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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InterviewsTrouble in the Forest
Good art is usually divisive – it causes arguments, provokes feeling; it makes us think about the things that matter. It can cause tears, laughter, vi... Read more »| 24 Feb 2010 -
ReviewsJulian Oliver @ Hannah Maclure Centre
For any gallery-goer justifiably wary of safe, cutesy painting, the process behind Julian Oliver’s solo show Back Buffer reveals a welcome hyper-violen... Read more »| 17 Feb 2010 -
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Public Image @ The Cooper Gallery
The Cooper Gallery’s new group show Public Image takes as its theme the ambiguous relationship between ‘us’ and images. Even the greenest o... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010 -
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Facing East @ Manchester Art Gallery
Even though it’s Chinese New Year and Chinese lanterns adorn Albert Square, Manchester City Gallery’s newest exhibition of work from East Asia is... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010 -
News
Annie Lennox Joins Union Terrace Gardens Debate
What a difference a voice makes as Aberdeen's 'angel' spreads word on city centre proposals Read more »| 10 Feb 2010 -
NewsAberdeen Squares Up To The Future
There's trouble afoot in Aberdeen, as various groups have designs on the future of Union Terrace Gardens. The Skinny attempts to make sense of the debate. Read more »| 08 Feb 2010
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News
Kevin Reid & Rachel MacLean @ Market Gallery
Kevin Reid, founder of GANGHUT, is going solo for the first time in years. Yes, the man who began that unique art collective, based around notions of collabo... Read more »| 05 Feb 2010 -
NewsMartin Creed @ The Common Guild
Martin Creed is to have his first ever solo exhibition in Scotland. Remarkable when you consider he spent his childhood in Glasgow before moving to London to... Read more »| 03 Feb 2010 -
Reviews
Darren Banks @ Sierra Metro
Perfectly offset by Sierra Metro’s dark room and white pillars, Banks’ new installation work is centrepieced with a heap of various domestic obje... Read more »| 27 Jan 2010 -
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Karla Black @ Inverleith House
An artist who has described her own work as “in no way supposed to look like a landscape”, Black was faced with a challenge in the form of Inverl... Read more »| 25 Jan 2010 -
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Gary Fabian Miller @ Ingleby Gallery
Admittedly some people love them, but this writer finds nothing more tedious than a room full of photographs. So it was with some trepidation that I stepped ... Read more »| 21 Jan 2010 -
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Meat Hook @ ECA
Forget Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and the rest of the middle-aged ‘Young British Artists’. If you want to know what the rising stars of the art wo... Read more »| 18 Jan 2010 -
Reviews
New Work Scotland 09: Rachel Adams
Stepping into the gallery space at the Collective is much more like setting foot into an extremely contemporary living room than the white cube, empty galler... Read more »| 13 Jan 2010 -
Features
State of the Art Nation: To Dundee and beyond
Away from the clamour of other, bigger, metropolitan art sites, Dundee is proving more than capable of holding its own. A thriving, close-knit scene of artis... Read more »| 04 Jan 2010 -
Features
State of the Art Nation: Glasgow's Children of the Evolution
The saying goes that when a recession hits and stock is down, skirt hemlines go up. So too, it would appear, do the motivations and aspirations of the nation... Read more »| 01 Jan 2010