David Steans wins Vantage Art Prize 2013
Prizewinners announced during one-night event at Leeds’ Ellington House.
Prizewinners announced during one-night event at Leeds’ Ellington House.
Liverpool’s pioneering media arts centre is staging a special birthday event this weekend to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its Wood Street building.
A partnership between homeless charity Crisis and Bow Arts, London’s largest artist studio provider, is providing a voice – and studio space – for the marginalised.
The latest interview in Joshua Sofaer’s Artist as leader series for a-n features Sydney-based artist-run initiative First Draft.
In January, three UK makers began Watershed’s Craft + Technology Residencies, bringing together making and design with digital, networked technologies. Taking place in Bristol, Plymouth and Falmouth, we talk to the participants and discover how digital technology is influencing their practice.
As a new art competition launches in Leeds, we speak to the project’s curator, its sponsor and one of the shortlisted artists about the city’s changing; and self-sustaining; art scene.
As part of proposals by Stirling Council to save £9m in 2013/14, the Scottish city’s only contemporary art gallery, The Changing Room, is under threat.
The winners of the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2013 have been announced with awards totalling £25,000.
The Perrier-Jouët Arts Salon & Prize is ‘an exclusive club that will bring together the UK’s foremost creative influencers with a philanthropic goal at its heart’. Chair Rosy Greenlees and inaugural members Claire Coles and Claire Brewster discuss the project.
Newcastle City Council announced last week that it will set up a new ‘arts investment fund’ to replace revenue support it was planning to cut entirely under draft budget proposals. We speak to one organisation likely to be affected by the decision to gauge reaction in the city.
There’s food for thought on the menu at Scunthorpe’s 20-21 Visual Arts Centre this Sunday, courtesy of artists’ publishing platform COPY.
In partnership with ixia, artist Hannah Hull is presenting a series of events in Newcastle, Bristol and Birmingham for socially-engaged artists who want to be part of a ‘hyper-local critical support network’.
As a new exhibition exploring approaches to collaborative working opens at Transition Gallery in London, we talk to one of the participating artists and the gallery’s co-directors.
The shortlist of artists competing for the Liverpool Art Prize 2013 has been revealed.
During 2012, around ten per cent of funds awarded through Arts Council England’s Catalyst fund – to help improve fundraising capacity – went to visual arts organisations.
Newport City Council’s plans to scrap the temporary exhibitions programme at Newport Museum and Art Gallery are facing vocal, and high profile, opposition.
Common Practice’s new publication, written by Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, offers new ways of evaluation and measurement in the art world.
While Michael Gove’s recent scrapping of the English Baccalaureate Certificate is welcome, Q-art Director Sarah Rowles suggests that there’s much more work to be done when it comes to the wider issue of art education.
While Harriet Harman’s comments have put Newcastle’s cuts to the arts back on the radar, in the North East of Scotland Moray Council is also about to vote to cut its entire arts budget. And while the figures are much smaller, the impact locally could be just as devastating.
Manchester’s Castlefield Gallery is encouraging ‘user-generated’ content via its CG Associates scheme, which includes the Launch Pad series of short exhibitions. We find out more from artist Maurice Carlin and the gallery’s Deputy Director Clarissa Corfe.
Arts funding body Creative Scotland has announced who will be interviewing applicants for the job of new Chief Executive, as well as plans for a series of open meetings about changes at the organisation.
Mark Wallinger has unveiled a series of 270 works that will hang in each station of the London Underground.
EBC plans aside, the EBacc performance measure still does not include a sixth ‘arts pillar’, says Rosy Greenlees, Executive Director, Crafts Council.
While campaigners against the EBacc have welcomed Michael Gove’s scrapping of the English Baccalaureate Certificate and the announcement of a new performance measure for schools in England that will include arts subjects, the detail is far from clear.
With its new home in the old Tetley brewery and a recent six figure grant from ACE, these are exciting times for Project Space Leeds. We pay a site visit and speak to co-directors Pippa Hale and Kerry Harker about their plans for a new contemporary arts hub.