A recent forum in Dundee addressed issues surrounding curatorial practice and the relationship between artist and curator. Rob Hunter attended and reports back.
Curator and writer Michael Stanley talks to Jo Lansley and Helen Bendon about their career development.
Gemma de Cruz gives the rundown on what’s what at the 14th London Art Fair.
Sue Jones, co-director and curator for e-2 explains the organisation’s remit to raise the profile and understanding of digital arts.
Sophie Scott reports on her experience of the different attitudes and approaches to education initiatives in the arts in the USA.
Two years ago artist Betsy Tyler Bell invited a group of English artists to live and work in her house in southern France. Participating artist Helen Ganly, describes how last summer’s project culminated in a successful month-long exhibition.
In October I visited the Sixth Art Forum Berlin as a one of ten artists exhibiting with Edinburgh’s Collective Gallery. All the artists (Beagles and Ramsay, Paul Carter, Kate Gray, Billy McCall, Lynn Lowenstein, Kirsty Whiten, Michele Naismith and James […]
My work involves attempting to break world records and seeks to find a place for non-theatrical actions within a performative space. ‘Expo’, one of the UK’s leading live art showcases for emerging artists, provided an excellent opportunity for me to […]
My first solo exhibition since graduating from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in 1999 consisted of approximately twenty paintings and ten drawings, and explored the phenomenon of levitation. The theme was inspired by images of modern dance, however I […]
Since studying at the Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford, etching has been the primary medium I have worked in. The intricacy of the process and tactile quality of the materials complement my ideas. I allow the acid, when biting […]
In October last year I was commissioned by Groundwork Blackburn to make a number of steel murals for the exterior walls of the Bank Top Community Centre in Blackburn. The centre serves a large residential estate and the brief required […]
Inspired by contemporary architecture, bridges and Japanese textiles, I produce three-dimensional and quilted textile pieces in the form of screens and decorative hangings. The repeated shapes in my work create a sense of rhythm and harmony that is enhanced by […]
In 1998 artists Simon Honey and Teresa Neal were commissioned to work with young people in a series of workshops in the Wandle Valley area. The WAVE project commenced in April 2000 and proved to be a challenging task for everyone involved.
Coming from Macedonia, a country where sixty to seventy percent of the land is forest, the immediacy of nature is a significant element of my working practice.
In the July 2001 issue of [a-n] MAGAZINE Cleveland Arts advertised for an artist to work on a residency, collaborating with Mental Health Service users in Stockton-on-Tees. Sarah Nicholson was chosen to lead the residency and a support role was given to recent graduate Kate Allan, who talks here about confronting mental health stereotypes.
I like to make extraordinary things derived from the ordinary.
Various venues, Sheffield 13 October – 24 November
Millais Gallery, Southampton 19 October – 1 December
Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Kendal
15 October – 21 December
Spike Island, Bristol 21 October – 9 November
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
29 September – 25 November
Photostore, the Crafts Council’s interactive picture library of makers, is now more accessible. A user-friendly, computerised resource it contains over 40,000 images and information on contemporary craftspeople that can be accessed by searching for maker, object, material or technique. This […]
As part of the Year of the Artist programme, Michael Pinsky was in residence in the Town Planning Department of Chelmsford Borough Council earlier this year. Unusually perhaps for a local authority residency, his brief was to offer radical and […]
The Arts Council of England, in collaboration with the regional arts boards, has set out plans for a Year of Diversity. The aim of ‘The Big Idea’, is to “celebrate, profile and enhance diversity across the arts”. Due to run […]
A CD-Rom documenting Artsway’s three-year project ‘The World of Our Landscape’ aims to further knowledge and debate on the impact of landscape on contemporary practice. The project involved established and emerging artists who through exhibitions, residencies and commissions responded to […]
