A one-day symposium organised by Crate Studio and Project Space in Margate and University for the Creative Arts Canterbury is to explore the different ways artists make a living at a time of austerity.
Edward Humphrey, a graduate of The Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, has won the Fleming-Wyfold Foundation Bursary at the RSA New Contemporaries in Edinburgh.
Showcase exhibition to feature works by 72 graduates selected from 2014 degree shows across Scotland, including works by graduates affected by last year’s fire at Glasgow School of Art.
The shortlist for the ninth Catlin Art Prize features eight artists, with recent graduates of the Royal College of Art dominating the selection.
New Art West Midlands Artists tour of the exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Friday 27th February 2015. The tour was given by two of the participating artists Jade Simpson and Vicky Roden http://vickyroden.com/with curator Lisa Beauchamp. I have […]
Following from my student blog at UCS, graduating was a difficult stage. I graduated 2012 and now only just beginning to be professional…
Written in response to the Alias annual gathering event, Moving Forward and Staying the Same: Artist Led Evolutions, AirSpace Gallery co-director Glen Stoker considers the continued importance of artist-led activity to the UK’s visual arts ecology.
This year’s Venice + Scotland presentation at the 56th Biennale will see 28 students and recent graduates from seven art schools across Scotland taking part in a major learning programme.
Why is gender inequality still rife in the visual arts and why are so many women in the arts still ‘scared’ of feminism? As a new exhibition opens at the artist-led Airspace Gallery in Stoke, Dany Louise is looking for answers.
Five artists have been shortlisted for the 2015 Converse x Dazed Emerging Artist Award, in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts.
Artist’s Working Within Higher Education – What might that mean for the artist and what’s in it for the university?
I recently found out that my Wrestling Women series of paintings, etchings and woodcuts that I did as part of my undergraduate art degree have been stolen by an internet porn site, and there is nothing I can bloody do […]
Key thoughts and themes from the one-day discursive event as part of the AHRC funded research project ‘Co-producing legacy: What is the role of artists within Connected Communities projects?’.
As students we have all been part of the university environment for a couple of years at least. Have you ever asked yourself if you would like to work in one? If so have you thought about what kind of […]
The 56th Venice Biennale, British Art Show 8, Manchester International Festival – we take a month-by-month look at the year ahead to provide a selection of key events for your diary.
My residency at Airspace Gallery is moving into its fifth month and getting ever closer to my Solo show which will be held on the 16th – 24th January 2015. Trip to London In November I spent a few days […]
The five artists selected for the fifth Jerwood Makers Open, who will each receive a £7500 commission, have been announced.
Kelly Best and Georgie Grace have been selected for Jerwood Encounters: 3-Phase – a year-long artist development opportunity with exhibitions at Eastside Projects, Jerwood Space and g39.
In the window As part of the Graduate Residency Alice and myself had the opportunity to put together an interim exhibition in Airspace’s window space. This allowing us to pilot some initial ideas and works, while also letting the people […]
There is so much you can do on this course – crits, lectures, tutorials, openings, participation, etc. I sometimes find it a little overwhelming – it occasionally feels as if you could be missing out, this would be interesting to […]
During the summer I met with Heather Aberdein who graduated from the MA Art Psychotherapy course at Roehampton University two years ago. Heather works within a private health care company that provides specialist secure hospital and residential services to adults. […]
What led you to become an art therapist yourself? I’d been interested in it since I was a teenager. I remember receiving a psychology book from my dad when I was about sixteen and I was already into art. I’m […]
Birmingham Monday 27th and Tuesday 28th of October I had 2 days to wander round Birmingham and embrace the art scene. Although I managed to wander around quite well, I have learnt, never visit on a Monday as a lot […]
