For the latest in our ongoing Scene Report series focusing on the visual arts ecology of towns, cities and regions across the UK, artist and writer Wayne Burrows reports from the East Midlands.
In a world saturated with photography I was intrigued by the reaction of underlined project participants to seeing themselves in beautifully crafted documentation drawings made by Adam Wilson at our previous workshops. There was something that connected people to each […]
News briefing with national and international stories, including: graffiti artists awarded pay out after work on New York building is destroyed, and Shân Edwards appointed CEO of Edinburgh Printmakers.
Sarah Bodman finds much to be excited about at the forthcoming two-day Artists’ BookMarket event, which this year sees Fruitmarket Gallery partnering with Stills for a focus on photography.
For my second session I wanted to focus on a practice plate spinning area and used the climbing frame as a curtain with different textured materials draped, framing sections of the structure. From the intro session the blue and red […]
Five projects posted by a-n members on our busy Events section and this week including exhibitions in Herne Bay, London, Newcastle upon Tyne, Newton Powys and Penzance.
For her 600-word review following the writer development workshop at Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery, Jessica Ramm chose to write about Edmund Clark’s exhibition. For the exhibition ‘In Place of Hate’, Edmund Clark offers up the culmination of his three-year residency at […]
I use the photography of others as inspiration and source material. I’m wondering how far this can go before it can cause problems?
Following on from the writer development programme workshop at Ikon Gallery, which was led by Frieze deputy editor Amy Sherlock, Laura Davidson reviews Edmund Clark’s “refreshing utopian” exhibition, ‘In Place of Hate’. Oscar Wilde pressed flowers he found in the […]
At the third writer workshop led by Frieze deputy editor Amy Sherlock, the participants were asked to file a 600-word of one of the two current exhibitions at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. This is Carrie Foulkes’ review Edmund Clark’s ‘In Place of […]
This week’s selection of recommended shows includes an exploration of language at Holden Gallery, Manchester, Glenn Brown’s intricate paintings at Gagosian and the winner of last year’s Woon Foundation Art Prize, Joy Labinjo, at London’s Morley Gallery.
News briefing with national and international stories, including: Arts Alive Wales to be rebranded as Peak; Guggenheim curator offered Trump White House loan of Maurizio Cattelan’s solid gold functioning toilet.
Don’t give up the day job was an event hosted by Castlefield Gallery in partnership with Manchester Craft and Design Centre and Redeye, the Photography Network, in January 2018. It aimed to encourage people to keep sight of their artistic […]
Creative Scotland has announced the recipients of regular funding for the 2018-21 period, with some big names leaving the portfolio and some new additions including Stills Gallery and the Scottish Contemporary Art Network.
This week’s selection of recommended shows includes an exploration of masculinity at Vane in Newcastle and a group show that traces the acoustic lives of different cities and places across the Arab world at Nottingham Contemporary.
The Herefordshire-based painter Clare Woods has developed a series of eight large-scale oil on aluminium works for her new show at Warwick Arts Centre’s Mead Gallery, reflecting an ongoing move away from abstraction towards more figurative paintings. Anneka French talks to the artist about scale, process and her photographic source material.
News briefing with national and international stories, including: Berlin Biennale announces ‘We don’t need another hero’ and university museum plans to sell works by Ingres, Degas and more at Christie’s.
For the latest dispatch in our ongoing Scene Report series, artist, curator and founding director of the Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ryan Hughes, offers a snapshot of visual arts activity in the 2021 UK City of Culture.
This week’s selection of recommended shows includes digital photography in Sheffield, Degas in London and a group show celebrating Kate MacGarry’s fifteenth anniversary.
