Jerwood Artists Platform is the latest in a range of visual arts initiatives funded by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. It seeks to showcase emerging and talented visual artists by providing them with a major solo exhibition at the foundation’s own […]
As part of the recent Commonwealth Games in Manchester, Cultureshock commissioned contemporary visual artists to record, document and interpret this major event. As a result, the Singh Twins created a single narrative painting encompassing themes relating to the games, to […]
Somerset Art Week, now in its eighth year, provides an opportunity for artists and makers to show work and open up their studios to an appreciative public. Artists too have benefited from enhanced networking and the sharing of information and […]
Eye-catching new digital artwork appeared last month at the former site of the ABC cinema in Commercial Road, Portsmouth. Over seventy young people from local groups including Hillside Youth Club, Paulsgrove Detached Youth Group and the Freedom Café worked together […]
The Scottish Artists’ Union annual conference held in June was the launched for the SAU’s new Rates of Pay document. Far and away the most radical proposal of the day, this is intended as the first in series of such […]
A unique national online guide to accessible art galleries has now been launched. The Good Gallery Guide showcases venues that are leading the way in making art welcoming and accessible to exhibitors and audiences, whatever their needs. Set up by […]
The Land and the Samling programme reached a climax in July when sixty young people from schools and colleges in north east England worked alongside professional artists at Kielder Forest, Northumberland. The result of a creative partnership between the Samling […]
A book celebrating the extraordinary work of Welfare State International, written by founder John Fox, was launched in July. Established in 1968, Welfare State made their name with groundbreaking events such as ‘The Raising of the Titanic’ in a London […]
Following a successful pilot last year, the Yorkshire Open Biennale will be a regular fixture from 2003. Organised by Wakefield Art Gallery and Wakefield Artsmill this biannual event will offer a two-stage exhibiting opportunity for artists in the region. The […]
The APT Gallery reopened recently after substantial refurbishment and has now embarked on a dynamic programme of exhibitions. First off was a group show curated by Leila Galloway and Roxy Walsh entitled ‘Ten days in Deptford’. This coincided with the […]
Benedict Carpenter’s sculpture for this year’s Jerwood Sculpture Prize was unveiled in June at the Jerwood Sculpture Park, Worcestershire. The bronze sculpture entitled Universal Object, is an ambiguous figurative form derived from the famous ink blot Rorschach tests which triggered […]
The competition amongst the twelve cities bidding to host Capital of Culture for 2008 heightens, as Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Brighton & Hove, Bristol, Canterbury & East Kent, Cardiff, Inverness & the Highlands, Liverpool, Newcastle-Gateshead, Norwich and Oxford jostle for media […]
The phrase ‘weekend break’ took on a new meaning when fifteen artists were invited to spend time at the Great Eastern Hotel in London’s Liverpool Street and create site-specific work inspired by the space. As a result hotel guests there […]
The latest commission for Compton Verney in Warwickshire, John Kippin’s ‘Beauty, Harmony, Truth: navigating the English country house’ documents the impact of political, social and economic change on the British landscape. His observations were exhibited from April-June on sets of […]
Officers of the English arts funding system had something other than the Jubilee celebrations to think about over the June long Bank Holiday weekend. The week before, all had been issued with the long-awaited outline of the proposed new structure. […]
As an artists’ facility and studio complex, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop has been active on the Scottish art scene for the last fifteen years. More recently, we have been setting up links with numerous European countries, the most ambitious and widespread […]
As part of strategies to improve the professional context for artists, the Arts Council of England commissioned Clare McAndrew and Lorna Dallas-Conte to examine implementation of droite de suite (artists’ resale rights) in other countries and recommend good practice for […]
BALTIC, heralded as a “new breed of public space, an art factory where artists from all over the world will come and work”, finally opens to the public on 13 July. The former flourmill has been converted into a multi-purpose […]
Dream Time, a new award that offers high achievers in arts, science and technology the chance to take time out to explore new creative areas and refresh their thinking, was launched in May by NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, […]
The Ann Sutton Foundation (ASF) was established in October 2001 to raise the profile and design quality of woven textiles in the UK. The launch in June coincided with the 2002 art college degree shows and incorporated an exhibition entitled […]
Louise Crawford’s eight-month collaboration with architects Ian Alexander of McKeown Alexander explored issues central to redeveloping Glasgow’s Merchant City and Trongate, the home of arts organisations Transmission, Market, Glasgow Independent Studios, Street Level and Glasgow Print Studios. Entitled Fieldwork, the […]
As part of a new residency programme, Vicky Isley and Paul Smith are working part-time at ArtSway this year and artists Alistair Gentry, Charlie Murphy and Emilia Telese will each spend a month in residence. Isley and Smith are behind […]
Selected by art historian Frances Borzello, academic and commentator Germaine Greer, artist Jenny Saville, and expert on ageing Dr Leonie Kellaher ‘Art, Age and Gender’ presents work by women artists that explores all aspects of ageing from cradle to grave. […]
For the Beacon’s Golden Years project, Martin Newth has used pinhole photography, hand-built giant camera obscuras and digital imaging to examine perceptions of changes in Whitehaven, and its immediate and wider context over the past fifty years. Engaging with community […]
Cable Street Studios has flourished as a working space for artists for over twenty years and is now one of the largest studio blocks in London. As land prices in Docklands increased massively, Cable Street became highly desirable to developers. […]
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