For the next couple of months we’ll be presenting a weekly pick of degree shows across the UK as they open to the public, selected from the a-n Degree Shows Guide 2017 listings. We start this week with final-year shows from Falmouth, Lincoln, Oxford Brookes and Chichester.
The just-published a-n Degree Shows Guide 2017 captures the buzz of ideas and activity that this time of year is all about. With an in-depth introductory interview with Elizabeth Price, listings of more than 70 shows across the UK, plus contributions from Christine Borland, Nicolas Deshayes, Laura Oldfield Ford and many more practising artists and final-year students, it’s the perfect degree show season companion.
Currently studying for an MA in curating, the Northumbria University graduate has been busy developing her practice and project-making skills.
12 artists will compete to be named the second Gillian Dickinson North East Young Sculptor of the Year, with the winner receiving £6,500 to make new work.
The London gallery that represented artists including Bedwyr Williams, Sean Edwards and Holly Hendry has closed.
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.
Saziso Phiri is celebrating one year of her pop-up gallery with a birthday party at Nottingham’s Rough Trade shop, followed by a series of free workshops in tandem with Nottingham Contemporary’s ‘The Place is Here’ show. Wayne Burrows talks to her about her mission to work with artists who operate beyond the usual art world structures.
London Underground has completed its restoration of Eduardo Paolozzi’s Tottenham Court Road station mosaics as part of an extensive modernisation and expansion of the station.
This week’s selection taken from a-n’s busy Events section includes a critique of NHS Transgender care waiting lists, landscapes of social housing, regeneration and memory, and an undercover book trail exploring the 10th century art of fore-edge painting.
Exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from a-n’s busy Events section.
This week’s selection taken from a-n’s busy Events section includes Spanish ghost villages on Google maps, explorations of light and colour in Derby and Leeds, and a tree sculpture in Hull.
This week’s selection includes animals and figurative work in London, photography in Belfast, and in Brighton an exhibition recasting the role of the machine.
This week’s selection includes a group show of 24 female artists’ work in Penzance, Turner watercolours in Margate, and a sculptural exploration of everyday materials 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 reverberative play and DIY mechanics in London, a group show with Andy Warhol in a railway arch in Glasgow, and new paintings in Nottingham.
The Worthing-based sculptor Oliver Macdonald receives the £7,000 Shape Arts’ bursary plus a three-month residency at Turner Contemporary in Margate.
Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and taking us to Folkestone, London, Manchester and Rochester.
This week’s selection of recommended exhibitions includes marble and dust in Edinburgh, modernist Cuban painting in London, and performance gesture in Exeter.
The four award winners of the longstanding art prize that celebrates and promotes insight into contemporary drawing have been announced.
Serf, the latest addition to Leeds’ expanding workspace scene, offers much more than studio space for artists – it provides a support structure for early career artists at a crucial time in their development. Lara Eggleton reports.
Ten artists have been shortlisted for painting and sculpture prize that focuses on students currently in their final year of undergraduate study in the UK.
Following a busy weekend of degree show openings across the country, we take a look at some of the highlights from our ongoing a-n Instagram takeovers, with images posted from Liverpool, Nottingham, Newcastle upon Tyne, Brighton, Falmouth and Loughborough.
Central Saint Martins’ MA Fine Arts student wins award of £5,000 plus rent-free Acme studio for one year.
For our second Instagram degree shows takeover, Andy Jones visited the preview of the graphic design and illustration show at Liverpool School of Art and Design.
With the degree shows season in full swing, a team of a-n Members is taking over a-n’s Instagram to post images and commentary from shows around the country. Following Olivia Aspinall’s takeover at Central Saint Martins, Andy Jones looks forward to his visit to the Liverpool School of Art and Design Graphic Design and Illustration show.
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