Northern exposure
Valerie Coffin Price reports from Est-Nord-Est, an artist-led centre in Quebec, Canada.
Valerie Coffin Price reports from Est-Nord-Est, an artist-led centre in Quebec, Canada.
In January 2002 Adrain Hart won Artsway’s ‘Animal’ open exhibition. His prize was a solo show to be held at Artsway that following June. He says: “Using lens-based media and elements of live art I continued my research into notions […]
This year’s Big Draw, running 16-23 October, brings together one thousand venues of all types and sizes. Included are the major national museums, shopping centres, stately homes, Roman palaces, folk museums, steam pumping stations, church halls, gardens, stations and even […]
In the first of a six-part series ‘Inhabited spaces’, Alice Angus presents artists’ perspectives on language and its relationship to place.
Louise Clements and Jonathan Willett describe Spectrum 2002, a light-infused programme of exhibitions and outreach work at Nottingham’s artist-run Lightsource.
Tim Birch samples some of the websites selling art online.
Paulette Terry Brien reports from Ex-Teresa Arte Actual in Mexico City.
The first York Open Studios was held over one weekend last March and included the work of nineteen different artists over nine separate sites in York. The work featured was largely a mix of painting, printmaking and ceramics with many […]
Artists’ story: Michael Dan Archer
The Land and the Samling programme reached a climax in July when sixty young people from schools and colleges in north east England worked alongside professional artists at Kielder Forest, Northumberland. The result of a creative partnership between the Samling […]
After 22 years in education, and with a first class degree in Graphic Arts from Liverpool University under her belt, Pip Stanley was feeling “well and truly institutionalised and very unsure of what to expect in the world of illustration”. […]
The Crossley Gallery, Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax 13 April – 30 June
Over the past twenty-three years working with glass I have come to love the material even more than when I started.
Brendan Fletcher takes a look at how artist-led initiatives, and the Manchester galleries’ willingness to listen have helped shape the current changes in the Manchester art scene.
With a long history of working with artists, Habitat’s art programme provides the opportunity of prime viewing space that acts as a springboard for young artists.
The Sculptors’ Society of Ireland The Sculptors’ Society of Ireland (SSI) was established in 1980 to improve the professional standing of sculptors, raise the profile of sculpture and to develop the quality and scope of commissioning procedures and opportunities in […]
Site Gallery, Sheffield 16 February – 6 April
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Angharad Pearce Jones, an artist currently working with Cywaith Cymru.Artworks Wales explains how the organisation works to promote art in the public realm.
My practice combines studio-based and commissioned work with teaching at Chelsea College of Art & Design.
Gordon Dalton visits ‘Highlife’, an exhibition of artist-designed bird boxes commissioned by Bristol City Council, working with lead artists FAT, as part of Bristol Legible City.
Sue Jones, co-director and curator for e-2 explains the organisation’s remit to raise the profile and understanding of digital arts.
Inspired by contemporary architecture, bridges and Japanese textiles, I produce three-dimensional and quilted textile pieces in the form of screens and decorative hangings. The repeated shapes in my work create a sense of rhythm and harmony that is enhanced by […]
In 1998 artists Simon Honey and Teresa Neal were commissioned to work with young people in a series of workshops in the Wandle Valley area. The WAVE project commenced in April 2000 and proved to be a challenging task for everyone involved.
Coming from Macedonia, a country where sixty to seventy percent of the land is forest, the immediacy of nature is a significant element of my working practice.