NOW SHOWING #105: The week’s top exhibitions
This week’s selection features abstract painting in Hastings and a photography show with a difference in Birmingham.
This week’s selection features abstract painting in Hastings and a photography show with a difference in Birmingham.
My previous interest in the methods of Aby Warburg has led me to consider the ‘Atlas’ as a strategy for mapping cultural practice as well as an artistic method in itself. The use of atlases as a method of artistic […]
As artists find themselves at the end of the cultural food chain, Susan Jones suggests a new activism to reaffirm their status The so-called golden age of arts funding has given way to debilitating austerity, particularly for artists who find […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Words and images are starting to appear in reaction to nine women now… My friend and huge inspiration, Heather Wastie wrote a poem inspired by her trip to Dudley. Heather is the newly appointed Poet […]
Historical inquiry relies on the archive for its material in order to build narratives and explore connections between events. “The origin of the word ‘archive’… stems from the Greek and Latin words for ‘town hall, ruling office’, which, in turn, […]
This week I decided to consolidate my my own experiences of working in archives and collections by reading more about other artists working in this way, and particularly how these methods have been critically and historically received. One source of […]
As the degree shows season draws to a close, we republish the last of three interviews with art professionals from the 50-page a-n Degree Shows Guide 2015. Here, Louise Hutchinson, director of S1 Artspace in Sheffield, talks about how to present work and the tyranny of the student business card.
By Tracing the Pathway member Joe Dunne: I have never known a pile of soil to be so inviting to strangers. Well, strangers might be overstating it – that term evaporates the moment anyone comes over with a curious and […]
This week’s selection includes the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, figurative oil painting at the Serpentine and a look back at a 1970s artist project at Birmingham’s Eastside Projects.
Five events by a-n’s members – posted onto the popular Events listings page – include exhibitions and events in Bolton, Grantham, Hertford, London and Somerset.
The first of two summer exhibitions at the CASS, London is a high-calibre show featuring excellent curation. Jack Hutchinson reports, and finds that the student exhibitors are already planning for the future.
Glasgow School of Art’s BA Fine Art degree show, the first full showcase since last year’s fire, is across two floors of the department’s new home in the Tontine Building in the city’s east end. Chris Sharratt reports.
Sky Academy has announced the five recipients of its Arts Scholarships 2015, which aim to help young British and Irish artists develop their creative practice and take their work to the next level.
This year’s UWE Bristol Fine Art and Art & Visual Culture degree show at Spike Island features work by 42 students. Rowan Lear reports on a provocative and irreverent exhibition.
This week’s selection includes sculptures and collages by Eileen Agar in Leeds, an Agnes Martin retrospective in London, and a film installation from Luke Fowler and Mark Fell in Glasgow.
What happens when you take the scoring system from one iconic European cultural event and apply it to another?
Roadside Museum featured a selection of artworks excavated from a twelve-month burial in a roadside field in West Lancashire.
X is for Xyza Cruz Bacani, A-Z of Filipino Cultural Exports B: 1987 / ‘Photography takes Filipino maid from Hong Kong to New York’ – reads a CNN headline (February 20, 2015). Reporting from Hong Kong (CNN) – A domestic worker from the […]
Combining traditional and digital processes within the realm of photography is the focus of Cath Dack’s work. She explores a variety of subject matter but her growing expertise in dark room and wet photographic processes makes necessary the consideration of […]
I visited BasementArtProject’s latest exhibition curated by artists Gordon Culshaw and John O’Hare last month and reviewed the show for Corrior8 (first published on Corridor 8, 25 May 2015): Roadside Museum featured a selection of artworks excavated from a twelve-month burial […]