Creative Scotland has announced details of the 119 organisations that make up its new Regular Funding portfolio, benefiting from regular support over a three-year period.
The Cardiff Open Studios Weekend sees more than 140 artists opening their work spaces to the public over two days. Artist and curator Bob Gelsthorpe – co-founder of the city’s Bit Studios – reports.
Former a-n director Susan Jones will be sharing evidence gathered through a-n/AIR’s Paying Artists campaign over a hearty lunch of vitamin-rich soup at Stoke-on-Trent’s AirSpace Gallery, the latest event in a series of talks and workshops.
Now in its third year, Tempting Failure is an artist-led international festival of live and performance art in Bristol that encourages artists to push the boundaries of their practice. We talk to the festival’s artistic director, Thomas John Bacon.
As this year’s Frieze Art Fair introduces ‘Live’ – a new strand of performance-based installations – Jennifer Picken assesses the state of play and provision for performance and live art in the UK.
As the art world descends on London for the 12th Frieze Art Fair, we take a snapshot of art fair activity happening across the capital.
I wrote this for a-n: In keeping with the spirit of this year’s artist-led Bristol Biennial, on Sunday 28 September the city’s nomadic Hand in Glove project followed the 10-day festival with a special Interplay event exploring the question: What now, what […]
I wrote this for a-n: This weekend saw the Bristol Biennnial 2014 burst into life with a jam-packed 10-day programme that peppers the city with intriguing events in unusual spaces. Caves, Edwardian toilets, buses, fountains and an ordinary terraced house all […]
Cardiff Contemporary festival continues for five weeks across the city, inviting visitors to explore and discover the Welsh capital through a series of installations and exhibitions. Rory Duckhouse reports from the opening weekend.
Cardiff Contemporary brings together a range of special commissions, exhibitions and residencies across the city for a five-week festival of the visual arts.
To mark the end of this year’s artist-led Bristol Biennial, Hand in Glove hosted a special Interplay discussion to explore what the festival should do next. Julie McCalden reports.
Asia Triennial Manchester is a multi-venue festival of contemporary art which for its third edition takes Conflict and Compassion as its theme. Chris Sharratt reports.
What are artists’ associate programmes and what do they offer within the broad landscape of artists’ professional development? What should artists consider before applying? Based on extensive research into sixty arts organisations across England, Scotland and Wales, this guide by Dany Louise offers artists help in thinking through the various options available to them.
This weekend’s Manchester Contemporary art fair has got more galleries and artists than ever, and it’s in a new venue, too. Chris Sharratt reports.
Earlier last week, the Paying Artists campaign was at Metal in Peterborough. I didn’t go, because the gas bill was due that week, so I don’t have the spare cash to buy train tickets/subsistence and there was no offer of […]
MODEL is a new artist-run gallery in Liverpool that aims to provide a flexible and experimental platform for artist-led activity in the city. Laura Robertson pays a visit and speaks to its three founders.
Produced on a tiny budget and run by an artist-led group, the Bristol Biennial is a 10-day festival of art across the city. Julie McCalden reports from the opening weekend.
This week’s selections range from Tate Britain’s major J.M.W. Turner exhibition looking at his work between 1835 and 1851, to a debut solo show in an artist-led space in Norwich.
Opens Tuesday 16 September, runs until 22 September 2014 The school of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds hosts this year’s crop of MA and MFA Fine Art graduates, for their show entitled […]
An exhibition of new work by Natasha Ferguson, Joe Harvey, Matt Bainbridge and Richard Krantz opens Friday 10 September 2014. Look up the word Mouthfeel instead of guessing its meaning and you will realise it is a noun used to […]
As part of Brigton Digital Festival, The New Sublime exhibition at the artist-led Phoenix gallery presents the work of 14 artists in order to ask one question with many answers: what is digital art? Chris Sharratt speaks to the show’s curators.
Arts Council England Grant for the Arts for project with the Women’s Art Library
