MA/MFA degree shows, festivals and Graduate exhibitions
A collection of events happening in August, September and October 2014, focussing on MA and MFA degree shows, festivals and graduate shows.
A collection of events happening in August, September and October 2014, focussing on MA and MFA degree shows, festivals and graduate shows.
The Platform Award is an annual initiative involving five galleries that provides professional exhibiting opportunities for graduates in the South East of England. As the first of three shows at Modern Art Oxford opens, Richard Taylor finds out more.
As I have now graduated I am starting a new blog entitled ‘Wood for the Trees’ to discuss my next steps in the time after college. See it here: https://www.a-n.co.uk/blogs/wood-for-the-trees
Ambitious plans for a ‘new centre for the arts in south London’, to be part funded by an auction of artworks donated by college alumni, have been announced by Goldsmiths, University of London.
The 10 finalists for a £40,000 national award for final year art students and run by Newcastle’s Northumbria University have been announced.
Nine artists completing the first completely distance MA in Fine Art, November 21st to 29th 2014.
London can be an expensive place to be an artist, but what are the advantages of basing your practice outside the capital, and how are those that choose to stay in London making it work? Pippa Koszerek reports from Standpoint Gallery’s recent MAP Symposium.
I’m finding that making a film is rather a complicated thing. Actually, it’s nowhere near the actual making of the film yet; it’s the, ‘getting the story out of my head into some kind of readable format thing.’ The toughest […]
Profiles and interviews with Fine Art and related course graduates, offering valid information, perspective and insight to life as an artist after graduating from art school. Please note, some of these articles may reference ‘Degrees unedited’ or ‘Artists talking’. Degrees […]
As cuts continue to bite, arts organisations are plugging the funding gap by replacing paid staff – such as gallery invigilators – with unpaid volunteers. We look at three galleries in Liverpool and Bristol that have done just that, and assess what this growing trend could mean for both individual artists and the UK’s arts ecology.
Stoke has one of England’s lowest levels of participation in the arts, something which Appetite, part of Arts Council England’s Creative People and Places programme, is aiming to improve with three years of events and performances. We report from the north Staffordshire city.
The artists for the 2014 edition of Bloomberg New Contemporaries, which will this year form part of the Liverpool Biennial programme, have been announced.
For London-based artists, finding a secure, affordable, and long-term studio can be a struggle, with many existing spaces threatened by the relentless march of redevelopment and rising rents. Lou Boyd, Kitty Knowles and Emma Finamore of EastLondonLines.co.uk discuss the problem with artists and studio providers, and uncover how artists in east London are rising to the challenge – and finding new solutions.
Royal College of Art graduate Neil Raitt has been awarded the £5,000 Catlin Art Prize for a new body of work, comprising large-scale abstract paintings that experiment with repetition and perspective.
Art students from Edinburgh, Leeds and Ghent form collective practice to deconstruct value systems of art in a fair of their own at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh.
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.
Now on its sixth edition, The Other Art Fair has a selection committee made up of artists and provides a platform for emerging talent to present and sell their work. Director Ryan Stanier explains its approach.
Another 23 artists have been awarded funding in the latest round of a-n’s New collaborations bursary scheme, which supports critical and artistic development through collaborative working.
The sixth edition of Glasgow International, the biennial festival of contemporary art in Scotland’s biggest city, is the first with new director Sarah McCrory at the helm. On the eve of its public launch, she explains why both laughter and tears are important in art.
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.
As part of its New Art Spaces project, Manchester’s Castlefield Gallery has opened its biggest space yet, across a six-storey, 80,000 square feet building in the centre of the city. We pay it a visit and find out what makes it more than just another artists’ studio complex.
The shortlist has been announced for the annual prize promoting the work of recent graduates from UK art schools.
New Art West Midlands announces five artist prizewinners, showcasing new talent emerging from the region’s art schools.
Emerging visual artists Leah Capaldi and Andrew Cranston are among the six recipients of the £10,000 awards.