Eight emerging artists gathered at Allenheads Contemporary Arts (ACA) in Tynedale in October, for a weeklong residency, brainstorming and researching with peers and other contemporary art practitioners. The intensive and varied schedule of the Microresidencies allowed artists to engage with […]
With new elements of the Disability Discrimination Act due to become law in October 2004, artists and arts organisations need to be considering in earnest the changes they will need to effect in their practices and communications. The act sets […]
Chinese Arts Centre opened in Manchester last month, as a new national British flagship exhibition centre for Chinese contemporary art. The new centre is a result of a £2.2 million award from the lottery through Arts Council England. Located in […]
Tom Woolford’s Landmark is now in situ on the cliffs below Tynemouth Priory, North East England. Four illuminated individual letters, which stand 4m tall and have an overall width of around 18m, spell out ‘LAND’. Tom Woolford has lived and […]
Commissions in the Environment (CITE) in collaboration with Lancashire County Council and Rossendale Borough Council have commissioned Katayoun Pashban Dowlatshahi to create a permanent artwork that celebrates and reveals the River Irwell. In a truly collaborative process, she is working […]
The Brighton Photo Biennale 2003, the new major event in the photography calendar, kicked off in October. Combining exhibitions, commissions and events, the biennale permeates across traditional gallery spaces as well as appropriating Brighton Parish Church as a site for […]
The Scottish Arts Council has recently published an audit of visual artists. Moira Jeffrey reports.
The figure in motion is central to my practice.
The success of the recent Frieze Art Fair, the ongoing interest in all things ‘lifestyle’, and rumours that a new art purchase plan is soon to be launched, all point towards a rising interest in the buying of art. Habitat’s […]
Brigid Howarth talks to an art buyer who has been collecting since the age of nineteen.
TheSpace@inIVA, London
16 October – 22 November
Pentagon Business Centre, Glasgow
29 September – 31 October
Various locations, Manchester
10-18 October
Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts
Centre, Coventry
27 September – 5 December
Rufford Craft Centre Gallery, Newark
23 September – 2 November
Working with live performance, video, text and object, my practice is an investigation of liveness, mediation, desire and duration.
Brigid Howarth profiles The Shipley Art Gallery, which holds a public collection of contemporary craft.
Brigid Howarth gives a rare insight into one art buyer’s collection and discovers the favorite haunts for snapping up the next big thing.
Brigid Howarth talks to Deutsch Bank curator Mary Findlay about the sourcing and buying of artworks for the largest corporate art collection in the world.
Brigid Howarth presents an insight into the mind of the art buyer, from private buyers to corporate and public collections.
It was interesting to read about Rob Kesseler’s fellowship in the October issue of a-n Magazine. I am aware that there are different kinds and his sounds very demanding but what about the average college fellowship? I hope the following […]
Streetlevel Photoworks, Glasgow
2 September – 11 October
Percy Miller Gallery, London
5 September – 10 October
X-ray factory, Smethwick
27 September – 11 October
The Jerwood Foundation was confirmed as the UK’s most prolific art prize-giver when it handed over £25,500 to six visual artists in September. The £15,000 applied arts prize for glass went to Helen Maurer, selected from a shortlist of eight. […]
