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Artist who played a leading role in the British Black Arts Movement in the 1980s and was made an OBE in last year’s New Year’s Honours list, will create new work for Great Britain at the 59th International Art Exhibition in 2021.

This week’s selection includes exhibitions and events in Manchester, London and Nottingham.

Announcing the recipients of this year’s a-n Artist Bursaries, which offer awards of £500-£1,500 to a-n Artist members wishing to undertake self-determined professional development over the coming year. We take a look at some of this year’s funded projects and hear from successful applicants.

Our regular selection of shows to see around the UK, including an exhibition of Painting in the New Millennium at Whitechapel Gallery, London, four artists reimagining Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, into a place of ‘research, learning, conversation and exchange’, plus Pip Thornton’s installation at The Fruitmarket Gallery’s pop-up space in Edinburgh.

This week’s selection includes exhibitions and events in Skipton, Liverpool, Bristol and Rye – all taken from our busy Events section featuring events and shows posted by a-n members.

Our regular selection of shows to see around the UK, including Emily Speed’s video work at Tate St Ives, Jerwood Makers Open at Manchester Art Gallery, and Alex Crocker’s large scale paintings and works on paper at TACO!, London.

DACS launches new website to make it even easier for artists and their estates to claim royalties for the use of artworks published in UK books, magazines and shown on TV

Our regular selection of shows to see around the UK, including Larry Achiampong’s moving image, sound and sculptural installations at John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, Cassi Namoda’s first European solo exhibition at Pippy Houldsworth, London, and Hardeep Pandhal’s multimedia exhibition at Tramway, Glasgow.

This week’s selection includes exhibitions and events in Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Salisbury and Southampton – all taken from our busy Events section featuring events and shows posted by a-n members.

National Museums Liverpool has announced the jury for the next edition of the John Moores Painting Prize which will see almost £40,000 of award money split across seven prizes, including a new Emerging Artist Prize.

Our regular selection of shows to see around the UK, including: an exhibition exploring notions around what it means to be an islander at Copperfield, London, and Elizabeth Eade’s powerful installations at HIX ART, London.

This week’s selection includes exhibitions and events in Portsmouth, Penryn, Worthing and London – all taken from our busy Events section featuring events and shows posted by a-n members.

The award from National Lottery Heritage Fund activates a grant of almost £1m from Arts Council England, which will help transform historic Islington Mill into a 21st century community art space.

Ahead of their collaborative group exhibition ‘Beating Time’, which opens at ARB, Cambridge, later this week, Jack Hutchinson spoke to artists Alison Critchlow, Miranda Boulton, and Una D’Aragona who have all participated in Turps Art School’s Correspondence Course. They discuss the benefits of the programme to rural-based artists and how it offers an alternative to courses run by traditional art education institutions.

Selected artists Silvia Rosi and Theo Simpson each received £10,000 to produce a new body of work for exhibition at Jerwood Space, London, plus a production fund of £5,000 and high profile mentoring support from an international panel of experts. Jack Hutchinson attended the launch of the exhibition and met the artists.

Our regular selection of shows to see around the UK, including a Saad Qureshi’s sculptural ‘mindscapes’ at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the SSA | VAS OPEN at Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, plus Anthony Shapland’s multidisciplinary work at Exeter Phoenix.

This week’s selection includes exhibitions and events in Corsham, Cardiff, Sheffield and London – all taken from our busy Events section featuring events and shows posted by a-n members.

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Our regular selection of shows to see around the UK, including a major retrospective of Bridget Riley at the Southbank Centre, London and a new video installation by the ZouZou Group at Ikon, Birmingham.

Artist Hetain Patel, who is also a member of a-n’s Artists Council, discusses his highlights of the last year, including the ‘mega surprise of winning the 2019 Film London Jarman Award.

The artist and co-director of Salford-based Paradise Works discusses her highlights of the last year including the ‘enormous confidence boost’ of being announced recipient of the Clore Visual Arts Fellowship, supported by a-n.

London-based French artist Paul Maheke uses performance, installation, video, and sound to explore the potential of the body as an archive in order to address how history, memory and identity are formed and constituted. Here he reflects on his personal highlights from the last 12 months, including being nominated for the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard Prize.

Marie-Anne McQuay discusses ‘a year like no other’ in which, on sabbatical from her role at Bluecoat and as Exhibition Director for Wales in Venice, she guest-curated Sean Edwards’ solo presentation at the Venice Biennale.

Senior Curator of the Hayward Gallery, London, and curator of Cathy Wilkes’ British Council commission at the British Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia 2019, discusses her highlights of the last year.

Artist Jerome Ince-Mitchell discusses his highlights of 2019, including becoming chair of a-n’s Artists Council and his personal pride at his grandfather seeing him graduate from the Royal College of Art.