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The London-based organisation that has played a key role in campaigning against oil sponsorship of the arts is looking for a new home due to its office rent more than doubling.

The STEAMHouse project will see the former Typhoo tea factory in Digbeth transformed through over £14 million of funding into a creative space featuring studios, workshops, equipment and support staff.

This week’s selection includes sculpture in Kendal and south London, graffiti art in Manchester, and video installations in Oxford and Gateshead.

Bristol based artist wins £8,000 award to create new work for solo exhibition at artist-run London gallery Standpoint in 2017.

New work by leading international and Scottish artists, alongside a focus on the work of ‘The Next Generation of Artists’, will be among the highlights of the 13th edition of the UK’s largest annual festival of visual art.

Culture minister Ed Vaizey has announced the publication of The Culture White Paper, the first government white paper on culture in England for over 50 years.

NVA has received funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Creative Scotland to save the iconic modernist building and bring it back to life as an arts centre and heritage destination.

Four artists have been shortlisted for UK’s first dedicated award for sculpture, with the winner receiving £30,000.

S1 Artspace has announced more details of it planned relocation to Sheffield’s brutalist Park Hill estate, following last week’s budget announcement of £1 million of government funding for the scheme.

For NVA’s Hinterland, a derelict former Catholic seminary near Glasgow has been bathed in light and sound before it is partly transformed into a new space for art and performance.

This week’s selection includes Simon Starling in Nottingham, Iwan Lewis’s paintings in Llandudno, and Sara Barker’s stage-like installations in Edinburgh.

This week’s selection of events and exhibitions, chosen from listings posted by a-n members on our Events section, takes us to Wales, London and Cambridge.

This weekend and throughout April and May, intimate operatic experiences will be taking place people’s homes – courtesy of Opera Helps, a project by artist Joshua Sofaer.

Despite a further £3.5 billion of cuts planned for 2019-20, George Osborne’s Budget has also dropped a few strategically placed funding packages and a tax reduction for the self-employed.

Recipients of the latest round of a-n bursaries have been announced, with over £36,000 awarded to a-n Artist members to support self-determined professional development over the coming year.

This week’s selection includes an immersive audio-visual installation in Liverpool, painting in Glasgow and Middlesbrough, plus new video works in London.

Glasgow-based artist Ailie Rutherford has created The People’s Bank of Govanhill and is action-researching a new currency for the Govanhill community and running a crowdfunding campaign to print editioned notes designed by Marvin Gaye Chetwynd.

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.

Dublin-based artist to collaborate with renowned theatre artist Olwen Fouéré on work that addresses social and political issues.

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.

The Edinburgh-based painter receives £15,000 prize for his representational painting of the Scottish capital’s old town.