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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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Emerging ArtistsGray's Degree Show 2019: Frenetic Energy
This year's graduates from Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen offer enthusiastic approaches to issues of home, changing landscapes and the fraught political climate Read more »| 20 Jun 2019 -
ReviewsRobert Anton @ Tramway, Glasgow
Theatre maker Robert Anton (1949-84) was celebrated by 1970s avant-garde cultural figures across America and Europe. He's remained in relative obscurity since his death in the 80s, but is now the subject of a timely survey of his work in Tramway Read more »| 13 Jun 2019 -
Emerging ArtistsECA Degree Show 2019: Everyone's a Winner
Edinburgh College of Art showed off its newly renovated buildings and highly skilled new graduates in the 2019 degree show, with poignant, humorous and relatable responses to social and philosophical challenges Read more »| 12 Jun 2019 -
Emerging ArtistsGSA Degree Show: The Beat Goes On
The clubs sounds selected by Heidi Chiu ... burn through double sets of fire doors Read more »| 11 Jun 2019 -
Emerging ArtistsLocal Heroes: Materialise at Fife Contemporary
This month Fife Contemporary launch their first dedicated online exhibition microsite. Materialise 2019 is where work by exceptional craft and design graduates from last year’s Scottish degree shows has been selected for presentation Read more »| 06 Jun 2019 -
ShowcaseJames Dalley: The Skinny Showcase
James Dalley's dystopian architecture features in this month's Showcase Read more »| 03 Jun 2019
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InterviewsSounding it Out: Morgan Quaintance interview
Morgan Quaintance has worked in art criticism and across music, sound and moving image. This month, David Dale showcases his film practice in a new solo show Read more »| 03 Jun 2019 -
NewsScotland Art Events and Opportunities: June 2019
Degree Show season continues, new exhibitions in Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow, plus a round-up of residencies, exhibition opportunities and prizes Read more »| 28 May 2019 -
ReviewsDavid Austen @ Dundee Contemporary Arts
David Austen's solo show Underworld astutely observes the human condition, at the same time as he creates other worlds in dreamlike drawings, sculptures, video and paintings Read more »| 23 May 2019 -
ReviewsStrangely Familiar: DJCAD Degree Show 2019
2019's Degree Show season kicks off with Dundee's cohort exploring themes of the grotesque, the domestic and the body and mind Read more »| 17 May 2019 -
FestivalsAlchemy Film and Moving Image Festival: 2019 Report
We look back at the highlights from the ninth edition of Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, where melancholic woodland creatures wandered the high street and hallucinatory work was playing on screen Read more »| 17 May 2019 -
ReviewsPia Camil @ Tramway, Glasgow
Pia Camil's Bara Bara Bara is a stunning repurposing of worn out t-shirts and jeans, making an ambitious space for interaction and imagination Read more »| 16 May 2019 -
FestivalsAnything Can Be News: Venice Biennale 2019 review
The Venice Biennale 2019 is a (mostly) topical and politicised edit of artists' practices from across the world, and its best artworks challenge audiences' complacent world views borne of hands-off and uncritically smartphone-based spectatorship Read more »| 14 May 2019 -
ReviewsDomestic Bliss @ Gallery of Modern Art
Gallery of Modern Art deconstructs home life in Domestic Bliss, a huge group show from the Glasgow public collections Read more »| 13 May 2019 -
ShowcaseImagining the City: Dundee Design Festival 2019
How can a city use design to shape its future? Poised to answer this question is the Dundee Design Festival, back this month for its third iteration and with not one, but two energetic new curators at the helm in the form of design studio Agency of None Read more »| 13 May 2019