A rundown shop in Southwell, Nottinghamshire has been transformed into artists’ studios, workspaces and a gallery as a result of a grant of more than £100,000 from Arts Council England, East Midlands.
A new website aims to present an anthology of approaches to such unidentified portraits.
Artquest has organised Intersection, a one-day conference in February looking at collaborative practice.
The Diversity Manifesto was launched at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in November.
‘Thinking of the Outside’ was a temporary exhibition of new artworks commissioned by Situations at the University of the West of England, in association with Bristol Legible City and Picture This, Bristol, in which six internationally acclaimed artists responded to Bristol’s historic landscape in summer 2005.
COLLECT 2006, Europe’s annual art fair dedicated to the applied and decorative arts, takes place at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum in February this year.
The Sculptors’ Society of Ireland (SSI), Ireland’s largest membership body for artists, has changed its name to Visual Artists Ireland.
The REALISE agenda.
A report on the Sensuous Knowledge conference which took place in Norway last month.
Opportunities round-up.
Following on from Remember Saro-Wiwa, Five proposals for London-based public art project The Living Memorial are short-listed.
Gunpowder Park, the new ninety-hectare country park at the top of Greater London, has launched Bright Sparks, a major new award scheme for creative practitioners who want to work with the “physical and social aspects of open space”.
The recommendations of the Scottish Cultural Commission, published in June, have been roundly rejected in a debate in the Scottish Parliament.
Fourteen projects have been announced as recipients of the Sciart Awards 2005.
Michael Pinsky is the latest artist commissioned as part of COAST, a four-year arts project to raise the cultural and aesthetic profile of Essex’s coastal area.
The Bombay Sapphire Prize 2005 – at £20,000, the world’s largest annual award for artists, designers and architects working with glass – has been presented to glassmakers Anne Brodie, Ruth Dupré and Louise Gilbert Scott.
Lee-Anne Hampson is the UK-based winner of the 2005 Commonwealth Arts and Crafts Awards.
The Celeste Painting Prize, a new £15,000 prize for painting, has been launched in the UK.
Next year, employer organisation Creative and Cultural Skills will produce a comprehensive skills strategy, as the first stage of a new programme of support delivering new creative apprenticeships, better careers support for newcomers and a new management and leadership programme.
Issues around alternatives and independence raised in the pilot issue of The Internationaler – published in Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield – are pertinent to debates around ‘British Art Show 6’ that launched in Newcastle-Gateshead in September. Becky Shaw and Mark […]
Running until 8 January 2006, ‘British Art Show 6’ opened in September at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. Organised by Hayward Gallery Touring, the exhibition is presented in different cities across Britain every five years. Curated by Alex […]
Art Sheffield 05: Spectator T is an ambitious city-wide contemporary art event taking place within the city’s major galleries, project spaces, non-gallery venues and public sites between 28 October and 27 November. The programme includes a mix of emerging and […]
Ceramicist Rebecca Harvey, whose work reflects her fascination with teapots, has won a £12,000 Queen Elizabeth Scholarship. St Ives-based Harvey will use the award to study for an MA in ceramics and glass at London’s Royal College of Art. Harvey […]
Eight major commissioning opportunities for designer-makers, each worth up to £12,000, are available through Museumaker, a high-profile programme that aims to develop new relationships and new audiences for contemporary craft and museums. The programme has received substantial funding from the […]
Like nothing else: experiment, risk and gallery education is an international conference from engage taking place 16-19 November at Bristol’s recently re-opened Arnolfini gallery. Exploring gallery education, arts practice, risk and experimentation, the conference will discuss how artists create and […]
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