In a piece originally published by The Conversation, Jade French – a writer for Disability Arts Online – argues that, with an exhibition from Unlimited and other initiatives, this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe is foregrounding great art rather than paying lip service to diversity.
Last year, artist and curator Emma Sumner took a research trip to India which saw her visit an extensive network of organisations at the heart of this vast country’s contemporary art scene. Here she highlights three of them and explores what can be learnt from their approach to art and funding.
Review of The Ways of Folding Space and Flying,
a project by Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho, Korean pavilion.
The Curating the Campus symposium, held to mark the launch of the University of Leeds’ Public Art Strategy, brought together speakers from across the UK to discuss commissioning and presenting public art on campus. Amelia Crouch reports.
As HOME, Manchester’s new space for art, theatre and cinema, fully opens to the public, Bob Dickinson looks at its place in the city’s arts ecology, the significance of its cross-disciplinary approach to commissioning, and where it sits in the city’s wider regeneration plans and the creation of a ‘northern powerhouse’.
The preview days of the biennale from a personal perspective
The Jerwood Drawing Prize has announced it is open for submissions for the 2015 edition.
Serena Porrati has been awarded the £10,000 Mostyn Open 19 prize for her work, 365 Days of Sun.
Today I received rejection No 3 and I’m guessing that proposal No 4 has been rejected too as I’ve just seen on the website that they are unveiling all of the artworks chosen next weekend. Oh I see, artists are […]
On Monday, I finally met up in person with Paul Hammond of Hammond Associates and Kyla, the Kirkby shopping centre manager, to look over the unit that will be used as a base for artists. To re cap, I will […]
Now let’s get a few things straight first. I am not suggesting everyone is in a position to do an artist residency. If you have dependents, a home to look after, a job or other responsibilities it’s not that easy […]
Chosen from over 400 applicants, Photoworks and Jerwood Visual Arts have announced the three artists who will each receive £5000 to develop new work.
Art Map London’s new project is Free Spaces, a directory of alternative venues for art. We speak to Art Map’s Jenny Judova about the new online initiative.
What a week of bickering! You would think there was an election looming or something of the sort. The question is; will our dear prime minister enter the ‘big house’ reality TV show or not? Mind you, I can fully […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here The only other time I can remember having this much money in my bank account was after my father died. In fact, it was a very similar amount. Then, I remember thinking it was a […]
Former Tate Modern and Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Nicholas Cullinan is to take over from Sandy Nairne as director of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Last year for expedient reasons, mainly to make my day job more challenging, I developed an artist residency programme within a product design research centre Makers Using Technology.
In addition to notions of DIY and self-publishing, Nick Thurston’s talk (which was discussed in last week’s blog) also explored themes of media theory and digital distribution. After detailing his recent exhibitions and publications, Thurston continued to contextualise his practice […]
As I heard back from Millie to say that I could come in Tuesday 21st I spent Monday preparing a presentation about myself as well as a brief overview of the project for the children. After being at university for […]
As I heard back from Millie to say that I could come in Tuesday 21st I spent Monday preparing a presentation about myself as well as a brief overview of the project for the children. After being at university for […]
As I heard back from Millie to say that I could come in Tuesday 21st I spent Monday preparing a presentation about myself as well as a brief overview of the project for the children. After being at university for […]
Now in its third year, Tempting Failure is an artist-led international festival of live and performance art in Bristol that encourages artists to push the boundaries of their practice. We talk to the festival’s artistic director, Thomas John Bacon.
Thesis writing continues… The chapter and chapter sections are in place and have notes and references that are becoming sentences (or half sentences) that are becoming paragraphs, and are being moved around, expanded and deleted. I’ve not updated much about […]
Residencies are as diverse as the practitioners, organisations and environments that host them. From fee paying to sponsored, rural to urban and global to local. They provide a matrix for investigation, invention and exploration (at best) and at worst they […]
Arts organisations and those connected to them must be sure not to do anything that could damage Arts Council England’s reputation as a government-sponsored body, else their grants could be at risk. Arts Professional’s Liz Hill reports.
