The latest round of a-n’s Go and See bursary scheme for artist-led groups has awarded over £12,500 to 11 artists’ initiatives across the UK.
The international artists and writers nominated for the biennial Absolut Art Award have been announced.
Glasgow-based filmmaker Duncan Campbell has been announced winner of the 2014 Turner Prize.
The latest round of a-n’s Go and see bursaries – supporting the exchange of knowledge and fostering joint developments between artist-led groups – is now open for applications. Here we explain how to apply and profile some of the successful projects from the previous round.
Creative Scotland has announced details of the 119 organisations that make up its new Regular Funding portfolio, benefiting from regular support over a three-year period.
Asia Triennial Manchester is a multi-venue festival of contemporary art which for its third edition takes Conflict and Compassion as its theme. Chris Sharratt reports.
The 2014 Turner Prize show has opened to the public, with three of the four shortlisted artists presenting film pieces.
What are artists’ associate programmes and what do they offer within the broad landscape of artists’ professional development? What should artists consider before applying? Based on extensive research into sixty arts organisations across England, Scotland and Wales, this guide by Dany Louise offers artists help in thinking through the various options available to them.
Jeremy Deller and Yinka Shonibare MBE announce support for a-n / AIR campaign.
The Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller has pledged his support for a-n/AIR’s Paying Artists campaign in a statement that urges all publicly-funded galleries to pay fair fees to artists.
In less than four weeks, Scotland will be voting to decide whether to become an independent nation or remain part of the UK. Chris Sharratt speaks to artists and those working in the visual arts in the country and finds thinking that runs much deeper than nationalism, oil revenues and questions of currency.
Now in its second year, the Residency for Artists on Hiatus seeks to free its participants from the pressures of the ‘capital A art world’ by providing space for artists to not make art. Michaela Nettell finds out more.
To sound quintessentially English – Summer is a delight at Hestercombe. The gardens are in full bloom and the landscape is bursting with vibrant foliage and healthy flora. My recent stay was different to my previous experiences merely because now […]
The current exhibitions director at London’s Timothy Taylor Gallery has been appointed as the British Council’s new director of visual arts.
BETWEEN THE PHYSICAL AND THE UNPERCEIVABLE After a visit to the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 I experienced Marc Quinn’s gigantic inflatable sculpture of a disembodied women gazing with purple eyes over the water from the not so distant island […]
Received an email from email from Chris this morning letting me know we are using the same image for our blogs. Two different perspectives of the same work. All good :) Day 3. Time to breath as we didn’t need […]
Mike Nelson Michael “Mike” Nelson (born 20 August 1967) is a contemporary British installation artist. He represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2011. Nelson has twice been nominated for the Turner Prize in 2001 and 2007. Nelson’s installations always […]
Asia Triennial Manchester 2014 returns for its third edition this September, with the theme of ‘Conflict and Compassion’.
Irish artist Richard Mosse has been awarded the £30,000 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2014 for his haunting yet seductive work on the wartorn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Creative Scotland have announced the recipients of their bursary programme for artists that seeks to provide time and resources for artists demonstrating ‘a high level of quality, imagination and ambition in their work.’
This year’s shortlist features Duncan Campbell, Tris Vonna-Michell, Ciara Phillips and James Richards.
This May Day bank holiday weekend sees the launch of the Bristol Art Weekender, a four-day event that brings together 16 of the city’s visual arts venues, producers and artist-run initiatives for the first time. We talk to some of those involved and investigate the wider context for the upsurge in cultural activity in the city.
It’s not exactly a vintage year for the highly-coveted Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, hosted by The Photographers’ Gallery, but one shortlisted artist in particular makes a bold statement for the award.
