Safle, the strategic development body for art in the public realm in Wales, has announced that the recipient of the Safle Graduate Award 2010 is Lauren Elena Sarreas-Webb.
Graham Crowley is one of the most distinguished living painters in the UK today. As the deadline closes on entry to the John Moores 2010 competition, Kate Brundrett asked him for his views on the competition’s significance and for his ‘take’ on the state of contemporary art practice.
Richard Taylor talks to an ex systems engineer during his final year of Fine Art Drawing at Swindon College School of Art.
In June 2009, a.a.s. was granted a NAN Go and See bursary to travel to Glasgow for research and development. Artists’ Networks Coordinator Emilia Telese talks to Stuart Tait of a.a.s. about the bursary and its impact on the group.
Project Space Leeds, Leeds
20 November – 27 February
Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
21 November – 10 January
Cell Project Space, London
7 November – 6 December
Moot, Nottingham
13 November – 13 December
‘Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution’, an exhibition from Craftspace curated with maker Helen Carnac, tours from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in January to Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh.
A new paper from MMM (Mission Models Money) written by Hasan Bakhshi, Radhika Desai and Alan Freeman, provides a radical new roadmap for research and development (R&D) within cultural organisations.
Southampton City Art Gallery’s collection, which includes work by Turner and Monet and an impressive line-up of twentieth century British artists such as Antony Gormley, Rachel Whiteread, Chris Offili and Gillian Wearing, is under threat from the city council proposal to sell parts of it off to fund a new heritage centre.
The issue of free labour in the arts received much-needed publicity in November, when a Reading Employment Tribunal ruled expenses-only pay was illegal.
This month’s prizes and awards announcements.
If success begets success then the latest incarnation of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 at The National Portrait Gallery is no exception.
The Crafts Council has announced the five new recipients of its Spark Plug Curator Awards. The award of
If you’re a maker with a portfolio practice, applying your craft skills and knowledge in different roles, projects and settings who’d willing to see your work profiled in a major national research project that aims to influence future support for craft, then the Crafts Council wants to hear from you.
South West-based skills and enterprise development agency ArtsMatrix closed suddenly on 3 December.
February’s movers in the art world.
“The challenge is to reconcile the prosperous economy with the good society”, David Lammy, September 2009.
It’s just over a year ago now that a letter was signed by over 440 arts practitioners from all over Scotland, voicing concerns at the proposed creation of Creative Scotland, an amalgamation of the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen, with an expanded remit covering the creative industries and other commercial activity that would previously have been covered by Scottish Enterprise.
Next month sees the return of one of the UK’s largest international festivals of electronic arts.
Cable car by Suzanne Moxhay.
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A selection of forthcoming open exhibitions, biennales and awards to artists.
Aldo Rinaldi and Katherine Daley-Yates discuss northcabin, a programme of site-specific commissions in an unusual venue in Bristol from 2008-09.
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