Second phase of a-n/AIR-commissioned research, exploring artists’ and venues’ experiences of exhibiting in publicly-funded venues. Phase 2 findings build on data from Phase 1 and are based on interviews conducted with artists and venues.
From the Turner Prize to the recent Lumiere festival, the visual arts has played an important role in Derry-Londonderry’s 12 months as the first UK City of Culture. But as the year draws to a close, what will its legacy be for art and artists in the city?
Proposals, Submissions & Commissions…. I have spent the last fortnight sat looking at photographs of buildings, making site visits and whizzing off emails for quotes. Its sad to say that the life of an artist isn’t just about pottering in […]
Lower Vaconsoft Commissions and other musings. Guy Halstead. I am not the most efficient reporter I have to admit, but its been a very busy period the last 5 months. Here is a short summary of my activities, I will […]
As Hull is announced Capital of Culture 2017, Pippa Koszerek takes a look at the burgeoning artist-led activity harboured by this unique and geographically isolated city.
The north east England-based biennial of contemporary art, film and music has announced programme details for its 2014 edition, which takes the idea of extraction as its curated theme.
The one I almost didn’t make… Chroma 5 was the last set of tiles I assembled. I wasn’t sure that any of the tiles I had left belonged together to make a set, but after looking at them in various […]
Getting going again… After a run of exciting exhibitions and commissions spanning over the Summer and into the Autumn, its time to get back into making new work in my studio at Rogue. The Summer began for me in June […]
Getting going again… After a run of exciting exhibitions and commissions spanning over the Summer and into the Autumn, its time to get back into making new work in my studio at Rogue. The Summer began for me in June […]
Exhibition dates and project details announced for second edition of major moving image awards, featuring new commissions by artists in the first five years of their practice.
A major multi-venue cultural programme of exhibitions covering the last 25 years of contemporary art in Scotland has announced its ambitious, nationwide programme for 2014.
Regrets and Dispointments: As this blog was started to track the changing use of this space I thought I would ride my bike through it, just to keep an eye on whats happening there. I can no longer walk my […]
The performance artist, curator and writer Ian White has died following a long illness.
Two major contemporary art events on the Kent coast have announced dates for their 2014 editions.
The Ways of Seeing Climate Change event in Manchester is looking to encourage new collaborations between artists and scientists, while highlighting the positive role artists can play in our understanding of environmental issues and scientific research. We hear from the organisers and some of the artists involved.
Survey reveals no exhibition fees paid to most artists.
The Social: Encountering Photography, a new festival for photography in Sunderland and north-east England, opens to the public today. We speak to the organisers, Carol McKay and Amanda Ritson about what’s in store, and offer a selection of some of the newly commissioned work.
Is Frieze Art Fair useful in any way to artists and is it good for artists and art? Filmmaker, artist and Frieze first-timer Gillian McIver roams the gallery booths and curated projects at the fair’s vast Regent’s Park marquee and finds the experience useful, enlightening and at times troubling.
A panel including the artist Richard Wentworth, art collector and patron Robert Hiscox and Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s Director of Programmes Clare Lilley, have been debating who should fund public art and what its role should be.
This year’s Frieze Projects, the curated programme at Frieze London art fair, is programmed by former senior curator at Serpentine Gallery, Nicola Lees. We talk to her about this year’s artists and presenting work in an art fair context.
The Space, the experimental digital arts service developed by Arts Council England and the BBC, plans to relaunch next year, as the BBC’s Director General announces a 20% increase in arts programme funding.
On Monday, I went to the AIR Paying artists consultation at Castlefield Gallery Manchester. I’m ashamed to say that I’d never been to the Castlefiled Gallery, but that’s not a reflection on what is on show – more to do […]
