Congratulations to Artquest, which is celebrating a landmark anniversary today! For more than ten years Artquest has successfully encouraged critical engagement and provided invaluable practical support to visual artists.
The annual exhibition, which has showcased work by new and recent fine art graduates since 1949, has announced that 2018 submissions will be open to artists from non-degree awarding art education programmes.
Selectors Caroline Achaintre, Elizabeth Price and George Shaw have chosen 47 new and recent fine art graduates for the annual open submission exhibition, which this year will take place in Gateshead and Newcastle.
As the degree show season draws to a close, we take a final look at a-n’s Instagram coverage with highlights from Nadine Shaban’s takeovers at the City & Guilds of London Art School degree show and the Royal College of Art graduate shows.
This week’s recommended shows include Lucy Austin’s layered paintings at That Art Gallery, Bristol, a group exhibition of dystopian visions at Newlyn Art Gallery, plus the launch of this year’s Platform Graduate Award 2019 series of exhibitions in Oxford.
As July approaches, the 2019 degree shows season is drawing to a close. For our final selection of the year, we list shows opening in Norwich, Chichester and London.
Paul Moss was the co-founder of Gateshead’s Workplace Gallery and also co-director of the Workplace Foundation, a charity set up to support emerging and under-represented artists based outside of London.
Four artists have been shortlisted for Scotland’s most prestigious moving image prize, with the winner receiving a £15,000 commission to create new work to be premiered at the Glasgow Film Festival.
We catch up with more Instagram posts by a-n members FK McLoone and Rebecca Ainsworth reflecting on shows in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Bolton.
Five a-n members will be taking over a-n’s Instagram over the coming weeks to post images and commentary from degree shows around the country. We meet the artists and find out which shows they will be posting from.
This week’s selection of recommended shows includes Glasgow International, photography in Bath, complex landscapes and warping prints in London, and Claw Machines in Northampton.
Four Scotland-based filmmakers have been shortlisted for the £10,000 prize named after experimental Scottish filmmaker, with the winner set to be announced at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival.
A selection of exhibition highlights for the week ahead including: Bloomberg New Contemporaries in Newcastle and Gateshead, Sara Barker in Glasgow, and Steven Eastwood in Brighton.
For the latest in our Scene Report series, artist and curator Matt Bray reports from Medway in south east England on a scene with a close-knit and independently-minded community spirit.
This week sees major degree shows opening across the UK, including exhibitions in Bournemouth, Cambridge, Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield, Plymouth, and the West Midlands.
a-n members Bob Gelsthorpe and Jacki Cairns have visited degree shows in Swansea, Lincoln, Hertfordshire and Cardiff for the first of our Instagram takeovers of the 2017 degree shows season.
This week we highlight 12 degree shows across the UK, including openings in Belfast, Bristol, Newcastle, Brighton and Leeds.
The Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Art Prize, which offers a £20,000 fellowship based at Baltic 39 in Newcastle upon Tyne as first prize, is open for applications from students currently in the final year of their undergraduate study.
22 awards totalling over £40,000 have been presented at the opening of the RSA New Contemporaries exhibition in Edinburgh, which showcases works by 2016 graduates form art and architecture schools in Scotland.
This week’s selection includes Bloomberg New Contemporaries in London, a retrospective of renowned political artist Gee Vaucher and art in the environment at the Jerwood Space.
Laura Robertson reports on this year’s New Contemporaries in Liverpool as part of Liverpool Biennial.
The London-based painter receives a specially commissioned artwork by Turner Prize nominated artist Alison Wilding.
This week’s selection includes light works in Birmingham, conceptual art in London and cross-disciplinary practice in Edinburgh.
Highlights for the week ahead selected from our busy Events section and featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n’s members.
This week’s selection includes sculpture and drawing in Bexhill, digitally printed fabrics in Portsmouth and experimental film in London.
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