Talbot Rice Gallery’s TRG3 programme provides space for artists to realise new bodies of work in response to Edinburgh University’s collections, architecture, and academic expertise. Richard Taylor talks to the gallery’s curator and two of the artists he’s been working with.
What did I feel after my BA in Fine Arts and starting my masters? After finishing off my degree show and putting it to bed I have had the desire to take up a masters degree for one more year […]
The Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture has announced the winners of its annual art prizes for artists working in lens-based media and water-based media, plus its annual travel award for graduates and current postgraduate students.
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The first exhibition outside of the university setting I was a part of was New Art West Midlands 2014, a group exhibition spread across multiple venues across the West Midlands. This was the second annual exhibition which was open to recent […]
Edinburgh Art Festival opens this weekend with a programme of new commissions and exhibitions taking place across the city. Richard Taylor takes a look at some of the exhibitions and artists’ talks and tours that offer an alternative take on this year’s festival commission theme, The Improbable City.
Five floors in Glasgow School of Art’s Reid Building provide temporary space for the Phoenix Bursary Exhibition, a show of new work by artists from the Phoenix Bursary programme. Richard Taylor talks to two graduates with work in the exhibition and finds out what the bursary meant to them.
Manchester-based Liz West has opened her highest value commission to date at Bradford’s National Media Museum – the immersive light-based installation, An Additive Mix. She speaks to Pippa Koszerek about the making process, starting out and making the jump to full-time artist.
Getting across the value of the arts to society in this unforgiving political climate needs more passion and fewer generic advocacy tools This month, I’ve been reminded how in the pre-internet days of the CND and the Greenham Common peace […]
The recipients of the Jerwood Makers Open 2015 awards, which offers five artists commissions totalling £37,500 to realise significant new projects, are presenting the outcomes in an exhibition at Jerwood Space, London. Jack Hutchinson attended the preview and met the artists.
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 […]
Glasgow School of Art’s BA Fine Art degree show, the first full showcase since last year’s fire, is across two floors of the department’s new home in the Tontine Building in the city’s east end. Chris Sharratt reports.
Two new senior curators, Miguel Amado and Elinor Morgan, join the team at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art.
Sky Academy has announced the five recipients of its Arts Scholarships 2015, which aim to help young British and Irish artists develop their creative practice and take their work to the next level.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015 announce the 37 artists participating in this year’s touring exhibition, selected from over 1600 applications.
Bergen Kunsthall’s director, Martin Clark, will be returning to his student roots to curate the 2016 edition of the international contemporary art exhibition, Art Sheffield.
Recent Royal College of Art graduate Zhu Tian has been announced winner of the £5,000 Catlin Art Prize for her sequence of installations investigating the disruption of the everyday.
Serena Porrati has been awarded the £10,000 Mostyn Open 19 prize for her work, 365 Days of Sun.
I haven’t written for a couple of weeks. College work has felt disjointed and unproductive, combined with a busy timetable of artists talks and seminars, I feel that I have been unsuccessfully trying to absorb lots of information (brain not […]
