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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ReviewsThey Do Things Differently There @ Talbot Rice
Walk into any home and you will be sure to find ‘stuff’; pictures, furniture, one or two ill-advised china dolls. Each of these objects will have... Read more »| 14 Jun 2010 -
ReviewsThe Gloaming @ Transmission Gallery
Rarely is an art exhibition so unsettling. A tree branch fastened to mechanical objects of indiscernible origin flails out at the darkness. Backed into a cor... Read more »| 09 Jun 2010 -
ReviewsThey Had Four Years @ Generator Review
For the past decade the Generator’s annual graduate showcase, They Had Four Years, has firmly established itself as the platform for many a glittering ... Read more »| 08 Jun 2010 -
ReviewsArt in the Age of Social Networking
Allotment returns with a fourth instalment which does not disappoint Read more »| 08 Jun 2010 -
Emerging Artists
Edinburgh Napier Degree Show 2010
As part of Napier’s 2010 Degree Show, Tessa Kerrs’ work, Ethnography – Under The Skin, is a strong photographic series exploring subjectivi... Read more »| 31 May 2010 -
Emerging Artists
Dundee Degree Show 2010
It's that time of year again, as Scotland's art schools roll out their graduate shows. Duncan of Jordanstone opened proceedings with their May exhibition, so The Skinny headed along to check it out Read more »| 27 May 2010
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News
Chicks on Speed @ DCA
Multidisciplinary and intimidatingly prolific, Chicks on Speed are popping up in Dundee for their first UK solo show Read more »| 26 May 2010 -
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Summer Graffiti
Scotland may not have a Poster Boy but we’re doing pretty well when it comes to street art. Whether you’re into prints or graffiti, there’s enough to keep you busy until July. Here are our favourties Read more »| 26 May 2010 -
Reviews
Air Iomlaid
Air Iomlaid, or ‘On Exchange’, is a collaborative project involving primary school pupils from both Edinburgh and Skye who underwent intensive ar... Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
News
Call yourself a filmmaker?
The fifth edition of the Leith Short Film Festival will this year take place from 10-13 June at Duncan Place and Iso-Lounge in Leith. As in previous years, t... Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
Emerging Artists
Radius & Atypical Root: A Skinny Guide
Radius and Atypical Root are two twinned but separate projects united by a desire to provide unusual perspectives on Glasgow and its art in April 2010, alongside Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. The Skinny worked with them to create a guide to distribute around the city of Glasgow during the festival Read more »| 30 Apr 2010 -
Reviews
Jim Lambie Metal Urbain @ Modern Institute
The behemoth that is the GI International Festival of Visual Art keeps rumbling along, with Jim Lambie’s solo exhibition marking the opening of the Mod... Read more »| 22 Apr 2010 -
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Christoph Büchel @ Tramway
If your taste runs to big, immersive, visceral work that swallows you whole, leads you through an unknown realm and spits you out, bewildered, shaken and sub... Read more »| 22 Apr 2010 -
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Benny Merris: Bubble and Squeak
Benny Merris has been smoking it up in Amsterdam. He's been going through a hashish Renaissance, he tells me, and it shows. Each of the 19 paintings exhibite... Read more »| 21 Apr 2010 -
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Spring 2010 Exhibition @ Axolotl Gallery
The Axolotl Gallery holds a deceptively sugary appeal from Dundas Street; its bright purple shop front displays colourful, surreal paintings promising an arr... Read more »| 21 Apr 2010