The eighty-strong Artists’ Bond opens its doors to another forty members from 1 April. But, as founder Ellie Harrison describes, anyone looking for a practical funding scheme would do well to look elsewhere.
Gina Birch reflects on her career, from founding post-punk band The Raincoats to falling “hook, line and sinker for paint”.
New Contemporaries has announced this year’s selected artists for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021.
In this profile, Ellen Wilkinson speaks to artist, designer and writer Mei Yuk Wong of Manchester-based supportive network The Centre for International Women Artists. Collective action hit the art headlines at the end of 2019 when that year’s four Turner Prize […]
The second edition of Coventry Biennial will be entitled ‘The Twin’ and feature a series of exhibitions, events and activities taking place at various locations across the city.
Bryony Bond started 2016 with a move across the Pennines from The Whitworth in Manchester to The Tetley, Leeds. She looks back on a year of “new starts”.
The Baltic Artists’ Award will provide a platform for the work of four emerging artists and celebrate the role of the artist-mentor.
Five visual artists and three composers each receive £50,000 ‘no strings attached’ awards to ‘develop their creative ideas’.
An open letter signed by artists including Tracey Emin, Douglas Gordon and Ed Ruscha, as well as the actors Val Kilmer and Ewan McGregor, has called on the board of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to reopen the recently closed Inverleith House as a gallery for contemporary art.
Primarily aimed at self-employed artists, this guide sets out why people should be considering a pension or retirement plan and offers advice on a number of different choices that are available.
I have a drawing in this group show curated by Artbelow ‘Bondage’ is a James Bond themed art exhibition featuring the work of ten handpicked UK artists including Nasser Azam, Terry Arpino, Richard Colson, Miranda Donovan, Matt Farina, Nina Fowler, […]
100 artists who were affected by the fire at Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building earlier this year have been awarded bursaries to enable them to continue their creative studies at art schools in the UK and beyond.
Zeitgeist Arts Projects has announced artists selected for the second Open Exhibition, opening later this month as part of the Deptford X International Art Festival.
Throgmorton Restaurant and Bar, London 15 March, 22 March and 5 April
Recently-published research commissioned by Chrysalis Arts to identify how to assist the future development of visual and applied artists in north Yorkshire reveals, amongst other things, the impact on practitioners of changes in the rural economy and of foot and […]
Julie Read reports on her residency in Basel and gives an overview of the artscene in Switzerland.
An artwork by Kevin Hunt created as part of Signpost that aims to draw attention to some of the most superb activity being facilitated by emerging independent artists and curators right now in the UK.
National Glass Centre, Sunderland 15 September – 4 November
I was very pleased to be awarded the SANE Creative Awards Scheme this year, which is for my new series of Monaco paintings. These paintings address the juxtaposition of life experiences as a carer, being denied any income for caring, […]
