Graham Crowley is one of the most distinguished living painters in the UK today. As the deadline closes on entry to the John Moores 2010 competition, Kate Brundrett asked him for his views on the competition’s significance and for his ‘take’ on the state of contemporary art practice.
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
9 – 13 February 2010
Phew! Arrived home Friday evening, my head spinning, brain buzzing, eyes watering and tummy rumbling. A combination of affects that made me unsure of what to do first – laugh hysterically, write madly, sob despairingly or just collapse in front […]
Q-Art was set up to: -provide a place for graduates to discuss work post- art school -break down boundaries between courses/ colleges/ and levels of study -allow those who have not studied for a degree in art to join in […]
Q-Art uses the crit, or the convenor, the common form of art ‘teaching’ or ‘pedagogy’ in art schools. I am thinking of researching different pedagogical models now… I also graduate soon and will be needing to find money to keep […]
At this stage we have just had feedback for our first module, which began in October. My feedback was good, which seems faintly miraculous, considering the massive build-up of stress that accompanied the dreaded Christmas Holidays (add your own appropriate […]
Richard Taylor talks to an ex systems engineer during his final year of Fine Art Drawing at Swindon College School of Art.
The Wasp Room gallery, Nottingham
4 – 21 February 2010
So what is Q-Art? Q-Art currently borrows from main format of teaching used in most art schools, the ‘crit’. It invites students, graduates of all levels/ courses and anyone at all with an interest in art to take part. We […]
Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
21 November – 10 January
Cable car by Suzanne Moxhay.
Aldo Rinaldi and Katherine Daley-Yates discuss northcabin, a programme of site-specific commissions in an unusual venue in Bristol from 2008-09.
The state of art education should, indeed, cause much concern to us all (Debate, November 2009).
Christopher Thomas reconsiders risk and success in art and blogging.
JULIET- GSA Mutual crawled in to a hole over Christmas to eat and sleep, underground its great, fluffy body swelled and got stronger and as the old year expired The Mutual, Glasgow emerged into the light a bigger, better beast […]
Richard Taylor talks to Kim Walker, MFA student at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Arena, Liverpool
19 – 26 November 2008
Fidget Exhibition text Fidget brings together the work of two recent graduates from Glasgow School of Art’s, Environmental Art course. The joint exhibition of new work in the Park gallery focuses on light and dark both literally and symbolically. Gary […]
I’ve been having to write my entries in notepad this weekend, because I can’t seem to concentrate for more than two minutes at a time. Got lots of reading/writing to do and none of it is coming very easily. I […]
I seem to be too busy to come on here which is disappointing. Anyway – I have been emailing with the possibility of showing some work into an exhibition in Sheffield and have some ideas that they may be interested […]
