Nearly two weeks have passed since the General Election result. I haven’t been able to think of much else since. ‘Gutted’ is a word I heard a lot in the first few days, describing how many of my close friends […]
Awards reward organisations encouraging the public to engage with the activity of drawing, with those recognised ranging from a major centre for contemporary art to a comprehensive school in Essex.
The original exhibition ‘Magiciens de la Terre’ was staged in over two exhibition sites in Paris (the Centre Pompidou and the Great Hall of La Villette), and ran from 18th May to 14th August 1989. It was hailed as the […]
To coincide with the general election, Photofusion in London is showing Simon Roberts’ The Election Project, a body of work documenting the 2010 election campaign. Here he discusses the photographs in light of the current political climate, the symbolic nature of landscape photography, and his attempts to democratise the artistic process.
Axisweb’s board of trustees has announced the appointment of Mark Smith as executive director, replacing Sheila McGregor who stepped down at the beginning of April.
It has been nearly a month since i last posted a blog. The reason for this is because i have had no internet at home. Which has made it very difficult to keep up with the “online diary”. This is […]
The title of this post is a bit tongue in cheek but also a deliberate statement: There is nothing not serious about watercolour as a medium – just take a look at work by Carol Robertson. Which is not to […]
Firstsite gallery in Colchester has announced that it is to be managed by Colchester Arts Centre for the next 12 months, following the recent resignation of director Matthew Rowe.
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.
Being clear about my role as an artist and thinking-through intentions or agendas is a necessary, throughout projects. Technically, art therapy is an established professional discipline with a clear career pathway and set code of ethics […]
A new exhibition and collaboration between artists Emilia Telese and Binita Walia providing commentaries and insight on how the role of women is shaped and constrained by social, economic and political contexts.
It should be relatively simple to set up some workshops, but there’s been unnecessary and frustrating delays. Mainly Out Of Office replies to emails – like revenge because I set my emails to OOO during half term, and the art […]
The Leader of the Opposition set out the Labour Party’s priorities for the arts, creative industries and cultural education at a speech in London yesterday evening.
In a piece originally published on The Conversation website, Ben Walmsley of the University of Leeds asks whether what the North of England really needs is more investment in artists rather than buildings.
The final report of the Warwick Commission inquiry finds the future of cultural value as lying in a seamless relationship between the cultural sector and the creative industries, coupled with a focus on enterprise and creativity in schools. Liz Hill and Frances Richens report.
“Repugnance is the sentry standing right near the door to those things we desire most.”1 In this essay I wish to explore two artworks whose themes and aesthetics are not obviously comparable; Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dali’s In Voluptas Mors […]
This year’s Venice + Scotland presentation at the 56th Biennale will see 28 students and recent graduates from seven art schools across Scotland taking part in a major learning programme.
– Let’s meet Tuesday week. 4pm? – Wednesday would be better for me. – For me too. – Wednesday 4pm? – Or Monday at 2? He recalled being ten and afraid of not being good enough… At first this collaborative […]
The main components of my work for the past year or so has been comparing and contrasting images and aspects of everyday life and my experience of assimilating to the reality of essentially living in two places at once. Although […]
The Kent-based organisation that has championed art in the environment for over two decades has announced it is to cease trading.
The 56th Venice Biennale, British Art Show 8, Manchester International Festival – we take a month-by-month look at the year ahead to provide a selection of key events for your diary.
Yesterday was a dark day for the most accessible form of art: the cartoon and for free speech. For yesterday was the day when 3 gunmen broke into the offices of French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo and murdered various members […]
Twitter campaign defending free speech and expressing solidarity with murdered journalists at Charlie Hebdo grows, as Parisians plan rally and Salman Rushdie issues statement of support.
Arts Council England has appointed Darren Henley, current head of Classic FM, as its new chief executive.
