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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ReviewsBob & Roberta Smith @ The Grey Gallery
Hawke and Hunter is an unusual venue but currently the ideal choice for those desperately seeking midnight encounters with art. Turn a blind eye to the bling... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
ReviewsKate Pollard @ Atticsalt
If you can navigate your way through the rather complex and slightly threatening entry system to the exhibition, you'll find yourself in a makeshift attic sp... Read more »| 07 Aug 2009 -
News
Aileen M. Stackhouse @ Sierra Metro
As one of the 11 new spaces at this year’s EAF, Sierra Metro is making its inaugural show count. In keeping with the sculpture trend awash over the res... Read more »| 03 Aug 2009 -
ReviewsEAF: A Skinny Guide
It’s time for sensory overload for Edinburgh residents as the festivals descend on the city bringing along their screaming hordes and peerless art work... Read more »| 31 Jul 2009 -
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The Glasgow Collective
The Glasgow Collective is a group of recent graduates from Glasgow School of Art. Fighting the inevitable tide of stagnation that follows graduation, these s... Read more »| 29 Jul 2009 -
News
The Enlightenments
Weaving its way through the city from the Georgian Library of Talbot Rice, through the Collective gallery and on to the Dean is The Enlightenments, an exhibi... Read more »| 22 Jul 2009
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News
Nashashibi / Skaer @ doggerfisher
With one of this year's Turner nominees under their roof, doggerfisher can do no wrong. Shimmying up to the plate for the EAF is a newly commissioned film wo... Read more »| 22 Jul 2009 -
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Rough Cut Nation @ Scottish National Portrait Gallery
In an art world constantly chasing the new and the unexpected, perhaps the biggest surprise of the EAF comes from that most unexpected of venues, the Scottis... Read more »| 21 Jul 2009 -
ReviewsEva Hesse @ Fruitmarket
Fruitmarket’s contribution to the EAF programme promises, as ever, to be one of the most subtly challenging of the festival. In conjunction with a majo... Read more »| 21 Jul 2009 -
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Jane and Louise Wilson @ Talbot Rice
During the Edinburgh Art Festival, Talbot Rice Gallery will be showing the work of London based video artists Jane and Louise Wilson. The exhibition will dra... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
ReviewsBob & Roberta Smith @ The Grey Gallery
Andrew Cattanach speaks to Bob and Roberta Smith about his forthcoming exhibition at The Grey Gallery, Edinburgh Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
Emerging Artists
Gray's School of Art Degree Show 2009
The well ‘oiled’ public was out in supportive mass for the opening night of the Aberdeen Degree Show in the stunning modernity of the Garthdee ca... Read more »| 03 Jul 2009 -
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GSA Degree Show 2009
Degree shows are the most emotionally rife affairs on the art calendar, ripe for extended metaphors all round. If you can get past the queasy feeling that yo... Read more »| 23 Jun 2009 -
Emerging Artists
Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show 2009
It's with an unsettling sense of déjà vu that The Skinny skulks into ECA for its annual binge of art and design – two weeks of organised ... Read more »| 22 Jun 2009 -
Reviews
They Had Four Years @ Generator
They Had Four Years, the annual exhibition of Duncan of Jordanstone graduates a year on from qualification, has by now established itself as a hardy perennia... Read more »| 04 Jun 2009