Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop: new £3m Creative Laboratories building
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop opens its £3 million purpose-built studios and hub with a number of new artists commissions.
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop opens its £3 million purpose-built studios and hub with a number of new artists commissions.
The major exhibition for the 12th edition of DaDaFest, The Art of the Lived Experiment, sees Liverpool’s Bluecoat at the heart of a series of city-wide events addressing disability culture. We speak to artistic director Ruth Gould about the need for continued social change through championing disabled and deaf artists.
Independent curator and writer Ben Borthwick is to join Plymouth Arts Centre as artistic director, where he will develop the organisation’s public realm and visual arts activity and lead on the centre’s contribution to the Mayflower 2020 festival.
I have been continuing my experiments with coloured theatre gels and the LED light sheets I recovered from an old work earlier last week. I have been mainly just playing in my studio; arranging then rearranging the coloured acetate filters […]
I got back in the studio last week after a busy period including my Merz Barn residency and a number of exciting commissions. I started the week by dismantling an old piece of work in order to retrieve some custom-made […]
Stewart Home, Laure Prouvost and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye feature in the MIRRORCITY newspaper edited by the Booker Prize-nominated author Tom McCarthy, to accompany the Hayward Gallery’s exhibition of the same name.
The eight award recipients of digital plaform The Space’s first open call for digitally innovative works will explore challenging questions around technology and personal freedoms.
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.
Good things are happening in Cardiff’s visual arts scene, with an energy and momentum that can be seen in the current Cardiff Contemporary festival. But, argues former Artes Mundi director Ben Borthwick, there is much that needs to be done if the biennial event – and Wales’ contemporary art scene generally – is to really fulfil its potential.
Being an artist has certain pressures associated with it, not everyone understands these pressures, of course. It is only those working within creative fields that seem to ‘get’ it. Finding enough drive to lead your own self-initiated activities on […]
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.
A temporary artwork commissioned by Cumbria’s Eden Arts for the top of England’s highest mountain has been destroyed by an act of vandalism.
Cardiff Contemporary brings together a range of special commissions, exhibitions and residencies across the city for a five-week festival of the visual arts.
It’s been far too long since my last post (back in April!). Much has happened in-between, including an exhibition in London at W3 Gallery, a feature in One & Other Magazine, and two commissions (one for the Tour de France, […]
The Exeter-based contemporary art gallery has announced it is threatened with imminent closure due to recent funding cuts.
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.
Jeremy Deller and Yinka Shonibare MBE announce support for a-n / AIR campaign.
This week’s must-see shows range from White Albums in Liverpool to a celebration of the tiny things in life in Southampton.
I’m departing in a few hours for the final leg of my Danish-British ceramics project. Since the Fantastic Tales show at The Ceramic House and the exhibition at the Regency Townhouse ended in May, I’ve spent the summer working on […]
The Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller has pledged his support for a-n/AIR’s Paying Artists campaign in a statement that urges all publicly-funded galleries to pay fair fees to artists.
Sarah Perks, Cornerhouse/HOME’s head of visual arts, has taken up a new professorship at Manchester School of Art which aims to strengthen collaboration between academia and the arts in the city.
This week sees the return of Unlimited, the Southbank Centre’s festival celebrating the work of disabled artists. We talk to senior producer Jo Verrent and look at what the visual arts strand has to offer.
The fourth b-side multimedia festival is set entirely on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, creating site-specific work that includes performance, installation and film work. Dany Louise talks to the director of this distinctive and nuanced ten-day event.
A survey commissioned by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation ArtWorks’ initiative has revealed that whilst artists are willing to pay for training to deliver arts in participatory settings, employers and commissioners should contribute too.