Lancaster Art Fair Open Call for Makers Market in St Nicholas Arcade on the 22nd and 23rd of August, and series of satellite exhibitions and makers markets across local businesses in Lancaster to run alongside the Art Fair, as well as workshops.
Alternative Arts present the annual Women’s History Month programme in East London, celebrating women artists, activists, writers and performers at venues across the region 1-31 March 2025
Busy, busy busy prepping adult and children’s workshops. I have to confess to being more excited about the children’s workshops. I’ve already delivered one ‘Animal Magic’ workshop at Warrington Museum and Art Gallery last month. That was a success with […]
Within days of being told of the commission Ill be working on, I was invited to visit SAMS – The scrap arts materials store in Blackburn. I hadn’t even had the chance to get my head around what I was […]
A considerable drive to pick-up a sewing machine that I had bought on the Swedish equivalent of Ebay gave me plenty of time to think about the programme that I have been planning as part of my upcoming show at […]
For Warwickshire Pandemic Stories I have been commissioned by Arts Uplift to create a light installation that is inspired from the pandemic stories of mums in North Warwickshire. This is part of a larger project, Michelle Flint is working in South Warwickshire and creating a text
2020-05-17 Although there is no lockdown in Sweden it still feels a bit strange to be going to an actual meeting this afternoon. Uppsala Artists’ Club committee has a planning day. Under normal circumstances I would be looking forward to […]
In the last of the 600-word reviews filed following the second workshop at Baltic in Gateshead, Isaac Nugent looks at London-based painter Joy Labinjo’s recent exhibition. Review #8: Joy Labinjo at Baltic Through a series of large, brightly-hued paintings and […]
Each of the eight participants on the a-n Writer Development Programme 2019-20 was asked to submit a 600-word review of a current exhibition at Baltic, Gateshead. Half chose to review the Judy Chicago show. Here’s what India Nielsen thought. Review […]
As a follow-up task from the second a-n Writer Development Programme workshop at Baltic in January, the eight participants were tasked with filing a 600-word review of one of the current exhibitions are Baltic. Four of the writers chose the […]
Following the second workshop in the programme, led by frieze deputy editor Amy Sherlock, three of the participants chose to write about British-Nigerian painter Joy Labinjo’s exhibition at Baltic, ‘Our histories cling to us’, her first major solo show. Here’s […]
