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.
-
FeaturesNational Galleries of Scotland: Everlyn Nicodemus
There’s a major new exhibition in National Galleries of Scotland: Modern One – Everlyn Nicodemus’s paintings, drawings, collages and textiles are displayed across the whole of the ground floor and are freely accessible over winter and spring, until 25 May Read more »| 05 Nov 2024 -
NewsScottish Art Events & Exhibitions: November 2024
There's a diverse set of new festivals, installations and exhibitions taking place across the country in November Read more »| 29 Oct 2024 -
BooksThe White Pube's Gabrielle de la Puente on new book Poor Artists
We chat with Gabrielle de la Puente, one half of infamous critical duo The White Pube, about their first book Poor Artists ahead of her appearance at Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair Read more »| 25 Oct 2024 -
FeaturesInside Glasgow’s Listen Gallery
The Glasgow-based Listen Gallery supports and exhibits artists working in sound art – the gallery's founder Riah Naief tells us more about what they do, with accompanying voices from community and collaborators Read more »| 15 Oct 2024 -
FeaturesVoices from the Archive: Holly Davey at Fruitmarket
Holly Davey’s new exhibition at Fruitmarket sees the artist foregrounding the voices of the women artists who have exhibited at the gallery over the last 50 years Read more »| 11 Oct 2024 -
NewsUncertain Times: The impact of Creative Scotland's funding delays
As Creative Scotland's big decision on Multi-Year Funding is delayed once again, we talk to arts organisations and unions about where this leaves the Scottish arts community Read more »| 09 Oct 2024
-
NewsSummerhall: Tax dispute puts Edinburgh arts venue in jeopardy
HMRC have hit the company which manages Summerhall with a 'winding-up petition', claiming the Edinburgh arts organisation owe unpaid corporation tax. Summerhall are disputing the claim, but their programme of events will be disrupted Read more »| 07 Oct 2024 -
FeaturesNational Galleries of Scotland: Three Lavery Works
We asked Dr Freya Spoor, Curator at the National Galleries of Scotland, to tell us all about three of the paintings currently on display in An Irish Impressionist | Lavery on Location Read more »| 01 Oct 2024 -
NewsScottish Art Events & Exhibitions: October 2024
October is a stellar month for art lovers with a multitude of exhibition openings in Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow Read more »| 01 Oct 2024 -
NewsThe World As We Know it: Arika announce 2024 programme
Arika return to Tramway this autumn with Episode 11: To End The World As We Know It, an exploration of the relationship between artistic practice, critical thought and political organising Read more »| 18 Sep 2024 -
FestivalsEnd to end: Dundee Design Festival's BOOKENDS exhibit
Dundee Design Festival's BOOKENDS exhibit sees 30 Scotland-based designers respond to the travel writing of two Victorian Dundee women, who travelled to the ends of the Earth for DC Thomson in the 19th century Read more »| 12 Sep 2024 -
InterviewsThe Best of Scottish Design: Dundee Design Festival 2024
Dundee Design Festival lands in the UNESCO City of Design this month, with the chance to see the work of 180 designers all under one roof. We catch up with this year’s festival director, our very own Stacey Hunter, to find out more Read more »| 12 Sep 2024 -
InterviewsWriting Intimacy: The Skinny Prize 2024
The Skinny meets Samuel Temple – the winner of this year’s The Skinny Prize at RSA New Contemporaries – to learn more about their making process, inspirations and the realities of post-art school life Read more »| 12 Sep 2024 -
InterviewsThe Power of the Unseen: Tayo Adekunle at Edinburgh Printmakers
In her show at Edinburgh Printmakers, Tayo Adekunle finds affinity with a Yoruban Orisha in new photographs, prints and textile works Read more »| 09 Sep 2024 -
FestivalsEdinburgh Art Festival: Sequoia Danielle Barnes' Everything Is Satisfactual
One writer takes a deep dive into the themes of Sequoia Danielle Barnes' exhibition at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, which unravels how the consumption of cuteness perpetuates oppression and marginalisation Read more »| 05 Sep 2024