A selection of exhibition highlights for the week, including: Sheela Gowda in Birmingham, Kate Davis in Edinburgh and Tate Modern’s ‘gut-punch of an exhibition’ documenting art in the age of Black Power.
Professional development is a constant process when you’re an artist. I’m sure most artists work is as much practice as practise – in that constant drive to push your boundaries and strive for the intangible thing that constantly motivates you. […]
A weekly briefing featuring national and international news, including: Baltimore removes all its Confederate monuments; London garden bridge project abandoned; new gallery and events space opens in Aberdeen.
Research Many of the techniques used by both Maxwell and Gorskii are no longer available to us. According to the archives at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C (where Gorskii’s work is held), there is no known replica or illustration […]
2015 marks the centennial of a key moment in the life of another giant in the field of Colour Photography: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii. In 1909 Gorskii was commissioned by Tsar Nicolas II to document the sprawling Russian Empire, which then […]
Its chucking it down out there and I’ve spent a good proportion of the day in my studio. I am still working on my ‘Abstract City’ series, be it a little slow. One of the things I consistently find difficult […]
Our Scene Report series continues with a visit to Dumfries, home to the artist-led Stove Network and a lively visual arts scene with a strong focus on community and participation. Martin Joseph O’Neill reports.
Projects from a-n members selected from a-n’s busy Events section, including an event in Birmingham celebrating the band Sleater-Kinney and exhibitions in Medway, Pembrokeshire, Shrewsbury and Oxford.
L O U I S E C A R R E C K C O M M U T I N G I N T E R V I E W (Edited) S: Could you say who are you and […]
A selection of exhibition highlights for the week ahead including exploratory tenderness in Liverpool, cucumber straighteners in Scunthorpe, and cruise ship aesthetics in Edinburgh.
On Monday this week I had my second consultation with Julian Germain. As before, a whole afternoon was spent in Cowshill village hall in Weardale, shuffling rough prints around, with breaks for tea and chocolate digestives. And it was a really […]
Artists Walker & Bromwich have created a new installation at the National Trust property near Bangor which, along with a community engagement project and video featuring archival footage and song, presents the history of The Great Strike of Penrhyn in the early 1900s and explores its contemporary resonance.
A new exhibition opens at Inverleith House later this week as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival, nine months after the gallery closed amid protests from artists and curators. We preview the show and highlight some of the exhibitions, commissions and events included in the festival programme.
Moving on I have been asking myself ‘how do I develop my art?’ Is it a conscious or subconscious thing? I suspect it is actually a mixture of both. ‘What should I be doing more of?’ is a question I […]
A weekly briefing featuring national and international news, including: Advertising watchdog to get tough on gender stereotypes and Christie’s reports soaring sales of £10m-plus art.
Talks, tours, seminars, workshops, DIY building, chopping, cooking, eating: just some of the activities undertaken by artists at a-n’s Assembly events throughout May and June 2017. Here we pull together a collection of images from the events in Margate, Liverpool, Bristol, Newcastle and Leeds.
A selection of exhibition highlights for the week ahead including British Pop Art in Kendal, Renaissance and Baroque drawings in London, and VR technology in Birmingham.
An expert panel spanning the worlds of cultural criticism, social media, neuroscience and photography discussed the impact of selfie culture at #Me My_Selfie and I: Self-Expression in the Digital Age, a symposium presented by Huawei that took place in front […]
Covering two decades of an essential period of black empowerment in American civil rights history, Tate Modern’s ‘Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power’ is provocative and powerful. Fisun Güner reports.
For the latest in our Scene Report series, artist and curator Matt Bray reports from Medway in south east England on a scene with a close-knit and independently-minded community spirit.
In the long gap since my last blog post, the snap election and aftermath have been a distraction… and life has been a bit all over the place generally, especially as every single weekend has been spent away. Lots of family stuff […]
