A thin place is a landscape’s anomaly, where the division between this world and another is particularly thin.
This week’s selection of must-see shows includes a new graduate show in the West Midlands, painter John Virtue’s new North Sea paintings in Eastbourne, and a hidden copy of an Old Master painting in Dulwich.
Preparations for the show are coming along. The aluminium boards for the jigsaw puzzles arrived this morning, it feels good that they are finally here! And thanks to what might well be a ‘vintage’ salad-washing bowl but which I am […]
This week’s selection of must-see shows includes a major retrospective of sculptor Lynda Benglis’ work at The Hepworth Wakefield, a survey of Marlene Dumas’ paintings in London, and Angolan artist Nástio Mosquito in Birmingham.
Why is gender inequality still rife in the visual arts and why are so many women in the arts still ‘scared’ of feminism? As a new exhibition opens at the artist-led Airspace Gallery in Stoke, Dany Louise is looking for answers.
Artist-led gallery and studio space The Royal Standard is hosting a quick-fire series of exhibitions by 26 studio members over three weeks. Laura Robertson reports on an exciting opportunity for artists in Liverpool.
The last week has been crazy! I haven’t even had a chance to blog! On Tuesday (27th Jan) I started installing my new site-specific chromatic light work Your Colour Perception at Castlefield Gallery’s New Art Spaces Federation House on it’s […]
Five artists have been shortlisted for the 2015 Converse x Dazed Emerging Artist Award, in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts.
I’d looked at the work of various artists, in particular, Peter Doig, Daniel Richter and Murat Sahinler, for my cine film project. I hadn’t seen their work first hand. While I was making my catalogue I managed to see Peter […]
This week, the sun is shining at Glasgow’s Tramway, everyday perceptions are challenged at Bristol’s Spike Island, and environmental politics are explored at Nottingham Contemporary.
I was drawn to this exhibition by its intentions to loosely re-interpret a classical landscape painting in three-dimensional form. The piece itself didn’t suggest these painterly origins to me. However Cornaro also aims to explore our perception of reality, and […]
Turner Contemporary’s Self exhibition looks at artists’ self-portraits from the 17th century to the present day, exploring the changing way artists have seen themselves – and society has seen artists. Dany Louise reports from Margate.
The annual open exhibition for final year undergraduates and recent postgraduates announces the three artists who will be selecting work for the 2015 show.
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here In my last post, I wrote of the state of flow… The ultimate creative state. In this post I write of the least creative, the most frustrating and yet the other end of the duties […]
This week’s selections include contemporary abstract paintings in London, a feature-length film installation in Sheffield, and in Edinburgh a look at two once famous and now largely forgotten Scottish painters of the 1940s.
