Hull-based artists, musicians, writers and theatre makers have expressed concern that their community will be under-represented after receiving a host of funding rejections from Hull City of Culture.
We asked artists, arts organisers and writers to comment on how leaving the EU might affect culture and creativity in the UK. Here, writer and researcher François Matarasso, mima’s Alistair Hudson, Katrina M Brown of the Common Guild, Modern Art Oxford director Paul Hobson, and artists Haroon Mirza, Joseph Young and Gordon Shrigley give their views.
A blog on my recent experiences researching and making networks in New York as part of A-N Travel Bursary 2016.
Creatives for Europe, a coalition of organisations, trade unions and representative bodies from the arts and creative industries, launched last week with a panel discussion at the House of Lords. Pippa Koszerek reports.
Shortlisted artists to develop proposals for a major new £30,000 commission, with winner to be announced at the end of 2016.
London-based artist and filmmaker wins £25,000 prize to fund the making of new work to be exhibited in Amsterdam in 2018.
Live print preparation (Photo: Skye Couzens) Lately I’ve been feeling on edge about the degree show, I don’t mean anxious, I mean literally thinking about the edge. Allow me to expand; both screens and prints have edges, edges which exist […]
The Islington Mill Art Academy in Salford has been providing a free alternative to mainstream art education since 2007. Sara Jaspan speaks to its co-founder, Maurice Carlin, and gets the views of artists who’ve taken part in the Academy’s ever-evolving investigation of what art education can be.
Now in its fourth year, the New Art West Midlands exhibition showcases the work of 43 recent graduates from universities in the region, presented across four venues in Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton. Cathy Wade reports from mac and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
As part of the Saatchi Gallery’s 30th anniversary show, Champagne Life, Cambridge-based, Iranian-born Soheila Sokhanvari is one of 14 artists in the gallery’s first ever all-female show. Dany Louise discovers more about the artist and her work.
LOW PROFILE look at the outcomes of Jamboree and the possibilities for taking it forwards. It feels important to know that all of the energy spent developing and delivering Jamboree might become a starting point for a productive shift in […]
What does 2016 have in store in terms of conferences and events, exhibitions, art fairs and festivals? We take a month-by-month look at what the year has to offer – and we’ll be adding new events for later in the year as they’re confirmed.
In this opening post LOW PROFILE discuss the motivations and aims behind its new residential workshop model. We feel pretty invisible. We’ve been around for a while and we’ve done lots of things we are proud of, but we remain, […]
The London-based studio provider enables 16 art college graduates to take up studios at its Warton House premises in Stratford from October 2016.
This year’s Arts Council England and British Council-supported No Boundaries – billed as a symposium on the role of arts and culture – took place over two days at the end of September at Watershed in Bristol and HOME, Manchester. Featuring talks and discussion from an international cast of contributors, it once again had a live link between each venue and was also live streamed. Artist Julie McCalden reports from Bristol, while arts consultant Mark Robinson presents a view from the rainy city.
Obscure Secure – Review bursary blog – Second post
Last year, artist and curator Emma Sumner took a research trip to India which saw her visit an extensive network of organisations at the heart of this vast country’s contemporary art scene. Here she highlights three of them and explores what can be learnt from their approach to art and funding.
Getting across the value of the arts to society in this unforgiving political climate needs more passion and fewer generic advocacy tools This month, I’ve been reminded how in the pre-internet days of the CND and the Greenham Common peace […]
The performance, video and installation artist discusses Hercules Rough Cut, his new commission for Bloomberg SPACE which explores empire, civilisation, London and language.
