Julie McCalden reports on the outcomes of the recent project that set a team of eleven artists across five cities the task of ensuring artists’ voices were heard in the Paying Artists campaign during the lead up to the general election.
Artists including Charles Avery and Marvin Gaye Chetwynd to create new commissions responding to the festival theme of The Improbable City.
Paying Artists Regional Advocates have been busy over the bank holiday weekend, with a hustings event in Glasgow, a relay race in Bristol, plus more activity in Liverpool, Birmingham and Cardiff.
Paying Artists Regional Advocates are planning a host of activities in Glasgow, Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff and Liverpool in the lead up to, and immediately following, the general election.
The Glasgow based artist, writer and curator explains why she is one of 11 Paying Artists Regional Advocates who are making sure artists’ voices are heard in the lead up to the general election.
Artworks encouraging people to vote in the general election will be appearing on billboards around the UK from this Thursday, 23 April, with a new work by first-time-voter Jordan Alex Smith joining those of the five already announced artists.
The Edinburgh-based artist talks about how 12 months of residencies in Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Abroath have led to a solo exhibition at Glasgow School of Art which uses film, audio and performance to explore the limits of her body as a material.
The shortlist for the ninth Catlin Art Prize features eight artists, with recent graduates of the Royal College of Art dominating the selection.
This year’s Venice + Scotland presentation at the 56th Biennale will see 28 students and recent graduates from seven art schools across Scotland taking part in a major learning programme.
Five artists have been shortlisted for the 2015 Converse x Dazed Emerging Artist Award, in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts.
The 56th Venice Biennale, British Art Show 8, Manchester International Festival – we take a month-by-month look at the year ahead to provide a selection of key events for your diary.
Artists Dinner at Govanhill Baths Artists who live and work in the area took part in a discussion to imagine the future; talking about the future of art, communication, health and wellbeing Art in 2114 Instant art-button The word ART […]
100 artists who were affected by the fire at Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building earlier this year have been awarded bursaries to enable them to continue their creative studies at art schools in the UK and beyond.
The artist Yinka Shonibare MBE has issued a detailed and personal statement expressing his support for a-n and AIR’s Paying Artists campaign.
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.
In less than four weeks, Scotland will be voting to decide whether to become an independent nation or remain part of the UK. Chris Sharratt speaks to artists and those working in the visual arts in the country and finds thinking that runs much deeper than nationalism, oil revenues and questions of currency.
A 12-hour ‘jamming symposium’ in Dundee seeks to explore artists’ collaborations in Scotland through a series of gigs, performances, screenings and readings.
The 10 finalists for a £40,000 national award for final year art students and run by Newcastle’s Northumbria University have been announced.
This year’s Liverpool Biennial is the first that director Sally Tallant can really call her own, having arrived in Liverpool only a few months before the 2012 festival. Now with a new, earlier July start date and a refreshed approach, Laura Robertson finds out what has changed at the UK’s biennial of contemporary art.
An open letter from artists in Manchester is calling on publicly-funded galleries to do more to support artists who live and work in the city.
This May Day bank holiday weekend sees the launch of the Bristol Art Weekender, a four-day event that brings together 16 of the city’s visual arts venues, producers and artist-run initiatives for the first time. We talk to some of those involved and investigate the wider context for the upsurge in cultural activity in the city.
Glasgow-based artist Ally Wallace asks: Why is ageism seen as an acceptable form of discrimination by so many in the art world?
A new arts documentary film festival produced in partnership with the BBC is to take place in April as part of the Glasgow International festival.
New Art West Midlands announces five artist prizewinners, showcasing new talent emerging from the region’s art schools.
Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie
11 January – 20 March 2014
