NOW SHOWING #183: The week’s top exhibitions
This week’s selection includes film installation in London, photography in Penzance and a celebration of Aspex’s 35th anniversary in Portsmouth.
This week’s selection includes film installation in London, photography in Penzance and a celebration of Aspex’s 35th anniversary in Portsmouth.
This week’s column – featuring exhibitions and projects posted by a-n members on our busy Events section – takes us to Cambridge, Milton Keynes, Glasgow and London.
This week’s selection includes art by email at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, light art in Eastbourne and George Shaw’s paintings in Kendal.
Five a-n News writers – based in London, Birmingham and Glasgow – pick, in no particular order, their top five exhibitions of the year.
Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section.
Newcastle-based artist Kathryn Hodgkinson believes that the city council’s planning decisions are having a detrimental effect on the area’s creative community. In the wake of the recent decision to demolish the creative space Uptin House to make way for ‘yet another block of student flats’, she argues that local authorities need to embrace the true value of artists.
The UK’s oldest arts centre announces 300th anniversary programme for 2017, with artists including John Akomfrah, Sonia Boyce and Larissa Sansour.
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.
The Office for Art, Design and Technology is a new two-year programme of residencies, events, exhibitions and professional development for new and more established artists with digital practices. Anneka French talks to the artist leading the programme as well as artists and mentors involved in Post-Modern Plant Life 2, the recently completed first stage of the initiative.
The Glasgow artist Kevin Hutcheson died unexpectedly prior to April’s Glasgow International as he was preparing to open a solo show as part of the festival. Friends and colleagues remember this unassuming master of collage and stalwart of the city’s art scene.
In the lead up to this year’s Turner Prize exhibition opening in Glasgow, a showcase of works by former Scottish winners and nominees will set off on a tour of Scotland in The Travelling Gallery.
Awards reward organisations encouraging the public to engage with the activity of drawing, with those recognised ranging from a major centre for contemporary art to a comprehensive school in Essex.
Francesca Blomfield, Archie Franks and Dale Lewis have been announced as the latest recipients of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation Painting Fellowships, a year-long programme that supports early career artists through studio time and mentoring.
Six a-n writers – based in London, Hastings, Glasgow and Edinburgh – pick, in no particular order, their top five UK exhibitions of the year.
The UK now has representative cities for five of the seven creative industries championed by the Creative Cities Network. Arts Professional’s Liz Hill reports.
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.
Good things are happening in Cardiff’s visual arts scene, with an energy and momentum that can be seen in the current Cardiff Contemporary festival. But, argues former Artes Mundi director Ben Borthwick, there is much that needs to be done if the biennial event – and Wales’ contemporary art scene generally – is to really fulfil its potential.
Duncan of Jordanstone graduates Calum and Fraser Brownlee have been awarded the inaugural Fleming-Wyfold Bursary, worth £14,000, at the RSA New Contemporaries exhibition for art and architecture graduates in Scotland.
A Turner Prize winner and three former nominees make up the selection panel for this year’s open platform aimed at final-year students and recent graduates from UK art schools.
Exhibition dates and project details announced for second edition of major moving image awards, featuring new commissions by artists in the first five years of their practice.
The a-n Degree Shows Guide 2013 is out! Bigger and better than ever, the 44-page publication features essays, interviews, listings, tips on collecting and the work and thoughts of students and graduates.
Tino Sehgal, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, David Shrigley and Laure Prouvost have been announced as the shortlisted artists for this year’s Turner Prize.
Modern Edinburgh Film School brings together practitioners in visual art, poetry, performance and film to explore alternative approaches to the screen. Project founder Alex Hetherington talks about community, social sculpture and his search for a sense of ‘elsewhere-ness’ in a very traditional city.
The new Director of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art reflects on her move from Frieze and hopes that Santa can help with the festival’s funding applications.
This year’s Turner Prize winner lambasts Michael Gove and pays tribute to Modern Art Oxford Director Michael Stanley in her passionate acceptance speech.