Initiated by London-based Live Art Development Agency, Focus Live Art was an unprecedented set of meetings across England that brought together artists, promoters and funders to consolidate the strengths and achievements of the live art sector, to address issues of […]
Benedict Carpenter has won this year’s Jerwood Sculpture Prize, worth £20,000. The prize takes the form of a commission for the Jerwood Sculpture Park. Open to sculptors under 35 or within ten years of graduation from art school, the artist […]
Susan MacWilliam reports on her residency at Caribbean Contemporary Arts (CCA), Trinidad.
Glasgow-based artists Ben Woodeson and John Beagles give accounts of two very different recent events in Berlin: the artist-run BBQ Project and Art Forum Berlin, the city’s annual art fair.
“The Victorian nude. Supported by Tate members” From a Tate Britain press release. “There is a need to ‘skill-up’ artists’ design and communication skills in order for them to gain a better understanding of working in a ‘client relationship’ in […]
Are the proposals to turn the regional arts boards into regional offices of the Arts Council of England simply a one-off that goes against decentralisation trends, or is it the harbinger of policies for recentralisation? At an international seminar on […]
An installation by Nick Crowe for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s Bothy Gallery responds to the internal space and hints at the landscape beyond. For Nasdaq Landscape, Crowe displays his drawings on twelve flipcharts, each combining a graph with a landscape, […]
John Dummett reports from an international festival of live art in the Croatian capital.
Jacqueline Moon reports on how she developed her interest in the architecture of cities through travelling from her home town of Glasgow, to Barcelona.
Glow is an installation of 702 gilded, suspended light bulbs first shown at Artspace in Sydney, Australia in February 2001 and exhibited this summer at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea. Glow started life as one in a series […]
In its thirty-five year contemporary history, the residency has become a complex affair, according to research by the Centre for Cultural Policy and Management in Newcastle upon Tyne. A study conducted by Kevin Stephens as part of the Year of […]
Until 5 January the Myles Meehan Gallery at Darlington Arts Centre plays host to incredible paper sculptures that contain projected images from Japan and England and conjure up the nature and characteristics of river movement. The installation, Light on Water […]
An added bonus for the seventy-seven first-time exhibitors at the Chelsea Crafts Fair in October was the opportunity to win the Crafts Council newcomers awards. Worth £250 for each of the two week’s programmes, these went to jeweller Susan Pietzsch […]
Art.tm’s Director Gordon Rogers explains the organisation’s role in facilitating and promoting the work of visual artists in the heart of the most dispersed population in Europe.
In the summer Edinburgh-based artist Julie Read attended IMPACT, the Second International Printmaking Conference in Helsinki. She also took the chance to check out the local artscene.
Artists and galleries have been prominent in expressing concern at proposals for restructuring the Arts Council of Wales (ACW). Following withering criticism of ACW’s lack of vision and poor performance, consultant Anthony Everitt was appointed to recommend a new structure […]
A new scheme, with awards of up to £50,000 to fund innovative research, was launched by the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) in June. The Innovation Awards Scheme will support research on developing significant breakthroughs in knowledge and understanding, […]
In June, Black, Asian and Chinese arts were given a significant boost from lottery funds as the Arts Council of England (ACE) announced that £29 million of the £90 million allocated to the Arts Capital Programme will go to Black, […]
Artspace Portsmouth has mounted an exhibition that celebrates twenty-one years as an arts organisation. ‘Key Works’, showing at the City Museum and Records Office in Portsmouth, until 2 September, investigates perceptions of museum artefacts. Exhibiting artists had access to the […]
Gothenburg is a sophisticated city – with a population roughly the same as Glasgow, and reminded me of Amsterdam with its bike paths, cafés and friendly atmosphere. There are fabulous parks, and the islands (where cars are banned and the […]
Venice is historically a meeting point of east and west. It was from here that Marco Polo journeyed to China. Its wealth and power – and hence its accumulation of art treasures – is built on the control of trade […]
As part of environmental improvements to the Clyde and Rutherglen, Joseph Ingelby was commissioned by South Lanarkshire Council to make a sculpture at Dalmarnock Bridge. Made in galvanised steel and copper, Slipstream takes its inspiration from nautical, navigational and natural […]
Susannah Silver considers the impact of the Year of the Artist and it’s legacy.
In July 2000 I completed a three-month ceramic residency at Cleveland Craft Centre, funded by Northern Arts. I decided to spend the first month of the residency away from the studio, driving around the North York Moors and up and […]
Hilary Williams takes a look at an inclusive project initiated by the Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne that reaches out to the local community.
