Cornelia Parker
Simon Morrissey cuts to the chase with Cornelia Parker and finds out how she has fought commercial pressures to follow her own artistic agenda.
Simon Morrissey cuts to the chase with Cornelia Parker and finds out how she has fought commercial pressures to follow her own artistic agenda.
The Japan 2001 Festival was launched nationally in May and runs through to March next year. Visual arts features highly, incorporating exhibitions, residencies and international exchanges. Shows include ‘Contemporary Japanese Ceramics’ at the V&A Museum until 27 August, the Mona-Ha […]
On the West Coast of America, Harrell Fletcher is making history not in the grandiose sense, but through an approach to art-making that brings out individual voices and stories.
Visual arts is well featured amongst the Year of the Artist programme of residencies in the national press and media recently announced. At The Guardian will be digital artist Michael Atavar, who’s working processes will have an impact for six […]
Sainsbury Centre For Visual Arts, University Of East Anglia, Norwich
1 October – 8 December
“Artists work in the interface between the real and the imagined. They coax us out of the numbness of the everyday and into a heightened space where we can inhabit other lives and find ourselves in other circumstances. The mind […]
Drifting south west to Cornwall, Alan Bleakley describes PALP, an artist-led group committed to experimental, collaborative and socially inclusive projects.
David Butler reports on the current crop of ground-breaking collaborations between art and science that are giving artists the time to undertake sustained, open-ended research without the expectation of a specific outcome.
Last May, C Visual Art conducted a two-week residency at Torre Abbey in Torquay funded by Awards for All. Five artists were involved and by combining the individual skills of the group they produced an installation that focused on the […]
Valerie Coffin Price reports from Est-Nord-Est, an artist-led centre in Quebec, Canada.
This year’s Big Draw, running 16-23 October, brings together one thousand venues of all types and sizes. Included are the major national museums, shopping centres, stately homes, Roman palaces, folk museums, steam pumping stations, church halls, gardens, stations and even […]
In the first of a six-part series ‘Inhabited spaces’, Alice Angus presents artists’ perspectives on language and its relationship to place.
Neil Zakiewicz profiles the Triangle Arts Trust, celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year.
Louise Short explains the international networks behind the participation of UK artists in this month’s Melbourne Festival.
Artists Kate Thomas and Nick Morley first met last year when they began residencies at Intaglio Printmaker in London. The one-year residency consisted of £500 worth of materials, access to a workshop equipped with etching presses, darkroom and exposure unit […]
Venues across north west England
Hannah Wingrave gives an overview of a conference that brought together a range of artists, academics and critics and formed part of North Devon Ceramic Events 2002.
Julie Read gives an account of her experience on a residency in the Austrian capital.
Brigid Howarth investigates ways in which artists are making work and collaborating with industry.
G39’s Chris Brown reports on a stimulating seminar for artist-led initiatives in southwest England.
The Sculptors’ Society of Ireland The Sculptors’ Society of Ireland (SSI) was established in 1980 to improve the professional standing of sculptors, raise the profile of sculpture and to develop the quality and scope of commissioning procedures and opportunities in […]
Le Fresnoy National Studio of Contemporary Arts in France is promoted as a high-profile international centre of artistic training, research and production. Although ultimately a worthwhile experience for artist and filmmaker Tina Gharavi, the reality of her residency there was not without problems.
As a result of a call last year to southwest artists and multimedia producers, Clark Digital Bursary awards have now been made. Offered as collaboration between Watershed and PVA, the awards are designed to provide opportunities for creative development and […]
Angharad Pearce Jones, an artist currently working with Cywaith Cymru.Artworks Wales explains how the organisation works to promote art in the public realm.
This month sees the second leg of an international project in Edinburgh. ‘Art in the Home’ will involve artists installing their work in private residences across the city. Here Paul Carter, shares his experience of the first leg of the project in Yamaguchi, Japan.