To sound quintessentially English – Summer is a delight at Hestercombe. The gardens are in full bloom and the landscape is bursting with vibrant foliage and healthy flora. My recent stay was different to my previous experiences merely because now […]
Memories. Acrylic and mixed media on board. Sue Gough So nice to be using the new improved site. I’ve been frantically busy for the past few months; once I’d recovered from the infection, that took me six weeks, I then […]
The current exhibitions director at London’s Timothy Taylor Gallery has been appointed as the British Council’s new director of visual arts.
BUYING ART What artworks do artists like to have around them? What artworks do artists buy, trade with other artists, or otherwise acquire, and why? Do artists buy artworks? I was thinking about this when I went to an exhibition […]
BETWEEN THE PHYSICAL AND THE UNPERCEIVABLE After a visit to the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 I experienced Marc Quinn’s gigantic inflatable sculpture of a disembodied women gazing with purple eyes over the water from the not so distant island […]
Received an email from email from Chris this morning letting me know we are using the same image for our blogs. Two different perspectives of the same work. All good :) Day 3. Time to breath as we didn’t need […]
Mike Nelson Michael “Mike” Nelson (born 20 August 1967) is a contemporary British installation artist. He represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2011. Nelson has twice been nominated for the Turner Prize in 2001 and 2007. Nelson’s installations always […]
Asia Triennial Manchester 2014 returns for its third edition this September, with the theme of ‘Conflict and Compassion’.
Irish artist Richard Mosse has been awarded the £30,000 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2014 for his haunting yet seductive work on the wartorn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Creative Scotland have announced the recipients of their bursary programme for artists that seeks to provide time and resources for artists demonstrating ‘a high level of quality, imagination and ambition in their work.’
This year’s shortlist features Duncan Campbell, Tris Vonna-Michell, Ciara Phillips and James Richards.
This May Day bank holiday weekend sees the launch of the Bristol Art Weekender, a four-day event that brings together 16 of the city’s visual arts venues, producers and artist-run initiatives for the first time. We talk to some of those involved and investigate the wider context for the upsurge in cultural activity in the city.
Development of Ideas for Sculpture Installation.HANDS. Seven is a magic number! Originaly I had envisoned a ten hand sculpture depicting (alginate moulded hands) holding natural objects…elements found along the shoreline …my visual response to nature. Over the last few days […]
It’s not exactly a vintage year for the highly-coveted Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, hosted by The Photographers’ Gallery, but one shortlisted artist in particular makes a bold statement for the award.
Bill Viola, as mentioned in that early video presentation post I made – certainly a big influence where the water screen is concerned. Please see that video if you want to see how. I have purchased nearly all of the […]
The artist Alan Davie, who was known for creating works that drew heavily on myth and ‘magic symbolism’, has died at the age of 93.
The third edition of the International Print Biennale has announced a shortlist of 37 artists for its two Print Awards exhibitions taking place in Newcastle upon Tyne this summer.
The latest round of a-n’s Go and see bursary scheme has awarded 10 artists’ initiatives nearly £5000, supporting the exchange of knowledge and fostering joint developments between artists.
A Rant with Perspective. Part 1. These views are entirely my own, I make no apologies for what follows… Some noble but misguided notion lead me well and truly off piste last week with regard to the subject of my […]
This week’s snapshot of international art action sees us talking about revolution in Finland, exploring the virtual and the real in the Netherlands, contemporary Arab art in the USA, and going deep into the Congo in Australia.
The Welcome To Iraq exhibition, one of the highlights of last year’s Venice Biennale, has been relocated to South London Gallery.
MATERIAL After intervening in Dallam House and deconstructing its rooms, I transported the building materials 157 miles back to my studio in the Richard Hamilton Building. I sometimes have a tendency to overthink my work, so to loosen up and […]
LARA ALMARCEGUI During my site visits, I was reminded of Lara Almarcegui’s work which occupied the Spanish Pavilion during last years Venice Biennale. In a way comparable to my own practice, Almarcegui examines processes of urban transformation that derive from […]
This week’s must-see shows include the Silver Lion-winning French artist Camille Henrot at Chisenhale, London, German artist John Ebner at Vane, Newcastle, and science-themed portraiture at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.
