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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ReviewsErnst Logar @ Peacock Visual Arts
The transparency of the Scottish oil industry is tested by Austrian artist Ernst Logar Read more »| 22 Oct 2008 -
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Lila de Magalhaes @ Collective Gallery
Lila de Magalhaes' offering to Collective's New Work Scotland Programme makes for a strong, moving and deeply humorous start to the now greatly anticipated ... Read more »| 10 Oct 2008 -
ReviewsRSA Research Exhibition
Concealed behind closed doors, down a discreet corridor to the left of the main gallery entrance, this year’s Research show at the Royal Scottish Acade... Read more »| 09 Oct 2008 -
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Emergent Artists: Christy Cole And Manu Kurewa
Of the hundreds of artists that step out of its doors each summer, Glasgow School of Art chooses to bring a couple back every now and again and showcase thei... Read more »| 03 Oct 2008 -
FeaturesA Post-Graduate Survival Guide Part II: Sorcha Dallas interview
As Sorcha Dallas prepares to take her wares to the Frieze Art Fair, Rosamund West caught up with her to talk artists’ representation, commercial galleries and the Glasgow School. Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
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Kill Your Timid Notion @ DCA
Arika, the team behind Glasgow’s Instal festival, return to Dundee with another helping of Kill Your Timid Notion. For those who have missed the previo... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008
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Neville Rae at Sierra Metro
2008 is starting to feel like a year of new beginnings in Edinburgh’s art world. First The Embassy were cruelly evicted from their gallery (to make way... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
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Kate Davis @ Sorcha Dallas
A series of framed drawings runs across the two rooms of Sorcha Dallas gallery. In the first, a magazine page ground into gravel by a passing tyre, the word... Read more »| 16 Sep 2008 -
Interviews
Sandy Christie - Local Hero
Paul Mitchell speaks to Sandy Christie, our Art Local Hero. Sandy presents an altrnative route for artists trying to disseminate their work to a wider audience, eschewing the traditionally proscribed avenues of gallery-approved selection in order to go it alone with a system of open submissions, self-publication and guerilla exhibiting. Read more »| 05 Sep 2008 -
ReviewsArt Late @ Stills, 28 Aug
The Edinburgh Art Festival is drawing to a close, but there’s still just enough time to catch up on any of the shows that you’ve missed. Art Late... Read more »| 27 Aug 2008 -
News
Annuale Bus Tour @ ECA, 31 Aug
As a fitting ending to the Annuale 08, The Embassy and The Skinny are teaming up to bring you a closing tour/party on Sunday 31st August. In a bid to provide... Read more »| 27 Aug 2008 -
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Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller @ The Fruitmarket
Everybody likes a little emotional manipulation. We pay for drugs, roller coasters and horror movies because they make us feel something, whether it be good,... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
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Alexander Heim @ Doggerfisher
Heim’s first solo exhibition in the UK questions the role of nature within the urban environment. The main wall of the gallery is interjected with ear... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
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Andrew Grassie @ Talbot Rice Gallery
Walking into Andrew Grassie’s first Scottish solo show feels a little like jumping head first into a masterclass for procrastinating postmodernist brai... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
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MAGAZINE 08 - Positive critical imagination
The Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop presents its annual show this August, ‘Magazine 08’, curated for the first time by two of Spain’s most pro... Read more »| 11 Aug 2008