Devolution in the UK has hit this year’s Venice Biennale, with England, Scotland and Wales each having an independent presence there. This year, the British Pavilion will be showing the work of Chris Ofili; Scotland will be represented by Jim […]
Usually I’m on the move. I have a tendency to spend between two days and two weeks somewhere and then move on.
Heralded as the north of England’s answer to the Turner Prize, the Comme ça Art Prize North aims to raise the profile of artists living and working beyond London. Worth £10,000 (against the Turner Prize of £20,000), the prize will […]
Glass artist Jonathan Andersson discusses the benefits of breaking into the American art and craft fair circuit.
Marc Rome gives an account of his participation in an international collaborative project on New York’s Staten Island.
Brendan Fletcher takes a look at how artist-led initiatives, and the Manchester galleries’ willingness to listen have helped shape the current changes in the Manchester art scene.
Coming from Macedonia, a country where sixty to seventy percent of the land is forest, the immediacy of nature is a significant element of my working practice.
Axis – the national digital register of artists – has appointed Kay Pallister to the new post of content curator and Reuben Knutson as the Schools’ Resource project leader. Pallister, who relocates from New York’s Gagosian Gallery, brings with her […]
Government enthusiasm for involving young people in arts activities has focused the attention of many galleries. Kate Tregaskis reports from Scotland on recent debates around programmes abroad and raises some questions about good practice.
A regular visitor to Italy since 1981, when Alan Rogers moved there on a more permanent basis his “youthful, romantic love affair” with its warm Mediterranean light was soon replaced by the realisation that day-to-day conditions for contemporary artists were far from ideal.
Graham Parker discusses his approach to his role as Visual Arts Officer at Salford University.
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Six months on from completing her degree in Dundee, we catch up with Hannah Imlach in Edinburgh, a month before she embarks on an artist residency.
This month’s movers in the art world.
International glass artists from as far afield as the USA, Australia, Prague, Venice and Denmark will converge on Stourbridge Britains historical centre of the glass industry in August for the second International Festival of Glass.
Isabella Streffen on her own research and its relationship to the Import/Export event
Curatorial partnership B+B talk about their residency at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London.