FORMAT photography festival: 2015 award winners announced
Following an open call, FORMAT International Photography Festival has announced the winners of its EXPOSURE Awards, with the prizewinners exhibiting during this year’s festival in March.
Following an open call, FORMAT International Photography Festival has announced the winners of its EXPOSURE Awards, with the prizewinners exhibiting during this year’s festival in March.
Chosen from over 400 applicants, Photoworks and Jerwood Visual Arts have announced the three artists who will each receive £5000 to develop new work.
Digital Utopias was a one-day conference in Hull organised by Arts Council England that set out to create debate about how new technologies are enabling creativity across the arts. Richard Taylor reports from the 2017 City of Culture.
The 56th Venice Biennale, British Art Show 8, Manchester International Festival – we take a month-by-month look at the year ahead to provide a selection of key events for your diary.
Six a-n writers – based in London, Hastings, Glasgow and Edinburgh – pick, in no particular order, their top five UK exhibitions of the year.
Tim Clark, who writes a-n’s fortnightly PICTURED column, delves into his ten favourite photo books of 2014.
Manchester’s Castlefield Gallery is celebrating its 30-year history with a forward-looking exhibition featuring artists who are ‘shaping the future of contemporary art’. Liz West, an artist based in the city, speaks to the gallery’s director and to fellow Manchester artists, about the important role it plays in the area’s art ecology.
Looking for Christmas present ideas, want to support artists and/or organisations that promote contemporary art? There are loads of opportunities to buy unusual or limited edition works online, while also putting some much-needed money back into the visual arts ecology. Here’s 10 ideas to start you off.
Artist-led festival Hackney WickED has announced the successful artists in its inaugural Arts Council England-funded commissions and bursaries scheme.
Artist Sean Lynch, commissioner Mike Fitzpatrick and curator Woodrow Kernohan have been announced as the Ireland at Venice team for the 56th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale.
Irish artist Richard Mosse has been awarded the £30,000 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2014 for his haunting yet seductive work on the wartorn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
It’s not exactly a vintage year for the highly-coveted Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, hosted by The Photographers’ Gallery, but one shortlisted artist in particular makes a bold statement for the award.
This week’s snapshot of international art action sees us talking about revolution in Finland, exploring the virtual and the real in the Netherlands, contemporary Arab art in the USA, and going deep into the Congo in Australia.
A new blog initiated by the artist Emily Speed invites artists to map and explore how their networks and opportunities are made through the process of making work.
This week, we’re in Los Angeles, Geneva, Berlin and Roskilde for our whistlestop tour of what’s happening internationally in the world of art.
This week our global snapshot takes us to The Netherlands, San Francisco, Poland, Italy and Shenzhen in China.
Tim Clark, who writes a-n’s fortnightly PICTURED column, provides a rundown of the ten visually rich art books that have piqued his curiosity during 2013.
For the seven days from 22-28 November, our international ramblings take us to Haiti, New Zealand, Norway and Germany.
Five artist-led initiatives have been awarded Go and See bursaries to attend this weekend’s Art Party Conference in Scarborough.
The fifth edition of The London Art Book Fair at the Whitechapel Gallery harnesses the energy of a fervent sector and provides an opportunity to celebrate the printed page.
This week’s must-see shows include images of witches and witchcraft in Edinburgh, Mass Observation photography in London and artist-grown cucumbers in Leeds.
This week’s must-see shows range from the intense, tropical canvases of Peter Doig in Edinburgh to sound art in South London.
Everything must go at Liverpool’s Static gallery, but, as director Paul Sullivan explains, this is not a closing down sale.