, Glasgow, 3 Nov
Whether or not you’ve played the videogame before seeing Dear Esther Live is irrelevant; it’s simply stunning on the big screen Read more »| 06 Nov 2017 -
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Sue Tompkins @ The Modern Institute, Glasgow
The energetic and vital career and works of Sue Tompkins are the focal point of a new exhibition in The Modern Institute. Read more »| 02 Nov 2017 -
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Sonica: Infinite Lives @ Tramway, Glasgow, 27 Oct
Robbie Thomson's Infinite Lives is a sensory delight and a product of copious craftsmanship – part creepy, part silly, and all weird Read more »| 30 Oct 2017 -
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Erica Eyres @ Queens Park Railway Club, Glasgow
Erica Eyres' exhibition Alone and I comprises subtly unsettling film and ceramic works, featuring different representations of body insides, limbs and trauma Read more »| 03 Oct 2017 -
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Kate Davis @ Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
In Kate Davis' solo show at Stills, she brings together multiple strands of her practice from the previous few years, including film, photographic and drawn works Read more »| 03 Oct 2017