This week’s selection, chosen from events posted by a-n members on the site’s popular Events section, includes animations at Torre Abbey, the sounds of the sea in Plymouth, and live-action role play at the Siobhan Davies Dance Studios.
‘tell me about your mother…’ began during a one year residency at the University of Nottingham in 2012/13. The project seemed to be a natural progression for me (my work having previously focused on my relationship with my son), reflecting […]
The little chinks of light that have appeared since project ‘Mark Carr as Artist’ began in 2012 have at times only just been enough to sustain this ‘living art form’. So after the 20 watt bulb inclusion in a small […]
The public are invited behind the scenes of the burgeoning Bermondsey Street art scene as galleries, studios and project spaces open their doors for the Bermondsey Art Trail this Saturday.
Studio Visit: Townley and Bradby My first visit with artists Anna Townley and Lawrence Bradby was at their home, followed by a visit to their workspace at Outpost studio’s with Anna. Referencing their extended research project ‘artists as parents […]
Following receipt of a £75,000 award from Arts Council England, Brighton’s ONCA Centre for Arts and Ecology will be launching eleven new projects over the next two years that explore how society and culture can respond to environmental change.
Julie McCalden reports on the outcomes of the recent project that set a team of eleven artists across five cities the task of ensuring artists’ voices were heard in the Paying Artists campaign during the lead up to the general election.
An ambitious new artist-led festival is taking place across Manchester and Salford this weekend, with studio spaces and major venues hosting a number of projects produced especially for the festival alongside, open studios across both cities. Bob Dickinson meets artists and festival directors Elisa Artesero, John Lynch and Roger Bygott to find out more.
This week’s must see selection includes abstract expressionism at Tate Liverpool, immersive sculpture in Edinburgh and a mass programme of events at the Barbican, London.
A recent symposium in Swansea, organised by Q-Art, brought together speakers from across the UK to explore the impact of location on art education and the art school. Rory Duckhouse reports.
I’m very excited to announce that I’ve been selected as one of two artists for the AirSpace Graduate Residency Scheme! I’ve been excited all week since I found out, but I did not want to mention it anywhere online until […]
The process of installing the degree show was exhausting, as I’m sure it is for all final year students undertaking the same process. The nature of my practice means I can never really start to create the work until installation […]
As part of its recent Architecture Season, Hauser & Wirth Somerset has announced the winner of The Shed Project, a competition for young architects to create a residency space for artists.
A Kickstarter campaign organised by Cumbria Printmakers hopes to fund a new open access printmaking space for local artists and the wider public at Ellers Mill in Dalston. Jack Hutchinson reports.
A reply to Bryan Appleyard’s article ‘But is it art? on Sunday 14th June 2015
To ring the changes I hosted a visit from Sam Wingate in my studio last week. His first impressions were favorable, he liked the space and thought it would make a great screen printing studio, although I have no such […]
My blog has been quiet of late….life has been pretty hectic getting exhibition space prepped and ready to throw open the doors of college to the public. The exhibition space looked fantastic! I know I am biased (!) but I […]
Over the past five years our arts programme has predominantly been southern-centric, and we wanted to address this. Now that Supernormal is in its sixth year and successfully functioning as an organisation, we have been looking to expand our networks […]
This year’s UWE Bristol Fine Art and Art & Visual Culture degree show at Spike Island features work by 42 students. Rowan Lear reports on a provocative and irreverent exhibition.
This week’s selection includes sculptures and collages by Eileen Agar in Leeds, an Agnes Martin retrospective in London, and a film installation from Luke Fowler and Mark Fell in Glasgow.
As part of PEAK, a contemporary art initiative in the Black Mountains, Wales, Rebecca Spooner reports on a weekend exchange visit from studio artists based at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire.
David Dale Gallery & Studios in Glasgow’s east end is celebrating five years of its internationally-focused exhibition programme with the show-in-progress, Finite Project Altered When Open. Chris Sharratt talks to founding co-director Max Slaven.
The best exhibitions I’ve been in over the last few years, are ones that have emerged sort of organically. You meet someone, work together and then suddenly a collaboration is born. This is how I’ve found myself preparing to exhibit […]
