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The £10,000 prize celebrates the pioneering work of the UK’s foremost artist filmmakers.

Recipients of this year’s Birthday Honours also include writer and ceramicist Edmund de Waal and photographer Martin Parr.

This week’s selection features exhibitions, talks and projects presented via online viewing rooms, social media and other online platforms, plus newly reopened physical spaces, including: Phyllida Barlow leads the reopening of Firstsite gallery, a-n member Kerry Baldry curates an online moving image exhibition of work made within the duration of one minute by artists at varying stages of their careers, plus The Crafts Council’s bi-monthly lunchtime talks designed to support makers in their business development.

Cardiff-based a-n member Sean Edwards amongst recipients of £10,000 bursaries, which have been distributed after Tate Britain announced it would not be possible to stage a Turner Prize exhibition this year.

Artist and founder of the contemporary arts programme Hogchester Arts discusses her involvement with Isolation Art School, selling and buying work through Artist Support Pledge, plus the impact of her recent a-n Artist Bursary.

This autumn we celebrate our 40th Anniversary and are looking for expressions of interest from our members to develop a logo which celebrates a-n and our work. THE DEADLINE FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY HAS NOW PASSED.

This week’s selection includes exhibitions and events in London and Coventry – all taken from our busy Events section featuring events and shows posted by a-n members.

To coincide with the opening of Collect: International Art Fair for Modern Craft and Design at Somerset House, London, Crafts Council has announced the four winners of the Collect 2020 Awards.

This week’s selection includes exhibitions and events in Exeter, Edinburgh, Folkestone and Luton – all taken from our busy Events section featuring events and shows posted by a-n members.

Our regular selection of shows to see around the UK, including an exploration of the work of performance artist, zine-maker, musician, Linder, at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, plus the first major exhibition of Steve McQueen’s artwork in the UK for 20 years.

Our regular selection of shows to see around the UK, including an exhibition of Painting in the New Millennium at Whitechapel Gallery, London, four artists reimagining Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, into a place of ‘research, learning, conversation and exchange’, plus Pip Thornton’s installation at The Fruitmarket Gallery’s pop-up space in Edinburgh.

National Museums Liverpool has announced the jury for the next edition of the John Moores Painting Prize which will see almost £40,000 of award money split across seven prizes, including a new Emerging Artist Prize.

London-based French artist Paul Maheke uses performance, installation, video, and sound to explore the potential of the body as an archive in order to address how history, memory and identity are formed and constituted. Here he reflects on his personal highlights from the last 12 months, including being nominated for the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard Prize.

Senior Curator of the Hayward Gallery, London, and curator of Cathy Wilkes’ British Council commission at the British Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia 2019, discusses her highlights of the last year.

UK’s largest festival of contemporary visual art announces lineup of high profile artists, who will respond to a theme which references Liverpool’s role as a historic port.

London’s longest running contemporary visual arts festival, Deptford X, takes place from 25 October – 3 November 2019 and marks its twenty-first anniversary with its largest programme to date.

The 2020 a-n Artist Bursaries are now open for applications, with awards of between £500-£1,500 available to a-n Artist and Joint (Artist and Arts Organiser) members wishing to undertake self-directed professional development. PLEASE NOTE: THE APPLICATION DEADLINE HAS NOW PASSED.

The residency, which is presented in partnership with the Contemporary Art Society and Orkney’s Pier Arts Centre, sees the 2017 Turner Prize nominee based at the National Gallery’s on-site artist’s studio for a year.

The seventh edition of the annual exhibition showcasing work by recent graduates from art colleges across the West Midlands is presented in partnership with the second Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art, which opens in October.

The annual festival’s Commissions Programme includes works that reflect a mood of uncertainty currently engulfing UK politics while this year’s Platform: 2019 exhibition of early career artists based in Scotland explores ideas of embellishment, identity, sustainability and fandom.

This week’s recommended shows include an education-themed exhibition of work by Scottish artist Ruth Ewan and Turner Prize-nominated Colombian artist Oscar Murillo at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, an Olafur Eliasson retrospective at Tate Modern, and the European premiere of a new multi-screen film installation by John Akomfrah at Baltic, Gateshead.

News In Brief: The new Paul Hamlyn Foundation-funded project will look at whether socially engaged artistic activity can really make a positive difference to a community. Plus: Kitty Anderson announced as new director of LUX Scotland; Hannah Rothschild, chair of National Gallery’s board of trustees, to step down after four-year tenure.

Freelands Foundation survey of the UK’s art sector highlights incremental progress in the public sector, but commercial galleries are still lagging behind in their representation of women artists.

The announcement of this year’s winner follows an open letter from the artist and 2019 judge Gary Hume calling on the National Portrait Gallery to cut its ties with sponsor BP.