Every five years the provincial German town of Kassel, one hundred miles north of Frankfurt, hosts one of the biggest events in the art world calendar. Frederika Whitehead profiles ‘Documenta 11’ and picks some of her personal highlights.
After responding to an opportunity listing in the October 2001 issue of [a-n] Magazine for a residency in Charing Cross Hospital, Clare Johnson was selected and invited to start work in December. The project organised by the Arts Committee for […]
As an artists’ facility and studio complex, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop has been active on the Scottish art scene for the last fifteen years. More recently, we have been setting up links with numerous European countries, the most ambitious and widespread […]
Over the last ten years I have been involved in a series of ambitious publicly sited projects that have been diverse, both in their physical appearance and their scale, whilst fulfilling various conceptual criteria.
Selected by art historian Frances Borzello, academic and commentator Germaine Greer, artist Jenny Saville, and expert on ageing Dr Leonie Kellaher ‘Art, Age and Gender’ presents work by women artists that explores all aspects of ageing from cradle to grave. […]
For the Beacon’s Golden Years project, Martin Newth has used pinhole photography, hand-built giant camera obscuras and digital imaging to examine perceptions of changes in Whitehaven, and its immediate and wider context over the past fifty years. Engaging with community […]
The Devon Guild of Craftsmen’s shop and gallery, based at the Riverside Mill in Bovey Tracey on the fringes of Dartmoor, has recently undergone a transformation. Thanks to substantial grants from the lottery, it now boasts new display units, fitted […]
Malcolm Dickson highlights the issues around the future needs of artists’ organisations in Scotland.
Judith Staines visits Mumbai and reports on its reputation for contemporary art.
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.
I have been working on an ongoing video series – Interludes – since 1997.
Site Gallery, Sheffield 16 February – 6 April
With two large-scale group exhibitions and numerous recent solo shows taking the UK’s shoreline as their subject, Emma Safe takes a look at artists’ responses to the contemporary coast.
Nina Packer was still a student when she first heard about ‘Observatori’. Here, she tells how a visit from an ex-student of the London Guildhall University, led to her participation in this Spanish cross-artform festival.
After studying at the art college in Belfast, I joined Catalyst Arts (an artist-run organisation based in the city) where I was co-director for two years.
In 1999 I was flicking through a book on Julia Margaret Cameron, the pioneering Victorian photographer.
Technological and scientific research is the focus for three new technology fellowships at Kettle’s Yard Cambridge, awarded to Simon Biggs, Mark Palmer and Alexa Wright. These have been created through a collaboration with the university’s research network Crucible and the […]
Rosemary Shirley explores ways artists are working in or with remote locations and how new technologies are being employed.
Graham Ramsay reports on the artscene in Canada’s largest city.
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow 26 October – 23 December
Museum of Classical Archaeology, University of Cambridge 3 November – 19 December
Liverpool – which claims to be the only UK city to host a biennial of contemporary art – mapped out its 2002 event in November. To be held 14 September – 24 November, Biennial Director Lewis Biggs plans “an explosion […]
Various venues, Sheffield 13 October – 24 November
Millais Gallery, Southampton 19 October – 1 December
Axis – the national digital register of artists – has appointed Kay Pallister to the new post of content curator and Reuben Knutson as the Schools’ Resource project leader. Pallister, who relocates from New York’s Gagosian Gallery, brings with her […]
