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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NewsKill Your Timid Notion On Tour
Mark Herbert looks forward to KYTN's imminent arrival in Glasgow, fresh from a cross-Britain tour. Read more »| 03 Dec 2008 -
ReviewsJean Muir @ National Museum of Scotland
Though perhaps not as instantly recognizable outside the fashion industry as her contemporary, Barbara ‘Biba’ Hulanicki, designer Jean Muir&rsquo... Read more »| 03 Dec 2008 -
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Langlands + Bell @ Talbot Rice Gallery
Having spent the preceding week building up our critical stamina by bench-pressing the hardback big-print version of Gombrich's History of Art, The Skinny gl... Read more »| 01 Dec 2008 -
FeaturesA Post-Graduate Survival Guide Part III: Aberdeen
In the third part of our series offering advice to newly hatched creatives looking for support in The Real World, Fraser Denholm discusses a fast-ascending venture especially for those in the granite city. Read more »| 01 Dec 2008 -
ReviewsNeville Rae @ Sierra Metro Review
Neville Rae is the artist lucky enough to have the inaugural show of Sierra Metro, the new gallery housed in a disused warehouse in Granton. The work... Read more »| 20 Nov 2008 -
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Alex Frost @ Sorcha Dallas
The first gallery is sparse, containing only two works: a wall-hung ceramic mosaic of a cereal that claims to lower cholesterol, and, on a column in the cent... Read more »| 19 Nov 2008
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Richard Forster | Ruth Claxton @ Ingleby Gallery
On the floor of the Ingleby's Gallery 2 lies a spunk-like trail of mother of pearl droplets inset into the boards. This remnant of the inaugural exhibition,... Read more »| 03 Nov 2008 -
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Gregor Laird @ Q! Gallery
A key motif in the stylised landscapes of Gregor Laird’s Plastic Pastorals, the Edinburgh artist/designer/DJ’s offering to this year's Glasgay!, ... Read more »| 24 Oct 2008 -
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Ernst 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 -
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RSA 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 -
Features
A 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