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.
Joella Wheatley won the inaugural Platform Graduate Award at the end of November. Here, a-n’s Director talks to her about her practice, networks and getting good advice.
Previewing this weekend “a high profile open outside of London – organised by artists for artists”.
A chronicle of my practice as a visual artist and contemporary storyteller.
The Baltic, Gateshead
1 January – 29 February 2012
In 1999 John Carson made a passionate call for a more rigorous approach to arming graduating art students with knowledge of where their work and practice fitted within the wider world and interfaced with audiences. Sarah Rowles, commissioned by a-n to research the state of professional practice provision on BA fine and applied art courses, offers a perspective on the situation now.
After his show for New Work Scotland Programme at Collective Gallery, Edinburgh and before his solo show at Liverpool’s Royal Standard, Oliver Braid shares some thoughts on his career as an artist so far, including ideas on how to make a self-made residency and how to organise your own ‘graduate diary’.
News of successes from the ceramics and glass community.
The Monks Gallery, Lincoln
7 – 28 July 2011
Approached by Modern Art Oxford to deliver art sessions at a Sure Start children’s centre in the Rose Hill area of Oxford, artist Jon Lockhart began a four-year residency at the centre as part of MAO’s ambitious Paul Hamlyn Foundation funded offsite programme.
Studio Update | Angelika Studios An exciting recent development for me is being invited to join Angelika Studios, founded by four Bucks Fine Art Graduates last year. I will be sharing an interesting space with fellow student Gill Gregory. The […]
CM:While visiting the Whitechapel Gallery to view Fred Sandback we took some time to browse the bookshop, luckily we were restrained in terms of purchase as we could have spent up. By pure chance we bumped into Leeds artist Andy […]
Anna-Marie Gray scrutinises unpaid internships and questions their impact on one’s career prospects.
