Graham Fagen
Lee Corner interviews Graham Fagen about his commission in Kosovo for the Imperial War Museum.
Lee Corner interviews Graham Fagen about his commission in Kosovo for the Imperial War Museum.
Devolution in the UK has hit this year’s Venice Biennale, with England, Scotland and Wales each having an independent presence there. This year, the British Pavilion will be showing the work of Chris Ofili; Scotland will be represented by Jim […]
Nina Madden meets painter Katie Pratt and uncovers the benefits of winning the Jerwood Painting Prize.
Usually I’m on the move. I have a tendency to spend between two days and two weeks somewhere and then move on.
Heralded as the north of England’s answer to the Turner Prize, the Comme ça Art Prize North aims to raise the profile of artists living and working beyond London. Worth £10,000 (against the Turner Prize of £20,000), the prize will […]
Alison Wilding’s floating sculpture Ambit upped-anchor from Sunderland in September in preparation for a European tour. Widely-acclaimed by the art world as one of the most successful public artworks of recent years, the twenty-two-tonne work has been dogged with technical […]
Glass artist Jonathan Andersson discusses the benefits of breaking into the American art and craft fair circuit.
Marc Rome gives an account of his participation in an international collaborative project on New York’s Staten Island.
In the first of a six-part series ‘Inhabited spaces’, Alice Angus presents artists’ perspectives on language and its relationship to place.
Brendan Fletcher takes a look at how artist-led initiatives, and the Manchester galleries’ willingness to listen have helped shape the current changes in the Manchester art scene.
In collaboration with the British Museum, the Chinese Arts Centre is organising ‘Chinese Arts in the International Arena’, 18-20 April. The event will bring together some of the world’s leading figures and thinkers about past, present, and future developments in […]
Coming from Macedonia, a country where sixty to seventy percent of the land is forest, the immediacy of nature is a significant element of my working practice.
Axis – the national digital register of artists – has appointed Kay Pallister to the new post of content curator and Reuben Knutson as the Schools’ Resource project leader. Pallister, who relocates from New York’s Gagosian Gallery, brings with her […]
Roxane Permar considers a selection of the projects discussed at a recent conference, exploring what they tell us about current trends in public art commissioning.
Government enthusiasm for involving young people in arts activities has focused the attention of many galleries. Kate Tregaskis reports from Scotland on recent debates around programmes abroad and raises some questions about good practice.
In the second of a series of articles focusing on the career development of well-established artists, Lucy Wilson meets Yinka Shonibare.
A regular visitor to Italy since 1981, when Alan Rogers moved there on a more permanent basis his “youthful, romantic love affair” with its warm Mediterranean light was soon replaced by the realisation that day-to-day conditions for contemporary artists were far from ideal.
Graham Parker discusses his approach to his role as Visual Arts Officer at Salford University.