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Peckham’s Whitten Timber Yard is the current home for Area 10, a non-hierarchical artist-led group with experimentation, communication and collaboration at its core.
Peckham’s Whitten Timber Yard is the current home for Area 10, a non-hierarchical artist-led group with experimentation, communication and collaboration at its core.
Glass artist Jonathan Andersson discusses the benefits of breaking into the American art and craft fair circuit.
‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries’ is a high-profile annual exhibition open to final year undergraduates, current postgraduates and artists who graduated no earlier than the preceding year. It has a reputation for providing a platform for artists at the start of their […]
The Culture Company, an independent commissioning agency based in Huddersfield, aims to promote surprising and creative interventions in everyday places. Their remit combines the programming of events as diverse as exhibitions, festivals, conferences and commissions, working with both public and […]
E merge D, an artist-run non-profit organisation, facilitates emerging artists working site-specifically and in a context-led manner. It works with artists across a broad range of disciplines with a strong focus on professional practice and support. The opportunities provided are […]
A few years ago I found a television in a skip.
“Artists work in the interface between the real and the imagined. They coax us out of the numbness of the everyday and into a heightened space where we can inhabit other lives and find ourselves in other circumstances. The mind […]
Reflects on engagement between artists and participants during the Artists in Sites for Learning scheme.
My inspiration comes from the visual impact of an aggregate assembled with many small components.
Architectural Association, London, in collaboration with White Space Gallery
11 October – 8 November
Chapter, Cardiff
28 September – 10 November
Who is Donald Cappy? And why does he deserve a biography? Although every fact you could possibly want to know (or not) about the man is detailed in Living and Loving No1: The Biography of Donald Cappy, this full-colour glossy […]
Broadmarsh Bus Station, Nottingham
18 October – 3 November
Elveden Hall, Suffolk
26 October
Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery
8 – 12 October
(blueprints)
Taxi Gallery, Cambridge
19 October – 20 November
William Welch’s adaptable cutlery, designed for people with poor grip and restricted movement, won him £16,000 in this year’s Oxo Peugeot Design Awards. Welch was selected from ten finalists covering the five award categories of applied metal design, ceramics/glass/polymers, furniture, […]
Artists’ studio and workshop complexes come about as much from private endeavour as from public funding. In Newcastle, the Biscuit Factory studios were launched in November, the result of an initiative by local businessmen Ramy Zack and Andy Balman. After […]
Plans to build a major arts and media facility in the centre of Derby have been boosted by a £87,000 award from the Arts Council of England. This will allow the consortium of organisations behind the project to develop a […]
A high percentage of Jennie Moncur’s work is commissioned. Since 1986, alongside undertaking a range of private commissions, she has built up a portfolio of public works including thirty tapestries; painted fabrics and rugs for Jardine Insurance Brokers; laser-cut linoleum […]
Amongst the winners of this year’s Arts and Business Awards was a partnership between Ercol Furniture and Sustrans who won the Arts, Business and Community category. Moving to a new factory in Princes Riseborough meant that furniture manufacturers Ercol became […]
David Jeffreys looks at the issue of arts funding and considers whether there’s a catch to the expansion of public spending.
Drifting south west to Cornwall, Alan Bleakley describes PALP, an artist-led group committed to experimental, collaborative and socially inclusive projects.
With a solo show currently at the Courtauld Institute, Conrad Atkinson talks to Sue Hubbard about the evolution of his career – a practice rooted equally in the political and the personal.
Jose Ferreira introduces us to artists’ imaginative use of technology and its relationship to urban space.
David Butler reports on the current crop of ground-breaking collaborations between art and science that are giving artists the time to undertake sustained, open-ended research without the expectation of a specific outcome.
American artist Kurt Perschke reports with an account of his self-organised large inflatables ‘RedBall Project’ in Barcelona.