100 artists who were affected by the fire at Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building earlier this year have been awarded bursaries to enable them to continue their creative studies at art schools in the UK and beyond.
This year’s Platform Graduate Award, for recent art graduates in South East England, has been awarded to Sophie Dixon.
The issue of artists’ pay and exploitation in the US is prompting a variety of responses that question what it means to be an artist in the current economic climate. Abigail Satinsky, associate director at Chicago’s Threewalls gallery, surveys the landscape and asks whether we need to look at how we value and define art and artists.
My blog will track my progress through a Fine Art degree at Staffordshire University building up to our end of year Graduate Degree show in
THE DEGREE SHOW IS OPEN FROM ITS OPENING NIGHT ON FRIDAY THE 12TH OF JUNE FROM 6PM AND RUNS UNTIL SUNDAY THE 21ST OF JUNE.
This blog will document the rest of my 6 month residency at Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, which culminates in a final exhibition in the gallery space at the end of January.
This blog entry marks the start of the demise of our Fine Art degree at a University in the East Midlands. Although we have been closed to new starters for two years now the part-time structure of the course means […]
A recent 10th anniversary fundraising auction by the London-based not-for-profit contemporary art foundation Parasol Unit has raised over £2million from sales of work donated by artists.
My interim exhibition is now on at Airspace Gallery in the window space. The show includes a selection of works made so far on my Graduate Residency here at Airspace, giving a taster of the works to come. The show […]
The five artists shortlisted for the South East’s third annual Platform Graduate Award and mentoring programme have been announced.
The prizewinners of the third annual Lumen Prize international award for digital art have been announced.
09 October – 08 November 2014 The inaugural exhibition of Leeds College of Arts’ first graduates from MA Creative Practices. Four students exhibit work “exploring the intersection between researched contextualisation, personal practice and current events” at Leeds Gallery, Monroe House. After […]
What are artists’ associate programmes and what do they offer within the broad landscape of artists’ professional development? What should artists consider before applying? Based on extensive research into sixty arts organisations across England, Scotland and Wales, this guide by Dany Louise offers artists help in thinking through the various options available to them.
Earlier last week, the Paying Artists campaign was at Metal in Peterborough. I didn’t go, because the gas bill was due that week, so I don’t have the spare cash to buy train tickets/subsistence and there was no offer of […]
Making the Future – Private View 24 September 5-8pm, exhibition runs to 2 October. This year’s MA exhibitions from the department of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) are part of a year long celebration of 170 years […]
Ramona Zoladek has been announced as winner of the £20,000 1st prize at the Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Art Prize.
The artist Yinka Shonibare MBE has issued a detailed and personal statement expressing his support for a-n and AIR’s Paying Artists campaign.
Opens Tuesday 16 September, runs until 22 September 2014 The school of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds hosts this year’s crop of MA and MFA Fine Art graduates, for their show entitled […]
An exhibition of new work by Natasha Ferguson, Joe Harvey, Matt Bainbridge and Richard Krantz opens Friday 10 September 2014. Look up the word Mouthfeel instead of guessing its meaning and you will realise it is a noun used to […]
A new home for Glasgow School of Art’s displaced fine art courses is being developed, following the fire that devastated the historic Mackintosh Building earlier this year.
I was invited to take part in the International Summer School, which took place at Bury Art Gallery and Sculpture Centre last week (11th – 15th August). It was advertised to be the following; The moments when artists coming together […]
Now in its second year, the Residency for Artists on Hiatus seeks to free its participants from the pressures of the ‘capital A art world’ by providing space for artists to not make art. Michaela Nettell finds out more.
15 – 23 August With a broad range of pathways in post-graduate studies, DJCAD’s Masters Degree Show is a collection of exhibitions alongside events run by students to expand on working practice. Students from MSC Animation & Visualisation, MFA Art […]
16th – 24th August 2014, 11am-5pm Edinburgh College of Art’s Masters degree show is an annual contribution to Edinburgh Art Festival and is a showcase of work from over 50 postgraduate students from the School of Art, School of Design […]
