This week was quiet in the print room as it seems tutorials were happening all round, and also road closures due to weather delaying students. But there was some activity, and one student was interested in my work and talked […]
This week’s selection includes new sculptural commissions in Cardiff, painting, drawing and photography in Manchester, and a robotic installation in Liverpool.
So today I wanted to finally discover a ‘tunnel’. I put the word Tunnel in the inverted commas due to the nature of the word. For me a tunnel can be many things but it is a passageway which takes […]
I have now completed the project enabled by my a-n Professional Development Bursary. The new skills I have learned are enabling me to work on ideas for forthcoming projects. I have just completed a model for an installation in a […]
My residency day in Colne took place on Friday and it was a mixed experience for me. For the past year I’ve had my heart set on a residency believing it to be the key to finding out where my […]
Artists Lucy Parker, Rachel Pimm and Katie Schwab present newly commissioned work in a show marking the 10th anniversary of Jerwood Visual Arts’ national programme supporting visual arts practice.
Edinburgh Art Festival’s Platform exhibition provides early career artists the opportunity to develop and show work at this high-profile annual festival. Richard Taylor talks with one of this year’s artists whose intriguing commissioned work was built in the Scottish Highlands and fine-tuned through collaboration during residencies in Abroath and Holland.
To accompany the diagram poems in my The Wonderful Pile of Dirt exhibition, I will be presenting a selection of the “devotional objects” pictured above. These small scale assemblages reference sacred art and ritual objects from a variety of traditions. Each […]
1000 Words Editor, Tim Clark selects his five must-see exhibitions from Les Rencontres d’Arles 2016 – the bright, bushy-tailed festival of photography in the south of France now celebrating its 47th year.
Art Fund’s crowdfunding platform Art Happens, the first of its kind dedicated to raising money for museums, has clocked up almost £300,000 for 16 projects.
Saturday, the 18th of June, we had ‘open studios’. Curious Leipziger’s came into the work-spaces to see our projects. Luckily most spoke some English as I was alone. From there to the festival centre down the road for music, food […]
The second of the openings here in Grünau followed a day at work space checking the panels and scrapping excess wax off where necessary. This opening was smaller than the first, there were a few locals – including a group of […]
Today we took some of the panels round the corner to the wall where they will be installed. We have enough ply wood to cover the first 3 sections of wall (pictured), right to the roof. We are thinking the […]
Spent the day helping 3 members of Bruit du Frigo – a French collective dedicated to the study of the city through participatory, artistic and cultural initiatives – to build a cámara oscura. The box (pictured) will be attached onto a trailer and wheeled around Grünau by a bicycle. […]
Today an impromptu visit from a group of school children, who after their drama class which took place on the lawn outside our work space, called in to see what we are doing. In the afternoon, Ivana came again to […]
Selected from a-n’s busy Events section: reflected neo-gothic architecture in Scunthorpe, paintings in London and Salford, digital residencies, and Hindu alpono works in Bolton.
More wax printing, learning as we go what the best temperature at which to pour is, and when to slice through wax shapes that cross over too panels. Later called in at Spinnerei, once the continents largest cotton mill, the […]
Following a busy weekend of degree show openings across the country, we take a look at some of the highlights from our ongoing a-n Instagram takeovers, with images posted from Liverpool, Nottingham, Newcastle upon Tyne, Brighton, Falmouth and Loughborough.
I arrived in Leipzig early in the evening and went straight to D21, the project space from which Raster : Beton (Concrete : Grid) festival has been organised. This space was founded in 2006 by a group of artist as a […]
Dale Lewis is one of three Jerwood Painting Fellows currently exhibiting work at Jerwood Space, London. He talks to Fisun Guner about working with mentor Dan Coombs, his mind-crushing experience as an artist’s assistant, and what inspires his open, chaotic and darkly humorous paintings.
In the Shadow of the Pyramids – a searing study of the impact of the Egyptian revolution on everyday people – has been shortlisted for the £30,000 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2016. Tim Clark catches up with Laura El-Tantawy on the occasion of her exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery, London.
A gallery exhibition themed around Douglas Sirk’s 1959 film ‘Imitation of Life.’
The Glasgow artist Kevin Hutcheson died unexpectedly prior to April’s Glasgow International as he was preparing to open a solo show as part of the festival. Friends and colleagues remember this unassuming master of collage and stalwart of the city’s art scene.
This week’s selection includes Simon Starling in Nottingham, Iwan Lewis’s paintings in Llandudno, and Sara Barker’s stage-like installations in Edinburgh.
The idea I have for displaying the video of my brother is to have it on a monitor with a set of headphones that the viewer can put on and sit and listen to it. I want the viewer to […]
