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Venue:
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Date:
September 27, 2015 at 11:00 AM -
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South West England
Record number of galleries set to participate in annual art fair focusing on emerging artists.
Artists, gallerists and curators offer tips and guidance on how to price work when exhibiting in group shows, selling at open studios, or applying for open competitions.
The inaugural Plymouth Art Weekender presents work across the city by over 400 local, national and international artists. Artist and AIR Council member Steven Paige welcomes this audacious new festival and looks at how the city’s visual art ecology has developed in the five years since British Art Show 7.
Event and exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from our busy Events section and featuring events and exhibitions posted by a-n members.
Set against the backdrop of its Newcastle city centre building being lost to redevelopment, a recent two-day event at the artist-led NewBridge Project in Newcastle asked whether it was time for artists to ‘grow up’ and accept the new agenda of cuts, philanthropy and big business sponsorship. Artist Lesley Guy joined in the conversation and came to a different conclusion.
Last Friday I attended the second day of the ‘2-Day Conversation’ organised by the New Bridge Project in Newcastle for their 5th anniversary. (For those who do not know about this organisation it is an artist hub created by two […]
This is a very short blog post, but I’m quite excited about it and therefore felt the need to share it. On Monday, we heard the news that the arts council bid to run International residencies in our studio space, has been successful. […]
This week’s selection, chosen from events posted by a-n members on the site’s Events section, includes Russian authors as comic-strip heroes, a plein air exhibition that is taking on the British weather, and paintings of UFO conspiracists.
The inaugural North festival of contemporary art opens in Warrington in October with a series of city pavilions and an exhibition that invites artists’ responses to Ikea. Laura Robertson speaks to some of the artists involved and the London-based gallerist behind the event.
Ten weeks on the Experimental Studio residency have flown by and it’s time to invite you to my open studio event in Newcastle, running alongside Vane Gallery’s closing celebration of their current exhibition – which marks the tenth anniversary of the […]
Dancing Dying Toy Soldier 4’, 2009, silverpoint on gesso on board, approximately 6x5cm This is a drawing from 2009. It is one of a series of drawings of mass-produced plastic models of dying soldiers. Most boxes of plastic soldiers contain […]
So I finally landed after my travels, yet feel I have arrived in another place. Developing a second online blog space, I’ve begun to take on my neurodiversity and become a self advocate – part of a group of neurodiverse […]
This week’s selection includes a modern take on Romanticism in Manchester, large-scale immersive photography in London and an exploration of our relationship to technology in Oxford.
What ideas did I gather from my China research this summer? I could say that I have come up with many great new art ideas and only a fraction of them are shown above. these are my most earliest of […]
My visit to gallery camp at Derby Quad has rekindled my interest in the use of technology in art. This ranges from the depiction of technology as a metaphor, as with the alchemical imagery of Marcel Duchamp’s ‘The Bride Stripped […]