As deadlines loom, students across the UK are grappling with their degree show ideas and execution. From Hull to Swansea, Edinburgh to Wolverhampton, London to Bath, we talk to this year’s cohort about their plans and expectations.
A selection of recommended exhibitions for the week ahead, including prints and sculpture in London, performance in Edinburgh, and animated films in Manchester.
Tate Modern and The Hepworth Wakefield are amongst the five nominees for the £100,000 annual award.
Exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and including shows in Cheltenham, Kennington, Newcastle upon Tyne, Stoke-on-Trent, and Tooting.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: £15,000 appeal to revive nude sunbather statues; Ceri Hand appointed director of programmes at Somerset House; French presidential candidates reveal proposals for art and culture.
As part of the Artists at Risk network, the Cambridge-based organisation has launched a three-month residency for visual artists who are the target of politically motivated threats in their home country.
The annual Manchester art fair marks its tenth edition with a move to a new city centre venue along with a new October date for 2017.
London and Scotland-based artistic duo Thomson & Craighead have created a new generative moving image work for the Look Again festival in Aberdeen. They talk to Jack Hutchinson about the impact of the internet on our lives and how splitting their time between rural and urban areas has benefitted their practice.
The founder and director of Bristol-based public art producer Situations has been appointed director of Arnolfini gallery.
Plans submitted to Bexley council for partnership between Peabody housing association and Bow Arts will see renovation of the Lakeside Centre to create an artists’ hub, including workspaces, a new day nursery, a gallery and project space.
A selection of recommended exhibitions for the week ahead, including porcelain sculpture in London, harrowing photography in Edinburgh, and spontaneous painting in Newlyn.
Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and this week taking us to Leigh on Sea, London, Stroud, and Palma de Mallorca.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Carolee Schneemann to be awarded Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at 57th Venice Biennale, internships threaten diversity in UK creative industries.
The new £750,000 funding and training programme from the Garfield Weston Foundation and Art Fund will help regional and smaller local authority museums to exhibit works from the UK’s national museums and galleries.
A three-man shortlist for the BP Portrait Award 2017 sees a return of the traditional artists’ muse, as the selected artists depict important women in their lives.
Keith Piper’s exhibition at New Art Exchange, ‘Unearthing the Banker’s Bones’, explores the idea of what our society’s relics might look like from a future perspective. The founder member of the BLK Art Group talks to Wayne Burrows about the themes contained within the work and the continued importance of political and social questions to his practice.
Designed by Hugh Broughton Architects, the redeveloped Henry Moore Studios and Gardens includes a new visitor centre featuring a shop and café, plus a new archive building.
A selection of recommended exhibitions for the week ahead, including fabric in London, photography in Plymouth and artist books in Glasgow.
Exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and this week featuring exhibitions in Swansea, Eastleigh, Walthamstow, Portsmouth and London.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Shortlisted artist in Sony World Photography Awards accused of plagiarism.
For the second in our monthly series of reports on art scenes across the UK, Swansea-based artist Erin Rickard takes a look at her home city and highlights current and forthcoming activity.
As conflict and war continues across the world, artists are exploring ways to cut through the mainstream news narrative in order to highlight the ongoing refugee crisis. Lydia Ashman looks at current projects, artworks, and exhibitions that are tackling this urgent humanitarian and political issue.
Artists Alex Hartley and Tom James have created a geodesic dome constructed from reclaimed materials and situated it in the Capability Brown-designed gardens of Compton Verney, a Georgian mansion and gallery in rural Warwickshire. Anneka French finds out about their plans for the future.
In response to a call out earlier this year that sought proposals exploring how artists and artists’ groups adapt to navigate turbulent cultural and political landscapes, six artist-led groups have been awarded bursaries to develop their research.
Studio platform led by Mirza will receive fully funded residency at FACT in Liverpool and CERN in Geneva, through programme created to transform the way art and science encounters are understood.
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