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 ArtistsEt Dieu Créa la Femme @ Good Press
The black and white partial view of Venus that opens Et Dieu Crea La Femme, edited by Tine Bek,embodies the elusive and diverse nature of femininity that the... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Emerging ArtistsThey Had Four Years @ Generator Dundee
Entering They Had Four Years, Generator’s pick of last year’s degree shows, a loud mechanical thrumming emanates from a go-kart made from an old ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
ReviewsUCLan Fine Art Degree Show: Exposé
‘Exposé’ is the theme of UCLan’s Fine Art Degree show. It’s unclear whether this is a strict theme, or just nominal, but as an... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Reviews
The heart is deceitful above all things @ HOME, Manchester
I moved from London to Liverpool aged ten and started a new primary school. In the playground, on the first day, a group of girls waved a copy of Smash Hits ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Emerging Artists
GSA Product Design Degree Show: Designs For Life
The Product Design Degree Show at the Glasgow School of Art presents a diverse selection of work from graduating Bachelors and Masters students, that casts thought on to the role of design within society Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Festivals
Helen Sear, Welsh Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015
The Wales in Venice representative Helen Sear does an effective job of linking the two countries together in her exhibition ...the rest is smoke, which is lo... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015
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Emerging Artists
GSA Degree Show 2015: East End Art School
Glasgow School of Art exhibits its Fine Art degree show for the first time in its new Tontine Building, with students showing no sign of dinted confidence. Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
News
Action Man: Battlefield Casualties short film released
A new short film based on artist Darren Cullen's Action Man: Battlefield Casualties artwork has been released online. The film, which features a voice... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
News
Rugs, Birds and Yes Men: This Week in Scottish Art
Hospitalfield opens its doors and takes a good look at its gilded interiors, while Dundee goes print-mad and Edinburgh exhibits Gary Fabian Miller, who finds himself without the medium he's spent three decades exploring Read more »| 23 Jun 2015 -
News
Witches, Unluck and Elephants: This Week in Scottish Art
Gray's School of Art gets its degree show underway, there are new exhibitions in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee, plus the chance to see some "devotional fetish-objects" – get all the details in our Scottish art round-up. Read more »| 16 Jun 2015 -
News
The Arches to go into administration
Glasgow multi-arts venue The Arches is to go into administration, it has been announced, and all events scheduled for the venue from 10 June onwards have bee... Read more »| 10 Jun 2015 -
News
Satellites, Self-Branding, and the New East End: This Week in Scottish Art
Glasgow School of Art hosts its degree show, the deadline looms for Collective's Satellites programme, and there are launches a-plenty at Edinburgh Printmakers, Koppe Astner and CCA. Read more »| 09 Jun 2015 -
FeaturesNorthern Greats: The Yoga Lounge
As she prepares to hold a mass yoga event marking the summer solstice, we speak to Yoga Lounge owner Jane Dowler for the latest in our series meeting residents of the Great Northern Read more »| 08 Jun 2015 -
Showcase
The Skinny Showcase: Sarah Eyre
Showcase: Sarah Eyre “My work is concerned with an abiding fascination for the uncanny and the surreal in everyday objects, as well as an ongoing expl... Read more »| 05 Jun 2015 -
Interviews
That’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