Something that kept sticking in my mind was nipples, it’s such a peculiar, comical word but is the correct word but when we think of the word nipple; does a female or male spring to mind? I’ve began casting my […]
My second day involved going to see artist Lucy Helton, who was also presenting the next night at the same event I was invited to talk at. Lucy has a studio quite a long way from where I was staying…It […]
For the latest in her series on artists’ books, Sarah Bodman looks at the work of Maddy and Paul Hearn who, with fellow artist Vickie Fear, are behind this month’s Counter: Plymouth Art Book Fair.
It’s been a long summer… and I’ve been photographing fields of barley and wheat, videoing the harvest, the internment of the stubble and the crows picking through the remains. What I need to do now is run through some tutorials […]
Ok , I’ve begun my phd , officially we started on 03/10/16 with a weeks on-boarding programme at the Jordanstown campus of the University of Ulster.That was 5 days of getting to know other phd students across the different disciplines […]
a-n and AIR to launch landmark piece of guidance for securing payment for artists who exhibit in publicly-funded galleries, with an event today at the Jerwood Space, London.
For over 30 years, New York’s Guerrilla Girls have been the feminist conscience of the art world, exposing sexism through protests and original research on posters, stickers, billboards and artwork. Fisun Güner spoke to two of the founding members about their new Whitechapel Gallery show, ‘Guerrilla Girls: Is it even worse in Europe?’
On Saturday I visited the Eva Rothschild exhibition at New Art Gallery Walsall with the Artist Teacher crew. We then visited the gallery studio for a workshop with the current artist in residence, Chloe Ashley, whose work you can see here. Chloe […]
Coming ten months into PAPER Gallery’s year-long mentoring scheme Tracing PAPER, a new exhibition showcases the work of the nine artists involved. Polly Checkland Harding talks to the gallery’s director and two of the artists involved in the scheme.
As a-n/AIR’s Paying Artists campaign prepares for the launch of its Exhibition Payment guide on Wednesday 12 October 2016, we take a look at some of the key moments in the campaign’s history, highlighting the rich and varied dialogue with artists and the wider visual arts sector that has informed its recommendations.
This week’s selection includes breakdancing in Glasgow, vast audio-visual work in London, and participatory exhibitions in Bristol and Manchester.
I’m an artist working primarily in sculpture and video. My work is made to investigate the worth, ownership and production of physical stuff, and how this translates to a world that is growing increasingly digital, immaterial and reproducible. My recent […]
Highlights for the week ahead selected from our busy Events section and featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n’s members.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Contemporary Art Society acquires artworks for Mima at Frieze, and Arts Council England announces budgets for 2018-22.
This year’s Frieze Art Fair features over 160 galleries, includes a new ‘The Nineties’ section, and continues until Sunday. Chris Sharratt reports.
We have been discussing the research process with those involved or simply interested in the project from our first day in Lviv. What is the story we are trying to tell? Is it about Debora Vogel as an intellectual, a […]
I am really interested in the possibility that Shakespeare may have written A Midsummer Nights Dream in a cave in Clydach. Then on a stroll earlier I was considering the act of walking while reading and so therefore feeling my […]
For her current exhibition at De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, Fiona Banner ranges across graphic and font design in her continuing exploration of language and form. Dany Louise talks to her.
The director of Bristol’s Arnolfini gallery is to take up a new role at Chatsworth House.
