This week, London’s disability-led arts organisation Shape launches a new networking event to bring disabled and non-disabled artists together. We talk to programme coordinator Ben Fredericks about the project.
The winner of this year’s Liverpool Art Prize is artist and photographer Tabitha Jussa.
Arts Council Wales has announced that photographic artist Helen Sear will be representing Wales at the 2015 Venice Biennale.
Three weeks after a devastating fire at its historic Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed building, Glasgow School of Art’s Fine Art students present a showcase of their work that is both economical and emotionally charged.
Our PICTURED series on visually-rich art books is one year old. To mark the 25th instalment, Tim Clark takes a close look at The Photobook: A History Volume III, co-edited by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger and the latest instalment from the acclaimed series on the history of the photobook.
This week is the final week of the Birmingham leg of Bill Drummond’s World Tour (2014-2025), London’s Foundling Museum celebrates the legacy of William Hogarth through the work of four contemporary artists, and Sheffield’s Site Gallery presents an exploration of the rave scene.
This week, we catch a New Wave of emerging artistic talent at Birmingham’s RBSA Gallery and explore national identity through Rachel Maclean’s timely exhibition at CCA in Glasgow. Plus there are shows in London, Exeter and Liverpool to enjoy, including a life-size reconstruction of Piet Mondrian’s Paris studio at Tate Liverpool.
German photographer Michael Schmidt has died just days after winning of the Prix Pictet photography prize 2014.
As the degree shows season gathers pace, we take a trip to Dundee for the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design show.
Royal College of Art graduate Neil Raitt has been awarded the £5,000 Catlin Art Prize for a new body of work, comprising large-scale abstract paintings that experiment with repetition and perspective.
Drawings inspired by images from magazines, books and the Internet, a sound and sculpture installation made in response to a gallery’s architecture, and private histories laid bare through a series of photographic compositions – this week’s selection includes exhibitions in Edinburgh, Wakefield and Manchester.
Quiet observations of passersby in Parnell Square, Dublin form the basis of Eamonn Doyle’s self-published, i, an odd but captivating take on the tradition of street photography.
This year’s shortlist features Duncan Campbell, Tris Vonna-Michell, Ciara Phillips and James Richards.
Full programme details for the 7th Whitstable Biennale, featuring over 30 artists, have been announced.
Another 23 artists have been awarded funding in the latest round of a-n’s New collaborations bursary scheme, which supports critical and artistic development through collaborative working.
Seminal works in felt and animal fat by Joseph Beuys, the first survey in Europe of Ursula von Rydingsvard’s meticulously assembled structures, and the largest collection of British surrealist art in the country – this week’s selections take us to Oxford, Wakefield and Kendal, via Milton Keynes and London.
This week (11-17 April), we’re getting agitated in Limerick with EVA International, celebrating Van Gogh at a new gallery in Arles, and visiting Cologne for the 46th edition of the world’s oldest art fair.
Roe Ethridge’s latest photobook, Sacrifice Your Body, is a searing exploration of the real making itself present in an artificial world, and provides plenty for Tim Clark to think about.
The recent Lumen Prize Symposium in London was an opportunity for artists and academics working with digital technologies to discuss the past, present and future of artistic practice in the digital realm. Dawn Haleta reports.
Glasgow-based artist Graham Fagen’s solo presentation, commissioned and curated by Arbroath’s Hospitalfield Arts, will represent Scotland at the 56th Venice Biennale.
This week’s must-see shows include Michael Craig-Martin’s ‘line drawings in space’ in Bakewell, New Zealand-born and Berlin-based artist Simon Denny’s first UK solo show in Colchester and research into rural communities and development by Stephanie Misa in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
This week’s most significant international art event is the opening of the 19th Biennale of Sydney, now minus its founding sponsor after protests and withdrawals by a number of participating artists. Plus we take a look at Paris, Madrid and the German city of Gelsenkirche.
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.
The First Person Plural conference at London’s Media Space set out to reflect on the legacy of photographer Tony Ray-Jones and examine issues associated with photography in the digital age, while also speculating on the medium’s future. Tim Clark reports from the one-day event.
This week’s must-see shows include the Silver Lion-winning French artist Camille Henrot at Chisenhale, London, German artist John Ebner at Vane, Newcastle, and science-themed portraiture at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.