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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Emerging ArtistsAnne Collier @ The Modern Institute
Anne Collier's second show at The Modern Institute quotes to good effect the tropes of commercial photography, questioning its role in reproducing stereotypes of femininity and what it might mean to be 'post-picture' Read more »| 01 Feb 2018 -
NewsCreative Scotland Regular Funding: The winners & losers
Arts organisations across Scotland discover today if they are to receive awards from Creative Scotland's three year Regular Funding pot Read more »| 25 Jan 2018 -
News
Rachel Maclean’s new film takes on gender equality
Part horror, part comedy, the inventive artist’s latest video work marks 100 years since women were first given the right to vote in the United Kingdom Read more »| 22 Jan 2018 -
NewsV&A Dundee has an opening date
The ribbon-cutting date for the much-anticipated £80m V&A Museum of Design in Dundee has been announced Read more »| 18 Jan 2018 -
NewsScottish Art Highlights & Opportunities: January 2018
Welcome to 2018 with a guide to Scotland's finest exhibitions and funding opportunities for January 2018 Read more »| 16 Jan 2018 -
Showcase
Ben Soedira: The Skinny Showcase
A look at the work of Glasgow-based photographer Ben Soedira, and his Foreign Sands project focused on his home city of Dubai Read more »| 11 Jan 2018
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Reviews
Kate V Robertson @ Dundee Contemporary Arts
Kate V Robertson's installation in Dundee Contemporary Arts combines monumental scale with material precarity to provide insight into concepts of productive failure Read more »| 11 Jan 2018 -
Showcase
Scottish Jewellery Design: 6 more great designers
In part two of our spotlight on jewellery design in Scotland we explore the work of six exceptional designers. Read more »| 10 Jan 2018 -
News
John Byrne Award profiles: Katie Blair Matthews
In the latest edition of our series profiling recipients of the John Byrne Award, we meet 23-year-old Edinburgh photographer Katie Blair Matthews Read more »| 09 Jan 2018 -
Reviews
A Synchronology @ Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow
A new Hunterian exhibition tracks and celebrates some of the artists that have formed the programme of Glasgow gallery The Common Guild's first decade of programming. Read more »| 08 Jan 2018 -
News
The Skinny's 2018 Scottish Art Events Diary
The new year brings a new Glasgow International with a cyborg theme, as well as Collective's much-anticipated new Observatory gallery, plus new exhibitions, projects and curatorial enterprises across Scotland Read more »| 05 Jan 2018 -
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CCA Highlights: January / February 2018
Collaboration is the key to a bright start for the New Year, as CCA becomes home to local and international artists often working together Read more »| 04 Jan 2018 -
Features
Wendy Ramshaw: An icon of design
As The Scottish Gallery opens its doors to a magical collection of work by Wendy Ramshaw (OBE RDI CBE), design curator Dr Stacey Hunter speaks with the gallery’s Christina Jansen about a 24ct gold icon of British design Read more »| 18 Dec 2017 -
Showcase
Scottish Jewellery Design: Beauty and Balance
We take a look at jewellery by designers who fit the Local Heroes criteria of outstanding design that is emblematic of contemporary Scotland’s design language Read more »| 12 Dec 2017 -
Interviews
Helen de Main talks consciousness raising at Platform in Glasgow
Helen de Main has recently opened the exhibition that has come from a year's engagement with women in Easterhouse through a consciousness-raising group. She discusses this terminology and the ways this process have changed her own outlook Read more »| 12 Dec 2017