a-n members Bob Gelsthorpe and Jacki Cairns have visited degree shows in Swansea, Lincoln, Hertfordshire and Cardiff for the first of our Instagram takeovers of the 2017 degree shows season.
This week we highlight 12 degree shows across the UK, including openings in Belfast, Bristol, Newcastle, Brighton and Leeds.
The Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Art Prize, which offers a £20,000 fellowship based at Baltic 39 in Newcastle upon Tyne as first prize, is open for applications from students currently in the final year of their undergraduate study.
22 awards totalling over £40,000 have been presented at the opening of the RSA New Contemporaries exhibition in Edinburgh, which showcases works by 2016 graduates form art and architecture schools in Scotland.
This week’s selection includes Bloomberg New Contemporaries in London, a retrospective of renowned political artist Gee Vaucher and art in the environment at the Jerwood Space.
Laura Robertson reports on this year’s New Contemporaries in Liverpool as part of Liverpool Biennial.
The London-based painter receives a specially commissioned artwork by Turner Prize nominated artist Alison Wilding.
This week’s selection includes light works in Birmingham, conceptual art in London and cross-disciplinary practice in Edinburgh.
Highlights for the week ahead selected from our busy Events section and featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n’s members.
This week’s selection includes sculpture and drawing in Bexhill, digitally printed fabrics in Portsmouth and experimental film in London.
20 artists have been awarded prizes during the opening of the eighth annual RSA New Contemporaries exhibition, with a selection of the works due to tour from Edinburgh to Camden later this spring.
Today Kollektiv Gallery give away their business model, by launching free A-Z manual for crowdfunding creative projects and opening pop-up galleries.
As London-based Acme Studios becomes a self-sustaining organisation, its co-founder Jonathan Harvey has announced he will be standing down as Chief Executive in March 2016.
The closure of the not-for-profit, artist-run Dalston Underground Studios due to proposed rent increases is indicative of a wider trend across London says the organisation’s manager.
I wanted to write a little about my post graduate experiences and the struggle to maintain any practice at all whilst running a more conventional life with a nine to five job as well as a young family. I want […]
Six artists have been shortlisted for the 2014 edition of the Threadneedle Prize, the open exhibition that aims to ‘showcase the very best in new figurative and representational art’.
Asia Triennial Manchester 2014 returns for its third edition this September, with the theme of ‘Conflict and Compassion’.
From the last two years doing my degree I feel my technical ability with portraiture is getting a lot stronger, and I would like to create something for the degree that is different to what I’ve done before. I think […]
WHY YOU DON’T NEED TO DEBUT, part 2 of 3 I heard recently about the furore surrounding an enterprise called Debut Contemporary. This is an outfit that runs a kind of finishing school for art graduates. … I don’t need […]
Why you don’t need to Debut: Part One I heard recently about the furore surrounding an enterprise called Debut Contemporary. This is an outfit that runs a kind of finishing school for art graduates. Appropriately it’s in Notting Hill, location […]
The recipients of the British Ceramics Biennial £10,000 AWARD for ceramicists and FRESH bursary for new graduates have been announced, with installation-based work winning all round.
Kirsty Ogg, the current Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery, is leaving to take up a new post as Director of Bloomberg New Contemporaries.
Well – it’s seemed a long haul at times, but today I finished putting on the white stuff, and tomorrow I collect my stuff from store. I have forgotten just how much I have, and some judicious ‘weeding out’ may […]
The artist-led Standpoint Gallery announces the winner of this year’s Mark Tanner Sculpture Award during an exhibition that celebrates ten years of the prize.
