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Fact or Fiction: artists’ moving image at Berwick
Artists’ moving image works take a central place in this year’s Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, directed by newly appointed Peter Taylor.
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Somerset Art Weeks Festival 2015
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South West England
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Plymouth Art Weekender: an ambitious event in a changing city
The inaugural Plymouth Art Weekender presents work across the city by over 400 local, national and international artists. Artist and AIR Council member Steven Paige welcomes this audacious new festival and looks at how the city’s visual art ecology has developed in the five years since British Art Show 7.
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Glasgow International 2016: programme will feature over 200 artists across 57 venues
Glasgow International, the biennial festival of local and international contemporary art, has announced highlights of its 2016 programme.
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A Q&A with… Tod Hanson, painter and graphic artist
For the Coastal Currents festival, Tod Hanson has created a site-specific work that covers the entire floor of the historic Durbar Hall in the Hastings Museum and Art Gallery. Dany Louise finds out about his process, inspiration and influences.
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Rochester Literature Festival 2015: Live’n’Local
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South East England
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Film Open at Artists’ Moving Image Festival: “It will be a collective experience”
This weekend at the fourth edition of Tramway’s Artists’ Moving Image Festival in Glasgow, Transmission Gallery presents the Film Open 2015 – a new touring programme of 20 films from five artists’ support networks in the UK.
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Northern art and soul: Warrington festival addresses north-south divide
The inaugural North festival of contemporary art opens in Warrington in October with a series of city pavilions and an exhibition that invites artists’ responses to Ikea. Laura Robertson speaks to some of the artists involved and the London-based gallerist behind the event.
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Bournemouth Fringe crowdfunder: artist Stuart Semple donates painting
Bournemouth Emerging Arts Fringe festival, now in its second year, has launched a crowdfunding campaign with support from Dorset-born artist Stuart Semple.
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International: Ars Electronica and the art of global thinking in a local context
While it is known internationally for its annual media arts prize and September festival, Ars Electronica is also firmly rooted in its home city of Linz, Austria thanks to its stunning building and work with schools. Chris Sharratt talks to artistic director Gerfried Stocker who explains how, 20 years after he joined the organisation, the relationship between local and global working remains crucial to its success.
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Unveil’d Photography Festival 2015 – Exeter
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The Hall -
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September 05, 2015 -
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September 15, 2015 -
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South West England
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Usurp Zone5 Film Festival
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Usurp Gallery -
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August 14, 2015 -
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August 17, 2015 -
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London
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Harvest Film Festival
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Lower Hewood Farm / Open School East -
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October 10, 2015 -
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November 07, 2015 -
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Across UK
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Edinburgh Art Festival: uncovering the ‘alternative’ improbable city
Edinburgh Art Festival opens this weekend with a programme of new commissions and exhibitions taking place across the city. Richard Taylor takes a look at some of the exhibitions and artists’ talks and tours that offer an alternative take on this year’s festival commission theme, The Improbable City.
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MIF 2015: Neck of the Woods – too self-regarding to really engage
Directed by Turner Prize-winning artist Douglas Gordon, Neck of the Woods stars Charlotte Rampling and features music by international concert pianist Hélène Grimaud. But does this Manchester International Festival production fulfill its potential? Chris Sharratt reports.
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Manifest, Manchester: an artist-led art festival for the North West
An ambitious new artist-led festival is taking place across Manchester and Salford this weekend, with studio spaces and major venues hosting a number of projects produced especially for the festival alongside, open studios across both cities. Bob Dickinson meets artists and festival directors Elisa Artesero, John Lynch and Roger Bygott to find out more.
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Hackney WickED Open Studios: “It may be the last time”
Artists will be opening their studios to the public over the weekend, despite this year’s Hackney WickED Art Festival being cancelled.
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e-Luminate Cambridge Festival 2016
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Cambridge -
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February 17, 2016 -
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East England
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Lytham Arts Festival
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Lytham -
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July 04, 2015 -
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July 11, 2015 -
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North West England
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Edinburgh Art Festival 2015: new commissions will respond to city’s architecture
Artists including Charles Avery and Marvin Gaye Chetwynd to create new commissions responding to the festival theme of The Improbable City.
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OPEN SOURCE festival puts emerging artists at centre
Inaugural festival featuring film, performance and installation launches this weekend in Dalston, London with a focus on young artists and curators.
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Hackney WickED festival cancelled, but more WickEDness planned
The organisers of the annual Hackney WickED Festival in East London have announced that the event will not be going ahead this year due to spiralling costs – but that the community interest company will continue to work with artists in London and beyond.
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Edinburgh Art Festival: from Phyllida Barlow to open call for early career artists
The programme for this year’s annual Edinburgh Art Festival includes the first solo show in Scotland from Phyllida Barlow and an open call for proposals from early career, Scotland-based artists.
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Manchester International Festival 2015: visual arts programme announced
The visual arts programme for this year’s Manchester International Festival has been announced, with new works by Gerhard Richter, Ed Atkins, Olafur Eliasson and Douglas Gordon among the highlights.
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FORMAT photography festival: 2015 award winners announced
Following an open call, FORMAT International Photography Festival has announced the winners of its EXPOSURE Awards, with the prizewinners exhibiting during this year’s festival in March.