The Northern Art Prize
Leeds Art Gallery
22 November 10 February
Leeds Art Gallery
22 November 10 February
It’s been fascinating to watch the lively turnover of postings on Interface1 since its launch, both critical writing posted to Reviews unedited and a-n subscribers posting details of their upcoming shows on Interface What’s on.
The new developments at the Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange have had a mixed response from local and national media, with three main strands.
Airport art, as I now like to call it, is the major problem facing biennales, biennials and art festivals today.
There are now over 200 contemporary art biennials across the globe, compared with four or five or twenty years ago.
There is something about a ceramics conference that can send a shudder up the spine.
Ceramic artists Elise Austrin, Karen Atherley, Jo Davies, Akiko Hirai and Joanna London are amongst exhibitors in Handmade 07, being held at Chelsea Old Town Hall 27-30 November.
Black Dog Publishing
Edited by Johanna Billing, Maria Lind and Lars Nilsson
Sara Haq on Judy Freya Sibayan, performance and conceptual artist, curator, publisher and museum.
S Mark Gubb profiles Studio Voltaire, the first and only artist-led gallery and studio complex in South West London.
S Mark Gubb talks to Vane about its evolution from an artist-led platform in Newcastle to an artists’ agency operating internationally.
What gives a particular place its characteristics? Why are some cities hip and others lame? How does a neighbourhood change from good to bad?
Sally Davies profiles Kypros Kyprianou, discussing his interest in scientific themes, collaborative working and residencies at Artsway and Allenheads Contemporary Arts.
Chris Brown, Reviews Editor for a-n Magazine, talks to a selection of writers about the practice and pitfalls of taking up the pen.
Patricia Fleming discusses the relationship with the art market for artists and curators in Wales and Scotland.
Ayling & Conroy survey the motives and trends that effect how UK commercial galleries select artists to exhibit.
Guyan Porter talks about the socio-economic dynamics of art markets and deconstructs notions of the art market in the UK.
Paul Stanley and Rachel Cattle in conversation about what defines success.
Sonya Dyer’s publication questions assumptions about non-white artists, curators and administrators that shape the current diversity landscape, and suggests alternative ways forward.
This guide by Jonathan Waring covers the process of establishing a studio group: from having the initial idea, bringing together a likeminded group of artists and getting hold of a space, to running the studios effectively on a day-to-day basis.
Since November 2006, Arts Council England has been asking all across the land to add their views on the public value of the arts.
Since graduating in 1993 I have made outdoor sculpture in my studio located on a farm in Kent.
Cultural diversity is a term that has pervaded our language and thinking across all sectors of life and institutions, and its latest manifestation of citizenship is perhaps the most coercive strategy being employed by government.
Finnish artist Tea Mäkipää’s work confronts her viewpoint of impending ecological catastrophe through interventions and installations positing an alternative vision of existence. By Manick Govinda.
The process of social change is in desperate need of creativity and imagination, and the aesthetic process in urgent need of social engagement