The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) recently announced over forty new awards worth over £3.5 million, as part of its mission to spot and invest in UK innovation and creative talent. This brings the total awards […]
Lucy Wilson talks to Anna Best about her unconventional Year of the Artist residency working with staff at a-n The Artists Information Company.
Contemporary re-enactment, art event or memorial? David Butler gives an insider account of Jeremy Deller’s ambitious Artangel Times commission.
Abigail Reynolds talks to two artists who “negotiate the treacherous waters” of audience participation in event-based work.
Graham Parker discusses his approach to his role as Visual Arts Officer at Salford University.
Lizzie Muller and Andy Roshay of the Digital Arts Network describe how the network addresses the need for regional collaboration in digital arts development.
In his opening speech at the International Ceramics Festival in Aberystwyth, Garth Clark, owner of the Garth Clark Gallery in New York, remarked on the way potters tend to “herd together” not, he emphasised, like distracted lemmings, but like caribou, moving with a purpose towards their goal.
Art has always had the ability for convergence and understanding amongst people, irrespective of language barriers. Internationalism in art is that space that transcends fixed geographies, identities and positions to create a new coherence from diverse dialogues. As an artist […]
Pete Clarke gives an account of his involvement in an exhibition that is part of an ongoing network of exchanges between artists from the north west of England and different European cities.
In the last feature in this series, the focus is on artist Anatoly Osmolovsky living and working in Moscow.
Communion was a living, growing artwork, installed within the pedestrian bridge at Tynemouth Metro station near Newcastle upon Tyne. The work consisted of twenty-two paper basins, suspended by strands of muslin and counterbalanced by blown glass vessels. Sealed within each […]
I am curious about British reserve and the idea that a silent community exists on trains. As artist in residence on Connex trains during May, I actively engaged with passengers on the London to Brighton Express. Connex sponsored the cost […]
Originally trained as a scientist, I see the similarities between artistic and scientific activity: the intense concentration in pursuit of the possible or the maybe. So when the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine invited me to exhibit in […]
My past projects led me to reflect on the fact that commissions were affecting the way I made work, I felt that I needed to work without deadlines or commission agendas.
I mostly work collaboratively, which I think suits me.
Bothy Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield 10 June – 27 August
Berwick Gymnasium, Berwick upon Tweed 26 May – 8 July
Watershed, Bristol 19 June – 5 August
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth 19 May – 22 July
B16 Gallery, Birmingham 17 June – 22 July
Recent research carried out in the UK shows that eighty per cent of major corporate collections began in the last twenty years, with collections ranging from less than fifty to over 5,000 works. Significantly, half of the works collected were […]
The Crafts Council has revealed that the crafts sector may have lost fifty per cent of revenue during the foot and mouth epidemic. Because the crafts are heavily dependent on tourism, that much of the countryside became a ‘no-go’ area […]
‘Imagination in the public realm: art people and place’, a conference organised by Art Transpennine and University of Manchester exploring the “contextualisation of art outside the gallery” takes place in Manchester 7-9 September. Speakers including Richard Wentworth, James Lingwood, Barbara […]
Kate Tregaskis discusses recent seminars exploring education work involving artists and the effect this has on artists’ practice.
In the first of a series of articles focusing on the career development of well-established artists, Emma Safe meets Paula Rego to discover how she has steered her career to such celebrity.
