New sonic works presented in October enabled five emerging artists to use personal narratives and found sound of urban spaces to create installations that resonated between the past, present and future of their sites.
A major initiative to install brand new public art sculptures at three Prestatyn locations looks a step closer to becoming a reality.
This month’s movers in the artworld.
Over 2,500 entries were submitted for the 2008 Jerwood Drawing Prize, advertised through a-n, with sixty-three works shortlisted.
A new study has revealed that exports account for 30-40% of designer-makers’ business within Cockpit Arts, with France, Japan and US the main markets.
Organised by University of Westminster research fellow Clare Twomey to coincide with London Design Week, September’s one-day symposium Collaboration: Artist and Industry held at The Building Centre, London offered international and UK perspectives on artists in residence within the ceramics industry.
Recent art and design graduates from across the UK are showing at the Hub this autumn.
This month’s art world movers.
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.
A unique publication and DVD resource reflecting the work of key UK-based artists working in the 1990s and 2000s, and placing live art practices that are informed by questions of cultural identity within critical and historical frameworks, is now available.
New commissions by artists Richard Higlett and Jennie Savage will be presented by Locws International to coincide with the Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts.
Now the largest photography festival in the UK, photomonth 08 encompasses over 100 exhibitions and events in more than sixty galleries and spaces in East London, featuring up to 500 photographers.
The October art fair frenzy kicks off with Art London 2-6 October at Royal Hospital Chelsea, celebrating its tenth anniversary by presenting eighty galleries, 1,000 artists and five continents.
New art spaces opening around the UK.
Led by London Printworks’ Director David Littler, who describes his two passions in life as textiles and music, the Sampler – Culture Clash project, is an attempt to bring the two cultures of embroidery and DJ-ing together to see what might happen when these cultures clash.
Glancing at the simmering surface of Lake Ontario in mid-summer, it’s hard to imagine that Toronto will be snow-covered for most of winter. The extreme conditions, however, don’t stop the city from boasting a vibrant art scene. Distinguishing itself from […]
The first-ever International Video art festival in Orebro, Sweden, kicks off in October.
Students graduating from the MA in Interdisciplinary Arts Practices at Oxford Brookes University are staging an exhibition of their work at sites in Oxford. M8 showcases work from twelve diverse artists at OVADA, The Town Hall Gallery and some of […]
Cutting-edge galleries from Birmingham, Bristol, Gateshead and London are amongst exhibitors selected for the 2008 Zoo Art Fair, 17-20 October at Royal Academy of Arts, London.
From more than forty entries, winners of the first Michaelhouse National Sculpture Competition are: first prize £3,000 to Anna Sikorska; second prize £2,000 to Tim Harrison, and third prize £1,000 to Ali Grant.
Birmingham-based Craftspace is collaborating with maker and academic Helen Carnac on the research and development process of SLOW, that takes as its starting point issues emerging from the Slow Movement, which has developed as a critical response to our increasingly fast lifestyles and unsustainable consumer culture.
In July, the UK Intellectual Property Office launched a consultation to assess the likely impact of Artist’s Resale Right and the derogation for deceased artists on the UK art market.
Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire is host to Nottingham Contemporary’s 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.
The shortlist for the John Moores 25 Contemporary Painting Prize was announced in July.
Over 160 artists are showcasing work in Wirksworth Festival’s Art and Architecture Trail.
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