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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ShowcaseThe Skinny Showcase: It's Our Playground
Based in Glasgow, It’s Our Playground is the curatorial project of French artists Camille le Houezec & Joey Villemont (b.1986). It’s Our Pla... Read more »| 16 May 2012 -
InterviewsCancer Sucks: The Honest Death of Tutu the Feminist Performance Artist
Stephanie Torrance looks at how feminist artists are dealing with breast cancer. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
VideosThe Skinny Shop: Rabiya Choudhry video interview
Rabiya Choudhry, one of the emergent artists featured in The Skinny Shop's first Culture Label collection, discusses her work and influences Read more »| 09 May 2012 -
Videos
The Skinny Shop: David Lemm video interview
David Lemm, one of the emergent artists featured in The Skinny Shop's first Culture Label collection, discusses his work and influences Read more »| 09 May 2012 -
Videos
The Skinny Shop: Rachel MacLean video interview
Rachel MacLean, one of the emergent artists featured in The Skinny Shop's first Culture Label collection, discusses her work and influences Read more »| 09 May 2012 -
Emerging Artists
Showcase Shop – Artist Profiles
In December 2011, in the Creative Scotland offices in Edinburgh's Waverley Gate, The Skinny launched the first collection of its Showcase Shop, a collaborati... Read more »| 03 May 2012
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Reviews
The Making of Us @ Tramway
A collaboration between theatre director Graham Eatough and artist Graham Fagan, working alongside director of photography Michael McDonough, The Making of U... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
Festivals
In Pictures: Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2012
Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2012 Some highlights from the biennial art fest, running in venues across the city from 20 April until 7 May &n... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
ReviewsRob Kennedy @ CCA
Is there anything to do here, is there anything to see? The title of Rob Kennedy’s show might be the cry of his audience – tentative, impatient &... Read more »| 24 Apr 2012 -
Reviews
Wolfgang Tillmans @ The Common Guild
You’ll rarely find a lone artwork by Wolfgang Tillmans. His photographs – some of them large, some of them small – are more or less always ... Read more »| 24 Apr 2012 -
Festivals
Moyra Davey: The Lives of Others
New York-based artist Moyra Davey examines her own life against the well-thumbed narratives of literary greats. We quizzed her on her new film, due to screen at Glasgow International 2012 Read more »| 17 Apr 2012 -
Festivals
Charlotte Prodger: Cut up culture
Artist Charlotte Prodger takes us to the edge ahead of her show at Intermedia Gallery later this month Read more »| 04 Apr 2012 -
News
Henry Coombes @ House for an Art Lover
Everyone knows we Brits have a mild obsession with social class. Though we congratulate ourselves that the class system is now eroding, artist Jeremy Deller ... Read more »| 04 Apr 2012 -
News
Kilian Rüthemann and Kate V Robertson @ David Dale
David Dale Gallery and Studios recently moved premises. From their old venue in Glasgow’s sunny Bridgeton area in the east end they moved all the way t... Read more »| 03 Apr 2012 -
Showcase
The Skinny Showcase: Stephen Thorpe
Aberdeen graduate Stephen Thorpe was chosen as The Skinny Award winner at last year's RSA New Contemporaries exhibition. The outcome of his prize is this Showcase and an exhibition, The Poetics of Space, in Edinburgh's Whitespace which opens on 28 April Read more »| 03 Apr 2012