Spotlight on glass
Artists whose work focuses on glass feature highly in exhibitions and events in the UK and Europe this summer.
Artists whose work focuses on glass feature highly in exhibitions and events in the UK and Europe this summer.
Zoe Childerley took part in Liquid Light, an exchange programme between Jamaica and the East Midlands.
Artist Chloe Steele reports on her research trip to China, a country powering itself into the next generation as a major economic player. With a changing political make-up and growing middle class, China is establishing itself as a key player in the international art world.
John Cornall profiles the international art college.
Miles Henderson Smith describes the activity of Then, a group of international artists.
Ruth Claxton reports on her participation in a British Council funded workshop in Khartoum in October last year.
Devolution in the UK has hit this year’s Venice Biennale, with England, Scotland and Wales each having an independent presence there. This year, the British Pavilion will be showing the work of Chris Ofili; Scotland will be represented by Jim […]
Aikaterini Gegisian examines the art scene of south east Europe.
New York is arguably the world’s art capital. In a special four-page focus Jessica Crombie looks into internships and Karen Guthrie investigates activity beyond the commercial gallery scene.
Down town Regardless of your artistic persuasion the New York art scene is probably the most seductive in the world, with the possibility of wealth and influence promised by the American art dream. As someone whose artistic and curatorial interests […]
SSW (Scottish Sculpture Workshop) is an organisation that has always focused on artists and artistic processes. Located in rural north east Scotland it offers accommodation as well as workspace and has often been used by artists to pursue a period […]
Introduction to different kinds of residencies and what they have to offer for creative and career development.
Richard Cox profiles the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, USA, and discusses his involvement as both resident artist and selector.
Sorcha Dallas profiles Transmission, the Glasgow-based artist-run gallery, that was established in 1983 by graduates of Glasgow School of Art.
Despite graduating just two-and-a-half years ago, it is incredible how much metalsmith Junko Mori has managed to achieve in terms of reaching different markets and raising the profile for her work. In some ways she appears to be the very […]
The UK/German company Uninvited Guests has almost completed its tour with Offline, a unique brand of performance and multimedia work combining hi- and low-tech, the visceral and the virtual. Material for Offline was gathered by wandering the web as electronic […]
Carolyn Black’s first time working away from her home and studio was a UNESCO funded residency in Java, Indonesia.
Lucy Harrison gives an account of a collaborative project in Tallinn, Estonia.
Becky Shaw describes how she negotiated the difference between the expectations of her work and the reality of her practice when she received a prestigious international art prize.
Paul Edwards describes how residencies provide him with the opportunity to concentrate wholly on his practice.
Last September a diverse group of artists from Germany, Austria, Russia, Scandinavia, the US and UK assembled in the studios of the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne for a frenzied weekend of live performance. Rob Flint was one of the participants.
New Delhi isn’t an obvious destination for visual arts practitioners. However, as Judith Staines discovered, scratch the surface and a more interesting picture starts to emerge.
‘Dialog 2’, on show at Edinburgh College of Art until 8 September, is the result of a long-standing exchange between Poland and Scotland. In the autumn of 2000, the BWA Awangarda Gallery, Wroclaw welcomed seven Scottish artists. ‘Dialog 2’ provides […]
Artists Yusupha Jawara and Sabera Bham met through a project called artxchange, which brought artists over from the UK to share skills with Gambian artists. Eddie Chambers tells how this first meeting, and the realisation that both had similar concerns in their work, led to collaboration.
In 2001 Lorna Green took part in projects in Austria and Korea that had been organised by the Artists in Nature International Network (AiNIN), a web-based organisation for artists, musicians and writers who work site-specifically with and in nature.