Hayley Newman was awarded this year’s Arts Council England Helen Chadwick Fellowship. Established by the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art and the British School at Rome, it is intended to assist significant artists develop their careers and make […]
Artist Dave Farnham has won PizzaExpress Prospects 2004 – a national contemporary drawing prize now in its fifth year. The artist will be presented with a cheque for £10,000 by leading art historian and broadcaster Tim Marlow The artist’s work, […]
The Phillips Gallery, Taunton
17 April – 22 May
West Midlands-based organisation The Public and British Waterways recently commissioned seven artists to undertake projects based around the Birmingham Main Line canal at Galton Valley, Smethwick as part of strategies to encourage people to engage and understand their local canals. […]
Winners of the decibel visual arts awards, aimed at black and Asian artists, and curators, were announced in March.
Impressions Gallery, York
13 December – 14 February
Edith-Marie Pasquier talks to inIVA Director Gilane Tawadros and artist Alia Syed about their experience of working together.
Roy Exley reports on the ‘Emergency’ exhibition and symposium in Portsmouth.
Gillian Nicol reports on Montreal’s vibrant artist-run sector.
Dark and claustrophobic, suffocating like it was no bigger than a box; upon opening its door her bedroom feels as tiny as a room in a dolls house.
Jeremy Akerman talks to curator Jeremy Millar and artists Annelies Oberdanner and Tariq Alvi and asks what curators and artists want from each other.
Schweppes Photographic
Portrait Prize
Rohini Malik Okon explores the evolving relationship between Faisal Abdu’Allah and The Agency Contemporary.
Diana Yeh reports from the ‘Fieldworks: Dialogues between Art and Anthropology’ symposium.
Libby Anson talks to Juan delGado and the Wellcome Trust about his residency.
Henna Asikainen reports from the Fifth International Conference on Environmental Aesthetics.
Scott Sherry reports from an artist-initiated festival of publicly-sited artworks.
Deborah Smith unpicks the notion of collaborative practice in the work of the artist, writer and curator David A Bailey, the third article in the ‘Crossing over’ series.
The Brighton Photo Biennale 2003, the new major event in the photography calendar, kicked off in October. Combining exhibitions, commissions and events, the biennale permeates across traditional gallery spaces as well as appropriating Brighton Parish Church as a site for […]
The Scottish Arts Council has recently published an audit of visual artists. Moira Jeffrey reports.
Rufford Craft Centre Gallery, Newark
23 September – 2 November
The Jerwood Foundation was confirmed as the UK’s most prolific art prize-giver when it handed over £25,500 to six visual artists in September. The £15,000 applied arts prize for glass went to Helen Maurer, selected from a shortlist of eight. […]
Various venues, Nottingham
1 September – 16 November
Ben Coode-Adams talks to Rob Kesseler and NESTA about their symbiotic relationship.
Special degree show review: Chris Brown visits colleges in Wales.
