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.
This month’s art world movers.
Highlighting digital and new media commissions, exhibitions, research and resource developments.
Catherine Wilson addresses three collaborative projects by Rio de Janeiro-based Mauricio Dias and Walter Riedweg who develop works with communities and social groups often on the edges of mainstream society.
Brilliant! – I’ve just had the dates confirmed for a show in Norway. So long as I can get everything together before I go on holiday I’ll still have time for a dry run in the studio before I make […]
I have now moved to Gloucester and have officially started the residency. Well I actually moved last Sunday the 15th and slept in this new house for two nights but had to go back to Brighton on Tuesday. The move […]
Heather and Ivan Morison on the thinking behind their work I am sorry. Goodbye.
My video "Dreams and Conflicts" which I uploaded to Youtube a year ago has suddenly started to generate a wealth of comments – for no apparent reason! <a href="http://uk.youtube.com/user/annshaw"> Venice Biennale</a> I made it from "mashing "images taken from the […]
The Jerwood Foundation, one of the UK’s best supporters of artists’ practice through their awards and prizes programmes, has a focus this month on photography.
Seven Midlands-based producers and curators have taken part in an innovative programme, Momentum, to develop their ideas and support them in making art.
Tramway, Glasgow
6 February 2008
Manick Govinda’s profile of Paul Hamlyn Foundation, one of the most respected and innovative grant-giving trusts in the UK
An overview of funding news for England, Wales and Scotland.
Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
16 January – 16 February
and other shows in Ireland
This month’s news of art moves.
Theo Wood talks to two of the judges of this year’s Emergency open exhibition at Aspex in Portsmouth.
There are now over 200 contemporary art biennials across the globe, compared with four or five or twenty years ago.
Rather than asking what a biennial represents, it may be worthwhile to shift the emphasis of the question and examine how it represents. That is: How is it experienced?
There is something about a ceramics conference that can send a shudder up the spine.
Guggenheim Museum, New York
27 October 2007
S Mark Gubb profiles artist Gavin Wade and his project that aims to tackle the role and function of art.
Sally Davies profiles Kypros Kyprianou, discussing his interest in scientific themes, collaborative working and residencies at Artsway and Allenheads Contemporary Arts.
Patricia Fleming discusses the relationship with the art market for artists and curators in Wales and Scotland.
Emilia Telese’s opening essay offers analysis of the markets for art in the UK highlighting the ‘contradictions and idiosyncrasies’ of the relationship between artists and money,
Artists and artists’ support agencies have benefited from recent Arts Council England funding rounds.
