A 1991 intercity rail map re-presented to look like a tree; a sculpture that changes position with the seasons and an exhausted Mars slumped against the foliage are three of the works short-listed for the 2007 Jerwood Sculpture Prize.
Sculptor Andrew Sabin is presenting new work in an exhibition now showing at Canary Wharf’s Jubilee Park. Previous public realm projects include being lead artist on the Sustrans Wandle Trail in Surrey and commissioned artist in Canterbury City Council’s Horsebridge […]
The £83 million Arts Council England fund for Grants for the Arts (G4A) has been cut by 35% to £54 million for 2007/08 with falling lottery ticket sales and the first of the Olympics raids on these funds blamed. With […]
Michael Cousin is one of five visual artists to receive a major Creative Wales award in the 2006/7 round.
The British Council plans to redeploy a third of the currently money spent in Europe to Muslim countries in the Middle East and Central Asia.
Notions of locating Creative Scotland the new body arising from the merger of Scottish Arts Council with Scottish Screen outwith Edinburgh is upsetting both the city council and those arts professionals who may be looking to Creative Scotland for their future careers.
Glasgow-based Jackie Anderson is the 2007 RSA Alastair Salvesen Scholar.
Charles Avery, Henry Coombes, Louise Hopkins, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lucy Skaer and Tony Swain will represent Scotland at the 52nd Venice Biennale of Art.
The Scottish Arts Council has appointed 13Strand to undertake a feasibility study to review the existing development and support structure for live art practices in Scotland.
From an application of over 115, seventeen projects will receive funding for networking programmes designed to develop future and emerging cultural leaders.
Manchester Museums first sustained research programme for artists.
Zoë Walker and Neil Bromwichs Limbo-Land is a multi-media installation focused around the space of oblivion, confinement, or transition.
Cardiff Art In Time, affectionately known as the CAT Show, revives one of the seminal art festivals of the 1990s.
Raphael Dadens light work for the centre of Barking forms part of a regeneration programme that anticipates the 2012 Olympics in East London.
The Culturgen project is set to establish the destinations and careers of fine art graduates from Nottingham Trent School of Art (NTSAD).
Nicola Wallis, a graduate of the Slade School of Art and AIR member, has won the Adrian Carruthers Studio Award.
American artist Margaret Salmon was announced winner of the first MaxMara Art Prize for Women in January.
Derbyshire Community Foundation and the University of Derby announce their new partnership.
London-based Melanie Russell and Camilla Wilson are amongst thirty artists selected for the Jerwood Contemporary Painters exhibition.
A collaboration between Central Asia and UK, this project is dedicated to forging new links between art communities in these regions through artist residencies, cultural exchanges and exhibitions.
A £3m investment to Scottish studio development organisation Wasps is designed to make them self-supporting in five years, and no longer dependent on arts revenue funding. A new partnership with the Scottish Arts Council will transform Wasps into one of […]
The Jerwood Photography Award worth £2,000 presented in December 2006 to Paul Plews has now been withdrawn following a complaint. The photographers submitted works, one of which was featured on the December issue of a-n Magazine, were taken from a […]
The untimely death in November of Deborah Rawson, ETA founder and director, has precipitated changes at this well-respected South East England-based artists development organisation, including staff redundancies.
Filmmaker Clio Barnard and sculptor Roger Hiorns are winners of the new Jerwood/Artangel Commissions worth £1million, promoted last year through a-n.