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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ReviewsKate 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 -
ReviewsJac Leirner @ Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
In her newest exhibition at The Fruitmarket, Jac Leirner shows the beauty of obsession Read more »| 08 Sep 2017 -
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Plant Scenery of the World @ Inverleith House, Edinburgh
Taking its name from a suite of paintings by 19th Century artist-botanist RK Grenville, Plant Scenery of the World in the long-languishing Inverleith House u... Read more »| 06 Sep 2017 -
ReviewsPolygraphs @ Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Polygraphs showcases renowned contemporary artist Hito Steyerl's video work Abstract as the basis for a group show of the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art's collection Read more »| 04 Sep 2017 -
ReviewsFinas Townsend III @ CCA, Glasgow
Finas Townsend III exhibits a series of abstract paintings, though their expected import is subtly subverted Read more »| 27 Jul 2017 -
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Tschabalala Self @ Tramway, Glasgow
Tschabalala Self's exhibition at Tramway is sensorially luxurious and provocative, as she works semi figuratively and experimentally with fabric and paper collage and monoprinting. Read more »| 12 Jul 2017
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Parasite Rex @ CCA, Glasgow
Rob Churm's solo show at the CCA stretches over video, a new comic book and dozens of drawings, lusciously cross-hatched and written with personal, erudite and rambling text. Read more »| 05 Jul 2017 -
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Liverpool 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 -
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Manchester 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 -
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Salford 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 -
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Lucky 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 -
Festivals
Rachel 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