Now in its fifth year, for 2017 the New Art West Midlands exhibition welcomes recent graduates from Hereford College of Arts alongside those from Birmingham City University, University of Wolverhampton, University of Worcester, Staffordshire University, and Coventry University.
Saziso Phiri is celebrating one year of her pop-up gallery with a birthday party at Nottingham’s Rough Trade shop, followed by a series of free workshops in tandem with Nottingham Contemporary’s ‘The Place is Here’ show. Wayne Burrows talks to her about her mission to work with artists who operate beyond the usual art world structures.
This week’s selection includes film installation in London, photography in Penzance and a celebration of Aspex’s 35th anniversary in Portsmouth.
Turner prize 2016: I went to see the turner prize 2016 at the Tate Britain, which was won this year by Helen Marten. I was particularly inspired by her work; in terms of the way that she combines sculpture with […]
Last semester I began with a new subject matter, one which I felt would keep me focused for the entirety of level 6. The subject I chose was basing my practice on myself and so making my art personal to […]
This week’s selection includes paintings in Oxford, film in London and woodcut prints in Carmarthen.
Working in a wide-range of media from film to sculpture to performance, London-based artist Larry Achiampong draws on colonial history, his own Ghanian heritage, and the experience of growing up in Britain to create works that explore ideas around class, race and cultural identity. Wayne Burrows talks to him.
This week’s selection includes art by email at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, light art in Eastbourne and George Shaw’s paintings in Kendal.
Should Scotland have its own archive of artists’ moving image work, and if so what form should it take and what should be in it? Chris Sharratt reports on a recent Lux Scotland event exploring the feasibility of a ‘distribution collection’ of Scottish works.
Ferens Art Gallery in Hull has reopened after a £5.2 million refurbishment largely funded by Hull City Council. But while the local authority should be commended for its commitment to culture, Sheila McGregor argues that the blame for council cuts in towns and cities across the UK needs to be forcefully directed at Westminster politicians rather than hapless local representatives.
I spent December in Japan: first a week working in Tokyo as part of the Playable City Tokyo creative lab (read more about it here) and then a few weeks traveling around refreshing old connections and making new ones. […]
This week’s selection includes a waiting room with a difference in Newcastle, sound and moving image in Plymouth, and Tantric drawings in London.
Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and taking us to Birmingham, Leicester, London and Whitby.
Built in 1971 and all but abandoned by the cash-strapped local council in 2013, Turnpike Gallery in the former mining town of Leigh near Wigan, is entering a new stage in its history with the creation of a community interest company to run its programme. Natalie Bradbury speaks to arts manager Helen Stalker as the gallery relaunches with the Jerwood Drawing Prize touring exhibition.
‘This Is An Art School’ project, offering the public free studio workshops, launches the Tate Exchange Associates programme of over 100 events.
Using a camera opens up a secondary world. The photograph itself is often a documentative tool, arguably a medium of truth. An installation however, within a gallery setting may appear staged. Tracey Emin’s My Bed (1998) is a good example […]
It is wonderfully clear and (very) cold evening. After two evenings of snowfall, which I spent reading the (Swedish) instruction manual for my seldom-used digital SLR camera, I thought that it would be an ideal time to go take some […]
