Art
The Skinny art guide. We bring you the latest in emerging artists, art exhibition previews, reviews, interviews, and features. Find out the latest art news for Scotland with our news columns, and view emerging artists' portfolios in our monthly Showcase.
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FeaturesGut Feelings: Get Wet
Rooted in personal discovery, Gut Feelings is a new column that explores how art can be a conduit for memories and sticky emotions. In the launching edition, art writer Megan Rudden responds to Uist Corrigan's exhibition, Get Wet Read more »| 07 Nov 2025 -
FeaturesScottish Art Highlights: November 2025
Fruitmarket presents a major posthumous exhibition dedicated to activist-artist Juane Quick-to-See Smith, while Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 transforms Tramway into a sub-aquatic world Read more »| 04 Nov 2025 -
FeaturesPoster Modernism: INTL and the radical world of posters
To commemorate eleven years of INTL festival bringing together Scotland's graphic design community, we speak with founder James Gilchrist Read more »| 04 Nov 2025 -
FeaturesHARVEST: Handpicked Craft for Autumn
Curator Stacey Hunter rolls her sleeves up to pull together HARVEST, a contemporary craft exhibition inspired by a farmer's market Read more »| 07 Oct 2025 -
FashionBack in fashion: the return of Skinny Jeans
We bring back our fashion column from 2007 to speak to anonymous informants about Big Fashion's relationship with Scotland Read more »| 06 Oct 2025 -
FeaturesRebellious Togetherness: Grace Ndiritu interview
Artist Grace Ndiritu stages Sit-in #5: Compassionate Rebels in Action at Cooper Gallery, Dundee. She speaks to us about collective reflection, spirituality and activism Read more »| 06 Oct 2025
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NewsArtists are prophets of doom – we need them more than ever
The Skinny’s former Art editor reflects on 20 years of culture, cheap pints and climate dread – and argues that only artists can tell us where this all ends Read more »| 03 Oct 2025 -
ShowcaseScottish Art Highlights: October 2025
Exhibitions in Dundee explore social justice and the censorship of speech, while The Alasdair Gray Archive maps Glasgow through a queer, working-class lens Read more »| 01 Oct 2025 -
ReviewsHayley Tompkins: surroundings @ The Modern Institute, Glasgow
The Glasgow artist's new body of work is a shapeshifting explosion of paint that is both subtle and moving Read more »| 29 Sep 2025 -
InterviewsAn Imaginary Museum: Trans Masc Studies at EAF25
Unbound by institutional rules, artist Ellis Jackson Kroese's research project collects and curates ephemera related to the Scottish trans masculine community Read more »| 15 Sep 2025 -
ReviewsTemporary Worlds: Mike Nelson, Siân Davey and HOST at EAF25
Among the varied programme of the 2025 Edinburgh Art Festival, three exhibitions in the city are threaded together through a shared interrogation of transformed space and memory Read more »| 12 Sep 2025 -
Emerging ArtistsA Day in the Life of an Art School Student
One art student takes us with him on an average day via a meditation on class and access to creative learning Read more »| 11 Sep 2025 -
InterviewsRed Herring: Joanne Coates and the Herring Girls
At Timespan in Helmsdale, artist Joanne Coates amplifies the overlooked story of the Herring Girls through photography and sculpture Read more »| 09 Sep 2025 -
Reviewswho will be remembered here @ EAF Pavilion
An EAF25 X The Skinny Emerging Writer responds to a tender film that connects queer stories with Historic Environmental Scotland sites Read more »| 04 Sep 2025 -
NewsScottish Art Highlights: September 2025
Plenty of new exhibitions and curated events to keep you busy this month, including a pop-up installation by Lindsey Mendick in Dundee and Glasgow Southside Art Weekend Read more »| 02 Sep 2025