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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FeaturesPolitical Highlights: On Felicity Hammond and Jamie Cooper's new exhibitions
Two solo exhibitions by Felicity Hammond and Jamie Cooper highlight their political points with vivid colour Read more »| 09 Dec 2025 -
ReviewsRae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊: •~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~• @ Tramway, Glasgow
A giant tentacled creature and its tiny co-conspirators occupy Tramway, as Rae-Yen Song’s world-building reaches hypnotic heights Read more »| 09 Dec 2025 -
FeaturesScottish Art Highlights: December 2025
December offers Afrofuturist photography, a meditative film about land dispossession and a survey of Scottish portraiture Read more »| 02 Dec 2025 -
InterviewsRethinking Roots: Shen Xin on Highland Embassy
We speak with Isle of Skye-based artist Shen Xin about the ecological and spiritual themes running through their exhibition at Collective in Edinburgh Read more »| 27 Nov 2025 -
InterviewsGray's Glasgow: A Queer, Working-Class Cartography
Inspired by Alasdair Gray's mythologising of Glasgow, an archive-based exhibition maps the city through a queer, working-class lens Read more »| 10 Nov 2025 -
FeaturesGut Feelings: Get Wet
Rooted in personal discovery, Gut Feelings is a new column that explores how art can be a conduit for memories and sticky emotions. In the launching edition, art writer Megan Rudden responds to Uist Corrigan's exhibition, Get Wet Read more »| 07 Nov 2025
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FeaturesScottish Art Highlights: November 2025
Fruitmarket presents a major posthumous exhibition dedicated to activist-artist Juane Quick-to-See Smith, while Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 transforms Tramway into a sub-aquatic world Read more »| 04 Nov 2025 -
FeaturesPoster Modernism: INTL and the radical world of posters
To commemorate eleven years of INTL festival bringing together Scotland's graphic design community, we speak with founder James Gilchrist Read more »| 04 Nov 2025 -
GalleriesThe Skinny Showcase revival: Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊
Ahead of an epic solo exhibition at Glasgow's Tramway, we look back at the evolving creative practice of Rae-Yen Song, who has kept us at the edge of our seat since 2018 Read more »| 16 Oct 2025 -
FeaturesHARVEST: Handpicked Craft for Autumn
Curator Stacey Hunter rolls her sleeves up to pull together HARVEST, a contemporary craft exhibition inspired by a farmer's market Read more »| 07 Oct 2025 -
FashionBack in fashion: the return of Skinny Jeans
We bring back our fashion column from 2007 to speak to anonymous informants about Big Fashion's relationship with Scotland Read more »| 06 Oct 2025 -
FeaturesRebellious Togetherness: Grace Ndiritu interview
Artist Grace Ndiritu stages Sit-in #5: Compassionate Rebels in Action at Cooper Gallery, Dundee. She speaks to us about collective reflection, spirituality and activism Read more »| 06 Oct 2025 -
NewsArtists are prophets of doom – we need them more than ever
The Skinny’s former Art editor reflects on 20 years of culture, cheap pints and climate dread – and argues that only artists can tell us where this all ends Read more »| 03 Oct 2025 -
ShowcaseScottish Art Highlights: October 2025
Exhibitions in Dundee explore social justice and the censorship of speech, while The Alasdair Gray Archive maps Glasgow through a queer, working-class lens Read more »| 01 Oct 2025 -
ReviewsHayley Tompkins: surroundings @ The Modern Institute, Glasgow
The Glasgow artist's new body of work is a shapeshifting explosion of paint that is both subtle and moving Read more »| 29 Sep 2025