Reyahn King explores the role of galleries within professional development for visual artists. In the current climate, how can professional development for visual artists be continued and improved? This paper suggests that one answer lies in the relationship between publicly-funded regional galleries and visual artists becoming wider, deeper, and more strongly valued.
Registration is now closed for the John Moores Painting Prize 2012 and the judging process is underway.
Exhibition, residency and bursary opportunities for artists across the UK and beyond.
Congratulations to Leo Fitzmaurice on winning the 2011 Northern Art Prize!
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
21 October 2011 – 8 January 2012
October saw the opening of the John Moores Painting Prize 2012. Judges this year are artists Fiona Banner, Angela de la Cruz and George Shaw with Whitechapel Art Gallery Director Iwona Blazwick and Creative director of the BBC, Alan Yentob.
Comings and goings amongst arts professionals and curators, designed to aid networking and collaboration.
Organisations around the UK facing cuts or closure.
Established in 2007 the annual Northern Art Prize offers four short-listed artists a prominent exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery and opportunity to win a £16,500 award.
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
18 September 2010 – 3 January 2011
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
18 September 2010 – 3 January 2011
This month’s selection of shortlists and winners.
This month’s prizes, awards and commissions
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
20 September 2008 – 4 January 2009
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
20 September 2008 – 4 January 2009
Tim Birch profiles John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize in the build up to the twenty-fifth exhibition.
The shortlist for the John Moores 25 Contemporary Painting Prize was announced in July.
Publicly-funded arts organisations are exhorted to extend participation in the arts by getting more people actively engaged in off-site and public realm programmes. Alongside, those in the business world are increasingly aware of the advantages of bringing artists’ ideas into development and regeneration projects. Here we highlight selected projects happening over the summer within the wider public domain.
Nina Madden gives an overview of some of the visual art prizes selected from open submission competitions.
Site Gallery and Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
19 October 2007 – 13 January 2008
The UK boasts literally hundreds of visual arts competitions annually. Here, we look at some of the most significant opens and prizes on offer this year.
Leeds Art Gallery
22 November– 10 February
The term synchronicity was first used by the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung to describe “temporally coincident occurrences of casual events”1.
Northern Art Prize, a new prize for contemporary artists, launched in November.
