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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Reviews
Nicola Murray / Jim Pattison
Despite Murray's best efforts to feign naturalism, these pictures do have a sense of the mechanical or the alien about them Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
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A Paper Menagerie: Animals in Art
It's an eccentric wee show, and some of the choices are quite odd, but it serves as an enjoyable distraction nonetheless Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
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Simon Faithfull - Ice Blink
These images stimulate our imaginations all the more on account of their charming clumsiness Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Festivals
Glasgow International
In it's second year, the Glasgow International purports to be an opportunity for Glasgow based artists to expose their work to global scrutiny. The festival ... Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
News
The Launch of Lowsalt Gallery
This looks like a fairly serious springboard by grassroots artists for grassroots artists Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Reviews
Kirsty Whiten - Votive Icons
A trompe l'oeil image of fingers penetrating what look likes a vagina which also looks a wee bit like an elephant Read more »| 16 Apr 2006
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Elaine Woo
Intense, focused meditations on portraiture Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Features
Shrigley
I quite enjoy poems. I never studied poetry or anything like that, because I went to art school. Any idiot can go to art school. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
News
Fizzers
Ian Rankin wondered why we made him look so grumpy but then conceded that he never smiles in photographs. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Reviews
Paul Carter - I2XU
Suburban Guerilla' is the kind of document Rick from The Young Ones might have put together if he was a real person. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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After the War
The inclusion of frankly decorative works mars what could have been a fascinating show Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Fred Sandback
It is this capacity to trigger a new way of looking that makes these works valuable Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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David Julian Leonard
intelligent snapshots into Western culture Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Katy Dove
we get the sense that we are witnessing some kind of organic process, a slow-paced biological dance both alien and strangely familiar Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
News
The Aspect Prize
Supporting the current rage for painting, the Aspect Prize is an extraordinarily generous prize that offers fifteen thousand pounds for the winner and five t... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006