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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FeaturesAdventure Time: Doors Open Days 2017 preview
Doors Open Days happen across Scotland in September, offering public access to normally private spaces. We take a look at the programme to pick out a few highlights Read more »| 04 Sep 2017 -
InterviewsComic Book Hero: Frank Quitely Interview
Frank Quitely (aka Vincent Deighan) talks about exhibiting at Kelvingrove Art Gallery as a comic book artist and the status of the medium today Read more »| 04 Sep 2017 -
Students
Art Graduates: Where Are They Now?
We speak to four recent art graduates to find out what they've been up to since finishing at uni, and what they have planned for the future Read more »| 30 Aug 2017 -
Showcase
Emer Tumilty: The Skinny Showcase
Printmaker, illustrator, artist Emer Tumilty presents a new series of screen prints in August's emergent art showcase Read more »| 18 Aug 2017 -
Interviews
A look at Summerhall's political arts programme
Through Summerhall's arts programme this August, there's an observable trend towards politicised or protest work, considering issues relating to the refugee crisis, indigenous cultures, as well as Brexit and Trump Read more »| 01 Aug 2017 -
Festivals
Sculptor Charlotte Barker on her solo show Flotilla
Charlotte Barker's elegant sculptures critically sit on the borderlines of art, design, craft, ornament and functionality. We meet her ahead of her upcoming solo show at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop Read more »| 28 Jul 2017
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Festivals
Patrick Staff interview: EAF show Observers’ Walks
Patrick Staff presents a Collective Observers’ Walk which combines diligent history telling with sharing of erotic nighttime adventures on Calton Hill Read more »| 28 Jul 2017 -
Reviews
Finas Townsend III @ CCA, Glasgow
Finas Townsend III exhibits a series of abstract paintings, though their expected import is subtly subverted Read more »| 27 Jul 2017 -
FestivalsPlatform 2017: Emerging Artists at Edinburgh Art Festival
Platform returns with a new crop of selected emerging artists, this year including those working diversely with alternate histories, 'retrofutures', large scale and functional sculpture (a fold-down bell tower) and science fiction filmic forms Read more »| 27 Jul 2017 -
Festivals
EAF 2017: Pester and Rossi and Walker & Bromwich
Edinburgh Art Festival includes two artist duos who each make use of celebratory and collaborative performance – Pester and Rossi, and Zoë Walker and Neil Bromwich. Read more »| 27 Jul 2017 -
FestivalsStranger than Fiction: Manaf Halbouni on What If?
Manaf Halbouni speaks candidly about his recent new film work made in Huntly in Aberdeenshire, in response to Middle Eastern politics and the Syrians that have recently settled as new Scots Read more »| 27 Jul 2017 -
Showcase
Nicole Gault: The Skinny Showcase
In this month's showcase, the work of Duncan of Jordanstone of College of Design graduate Nicole Gault Read more »| 19 Jul 2017 -
Features
The Skinny North: The final editorial
The Skinny North has published its final issue – we look back on a whirlwind four years Read more »| 13 Jul 2017 -
Features
CCA Highlights: July/August 2017
Summer has come! Enjoy 11pm plays of light, midges on the Isle of Skye and open-topped convertibles screeching towards euphoric sunsets as you blast through ... Read more »| 12 Jul 2017 -
Reviews
Tschabalala Self @ Tramway, Glasgow
Tschabalala Self's exhibition at Tramway is sensorially luxurious and provocative, as she works semi figuratively and experimentally with fabric and paper collage and monoprinting. Read more »| 12 Jul 2017