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Edinburgh 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 -
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Edinburgh Art Festival: Hayley Barker & Fungi Forms
One writer explores the interplay between nature and domestic space in Hayley Barker’s The Ringing Stone at Ingleby Gallery and Fungi Forms at The Royal Botanic Gardens Read more »| 05 Sep 2024 -
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Edinburgh Art Festival: Prem Sahib's Alleus
One writer reflects on Prem Sahib's performance Alleus, taking place in an an Edinburgh car park, evoking the now-departed Conservative government's scary anti-immigration rhetoric against the backdrop of far-right violence across the UK Read more »| 02 Sep 2024 -
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Edinburgh Art Festival: Karol Radziszewski's Filo
One writer reflects on Karol Radziszewski's exhibition at City Art Centre, which offered an opportunity to understand Polish queer histories and the importance of queer archiving Read more »| 30 Aug 2024 -
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Emerging Talent: Platform at Edinburgh Art Festival 2024
Edinburgh Art Festival's Platform exhibition returns for the festival's 20th birthday year with a fresh cohort of emerging artists. Each artist has been paired with a writer from the EAF x The Skinny Emerging Writers programme to explore their practices Read more »| 02 Aug 2024 -
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Creativity in Crisis: Edinburgh Art Festival 2024
Edinburgh Art Festival celebrates its 20th birthday this year, with a programme that explores the most pressing crises of our times. In advance of the festival, The Skinny meets three participating artists and collectives to talk about their contributions Read more »| 30 Jul 2024
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Edinburgh Art Festival announces its 2024 programme
For its 20th birthday, Edinburgh Art Festival has assembled a lineup of over 200 artists with a programme exploring the 'conditions under which we live, work, gather and resist' Read more »| 28 May 2024 -
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Edinburgh Art Festival: Platform 2024 preview
Edinburgh Art Festival turns 20 this year and the four selected artists for Platform 2024 will, for the first time, respond directly to the festival’s key themes Read more »| 04 Apr 2024 -
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Edinburgh Art Festival: Keg de Souza at Royal Botanic Gardens
One writer reflects on Keg de Souza's exhibition at Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden, which examines the legacies of colonialism on the global south's natural ecologies Read more »| 03 Oct 2023 -
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Edinburgh Art Festival: Jesse Jones’ The Tower
One writer reflects on her experience of Jesse Jones’ intensely haunting installation at Talbot Rice, which explores terrifying histories of misogyny in Ireland and beyond Read more »| 12 Sep 2023 -
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Edinburgh Art Festival: Markéta Luskačová at Stills
One writer explores the work of Prague-born, UK-based photographer Markéta Luskačová and her enduring photographs of children from the 1960s to the present day Read more »| 11 Sep 2023 -
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Edinburgh Art Festival: Platform 2023
Edinburgh Art Festival's Platform exhibition returns with a fresh cohort of emerging talent. This year, each artist has been paired with a writer from the EAF x The Skinny writer programme to explore their practice Read more »| 09 Aug 2023 -
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Queering the City: Edinburgh Art Festival 2023
As Edinburgh Art Festival returns this month, The Skinny meet Sean Burns and Tarek Lakhrissi to discuss their artistic contributions to the festival Read more »| 09 Aug 2023 -
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Edinburgh Art Festival: Platform 2023 preview
Edinburgh Art Festival has announced the details of its annual Platform exhibition, celebrating the work of four Scotland-based emerging artists Read more »| 20 Jun 2023 -
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Ecological Empathy and Oysters Divination
Sofia Cotrona recounts her experience of Oyster Readings, a performance by Cooking Sections, in a piece commissioned as part of Edinburgh Art Festival's Emerging Writers programme Read more »| 07 Sep 2022