Arts Council England and its partners are launching a new website, Faith and the Arts, which explores the relationship between religion and culture, a subject of much debate as reflected in recent high profile events.
‘The Metropolitan Works Show 06’ presents furniture, lighting, homewares and gifts from some of the UK’s most exciting designers at two venues this month.
The weekend has been spent doing final prepwork for submission to Mid-Wales Open (check out their website www.cambriaarts.org.uk ) which kicks off on Saturday – all work safely delivered to venue yesterday pm. I also needed to get some decent […]
Dear blog, what a difference six days can make. You know something’s awry when you’re connecting with the philosophical strapline of a bank advert (?) “because it’s good to be normal again”. (Or something to that effect) For the first […]
Mike Hall (School of Art, The University of Wales, Aberystwyth) makes installations, modified objects and paintings within a museological environment: “The work is informed by the impact of history on our lives and how response can be conditioned by information, […]
A quick note for Mike before I start. Yes, I do know what you mean. My Welsh connections aside, I think West Wales and Cardigan Bay are some of the most beautiful places anywhere on earth. I gave up a […]
Well, here we are already at the end of week 1! I thought time was supposed to slow down as you get closer to a black hole (mind you I’ve never studied astro-physics, so could very well be talking out […]
Hi there everyone. Time to start blogging! With only just over six weeks to go before our Opening, things are beginning to warm up a bit here in deepest Wales. Term officially ended last Saturday and quite a lot of […]
1) Welcome! The Introduction. Phew, you would not believe how tricky it is to begin a blog. (See note 1). The internet is hardly a Winnie The Pooh diary tucked under bed, not that I possess one. So, to all […]
There is tension in the Bloom household. Mother is reaching the end of a 6year part- time Fine Art degree course. Son, J, in his customarily applied manner, is preparing to finish his A levels while he waits to hear […]
Colchester’s firstsite has announced plans for a new purpose-built town centre venue.
Artists in the City is a Reading Borough Council programme that creates opportunities for contemporary artists to make interventions in the public realm and influence the spirit of a place.
The Scottish Arts Council (SAC) has agreed that from April 2007 it will change the way it offers support to the arts in Scotland in its role as a development and funding body, with organisations receiving either ‘foundation’ or ‘flexible’ funding.
Austrian artist, Claudia Pilsl is the inaugural artist-in-residence at the redundant church of St John the Divine, in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.
The Visiting Arts Artist to Artist International Scheme 2006 provides the opportunity for an artist from overseas to spend a week in the UK with a UK-based artist, enabling an exchange of ideas and information and the strengthening of relationships and networks.
The Crafts Council have announced the appointment of a new director, Rosy Greenlees, and chair, Joanna Foster CBE.
The first ever study of the craft market to be undertaken in England has identified a thriving craft market worth an estimated £883 million, with further potential to grow by sixty-three per cent.
The Shop at Bluebird, King’s Road, London
24 March – 2 April
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
7 February – 2 April
22 March
Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
Norwich Gallery, Norwich
9 March – 22 April
Qube, Oswestry
28 February – 25 March
Haddon Tower, Birmingham
18-25 March
When asked the awkward question “What is your work about?” I have sometimes given the elusive answer, that it is an enquiry into what goes on “behind the net curtains”.
Report on coaching and mentoring in the cultural sector.
