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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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VideosRSA New Contemporaries: Video Profile
The Skinny presents RSA New Contemporaries, in association with Own Art Read more »| 15 Jul 2014 -
Emerging ArtistsSalford Degree Show 2014: Creativity Unleashed
With degree show season coming to an end, we look back at the University of Salford's graduating visual arts students, who showed as part of Create at Salford Festival 2014 Read more »| 11 Jul 2014 -
ReviewsWalk On: 40 Years of Art Walking @ The Atkinson, Southport
Artists walking? They get ferried around by Saatchi limo don’t they? At the very least some smart, gallery-paid-for black cab. Apparently not so. They ... Read more »| 09 Jul 2014 -
Reviews
Launch Pad: About Painting @ Castlefield Gallery/Agency
Bringing together eight painters from across the UK, Castlefield’s new exhibition Launch Pad: About Painting, explores the variety of abstract painting... Read more »| 09 Jul 2014 -
Reviews
Skin and Bones @ 1 Royal Terrace
Royal Terrace Committee Show Skin and Bones hosts the architecturally enhanced but bodily based sculptural installation from its founding artists Ruth Swital... Read more »| 07 Jul 2014 -
ShowcaseThe Skinny Showcase: Jade Collin
The Skinny Showcase: Jade Collin Jade studied Theatre and Performance Design at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, before completing her degree in Fin... Read more »| 04 Jul 2014
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Emerging Artists
Edinburgh College: Let's Glow
Running through May and June in venues across Edinburgh, the Let’s Glow festival celebrates the creative students of Edinburgh College (the colleges fo... Read more »| 04 Jul 2014 -
Festivals
Dazzle Ship: Carlos Cruz-Diez
With Liverpool Biennial's first commission, Dazzle Ship by Carlos Cruz-Diez, now installed in the Albert Dock, we take a look at the story of this dazzling form of camouflage and its place in the maritime history of Liverpool Read more »| 04 Jul 2014 -
News
Liverpool Biennial 2014: The Best of the Rest
Jellyfish living in a Toxteth shop window, digital botanics at Metal, scrambled eggs at Cactus Gallery and musical roller-blading at The Royal Standard; we get you up to speed on the best of the exhibitions outside of the main Biennial programme Read more »| 04 Jul 2014 -
Festivals
Biennial Artist Focus: Judith Hopf
Part of a group show at the renovated Old Blind School, Judith Hopf discusses similarities between Liverpool and Berlin, exhibiting in public spaces, and reimagining materials Read more »| 04 Jul 2014 -
Interviews
Barnaby Barford: Broken China Dolls
Showing in Dovercot this month, artist Barnaby Barford sculpts onto porcelain figurines to tell bittersweet tales of the modern world Read more »| 04 Jul 2014 -
Festivals
Give Them the Old Razzle Dazzle: Liverpool Biennial 2014
Liverpool Biennial opens for its 8th edition this month, and we let you know what's what for the festival season Read more »| 04 Jul 2014 -
Festivals
Rainbow Connection: A Tour of Carlos Cruz-Diez's Paris Atelier
Optical artist Carlos Cruz-Diez invites The Skinny to his studios in Paris ahead of the launch of his latest project Dazzle Ship, which sees the Venezuelan kineticist bring an explosion of colour to Liverpool's docks for the city's Biennial Read more »| 01 Jul 2014 -
Emerging Artists
GSA Degree Show 2014
The GSA School of Fine Art Showcase provides a welcome platform for work that may no longer exist or just might not otherwise be exhibited, following the rec... Read more »| 19 Jun 2014 -
Features
Own Art: Videos
This month sees the launch of a new extension of the Own Art column, branching out into the multimedia world in the form of a bespoke video series exploring ... Read more »| 17 Jun 2014