For the latest instalment in our series, Tim Clark considers the carefully fabricated world of Robert Zhao Renhui, whose pairings of photographs and text blur fact and fiction to address our lack of regard for the natural environment.
For the first instalment of our Pictured series for 2014, Tim Clark picks up the weighty monograph from legendary Swedish photographer, Anders Petersen, and is blown away by its raw photographs that are brimming with kindness and fury, beauty and abjection.
Continuing our series on visually rich art books, Tim Clark takes a peek inside Paul Salveson’s Between the Shell, winner of the First Book Award 2013, and discovers an unexpected and absurdist upheaval of everyday environments.
For the latest instalment in our series on art books, Tim Clark is in awe of AMC Journal Issue 7, The Great Refusal, a document of post-World War II protest that simultaneously reveals the birth of new forms of hedonism.
Continuing our series on art books, Tim Clark is blinded by Lorenzo Vitturi’s A Dalston Anatomy, a vibrant and kaleidoscopic look at London’s Ridley Road Market that blends photography, sculpture and collage.
Marking the tenth instalment in our series on art books, Tim Clark turns his attention to David Campany’s Gasoline, an evocative publication comprising 37 press images of gas stations that are imbued with their own history and reveal more than they purport to show.
Our series on art books continues with New Irish Works, a rich resource showcasing a wealth of projects from 25 artists born or based in Ireland.
For the latest instalment in our series on art books, Tim Clark pulls Simon Menner’s new publication, Top Secret, off the shelf and reflects on photographs from the Stasi archive that document the surveillance work of the former East Germany.
Continuing our series on art books, Tim Clark savours the beautiful simplicity of Aleix Plademunt’s Almost There, a galaxy-spanning journey into the photographer’s physical existence.
Continuing our series focusing on visually-rich art books, Tim Clark picks up Marion Gronier’s Glorious, a collection of colour portraits of travelling circus performers, and finds an intense and intriguing study of human presence.
For the fifth part in our series that highlights visually-rich art books, Tim Clark sits down with Guillaume Simoneau’s recently published Love and War, and ponders the complex and overlapping narratives of a female soldier fighting in the Iraq war and a love story gone awry.
For the fourth edition in our new series exploring visually-rich art books, Tim Clark reflects on the performative life and real-time experience of photographs in Tom Lovelace’s publication, Work Starts Here.
For the third instalment of our series looking at visually rich art books, we consider the delicate and meditative works of Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi, on the occasion of her latest book – Ametsuchi – published by Aperture.
Continuing our new series on visually-rich books, Tim Clark turns his attention to historic images of popes and bishops looking through telescopes in the Vatican Observatory, featured in the publication Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing, which accompanies the exhibition of the same name.
In the first of a new series focusing on visually-rich art books and publications, Tim Clark looks at the disturbingly sublime images of the photographer Richard Mosse, whose images from wartorn Congo are currently showing in Venice and are to be featured in a 240-page book from Aperture.
Exhibitions that coincide with International Women’s Day on 8 March, including Big Women in Colchester and a-n member Sonia Boyce in Margate.
A celebration of socially and politically engaged art in Rochdale, science-inspired drawing in Birmingham, and monochrome reflections in London.
Support artists, makers and visual arts organisations this Christmas. Select unique presents from our pick of original artworks and handcrafted gifts, available from open studios, festive exhibitions, winter markets and online.
Artist and a-n member Emma Talbot discusses her Max Mara Art Prize for Women residency in Italy. Interview by Laura Davidson.
a-n member Kathryn Maple speaks to Andrew Thompson about what it means to win the prize, and finding inspiration during lockdown.
This week’s selection includes exhibitions and events in Somerset, Norfolk and London – all taken from our busy Events section featuring events and shows posted by a-n members.
London’s longest running contemporary visual arts festival, Deptford X, takes place from 25 October – 3 November 2019 and marks its twenty-first anniversary with its largest programme to date.
This year’s city-wide celebration of contemporary ceramic art features an expanded programme of exhibitions and increased prize money for its ‘Award’ competition for new and innovative work.
The new fund from Jerwood Arts awards nearly £185,000 of grants to enable a ‘step-change’ in the practice and profile of those involved.