Katerina Athanasopoulou has won the Lumen Prize 2013 for her digital fine art work that explores times of crisis through a return to Plato’s hypothesis of the human soul.
Statue of Liberty This is the first piece of work I have done since I graduated from my Fine Art Degree this time last year. I work full time and im determined not to let my art dream die. But […]
Well first post. It’s been a few weeks since I started this position but it’s only really felt like it has started in the last few days. I’m located in our sculpture studios, close to where I constructed my degree […]
Well I have secured the Sculpture Graduate Fellowship at Northumbria and I am now also the Co-ordinator of our student project and exhibition space. I have started a new blog here – www.a-n.co.uk/p/3888221 Hopefully it will document my transition into […]
Leeds’ new contemporary art space The Tetley launches in November with a programme that looks to ‘unpick the fabric, history and future use’ of its art deco home – the city’s former Tetley Brewery headquarters.
Venues across the town, Brightlingsea Essex
7 – 8 September 2013
Still not getting anywhere with son. Emotionally exhausting dealing with his teenage proclivities. So, the Apparatjik bike thing – I seem to have sourced a few spare bikes! I just need to get them to the space to tinker with. […]
This year’s Bloomberg New Contemporaries features the work of 46 students and recent graduates from UK art schools. Ranging from minimalist purism to a giant ‘fish finger’, it provides a snapshot of current work that delights and bemuses.
Svetlana Fialova has been awarded the £8,000 First Prize at Jerwood Drawing Prize 2013.
Quite a few artists I know are still very resistant to social networking. I have tried to convince them that it is an excellent way to engage with other artists and to discover new ones. It is two years since […]
I would argue that a healthy range of different arts facilities are vital for a thriving city; as evidenced in Gateshead (Baltic and Sage), MIMA in Middlesborough, Walsall Contemporary Art Gallery and the multi million pound development currently underway in […]
London-based studio provider Acme celebrates its 40th anniversary with an archive exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, looking at its first decade. Co-founder and Chief Executive, Jonathan Harvey, discusses how a group of recent graduates formed a charitable housing association, launched Acme Gallery and became the self-supporting organisation it is today.
So university finished about 2 months ago. What have I been up to? I packed my things and moved to London. Since then I have finally had a little free time to read, visit exhibitions, art events and open studio […]
A portrait of Glasgow gallerists Toby Webster and Andrew Hamilton, an ‘urban burka’ fashioned from a pair of training shoes, and a woodcut reflecting on the death of a grandparent are among works shortlisted for £30,000 prize.
Linda Pittwood – The Importance of Doing Something and Discussing Everything: critical writing in Liverpool Talking at Art Basel Hong Kong earlier this year, Jan Dalley, Arts Editor for the Financial Times, defined critical writing about art as being “aesthetic […]
For the second contribution to the Portfolio NW Artists talking blog, writer and artist Darren Murphy considers the attempt to create a critical framework around the exhibition: “An interest in dialogue is the main drive behind my work … the […]
POST #18: >>>> Edicaran <<<< DAY 4 in DUNBAR: Notes after visit to Cockburn Geological Museum. “Just got back to Dunbar after spending the morning with Gillian McCay at the Cockburn Geological Museum in Edinburgh. Gillian was brilliant! A phd […]
Week 39: 10th – 16th JuneI’m in another exhibition and this time it’s at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, which feels like something of a coup in artistic terms. The exhibition is a continuation of the 16 […]
What you need to know, and where to find it when stepping out as a new artist.
Bob Dickinson meets Maria Balshaw of Manchester and Whitworth galleries and Sarah Perks of Cornerhouse to discuss the impact of Manchester International Festival’s visual arts programme on the city’s artist community, and the reemergence of performance at the festival.
