experiments with drawing I love drawing. Sometimes it is a means to an end, sometimes it is an end in itself, and sometimes drawing is about making the first few tentative steps towards a new place, like learning to walk. […]
A guide to career development and training opportunities as well as related services and resources that are designed to help artists take their practice to the next level.
Just back from Venice Biennale. Too much to see to write about – sufficient to say suspect there is a sea-change and people are beginning to question the accepted model. Also very political. Back home in Scotland and I am […]
My journey on the train was beautiful; the view literally consisted of tree, tree, tree, sap, tree, lake, tree, tree etc. I found myself becoming slightly frustrated that I could not be out in the forest but the sighting of […]
The most versatile of artforms, art in the public realm includes permanent works as well as temporary installations and architectural manifestations. The appetite for such work has been enhanced through the Big Art Project that enabled communities themselves to make the running for art projects and nurtured their ambitions and narratives over four years. A record one million viewers were attracted to the resulting Channel 4 programmes broadcast in May.
Steve McQueen, Britain’s representative at the Venice Biennale, was giving a press conference about his artwork, a short film depicting the setting of the Biennale after the glamorous art world had left. A reporter from a Sunday newspaper asked whether […]
Beacon co-director John Plowman and artist Kelly Large discuss the project ‘Our Name is Legion’.
Today we were ceremoniously booted out from our studio on campus. 2nd Year Fine Art students use the space to have their assessment/end of year show. We went willingly though, as this feels like the beginning of the end. Here […]
Tate Britain, London
3 February – 26 April 2009
The Hayward, Southbank Centre, London
4 March – 25 May 2009
Money seems to be my overriding thought at the moment…mainly the fact that I have none, severely limiting my thinking in a number of new and irritating ways. After talking to a friend, I decided I should at least measure […]
Black dog publishing, London, UK
30 January 2009
I've just come home from seeing the Cildo Meireles exhibition at the Tate Modern – it was incredible! Despite crowds to rival the toilets at Glastonbury the visceral influence of the artwork was still noticeable. With the exception of the […]
Success! My website is back online! After a whole week of fiddling with settings I don't fully understand, it is finally working again! For all of 10 minutes I felt like I'd overcome my technical inabilities, until I realised that […]
Artist Talk Gayle Chong Kwan 5th December 2008 1-2pm Artist Talk and 3-4pm Q&A Film Theatre, Staffordshire University, College Road, Stoke on Trent ST4 2DE Gayle Chong Kwan will discuss her artwork, which can be seen as part of the […]
Its already half past twelve on my Art Day and I've yet to do anything art-related. I've finished a book, cleaned nearly the whole house and thoroughly checked my e-mail but done nothing technically productive in view of the fact […]
I am just back from Macedonia, where I when for a week to see my family and also to find out how things are developing with the Venice Biennale. I am not sure If I said this already in my […]
Launched in October, the International Curators’ Forum website supports its aim to provide an open conceptual network around emerging issues of curatorial practice in the context of key events in the international arts calendar.
Sarah Thelwall reveals that there is not one art market but several different ones. These markets are very different in terms of the artists, gallerists and collectors who participate and develop them. This Art market tour articulates the main markets and looks at what drives them.
With half the UK’s population residing outwith urban conurbations, and regional and arts and cultural policies prioritising local engagement, locations often regarded as countrified are strategically raising their art world profile through imaginative programmes and project.
