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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Emerging ArtistsRSA New Contemporaries 2010
The RSA selection panel has travelled the length and breadth of the land to scope out the degree shows and bring together the cream of the crop to make and present new work for the stately surrounds of the gallery on the Mound. The Skinny has put together a short guide to some names to look out for this year Read more »| 25 Mar 2010 -
ShowcaseEuan Taylor @ ROXY Art House
Last year The Skinny selected our favourite artist from the New Contemporaries exhibition and gave him a prize. It was a tough selection in a strong field, b... Read more »| 24 Mar 2010 -
Reviews
Drinks Reception @ Quartermile
Is contemporary art depressed? Is it feeling disheartened, unfulfilled and forlorn? Is something missing? If the latest exhibition by ECA’s sculpture ... Read more »| 21 Mar 2010 -
Reviews
Alex Frost - The Connoisseurs @ DCA
On entering Alex Frost’s solo show at the DCA, the visitor is met with a mural covering the whole of one wall displaying the WiFi logo rendered in swim... Read more »| 16 Mar 2010 -
Reviews
Dromos @ Generator Projects
The Generator’s show Dromos takes as its lofty aim the creation of “a New Babylon of discovery” unconstrained by the rigid white cube. Inco... Read more »| 03 Mar 2010 -
Reviews
Toby Paterson @ Fruitmarket Gallery
The open spaces of the Fruitmarket Gallery afford a pleasant luxury, the freedom to explore and to wander from one piece of art to the next within their uniq... Read more »| 26 Feb 2010
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Interviews
Good Wives, Warriors and Painters
Becky Bolton and Louise Chappell, aka Good Wives and Warriors, are a collaborative duo whose drawings and paintings have been lighting up galleries, shops and pages for the last few years. They’ve been insanely busy of late, appearing in Taschen books, painting on walls in Berlin and generally being globe-trotting international artists. This month sees them back in Glasgow for a show in Recoat, so The Skinny thought this would be the perfect time for a bit of a catch up Read more »| 25 Feb 2010 -
Interviews
Trouble 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 -
Reviews
Julian 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 -
Reviews
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 -
Reviews
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 -
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