A recent Crafts Council report shows that female self-employed entrepreneurs have emerged for this growing sector, currently estimated to worth over £800 million. The report, the first on the crafts sector for ten years highlighted the importance of lifestyle satisfaction […]
An artist’s dream of transforming a derelict building into an artists’ resource has been realised with the launch of Treruffe Art Studios. Located in Redruth, Cornwall, the project has been championed over a seven-year development period by artist Christine Spencer-Green […]
Artist Dave Farnham has won PizzaExpress Prospects 2004 – a national contemporary drawing prize now in its fifth year. The artist will be presented with a cheque for £10,000 by leading art historian and broadcaster Tim Marlow The artist’s work, […]
Len Horsey profiles his residency at Kulturhuset USF and the thriving art scene in Bergen.
This month’s magazine raises various issues about the nature of support for artists. In ‘Mission men’ we hear of the supportive environment in San Francisco that contributed to Chris Johanson’s development from a strong local presence to “artist of international […]
Simon Webb’s review of the exhibition ‘Blow Up’ at St Paul’s Gallery in Birmingham (May issue) was unjustly dismissive towards Clive Head. Head’s paintings were described as “Constablesque (if very accurate) depictions of the landscape”, but I challenge Simon Webb […]
In June 2003 I was awarded the art and science residency at Wysing Arts, Cambridgeshire.
Studio Voltaire, London
16 April – 30 May
Folly, Lancaster
26 March – 7 May
Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
27 March – 2 May
Published by Thames and Hudson (World of Art series)
Launch date 4 May
The Phillips Gallery, Taunton
17 April – 22 May
Scotland’s largest studio provider, Wasps Artists’ Studios and sister charity the Wasps Trust, have launched capital projects worth £6.5million in three cities as part of strategies to benefit visual artists. To date, over £4.3 million has been earmarked to buy […]
In May, the Open Studios in Brighton celebrates twenty-five years as the longest standing artists’ studio in the city. Located in the historical fisherman’s arch directly between the piers, it has long been the workplace of artists and craftspeople of […]
Peter Freeman’s new light sculpture flashes to the beat of the street. Sited in February in a colourful area of Rochdale – described by the police as being like the Wild West on a Friday night – Pulse will share […]
The BBC has commissioned a new work from internationally renowned Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, due for installation next year. Entitled Breathing the light sculpture will be positioned above the new BBC Broadcasting House complex and will act as a memorial […]
Students in the textile design department at York St John college are about to launch themselves into the annual ‘degree show’ arena. Thanks to the organisational initiative of third year students Rebecca Stoner, Rachel Stubbs and Allison Williams, family, friends, […]
The Art Cruise Crew’s first major exhibition was held deep in the heart of London’s impressive new Paddington development in April. A diverse group of young and professional artists, the Art Cruise Crew has worked collaboratively to produce a new […]
Creating international networks is the theme for The Transnational Breakfast Club to be held on 4-5 June at Stroud Valley Art Space, Gloucestershire. Billed as an “inspirational one-and-a-half days of lively talks, presentations, screenings and exchange for and by artists, […]
West Midlands based agency The Public will become a recognised learning provider and deliver twenty workshops for 120 creative industry practitioners, freelancers and emerging artists from Sandwell and Dudley through a new arrangement with the Black Country Learning and Skills […]
Eight artists have each received £30,000 to develop a creative project as part of the delivery of the Creative Scotland Awards. Making these cross-art form awards in March, Chair of the Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Awards 2004 judging panel […]
West Midlands-based organisation The Public and British Waterways recently commissioned seven artists to undertake projects based around the Birmingham Main Line canal at Galton Valley, Smethwick as part of strategies to encourage people to engage and understand their local canals. […]
Paul Glinkowski’s article painted The Laboratory at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in a very favourable light, and was much appreciated in these parts. However, I should like to mention that The Laboratory would not have developed […]
You are no doubt aware of John Prescott’s plans to build 350,000 new dwellings in the south Midlands and that Milton Keynes is to take over 90,000 of these. There is considerable concern here at the lack of a master […]
Presentations by consultant Lee Corner and a-n Director of Programmes Susan Jones on the Code of Practice for the Visual Arts were incorporated into Engage’s Making Connections series of seminars during March. Held at Queen’s Hall Hexham, Artsway New Forest […]
