The organisation which was founded by two painters in 2013 has announced the call out for the latest edition of its Contemporary British Painting Prize.
The winner of the award supporting emerging graduates will receive a bursary of £2,000, plus bespoke mentoring for 12 months.
This week’s recommended shows include an exploration of Stanley Kubrick’s design process at the Design Museum in London, plus James N. Kienitz Wilkins’ moving image work at Spike Island, Bristol.
This week’s selection includes performance events and exhibitions in Farnham, Birmingham, London, Edinburgh and Cromford in Derbyshire – all taken from a-n’s busy Events section featuring shows and events posted by members.
As part of our 2019 bursaries programme, a-n is offering one-to-one support to Artist and Arts Organiser members through a series of coaching sessions with a coach accredited by the a-n Visual Arts Coaching Course, or mentoring with one of our visual arts mentors.
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.
a-n and Castlefield Gallery announce the eight artists who will participate in their partnership project, the Artists’ International Delegation 2019 to Denmark.
a-n is inviting applications for its Writer Development Programme 2019-20, which will run from October 2019 to March 2020.
a-n’s CEO Julie Lomax will be joined by artists including Kevin Hunt and Emily Speed to explore the precarious nature of work in the field of contemporary art at a discussion event hosted by FACT in Liverpool on 30 July 2019.
This week’s recommended shows include Manon de Boer’s moving image work at LUX, London and an exploration of how creative spaces helps shape artists at Fabrica, Brighton.
This week’s selection includes events, publication launches and exhibitions in Frome, Leicester, Bristol, Whitby and London – all taken from a-n’s busy Events section featuring shows and events posted by members.
The Hong Kong artist and self-taught animator who last year won the inaugural Camden Arts Centre Emerging Artist Prize discusses his new show at the venue, the narratives behind his work, and the benefits of living a nomadic existence.
London-based artist Juliette Losq was chosen from a shortlist of 41 artists and designers, with prizes for second and best work by a student also awarded.
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.
The second a-n Assembly event of 2019 took place in Aberdeen with a day of talks, workshops, activities, curry and a film screening.
This week’s selection includes events, publication launches and exhibitions in Eastbourne, London, Nottingham and Chester – all taken from a-n’s busy Events section featuring shows and events posted by members.
a-n The Artists Information Company makes 15 significant new appointments to its Artists Council.
This week’s recommended shows include a major Cindy Sherman retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery in London, plus Patricia Domínguez’s multi-screen video installation at Gasworks.
With works by Yoko Ono, Tania Bruguera and the American film director David Lynch, the visual arts strand of this biennial festival’s eighth edition is varied and ambitious. Fisun Güner reports.
This week’s selection includes exhibitions and events in Halifax, Stroud, London and Bridport – all taken from a-n’s busy Events section featuring shows and events posted by members.
The museum near Cardiff was hailed as “one of the most welcoming and engaging museums anywhere in the UK” by Art Fund director and chair of judges Stephen Deuchar.
The second year of the Film London programme will support the artists over 12 months and hopes to nurture a new generation of moving-image artists.
Arts Council England has published its draft strategy for 2020-2030 and is inviting responses from individuals and organisations through an online consultation and series of workshops across England.
This week’s recommended shows include a major festival of international sculpture across four venues in Yorkshire, an exhibition in Manchester of work by 17 artists inspired by a 1932 mass trespass, and in London a powerful painting show by three generation-spanning black female artists.
This week’s selection includes exhibitions and events in Lymm, Altrincham, Cardiff, London and Cley-next-the-Sea in Norfolk – all taken from a-n’s busy Events section featuring shows and events posted by members.
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