Lauren Healey interviews the artists shortlisted for the Liverpool Art Prize about making work, support structures for their practice, and their reasons for basing themselves in the North West.
Iain Andrews, The Eat Me, 50x60cm, acrylic on canvas, 2010.
A selection of forthcoming open exhibition competitions, bursaries and prizes for artists.
Millions of people take an interest in the Turner Prize each year who might otherwise only have a passing interest in Fine Art.
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester (in partnership with The City Gallery)
2 October – 19 December
Established in 2007 the annual Northern Art Prize offers four short-listed artists a prominent exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery and opportunity to win a £16,500 award.
Warren Andrews discusses winning the student prize, the importance of education and his future plans.
Virginia Verran discusses winning the Jerwood Drawing Prize, the importance of art education and the multifaceted nature of her practice.
Jack Hutchinson profiles the Jerwood Drawing Prize in conversation with director and founder Anita Taylor, this year’s First Prize winner Virginia Verran, and Student Prize winner Warren Andrews.
Many of us will submit work to prestigious ‘open submissions’: the Royal Academy summer exhibition, Jerwood Drawing prize and other major events, attracted by the idea that the democratic process of selection will allow us a share of the limelight.
A round-up of recent shortlists, winners and awards.
The core of the Stiwdio Safle programme is the ongoing professional development and practise of the artist and the public realm context they inhabit and respond to.
Twenty four-year old London photographer Laura Pannack has scooped top prize in the portrait singles category at this year’s World Press Photo contest for her work Graham.
Seven young people aged between sixteen and twenty-four started Suffolk’s first ever Creative Apprenticeships back in January.
Graham Crowley is one of the most distinguished living painters in the UK today. As the deadline closes on entry to the John Moores 2010 competition, Kate Brundrett asked him for his views on the competition’s significance and for his ‘take’ on the state of contemporary art practice.
This month’s prizes and awards announcements.
If success begets success then the latest incarnation of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 at The National Portrait Gallery is no exception.
The Crafts Council has announced the five new recipients of its Spark Plug Curator Awards. The award of
A selection of forthcoming open exhibitions, biennales and awards to artists.
As part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, the Unlimited programme is designed to celebrate disability, arts, culture and sport “on an unprecedented scale”.
Seizure by Roger Hiorns.
Prizes and awards taking place over the summer months.
Contemporary Art Society’s latest initiative, the Annual Award for Museums, will provide
“Sensuous, delicately crafted, beautiful” are not the typical adjectives one would normally affix to the kind of art featured in the Turner Prize.
Kate Brundrett talks to Paul Rooney about his work, residencies and winning this year’s Northern Art Prize.
