Events #59: The week ahead from a-n’s members
A mix of exhibitions, symposia and performances from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section.
A mix of exhibitions, symposia and performances from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section.
Controversial corporate sponsorship by oil and gas company set to end in 2017, with campaigners calling for other galleries to follow Tate’s example.
The Meeting Point project will present artworks in unexpected places and support small and medium scale museums to commission artists.
The Europarc Project has seen North East Lincolnshire-based artist Marc Renshaw researching the strangely detached world of the region’s ‘flagship’ business park. a-n Writer Development Programme participant James Steventon talks to him as an exhibition of his work goes on show at The Collection, Lincoln.
Dublin-based artist to collaborate with renowned theatre artist Olwen Fouéré on work that addresses social and political issues.
Thanks to capital funding from a special regeneration fund, Glasgow’s Telfer Gallery has relocated to a new space in the city’s East End as part of the soon to open Many Studios complex. Chris Sharratt finds out more.
20 artists have been awarded prizes during the opening of the eighth annual RSA New Contemporaries exhibition, with a selection of the works due to tour from Edinburgh to Camden later this spring.
Studiomakers, a new initiative from Outset and the Mayor of London’s cultural team, aims to create more affordable creative workspaces in the capital.
The Edinburgh-based painter receives £15,000 prize for his representational painting of the Scottish capital’s old town.
CVAN’s recent The Value of Artists event at Leeds Art Gallery was billed as a ‘national conversation’. Leeds-based artist Amelia Crouch went along and found plenty to talk about but room for more discussion.
The Science Museum Group will go ahead with plans to move the Royal Photographic Society collection from the National Media Museum to the V&A, but says £7.5 million of investment and the transfer of a number of ‘significant objects’ to the Bradford-based museum over the next five years will help refocus it as the ‘city’s leading cultural attraction’.
The DACS Foundation has launched a three-year open submission project, with successful applicants receiving expert and bespoke legacy consultancy to develop and sustain their archives.
This week’s selection includes abstract painting in London, a re-evaluation of Outsider art in Manchester, drawings from the Arts Council Collection in Lincoln, and ceramics in Glasgow.
With International Women’s Day 2016 on Tuesday 8 March, we highlight a selection of exhibitions and events by women taking place across the UK.
Artist Sonia Boué has produced a new video calling on Arts Council England to consider the problems facing neurodivergent artists when applying for funding.
Highlights for the week ahead selected from our busy Events section and featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n’s members.
Sculpture and installation artist to create new work for solo show at the 57th International Art Biennale.
The People’s Market in Wrexham town centre will be transformed into a new arts and cultural hub for Oriel Wrecsam gallery following major capital grants from the Arts Council of Wales, Wrexham Council and the Welsh government.
For the latest in her regular series for a-n News, Sarah Bodman introduces two works from a new collection of 13 artists’ books to be launched at PAGES: The Leeds International Artists’ Book Fair.
The Science Museum Group says it is to review recent feedback over plans to move a significant photography collection from the National Media Museum, Bradford, to the V&A in London, as the campaign site 38 Degrees puts out a further call for signatures to its petition to block the transfer.
The Italian artist and hardcore punk singer Nico Vascellari presents his large-scale, haunting audio-visual installation, Bus de la Lum, at Manchester’s Whitworth. Dany Louise asks him about the work’s meaning and his wider practice.
The Art UK website project aims to digitally archive every publicly-owned painting, drawing, sculpture and print held in UK collections.
Arts Council England funding will support three-year project to develop contemporary visual art produced in Sheffield.
This week’s selection includes a harrowing installation at the Whitworth in Manchester, influential abstraction in Sheffield, and a group exhibition of works about socialism across venues in Newcastle and Gateshead.
This week’s selection, chosen from listings posted by a-n members on the site’s Events section, includes exhibitions in Birmingham, Bury, Colchester and Shrewsbury.