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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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Things To DoCreative Edinburgh Awards: The 2021 Shortlist
Check out the shortlist for this year's Creative Edinburgh Awards, celebrating creative practitioners from across the city Read more »| 06 Oct 2021 -
FeaturesNew Histories: Talking Statues with Scottish Storytelling Festival
The Scottish International Storytelling Festival returns with a hybrid programme including a strand, Talking Statues, which asks us to reimagine who we choose to publicly memorialise Read more »| 06 Oct 2021 -
InterviewsSharon Hayes introduces her Ricerche film works
Sharon Hayes' series of art films, Ricerche, see her interviewing large groups of people all at once. The simple premise belies the complexity of the work that emerges, and its sharp insights on sex and sexuality Read more »| 06 Oct 2021 -
InterviewsCat and Éiméar McClay on their Market Gallery residency
Cat and Éiméar McClay are recent graduates who are crafting a singular body of work surrounding religious oppression and queer ways of being, through a heady combination of experimental writing and cutting-edge digital media technologies Read more »| 05 Oct 2021 -
NewsArt Events in Scotland: October 2021
Our pick of October's best art events across Scotland, from Jupiter Artland's last month of 2021 to a host of IRL events in Dundee as part of The Ignorant Art School Read more »| 04 Oct 2021 -
Emerging ArtistsThe Future of Home at London Design Festival
Local Heroes presents a preview of innovative furniture, textiles and lighting from a new generation of Scottish designers at London Design Festival Read more »| 13 Sep 2021
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InterviewsVideo Activism: belit sağ interview
Videomaker, visual artist and activist belit sağ discusses the inexorable link between image-making and violence Read more »| 07 Sep 2021 -
InterviewsThe War is Not Over: Chikako Yamashiro interview
Chikako Yamashiro's exhibition is now open at Dundee Contemporary Arts. Here, the artist and guest curator Kirsteen Macdonald explain that the works are complex expressions of the contested politics of Okinawa, but have a wider resonance, too Read more »| 06 Sep 2021 -
NewsArt Events & Exhibitions in Scotland: September 2021
September brings new exhibitions by Christian Noelle Charles and Kate Frances Lingard, and exciting continuing shows by Sekai Machache and Flo Brooks Read more »| 31 Aug 2021 -
FeaturesLocal Heroes: Daytrippers – contemporary design in Dundee
The latest Local Heroes project and a collaboration with V&A Dundee, Daytrippers! continues to bring contemporary design to the museum’s outdoor space during a very sunny Scottish summer Read more »| 26 Aug 2021 -
TravelGreat Exhibitions: Edinburgh Art Gallery Guide
Edinburgh is well served with art galleries year-round, and particularly in August when Edinburgh Art Festival arrives with a programme of exhibitions and commissions Read more »| 11 Aug 2021 -
InterviewsRuined: Dissecting the National Galleries of Scotland archives
Showcasing four years worth of young people experimenting and pulling apart the collections of the National Galleries of Scotland, the exhibition Ruined: Reinventing Scottish History comes from the work of the Image Liberation Force project Read more »| 04 Aug 2021 -
NewsArt Events & Exhibitions in Scotland: August 2021
August brings us the blockbuster Edinburgh Art Festival, two new solo shows at Dundee Contemporary Arts, along with a special milestone 25th birthday at Generator Projects Read more »| 03 Aug 2021 -
FestivalsExploring EAF's Associate Artist Programme
For Edinburgh Art Festival 2021, Associate Artist Tako Taal has brought together six of the most interesting artists working currently to respond to a work by Isaac Julien, which pivots on the history of American abolitionist Frederick Douglass Read more »| 03 Aug 2021 -
FestivalsEdinburgh Art Festival: Platform 2021 preview
Platform is always one of the most exciting parts of Edinburgh Art Festival, offering up four emerging artists' practices with lightly curated themes between them, with this year's looking at care and support structures Read more »| 29 Jul 2021