Sky Academy has announced the five recipients of its Arts Scholarships 2015, which aim to help young British and Irish artists develop their creative practice and take their work to the next level.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015 announce the 37 artists participating in this year’s touring exhibition, selected from over 1600 applications.
Bergen Kunsthall’s director, Martin Clark, will be returning to his student roots to curate the 2016 edition of the international contemporary art exhibition, Art Sheffield.
Recent Royal College of Art graduate Zhu Tian has been announced winner of the £5,000 Catlin Art Prize for her sequence of installations investigating the disruption of the everyday.
Serena Porrati has been awarded the £10,000 Mostyn Open 19 prize for her work, 365 Days of Sun.
A one-day symposium organised by Crate Studio and Project Space in Margate and University for the Creative Arts Canterbury is to explore the different ways artists make a living at a time of austerity.
Edward Humphrey, a graduate of The Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, has won the Fleming-Wyfold Foundation Bursary at the RSA New Contemporaries in Edinburgh.
Showcase exhibition to feature works by 72 graduates selected from 2014 degree shows across Scotland, including works by graduates affected by last year’s fire at Glasgow School of Art.
The shortlist for the ninth Catlin Art Prize features eight artists, with recent graduates of the Royal College of Art dominating the selection.
Written in response to the Alias annual gathering event, Moving Forward and Staying the Same: Artist Led Evolutions, AirSpace Gallery co-director Glen Stoker considers the continued importance of artist-led activity to the UK’s visual arts ecology.
This year’s Venice + Scotland presentation at the 56th Biennale will see 28 students and recent graduates from seven art schools across Scotland taking part in a major learning programme.
Why is gender inequality still rife in the visual arts and why are so many women in the arts still ‘scared’ of feminism? As a new exhibition opens at the artist-led Airspace Gallery in Stoke, Dany Louise is looking for answers.
Five artists have been shortlisted for the 2015 Converse x Dazed Emerging Artist Award, in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts.
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.
The five artists selected for the fifth Jerwood Makers Open, who will each receive a £7500 commission, have been announced.
Kelly Best and Georgie Grace have been selected for Jerwood Encounters: 3-Phase – a year-long artist development opportunity with exhibitions at Eastside Projects, Jerwood Space and g39.
The British artist Haroon Mirza has won the fourth Nam June Paik Art Center Prize, which acknowledges artists whose work is felt to be particularly innovative and experimental.
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan recently claimed at a science and technology event that “arts subjects limit career choices”. Poet Jo Bell takes issue with the minister’s assumptions and argues that, on the contrary, art is what makes our lives ‘possible and meaningful’.
As the Gap in the Air festival of sonic art kicks off four months of art, performance, workshops and symposia in Edinburgh, Richard Taylor talks to its organisers and artists.
100 artists who were affected by the fire at Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building earlier this year have been awarded bursaries to enable them to continue their creative studies at art schools in the UK and beyond.
This year’s Platform Graduate Award, for recent art graduates in South East England, has been awarded to Sophie Dixon.
The issue of artists’ pay and exploitation in the US is prompting a variety of responses that question what it means to be an artist in the current economic climate. Abigail Satinsky, associate director at Chicago’s Threewalls gallery, surveys the landscape and asks whether we need to look at how we value and define art and artists.
A recent 10th anniversary fundraising auction by the London-based not-for-profit contemporary art foundation Parasol Unit has raised over £2million from sales of work donated by artists.
The five artists shortlisted for the South East’s third annual Platform Graduate Award and mentoring programme have been announced.
The prizewinners of the third annual Lumen Prize international award for digital art have been announced.
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