Ruth Ewan wins Arts Foundation Award for art in urban space
London-based Scottish artist awarded £10,000 to help pay for living and working expenses over the next 12 months.
London-based Scottish artist awarded £10,000 to help pay for living and working expenses over the next 12 months.
Commissioning programme that supports disabled artists will use Ambition for Excellence Award to develop its international reach.
London Art Fair announces Belgian artist has been awarded £2,500 prize for work exploring influence of the internet.
The not-for-profit organisation is seeking suggestions for three painters to join the judging panel of its 2016 painting prize.
Bluecoat Display Centre in Liverpool has announced the six artist designer makers nominated for a new prize and exhibition in memory of the potter Julia Carter Preston. We take a closer look at works by some of the shortlisted artists.
Visual arts organisations Metal and Cornubian Arts and Science Trust receive a share of £3m to create new arts festivals.
The founder and director of Situations Claire Doherty has been recognised in the 2016 New Year’s Honours list for her outstanding contribution to the arts in the public realm, while artist Phyllida Barlow and Henry Moore Foundation director Godfrey Worsdale also receive honours for services to the arts.
The highlight of 2015 for Belfast-based filmmaker Seamus Harahan was winning the Film London Jarman Award in November. He reflects on a difficult year that, in the end, has been “kind of amazing”.
Artist wins Aspex Gallery’s biennial open competition for graphite rubbings from Jimi Hendrix’s former London home.
The Turner Prize is no stranger to cries of ‘Is it art?’, but this year even those who live and breath contemporary art have been sceptical about awarding the £25,000 prize to the architecture collective, Assemble. Chris Sharratt welcomes the question.
The winner of this year’s Turner Prize, announced at Tramway in Glasgow, is the architecture collective Assemble.
Arts Council England has announced support for three projects aimed at stimulating ‘ambition, talent and excellence, and cultural development’ across the country, including a new public realm project on the south west coast of England managed by Bristol-based Situations.
Belfast-based artist Seamus Harahan wins the £10,000 Film London Jarman Award.
43 recent graduates from five West Midlands art schools will exhibit their work over four venues across the region from February 2016, as part of this large-scale partnership exhibition from Turning Point West Midlands.
A brand-new award from Film London and The Wapping Project draws attention to the work of female creative technicians working in the worlds of film, television and artists moving image.
A group exhibition of newly-commissioned photography has opened at Jerwood Space London, enabled by the inaugural Jerwood/Photoworks Awards. Tim Clark speaks to Photoworks director, Celia Davies, about the impetus for setting up this joint programme and what the various bodies of work might reveal about the new generation of practitioners.
Andrew Gifford awarded £5000 ING Prize for his oil painting The Tyne at Wallsend Study 1, one of a series of northern scenes featured in annual exhibition in London.
Recipients of the 21st annual Awards for Artists, the largest individual awards made to visual artists and composers in the UK, revealed at keynote speech in London.
London-based photographer David Stewart wins prize on his 16th attempt with a restaging of his 2008 entry.
The UK’s longest-running artist collective has announced the prize winners of its 82nd open exhibition.
Four artists up for award that includes group exhibition at London’s Photographers’ Gallery, with winner receiving £30,000 in prize money.
Liverpool-based artist Emma Sumner reports from two recent community arts focused events in the city, a Temporary Parliament tasked with selecting the winner of the 25,000 Euro Visible Award for ‘socially engaged practices in a global context’, and a conference organised by Liverpool Biennial which looked to learn from the legacy of community arts projects in the light of a renewed interest in socially engaged art.
Four artists who create work deemed to enrich the visual experience of our urban spaces have been shortlisted for the £10,000 award.
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation has announced the shortlist for the $100,000 biennial prize, with British artist Mark Leckey and Cuban artist and activist Tania Bruguera among the six finalists.
Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool has announced the panel of judges who will select the shortlist and overall winner of the UK’s longest-established painting prize, which is currently open for applications until 9 November 2015.