Scottish changes
Radical changes in funding arrangements are due at the Scottish Arts Council (SAC) following last year’s strategic review.
Radical changes in funding arrangements are due at the Scottish Arts Council (SAC) following last year’s strategic review.
11 Wolstenholme Square, Liverpool
25 May – 8 June
One One One, London
24 May – 9 June
Contents include: European collaboration and cultural diversity: in news a conference in Estonia, commissions for Subdoh Gupta, Rashid Rana, and comment on the 8th Sharjah Biennial. Simon Zimmerman asks if you can afford not to visit a new website on pensions for artists. PDF version [size 7.5MB]. Requires pdf reader.
An introduction to the wide range of practical and insightful material available to new artists on www.a-n.co.uk Includes Artists profiles that illustrate how artists from a range of practices and disciplines have negotiated their own paths through the art world. […]
Karin studied BA (Hons) Fine Art from 1999-2002 at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, University of Central England. She now works in partnership with Reuben Henry, both in the residencies they offer at Springhill Institute the studio in Birmingham that they set up in 2003 and embarking on residencies abroad to make their own work.
Nicky Hodge featured in the Fine art and Painting sections of a-ns Signpost publication for new graduates in 2001-3. Since then, exhibitions with Danielle Arnaud Gallery have served to demonstrate the value of the artist-gallery relationship.
Pennwood House, Cassington, Oxford
21 April 2 June
Gloucester Cathedral
2-28 May
Various venues, Leeds
14-27 May
Jo Wilson explores the work of ceramicist and sculptor Amy Cooper, in particular her successful balance between business and creativity.
Antony Hall undertook an MA in Art as Environment at Manchester Metropolitan University, graduating in 2002. Since then, his work has had an emphasis on technology, usually in the form of long-term research projects, residencies, performance, web and sound art.
David Kefford is a sculptor who uses low-tech craft processes to transform found objects into surreal creations imbued with human characteristics and emotions.
Lucy Panesars college aspiration was to be a practising artist and part-time college lecturer, and a methodical approach to her career has made this a reality.
Rick Schofield, photograph from the Peer series, 2007.
Jo Wilson looks at the practice of Adele Prince who, since graduating in 2001, continues to work full-time as an artist on a variety of commissions and exhibitions.
Originally from Barbados, Alberta Whittle graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2002 with a Tapestry degree.
Since November 2006, Arts Council England has been asking all across the land to add their views on the public value of the arts.
The 52nd Venice Bienniale that launches in June combines exhibitions of significant visual art from international artists with passeggiata and associated networking opportunities on the grandest scale for the throng of curators and artists who will assemble there. The main […]
Heroes in Transition at Nottinghams Angel Row Gallery brings some of Croatias best new artists to the UK for the first time.
Charlotte Frost discusse the Media Mates scheme.
Shisha will present new site-specific events for Manchester International Festivals Manchester Firsts, through commissions for international artists Subodh Gupta and Rashid Rana.
Collaboration across the European education institutes was the theme at a recent conference in Tallinn, Estonia.
As I was chaperoned around the 8th Sharjah Biennial: Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change, the Emirate reminded me of Phoenix Arizona, but instead of US patriotism pervading, Islam sits relaxingly alongside the logos of KFC, Dunkin Donuts, Burger King, Pizza Hut, shopping malls and building construction.
Formed in 1913, the London Group developed as an alternative to the conservatism of the New English Art Club (NEAC) and Royal Academy (RA), institutions which at that time gave (some) artists an opportunity to show their work through open submission.