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Oysters and Pearls

The Whitstable Biennale is about much more than traditional seaside fair
Annabel Dover gives her personal guided tour including bingo and food poisoning Read on »
While Niki Russell foucses on the artists' film programme  Read on »

Latest Liverpool reviews

This year we are working with galleries in Liverpool to create a body of critical writing around the contemporary art scene in the city. Throughout the year we are offering bursaries to enable writers to visit and review shows taking place at some of the most exciting venues - see the Interface opportunites section (in the right hand column of this page).

The latest set of reviews written by Craig Atkinson feature the Liverpool Art Prize Read on
and If you can hold your breath, a group show at Ceri Hand Gallery Read on »

Critical mass: Interface and teaching

Working with Jane Watt over on a-n's Advisors and tutors site, Interface Editor Rosemary Shirley has put together a guide for using Interface with degree students. It outlines how critical writing skills can feed into practice and has some inspirational ideas for session planning go to guide

The guide draws on a review writing workshop Rosemary ran at Goldsmiths last term. Find out more here Read on »

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Interface commission articles archive

Alex Hetherington on the San Francisco art scene, Feb 2009 Read on »

Lucinda Holmes on moving herself and her practice to China, Jan 2009 Read on »

Alexandria Clark on Open Dialogues at New Life, Berlin, July 2008 Read on »

Cathy Lomax’s Whitstable biennale blog, June 2008 Read on »

Kristina Johansen’s GI Festival diary, Glasgow, April 2008
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Davy Smith ‘Broadcasting loud and clear’, AV Festival, North East, March 2008 Read on »

Micheal O’Connell ‘Imperfect things’, Transmedial, Berlin, February 2008 Read on »

Theo Wood, on Emergency3, Portsmouth, Dec 2007 Read on »

Lucinda Holmes on Susan Collis, Nov 2007 Read on »

Chris Brown on What is Critical Writing?, Sept 2007 Read on »

Architectural Fictions

By Adam Kelly

The recent exhibition at the Bracknell Gallery South Hill Park has been an enjoyable one, uncovering the literacy connection between architecture and narrative.It is always intriguing to witness how a gallery and its curators handle composing a Read on »

Visual Arts in Rural Communities

A self-imposed daily framework of gathering data of different sorts through long daily walks formed a strategy for Jilly Morris coming to terms with the contrast of a new environment. From urban living to the vast moorland space and skies of the Read on »

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