Over recent years the discussion around the current state of art teaching, and that of art education, has come to the fore.
Castle & Elephant is a new gallery in the centre of Coventry. Rather than having a fixed abode it will exist in constant transition, moving to available empty shop units in the City Arcade.
Hinterland curator Jennie Syson says this year’s commissions “will present a cycle-powered cinema, trees grown from books, tasty opportunities to eat the local plant life and a chance to do a spot of bird watching whilst appreciating areas of natural beauty within the city and beyond”.
Opportunities abound for involvement in Independent State, an ambitious participatory project sited in Frome.
Tether is a Nottingham-based artist collective that forms the nucleus for a cluster of associated activity, including studios, exhibitions, off-site projects, a video programme and podcasts, even stretching to a ‘Tether’ festival.
A series of site-specific art commissions that aim to interact with locations and audiences in Lincoln.
The relationship between the collective Ganghut and Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW) began with a residency and subsequent events, and has now developed into construction of a semi-permanent project space.
The Art in the Social Sphere symposium positioned Radar’s latest programme of work, ‘Group Process’, within the wider context of an increased artistic interest in socially engaged practice. Speakers addressed issues of “authorship, motivations behind an increase in engaged practice […]
Group Process is the latest season of work to be staged by Radar, Loughborough University’s contemporary arts programme. Running into February; it involves new and adapted commissions produced by artists Lisa Cheung, Yvonne Droge Wendel, public works / myvillages.org, Parfyme and Yara El-Sherbini.
Recent months have seen changes to the artistic landscape in Nottingham, reflective of a wider shift occurring in the surrounding cultural environment. These changes demonstrate that Nottingham is an increasingly attractive base for artistic activity, with a rising retention of graduates leaving higher education as well as enticing artists from the region and further afield.
The most recent Braziers international artists workshop enacted a purposeful shift, away from the idea of a residency as undisturbed individual activity, to that of a collaborative disruption of existing modes of practice.
Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire is host to Nottingham Contemporarys off-site programme until 7 September, a curatorial guest that has already visited Wollaton Hall for a time and is due to be incarcerated in a former police station later in this year.