Murray Martin
30 Years of Side Gallery
Until 10 November
30 Years of Side Gallery
Until 10 November
Nottingham-based Reactors newly-commissioned, site-specific project, The Tetra Phase set in Manchesters The Old Fire Station beside Piccadilly Station employs CCTV to offer a unique perspective. Set in this disused historic building known only as The Station it presents […]
Initiated by Glenn Holman and Andy Parsons in 2003, the aim of Floating world is to identify ways in which artists can disseminate their ideas widely using the medium of artists books.
Projects unedited blog by Alex Pearl
Still Waiting Its all going down to the wire. Still no news about filming the trustees. The photo should arrive next Friday (a week later than I thought) I rushed out to the framers today to set everything up so […]
Ayling & Conroy survey the motives and trends that effect how UK commercial galleries select artists to exhibit.
Guyan Porter talks about the socio-economic dynamics of art markets and deconstructs notions of the art market in the UK.
Artists and artists support agencies have benefited from recent Arts Council England funding rounds.
Things change. There have been a few difficulties with the siting of my work for the Foundling Museum. I’ve decided to cut back on some of the pieces. The only available place for the Foundling Opera seems to be in […]
Presented annually at Frieze Art Fair, the curatorial programme consists of site-specific interventions and installations, performance, debate and conversation through Frieze Commissions, Frieze Talks and The Cartier Award.
Sonya Dyer’s publication questions assumptions about non-white artists, curators and administrators that shape the current diversity landscape, and suggests alternative ways forward.
Jessica Preston, Circles & Cones, 3D textiles, cotton, 2007.
Public art is the opportunity for an artist to affect a locality, and to engage and challenge its community.
Russell Martin’s guide to running your own gallery demystifies the process of setting up an artist-led space and highlights the issues to consider before taking such a step.
Contents include: European collaboration and cultural diversity: in news a conference in Estonia, commissions for Subdoh Gupta, Rashid Rana, and comment on the 8th Sharjah Biennial. Simon Zimmerman asks if you can afford not to visit a new website on pensions for artists. PDF version [size 7.5MB]. Requires pdf reader.
Karin studied BA (Hons) Fine Art from 1999-2002 at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, University of Central England. She now works in partnership with Reuben Henry, both in the residencies they offer at Springhill Institute the studio in Birmingham that they set up in 2003 and embarking on residencies abroad to make their own work.
Limousine Bull
5 May 2007 to 5 May 2007
Lucy Panesars college aspiration was to be a practising artist and part-time college lecturer, and a methodical approach to her career has made this a reality.
Jo Wilson looks at the practice of Adele Prince who, since graduating in 2001, continues to work full-time as an artist on a variety of commissions and exhibitions.
I feel amazingly priviledged to be able to just devote weeks to making work, to being given such generous access to the cathedral, to being welcomed by all kinds of individuals along the way. I feel enormously lucky. The work […]
I had a meeting today with the curator Gill Hedley. She came to Joking Aside and had a look round. Because of her high powered reputation, I had managed to build it up into a very nerve wracking experience but […]
On returning home: My first week has been largely occupied by language studies and settling in. The downside to residencies in unfamiliar places is the time spent lost, seeking that which would be easily to hand at home. The upside […]
hello! hhmmm.. ok, i did some dissertation work over the weekend, up to 2290 words, just the same amount again. was up working on the first skull painting last night, it looks good. it was quite easy, actually, only took […]
I'm really interested in how other people's blogs are developing and keep telling myself that I must give myself a bit more time to really delve into them, rather than dipping in and out as I do at the moment […]
I’ve just recieved the Artists Brief from Commissions East which is quite useful. it lays out the aims of the commission as giving me the opportunity to create new work develop my profile out of the region attract attention from […]