50th Venice Biennale: Who’s afraid
Graham Parker on the reasoning behind Manchester’s presence at this year’s biennale.
Graham Parker on the reasoning behind Manchester’s presence at this year’s biennale.
Edoardo Malagigi questions the meaning of title of this year’s biennale.
Special degree show review: Simon Webb scouts around the Midlands.
Special degree show review: Rosemary Shirley heads south to Chicester, Southampton and Winchester.
Since I left art school in 1990, I have been creating work across art forms and for exhibitions.
The Science Museum, London
26 May 14 September
Bearspace, Deptford
5 June 19 July
Easyexercises.com, a website by Adèle Prince, is inspired by Bruce Tegner’s book Isometric Power Exercises, which suggests ways of integrating exercises into daily routine. Prince’s re-interpretation purports to apply this technique to contemporary pursuits such as using mobile phones and […]
Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh
7-21 June
Firstsite, Colchester
7 June 3 August
Roxane Permar describes setting up a new artists’ membership group in Shetland.
Kate Day, curator of contemporary craft at Manchester Art Gallery, talks to Amanda Fielding about her work. First in a new six-part series ‘Crossing over’ focusing on arts professionals and how they work with artists.
2003 Royal Academy graduate Renata Hegyi has won the £10,000 St James Group Fellowship. Taking the form of a bursary to assist a student from the Royal Academy Schools in their first year out of the college, it includes an […]
Promoting cultural diversity has become a policy priority for arts organisations, yet it is rarely questioned or criticised. Does cultural diversity policy challenge discrimination and broaden the arts scene, or risk politicising the arts at the expense of equality and […]
The theme of the June 2003 issue of South Australia’s Artlink may strike a chord with UK arts entrepreneurs, in that it explores critical mass the point at which a chain reaction begins, usually incited by a smaller explosion. […]
German artist Jochen Gerz’s new UK works come at a time of high tensions worldwide, and have been commissioned for a city known internationally for reconciliation. One of the world’s leading conceptual artists, Gerz has been working for nearly five […]
Artists whose work focuses on glass feature highly in exhibitions and events in the UK and Europe this summer.
Planning is now underway for the third Liverpool Biennial in 2004, a foreground for the City of Culture programme in 2008. For the 2002 event, over 180,000 visits were recorded at the UK’s only biennial of contemporary visual art and […]
Light is the key feature in two public art projects due for installation in September. Both are being created by Art2architecture a collaborative venture between artist Peter Fink and architect Igor Marko. By working with artists, landscape and urban […]
Oriental Museum, Durham
31 May 31 August
I wish I’d done proper jobs and built up my communication skills. You can’t just make art: you have to be able to engage with people. Sky Collins, exhibitor in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. This course is aimed at […]
The first in a six-part series ‘Navigating places’, Jane Watt profiles the River Commissions project, a series of temporary works along the River Hull corridor.
Candid Arts Trust is a registered charity that aims to promote the work of emerging artists. Located in central London in a 20,000 sq ft venue housing two loft-style galleries, eighteen studios and rehearsal spaces the organisation runs […]
Following graduation from the Royal College of Art, I undertook many major public commissions for clients including British Rail, British Gas and Unilever.
David Titley finished his MA in Manchester in 2002 and felt a sense of isolation upon returning to his home town in rural Lancashire. He set up Pavilion in December of that year after obtaining a lease on a studio […]