
One year on: Sheyda Porter
Currently studying for an MA in curating, the Northumbria University graduate has been busy developing her practice and project-making skills.
Currently studying for an MA in curating, the Northumbria University graduate has been busy developing her practice and project-making skills.
12 artists will compete to be named the second Gillian Dickinson North East Young Sculptor of the Year, with the winner receiving £6,500 to make new work.
Precario Developing an artist led walk from the Dundas Gallery to the Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh in July. I have now started the process of preparing for a walk in Edinburgh using the poem by Cecilia Vicuña Thread and […]
It has been just over a year since the news broke that Anish Kapoor had bought the (non-scientific, non-military) rights to Vantablack – the ‘blackest black’ of pigments – and, in the kind of petulant spirit usually reserved for the […]
The London gallery that represented artists including Bedwyr Williams, Sean Edwards and Holly Hendry has closed.
Having graduated from the Royal College of Art last year, London-based artist Holly Hendry has won numerous awards and just opened her first solo show in a UK public gallery at Baltic, Gateshead. Anneka French talks to her about her whirlwind career so far.
Saziso Phiri is celebrating one year of her pop-up gallery with a birthday party at Nottingham’s Rough Trade shop, followed by a series of free workshops in tandem with Nottingham Contemporary’s ‘The Place is Here’ show. Wayne Burrows talks to her about her mission to work with artists who operate beyond the usual art world structures.
London Underground has completed its restoration of Eduardo Paolozzi’s Tottenham Court Road station mosaics as part of an extensive modernisation and expansion of the station.
This week’s selection taken from a-n’s busy Events section includes a critique of NHS Transgender care waiting lists, landscapes of social housing, regeneration and memory, and an undercover book trail exploring the 10th century art of fore-edge painting.
A candid look at what happened after graduation from the safety of art school. As an art school graduate I was at one point part of the artworks system – albeit at undergraduate level. In wondrous naivety I used to […]
Exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from a-n’s busy Events section.
After leaving art school first time around, I really wasn’t clear what I wanted to do with the experience of the four years behind me. Some folk seemed quite well prepared and focused on what to do next, they appeared […]
Julia and I visited two different light festivals as the final visits for our a-n professional development bursary, which rounded off a fantastic year of visiting inspiring exhibitions and events in variety of settings and spaces, motivating conversations with artists […]
This week’s selection taken from a-n’s busy Events section includes Spanish ghost villages on Google maps, explorations of light and colour in Derby and Leeds, and a tree sculpture in Hull.