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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ArtLiverpool John Moores Degree Show
Degree show season begins with Liverpool John Moores fine art show, which offers up transportative large-scale installations, screen-printed teepees and righteous fabric works, as well as pieces made using more traditional practices Read more »| 15 Jun 2017 -
ArtManchester School of Art Degree Show 2017
Manchester School of Art degree show doesn't mark the end for its final year students, but suggests a long and bright future for many of them in their chosen fields Read more »| 14 Jun 2017 -
ArtSalford University Degree Show 2017
A trip to Salford's Create at Salford degree show reveals students with a strong visual language, and in the New Adelphi Building, a space in which these artists' creativity has been allowed to thrive Read more »| 13 Jun 2017 -
ReviewsLucky Finds: DJCAD Degree Show
Dundee opens the degree show season with a multimedia array of sculpture, video, embroidery and a vastly diverse range of subject matters and concerns. Handmade looms sit alongside confrontational cross stitch, as well as DIY sculpture and painting Read more »| 08 Jun 2017 -
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Ambit @ Street Level, Glasgow
Street Level presents a part of the Ambit project on Scottish Photography, and features five artists whose markedly different practices nevertheless contain moments of subtle rapport and overlap Read more »| 30 May 2017 -
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After Hours @ 16 Nicholson Street, Glasgow
Through a combination of spatial intervention, sculpture, publication and video work, Higgins complicates ideas of formal presentation, as well as leisure, professionalism and labour Read more »| 30 May 2017
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Steven Claydon @ The Common Guild
Steven Claydon transforms The Common Guild with industrial-looking sculptures topped with reproductions of archaic objects, fizzing away material categories and expectations. Read more »| 19 May 2017 -
FestivalsRachel Maclean – Spite Your Face: Venice Biennale 2017
This year's Scotland + Venice presentation is Rachel Maclean's Spite Your Face in the Chiesa Santa Caterina Read more »| 09 May 2017 -
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Ewan Murray @ Telfer Gallery, Glasgow
Ewan Murray's Landscapes, People, Buildings is an insightful and sensitive collection of small paintings. Read more »| 26 Apr 2017 -
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Caribbean Queer Visualities @ Transmission
Transmission plays host to an exhibition curated by Small Axe Project, surveying the rich variety of different tones, disciplines and strategies amongst young, queer Caribbean artists presently. Read more »| 05 Apr 2017 -
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Curve of a Hill... @ Mary Mary
The left hand of a black glove greets you as you enter the newest exhibition at Mary Mary. Speckled with white acrylic, the glove could have been plucked fro... Read more »| 02 Mar 2017 -
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Conor Kelly @ Queenspark Railway Club
Glasgow-based painter and installation artist creates an elegantly cluttered meditation on art-making as a parent and a middle-managed employee. Read more »| 24 Feb 2017 -
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St Peter's, Cardross: Birth, Death and Renewal
The recently awarded A list status of Leith’s iconic Banana Flats shows just how much interest there currently is in the brutalist architecture of the ... Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
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Oliver Laric @ Tramway
Oliver Laric's new exhibition is a keen taken on internet transmogrification, in-between mental states, and technological reality. Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
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DCA Thomson @ Dundee Contemporary Arts
Beginning with original items from the archive, the DCA Thomson show brings out forgotten excitement and mixes it up with surprising responses from Beano / D... Read more »| 26 Jan 2017