AUDIOBLOG – Please click here My friend Jill sent me a message from Venice, telling me she was heading to Florence today. My heart cried out to be transported there instantly! Now, I’m a real contemporary art girl. Defo. But…. […]
I am feeling delighted that I have been selected for the “Nautical Perspectives” exhibition to be held at Commodities House, St Katherine’s Dock, between 1st and 15th of May. I will be showing 3 works which are concerned with the […]
London-based artist and filmmaker wins £25,000 prize to fund the making of new work to be exhibited in Amsterdam in 2018.
As an artist and parent, I spend a lot of time thinking about how art can function to both engage both myself, as a 50’s something artist and my 7 year old daughter. As a show Doug Fishbone’s ‘Leisure land […]
Recently I have been working on a series where the narative is that of the origins of international trade of food stuffs, rather than the personal narative of market users. Last summer we spent a fantastic afternoon walking though the […]
Four artists have been shortlisted for UK’s first dedicated award for sculpture, with the winner receiving £30,000.
An exhibition of the seven finalists for this annual prize that showcases artists from UK art schools will take place at Londonewcastle Project Space in central London, with the winner of this 10th anniversary edition receiving £5,000.
Recipients of the latest round of a-n bursaries have been announced, with over £36,000 awarded to a-n Artist members to support self-determined professional development over the coming year.
With International Women’s Day 2016 on Tuesday 8 March, we highlight a selection of exhibitions and events by women taking place across the UK.
The Italian artist and hardcore punk singer Nico Vascellari presents his large-scale, haunting audio-visual installation, Bus de la Lum, at Manchester’s Whitworth. Dany Louise asks him about the work’s meaning and his wider practice.
This week’s selection includes a harrowing installation at the Whitworth in Manchester, influential abstraction in Sheffield, and a group exhibition of works about socialism across venues in Newcastle and Gateshead.
Speaking at a Glasgow Film Festival event on producing artists’ moving image in Scotland, Turner Prize nominee Luke Fowler has called for the creation of a cinema dedicated to artists’ work and experimental film.
Irish artist Gerard Byrne is known for film installations that deal with the presentation, manipulation and perception of narratives. For his show at Warwick Arts Centre he’s premiering a new work filmed with one unbroken panning shot in Stockholm’s Biologiska Museet. He talks to Anneka French about location, light and methods of display.
Today I set up an installation in Ipswich at the Freudian Sheep. It consists of 6 pieces relating to a common theme: – “In July 2006 I had a car accident, whilst I was slipping in and out of consciousness […]
The artist and professor in Fine Arts, Sonia Boyce, is leading a three-year AHRC-funded research project into British Black artists and modernism in the 20th century. She talks to Laura Robertson about why the work needs to be done and what she hopes to achieve.
This week’s selection features video work in Bristol and Birmingham, plus painting shows in Walsall, London and Glasgow.
My year has been punctuated by mentoring sessions made possible by the Re:View Bursary from a-n. Firstly, it’s important to say how great it was to be able to pay artists for their time and experience (and we all know […]
Fancy devising your own schedule of professional development to boost your practice in 2016? Looking to expand your horizons and go places in the year ahead? a-n is offering two new bursary strands to Artist members for 2016, with the focus on professional development and travel.
What does 2016 have in store in terms of conferences and events, exhibitions, art fairs and festivals? We take a month-by-month look at what the year has to offer – and we’ll be adding new events for later in the year as they’re confirmed.
The third and final workshop in the first a-n Writer Development Programme took us to Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery on Thursday 19 November for a session led by The Arts Desk‘s visual arts editor, Fisun Guner. All five programme participants braved train delays and […]
As I work more regularly with Tim it has been interesting to consider both the similarities and differences between our approaches to our own practices. Last week it occurred to me that artists have far (far!) less distance from their […]
Six a-n writers – based in Glasgow, Manchester and London – pick, in no particular order, their top five exhibitions of the year.
The Question is… is my work cheap looking? Today in the group crit, I did get some positive feedback from fellow full-time and part-time classmates in which I thought helped me to think about developing my latest print work. Although… […]
Belfast-based artist Seamus Harahan wins the £10,000 Film London Jarman Award.
