Glittering prizes
A plethora of shortlists and prize-winners have recently been announced, making April a bonanza prize month.
A plethora of shortlists and prize-winners have recently been announced, making April a bonanza prize month.
This spring, as part of the Africa 05 arts festival, a number of artists from around the African continent are in London making new work for various cultural institutions. Paul Glinkowski introduces the work of five of them.
Trinity Technology College, Warwick
11-23 February
Art Gene combines a residency programme with links with education and plays an active part in local regeneration.
A small collective workspace in a converted barn in rural Lancashire.
S1 Artspace provides studios for artists whose work is both contemporary and critically engaged.
Finding the Common Threads is a two-year study being conducted by the Centre for Creative Communities with support from Arts Council England, London and Deutsche Bank. With London as its focus, the project is investigating some of the issues funders […]
Occupation Studios is a case study in cooperative survival in the urban regeneration landscape.
Out of the Blue has thrived through establishing a diversity of activities and income streams.
DAW adapted a successful model of an open studios event for a rural location.
Temporary studios can be a useful option for creating project-specific work.
How a partnership with their local university helped FusionARTS secure studio premises.
Kathryn Smith on Johannesburg and Virginia Mackenny on Cape Town. The second part in a series commissioned by Deborah Smith.
CRATE successfully accessed economic development and regeneration funds to buy a building.
Chris Brown of g39 and Louise Short of Station, devisors of Quo Vadis, reflect on the motives, intentions and themes of the event.
Contemporary Art and Ideas in and Era of Globalisation
Published by inIVA
Paul Glinkowski on the circumstances around cultural barriers and how they can be breached or transformed.
Gordon Dalton reports on the Curating Now symposium at the Irish Museum of Modern Art hoping to find the future of curating in museums.
Devised by Grizedale Arts, Romantic Detachment features artists from the UK and the USA. Brian Dewans text forms part of his performance/installation for the exhibition.
Crossley Gallery, Dean Clough, Halifax
6 November 9 January
Jane Watt profiles PACE, public art commissioning agent for Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital.
Lucy Kimbell explores the value of artists’ work.
More than just a studios building, Stroud Valleys Artspace (SVA) represents a hub for artists in the area.
Studio-based artists have been made vulnerable by the recent property boom as run-down former industrial buildings attract developers with an eye for a lucrative conversion. Some studio providers though, have managed to stay put and in some cases have moved on to better premises. Paul Glinkowski offers this progress report on artist-led studios projects in Leeds and in Stroud.
Im drawn towards work that offers two opposing features or truths.