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Artist Khadija Saye confirmed as victim of Grenfell Tower fire
The 24-year-old artist, whose work is featured in the Diaspora Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, lived on the 20th floor of the block.
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Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the Mask, Another Mask
“Under this mask, another mask. I will never finish removing all these faces.” (Claude Cahun, 1930) I recently went to see the Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the Mask, Another Mask at the National Portrait Gallery. This exhibition brings […]
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Passen-gers | 06 | Xiaowen Zhu, The Details Are Invented
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Degree shows 2017: collaborative power play, fab knitting and Plasticine blobs
Following a busy week of degree show openings across the UK, we catch up with the latest a-n Instagram takeovers that saw a-n members posting from Bristol, London, Salford, Manchester and Edinburgh.
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Degree Shows 2017: This week’s openings, 7-12 June
This week sees major degree shows opening across the UK, including exhibitions in Bournemouth, Cambridge, Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield, Plymouth, and the West Midlands.
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Scene Report: Northamptonshire – Fractured, uneven, with artists filling the gaps
For the latest in our ongoing series looking at art scenes around the UK, Corby-based James Steventon takes a tour of Northamptonshire which also includes the former industrial towns of Northampton and Kettering in its borders.
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NOW SHOWING #199: The week’s top exhibitions
A selection of recommended exhibitions for the week ahead, including Renaissance drawing in Oxford, brand new sculpture in London and pioneering 19th century photography in Edinburgh.
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The Lochnagar Quilt
A new work, R&D for a larger project From Wasteland To Wasteland exploring the Somme and TS Eliot’s the Waste Land
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Degree shows 2017: sublime minimalism and playful explorations of touch
a-n members Bob Gelsthorpe and Jacki Cairns have visited degree shows in Swansea, Lincoln, Hertfordshire and Cardiff for the first of our Instagram takeovers of the 2017 degree shows season.
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Art as Transformer
Art as Transformer is an exploration into the relationships between painting and photography and the effects photography has upon the ways we interpret the world around us. The increase of mobile digital photography over the last 17 years has given […]
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A Q&A with… Kimathi Donkor, Diaspora Pavilion artist at Venice Biennale 2017
London-based artist Kimathi Donkor is among 12 artists featured in the Diaspora Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, presented by the International Curators Forum and University of the Arts London. He talks about the importance of the British black arts movement in the 1980s, history painting, and the idea of diaspora.
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Degree Shows 2017: This week’s openings, 1-3 June
This week we highlight 12 degree shows across the UK, including openings in Belfast, Bristol, Newcastle, Brighton and Leeds.
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Philip Gurrey, Maisie Broadhead, Glenn Brown, Sasha Bowles, Paul Stephenson, Matthieu Leger, Annie Kevans, Antony Micallef, Jasleen Kaur, Samin Ahmadzadeh, Julie Cockburn, James E Smith and Jake Wood-Evans
Curated by Tristram Aver
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2017 Bow Open Show line-up announced
19 artists from across London-based charity Bow Arts’ 13 studio sites have been chosen for the annual exhibition which this year is curated by East End-based sculptor Alex Chinneck.
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AiR 2017 End of Residency Group Show
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Degree Shows 2017: This week’s openings, 24-30 May
Selected from listings in the a-n Degree Shows Guide 2017, 11 degree shows opening across the UK.
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Is Romanticism Gone For Ever?
The artist Alexander James disagrees. He has been producing underwater photographs of flowers and people for the last three decades, always wrapped up in Romanticism: the melancholia of everything being temporary and already gone; the exquisite beauty; the fated end; […]
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Contemporary Masters from Britain: 80 British Painters of the 21st Century
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Post construction stage – it’s still afloat…
A couple of weeks after I constructed the oak structure and rowed forth with it in tow onto the lake I am deep in other work and slightly panicking that I am not making the most of the artwork I […]
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Models for mother artists: how to maintain your practice as a parent
Being a mother of young children and continuing your art practice is incredibly difficult. Inspired by a recent symposium exploring the challenges of being a ‘mother artist’, Frances Bossom – who presents a ‘Proposal for a Guide for Art Parents’ at June’s a-n Assembly event in Bristol – calls for an approach that values the complex reality of motherhood.
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NOW SHOWING #197: The week’s top exhibitions
A selection of recommended exhibitions for the week ahead, including drawing in London, painting and print in Glasgow, and video in Edinburgh.
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Degree shows 2017: announcing this year’s a-n Instagram takeovers
Over the coming month, a team of a-n members will taking over a-n’s Instagram to post images and commentary from degree shows around the country. We meet the artists and find out which shows they will be posting from.
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Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2017: shortlist and new venues announced
Selectors Caroline Achaintre, Elizabeth Price and George Shaw have chosen 47 new and recent fine art graduates for the annual open submission exhibition, which this year will take place in Gateshead and Newcastle.
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A Q&A with… Rachel Maclean, Scotland + Venice artist
For her Venice Biennale film, Spite Your Face, Scottish artist Rachel Maclean has created a re-working of the Pinnocchio story that explores power, political lies and the rise of populism. Moira Jeffrey talks to her about the themes and form of the work.
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Degree Shows 2017: This week’s openings, 18-22 May
This week’s selection, taken from the a-n Degree Shows Guide 2017 listings, features 10 shows opening across England, Wales and Scotland, and includes University of Worcester, Dundee University, the Slade, and Swansea College of Art