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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InterviewsThat’s Entertainment: Oculist Witnesses at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
Preston’s Harris Museum & Art Gallery encourages us to “dance first, think later” with two new exhibitions. We talk to Oculist Witness artist Sovay Berriman about her ever morphing sculpture, nomadic herding odysseys and molluscs that hunt wizards... Read more »| 05 Jun 2015 -
Showcase
The Skinny Showcase: Tim Dalzell
Showcase: Tim Dalzell Tim Dalzell studied Sculpture & Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art (2014). After graduating he co-founded the YAKA collect... Read more »| 05 Jun 2015 -
NewsVictorians, Sculpture and Degree Shows: Scottish Art news for June 2015
Degree show season is upon us, as well as a historical show of Victorian photography in Edinburgh and new shows in the major Glasgow galleries Read more »| 04 Jun 2015 -
Emerging Artists
GSA Degree Show: MFA
In preparation for the Master of Fine Art show, The Skinny speaks to five different students about what they are presenting and how they feel their work has progressed during their time in the programme Read more »| 04 Jun 2015 -
Emerging ArtistsGSA Degree Show: Fine Art
Glasgow's 2015 Fine Art graduates continue to challenge and excite with works that refuse to conform to practical boundaries Read more »| 04 Jun 2015 -
Emerging Artists
GSA Degree Show: Return of the Mack
The Glasgow School of Art was overwhelmed with support in the days following the fire in the Mackintosh Building last year; the GSA outline their plans for the building, while one alumna explains her project to document the building. Read more »| 04 Jun 2015
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Emerging Artists
GSA Degree Show: Design
In the final week before assessment, we quiz the Design School students for a few exciting teasers of what to expect in the coming degree show Read more »| 04 Jun 2015 -
Emerging ArtistsGSA Degree Show: Architecture
Sometime criticised as the most difficult of the visual arts to read, we take a look at this year's Architecture degree show at Glasgow School of Art. Read more »| 04 Jun 2015 -
News
Dangerous Encounters and Exuberant Greens: This Week in Scottish Art
There's plenty to be occupying ourselves culturally this week, with an informal chat about the posthuman condition, new exhibitions from Glasgow's major contemporary art institutions and two more degree shows. Read more »| 02 Jun 2015 -
Reviews
Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show 2015: Surface Tension
In Edinburgh College of Art's 2015 degree show, the work is remarkable for being wrought with noticeable consideration. Also trending amongst this year's graduates is a comfort in incorporating new media in a critical and reflexive way Read more »| 02 Jun 2015 -
Reviews
Leonora Carrington @ Tate Liverpool
When the featured artist of an exhibition is a Lancashire-born Mexican surrealist, you can almost guarantee you'll encounter some wonderful weirdness. It's s... Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
Reviews
Eastern Exchanges @ Manchester Art Gallery
The scale and scope of Eastern Exchanges is imposing, with three vast galleries filled with quintessential East Asian works of craft, art, fabric and built s... Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
Reviews
Eat Abstractly @ Mary Mary
Mary Mary showcases a breadth of international artists in a photography centred exhibition. Across the 18 works that make up Eat Abstractly is a dispers... Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
ReviewsLiz Larner @ The Modern Insitute
An ambulance is pulled up outside the Modern Institute and two medics are attending to the fallout of a recent street brawl. Stepping from the pavement ... Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
Interviews
What is Freedom?: Interview with Grace Schwindt
Grace Schwindt reflects on her feature-length film, which through structured choreography questions the possibilities for freedom Read more »| 01 Jun 2015