‘A Shell Guide to Whitstable’ Currently preparing my guided walk of Whitstable and Seasalter. 14:30 at Whitstable Harbour ‘A Shell Guide to Whitstable’ is a guided walk from Whitstable to Seasalter, where participants converse with artist Emily Whitebread on her research into […]
Event and exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from our busy Events section and featuring events and exhibitions posted by a-n members.
Filmmaker wins 10th anniversary edition of £5,000 prize for recent graduates with video work featuring hand puppets made from latex chicken skin.
In the Shadow of the Pyramids – a searing study of the impact of the Egyptian revolution on everyday people – has been shortlisted for the £30,000 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2016. Tim Clark catches up with Laura El-Tantawy on the occasion of her exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery, London.
Last November, and out of the blue, came an invitation by Pat Naldi, Associate Editor of Philosophy of Photography (Intellect Books), for me to contribute ‘A Film in my Purse…’ to the forthcoming spring volume. Such an unexpected but wonderful […]
A gallery exhibition themed around Douglas Sirk’s 1959 film ‘Imitation of Life.’
63 Objects From My Son’s Mouth, is a project by artist Lenka Clayton, documenting the objects she found in and removed from her baby son’s mouth. The Museum is extremely grateful to object artist Kate Murdoch for the link to […]
The artists Patrick Hough and Lawrence Lek have been announced as the recipients of the Jerwood/FVU Awards 2017.
Michael Dean, Anthea Hamilton, Helen Marten and Josephine Pryde shortlisted for £25,000 award, with three out of the four nominees working with sculpture.
I’d never been to The Spire and I really liked it. I always enjoy things that happen in non-traditional venues; they always seem a bit special somehow. On this occasion we’d come to see New Blood, a concert by three […]
For her co-commission from Brighton Festival and HOUSE 2016, Gillian Wearing has created the film piece, A Room With Your Views, consisting of nearly 700 moving image “views” from windows around the world, sourced via a call-out for submissions. Dany Louise speaks to the artist.
The Scottish artist and filmmaker Rachel Maclean is to present a solo exhibition for the Scotland + Venice partnership at the 57th Venice Biennale.
First outing on Saturday night – there was quite a sense of anticipation – the start of something exciting! The Dome at Brighton was buzzing… in fact Brighton generally was buzzing with post-children’s parade and pre-gig excitement in the early […]
Walking into Birmingham Museum and Art Galley, one can be faced with many white faces. One painting that strikes me, is The Roffey Family by Sir Joshua Reynolds 1765–1769 , although after time a painting can indeed bleach, Reynolds paintings often lack red pigment, […]
Running the race with endurance.
I have just returned to my home in Hastings on the East Sussex coast after an epic ‘Grand Tour’ road trip of the UK. It has been an amazing privilege to take 15 days out of my normal routine to […]
On and off research from 2016- onwards.
The shortlist of five for the Art Fund’s Museum of the Year 2016 has been announced, with the winner of the £100,000 prize to be revealed in July.
Whilst creating live art I hope to get a full sense of the space including: weather, sounds, time, changes, paths, colour, touch, scents and depict this through photography, film and 3D and 2D ‘drawings’. The project is about becoming familiar […]
A blog on my recent experiences researching and making networks in New York as part of A-N Travel Bursary 2016.
In 2016 I was awarded an AN Travel Bursary to go to Fotofest: one of the oldest Photography Biennials in the world. The outcome was new friendships, new contacts and a whole new comprehension about the inner workings of the museum world.
I am so grateful for a-n for awarding me the a-n professional development bursary. This is a great help towards taking my practice to the next stage. My practice explores the in between areas of fact and imaginary, still […]
