October’s must-see exhibitions
Exhibition highlights featuring a-n members, including Maybelle Peters in Nottingham, early-career artists in Hull and Northern Irish craft.
Exhibition highlights featuring a-n members, including Maybelle Peters in Nottingham, early-career artists in Hull and Northern Irish craft.
Exhibitions and events from a-n members, plus other major shows.
Cardiff-based a-n member Sean Edwards amongst recipients of £10,000 bursaries, which have been distributed after Tate Britain announced it would not be possible to stage a Turner Prize exhibition this year.
Our regular selection of shows to see around the UK, including Emily Speed’s video work at Tate St Ives, Jerwood Makers Open at Manchester Art Gallery, and Alex Crocker’s large scale paintings and works on paper at TACO!, London.
A selection of exhibitions to catch over the festive period, including shows in Birmingham, London, Middlesbrough, Wakefield and Gateshead.
a-n is inviting applications for its Writer Development Programme 2019-20, which will run from October 2019 to March 2020.
A selection of recommended shows, including: Emii Alrai’s diorama-inspired installation at Two Queens, Leicester; Michael Fullerton’s new paintings at Koppe Astner, Glasgow; and Instagram-infused video installation with Rhona Foster and Meg Jenkins at Embassy, Edinburgh.
Cample Line produces exhibitions and film screenings, bringing visitors to the rural location of Nithsdale in Dumfriesshire, south west Scotland. Whilst referencing the site’s industrial history, its programme also addresses the socio-economic challenges faced by local communities. Richard Taylor reports.
A selection of the week’s best shows, including: George Shaw’s early inspiration revealed at the Paul Mellon Centre, London; the opening group show at a brand-new Middlesbrough art space; and Julie Mehretu’s drawings and monotypes at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge.
Recommended shows from across the UK, including: Hardeep Pandhal’s video installation and drawings at the New Art Exchange, Nottingham, Nigel Cooke’s paintings at the Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, and Helen Sear’s video, photography and sound at Impressions Gallery, Bradford.
This week’s selection includes exhibitions and open studios in Felinfach near Lampeter in Wales, London, Sheffield and Edinburgh, all taken from a-n’s Events section featuring shows and events posted by a-n members.
For his exhibition, ‘CAPSID’, John Walter draws on his time as resident artist of infection at UCL where he collaborated with structural virologist Professor Greg Towers. Lydia Ashman finds out how his focus on a protein shell that enables the rapid transmission of viruses has resulted in a riotous, playful mix of film, painting, collage and installation.
Rose Wylie has found critical and commercial success late in life, winning the 2014 John Moores Painting Prize at 80 and her first major exhibition taking place when she was 77. As her show, ‘Quack Quack’, continues at London’s Serpentine Sackler Gallery, the Kent-based artist talks to Fisun Güner about show titles, inspiration and more.
A selection of exhibition highlights for the week ahead including: Paula Rego at Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov’s installations at Tate Modern, London, and Turner Prize-winner Susan Philipsz at Baltic, Gateshead.
It’s that time of year again when London’s Regent’s Park is taken over by two vast temporary marquees as the international art world descends on the capital for Frieze Art Fair and Frieze Masters. We take a look at Frieze and the other art, craft and design fairs taking place across the city this week.
The first Falmouth Art Publishing Fair takes place at Falmouth Art Gallery from 29 September to 1 October featuring artists’ books, editions, posters, leaflets, multiples, audio and ephemera. Sarah Bodman previews the event.
With participants based across England, Scotland and Wales, the 2017-18 a-n Writer Development Programme includes three workshops led by professional writers and editors beginning at Spike Island, Bristol in October.
a-n is inviting applications for its Writer Development Programme 2017-18, which will run from August 2017 to March 2018.
A new exhibition and free pop-up summer school from Create London and the William Morris Gallery celebrates the cultural and educational legacy of Walthamstow School of Art, which from 1957 to 1967 became a hotbed of artistic ideas and talent. Lydia Ashman talks to two of the people behind the ‘Be Magnificent’ project.
For the latest in our ongoing series looking at art scenes around the UK, Corby-based James Steventon takes a tour of Northamptonshire which also includes the former industrial towns of Northampton and Kettering in its borders.
As conflict and war continues across the world, artists are exploring ways to cut through the mainstream news narrative in order to highlight the ongoing refugee crisis. Lydia Ashman looks at current projects, artworks, and exhibitions that are tackling this urgent humanitarian and political issue.
Artists Alex Hartley and Tom James have created a geodesic dome constructed from reclaimed materials and situated it in the Capability Brown-designed gardens of Compton Verney, a Georgian mansion and gallery in rural Warwickshire. Anneka French finds out about their plans for the future.
With a solo show at ICA and as part of a group exhibition at Eastside Projects, Sonia Boyce is exploring ideas around play, improvisation and sculpture – including a collaborative project with ukuele-playing skateboarders. Anneka French talks to the artist during the first of two lively, nerve-wracking performances in Birmingham, as skaters fly by and instruments are played.
Having graduated from the Royal College of Art last year, London-based artist Holly Hendry has won numerous awards and just opened her first solo show in a UK public gallery at Baltic, Gateshead. Anneka French talks to her about her whirlwind career so far.
For her current show at The Showroom, London-based artist Laura Oldfield Ford has constructed a disorientating visual, textual and sonic journey that draws on her experiences of navigating the gallery’s surrounding area, weaving together multiple voices and alternative histories and futures. Lydia Ashman finds out more.