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Jack Hutchinson is an artist, writer and critic. Since graduating with an AHRC funded MA in drawing from Wimbledon School of Art he has contributed regularly to a-n Magazine, Dazed and Confused, Garageland and the new bi-annual publication Twin. He is the online editor of AIR: Artists Interaction and Representation. He has exhibited nationally and his first solo exhibition in London, Brief Encounter took place at the Red Gate Gallery in 2009.
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As we move into the second decade of the new millennium, the media industry is at a critical epoch. There has been a shift away from the traditional few-to-many model to a many-to-many methodology based on two-way interaction and exchange. At the Read on…
N/A, N/A
29 May 2010
Theo van Doesburg was one of the leading figures in the development of geometric abstraction, founder of the De Stijl group and editor of the magazine of the same name. He developed contacts with such artists as Bart van der Leck, Anthony Kok, Read on…
Tate Modern, London
4 February - 16 May 2010
On 14th January I attended State of the Arts - The Conference for the Arts, hosted by the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (RSA) and held at Park Plaza Riverbank, London. The conference examined Read on…
Twitter, London
14 January 2010
As we move into the second decade of the 21st century new technologies have enhanced our interaction and understanding of the world around us. History is no longer restricted to a long forgotten past – we barely have time to experience Read on…
Global, Various
11 January 2010
During these economically uncertain times the topic of sustainability is increasingly pertinent to art practitioners. A recent survey of its members by AIR: Artists' Interaction and Representation found that levels of self-employment were higher Read on…
Global, Global
8 November 2009
Deptford has been receiving a great deal of publicity recently, with the New York Times declaring it a ‘boisterous concoction of blue-collar aesthetics and intermittent hipsterism’. The bulk of London’s art scene remains in the Read on…
Various, London
21 October - 7 November 2009
As part of the Nicolas Bourriaud curated Tate Triennial 2009, Altermodern, Peckham Plex Cinema presents a special screening of the little known classic Radio On. Chris Petit’s 1979 film has been described as one of the most striking feature Read on…
Peckham Plex, London
23 April 2009
A central figure of the American avant-garde, Michael Snow is best known for the structuralist epics Wavelength and La Région Centrale. Considered one of the most influential experimental filmmakers of all time, the BFI Read on…
BFI Southbank, London
18 January 2009
Located at Austin by Artkandy on Bethnal Green Road, Lu Flux: Old Believer is an exhibition of garments constructed from salvaged, vintage, organic and new fabrics. Lu Flux, a London based clothing designer whose work won the Ocean Terminal Read on…
Austin by ArtKandy, London
28 October - 10 November 2008
Paris’ night sky is illuminated with blinding white light beamed from scores of highly powered architectural lamps in international artist Ryoji Ikeda’s major new commission, spectra [paris] for Nuit Blanche, the city’s annual Read on…
Tour Montparnasse, Place Du Juin 1940, Paris
4 - 5 October 2008
Now in its 50th year, the 25th John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize presents a selection of new British painting. The prize has historically been the turning point of several highly prominent artists careers, including Peter Doig, David Hockney Read on…
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
20 September 2008 - 4 January 2009
Camden Arts Centre is the venue for Chantal Akerman’s first solo exhibition in a UK public gallery, presenting two installations alongside Hotel Monterey, a single screen film from 1972. The centre is a curious space in which to display Read on…
Camden Arts Centre, London
11 July 2007 - 14 September 2008
The Whitstable Biennale 2008 has grown out of the area's developing artists' community and celebrates the quiet coastal town as an increasingly important centre for artists and curators. Arriving in the ‘Pearl of Kent’ I Read on…
Various venues across Whitstable, Whitstable
21 June - 6 July 2008
My immediate response to Cream Pages, a new publication featuring the dialogues of Tania Koswycz and Richard Layzell, was that of familiarity. Conversations of the two artists are recorded, as far back as 2002, in no particular order. Read on…
Edited by Joshua Sofaer and designed by Phil Baines, ResCen Publications
24 May 2008
Glasgow International was founded in 2004 and this year’s incarnation offers a theme that is loosely described by director Francis McKee as ‘public and private’. The project has slowly expanded to 40 exhibitions, occupying not only Read on…
Venues across Glasgow, Glasgow
11 - 27 April 2008
“Familiar space provides an environment which has unexpected edges.” The Freudian concept of an instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time is central to Unheimlich, a group show running Read on…
Leeds Met Gallery, Leeds
17 April - 17 May 2008
My invitation to take part in Alana Jelineks art intervention told me little. Mundane instructions such as the time and place of venue were included. The only clues to content were references to BLACCXNs major shareholders Read on…
BLACCXN AGM, Canary Wharf, London
16 November
RSVP displays work by fifteen artists from the East of England, inspired by the art and social history collections at the Foundling. Curator Gill Hedley invites visitors to ‘find new ways of looking at what is around them’.The show at Read on…
The Foundling Museum, London
28 September - 18 November 2007
The eleventh annual Jerwood Drawing Prize aims to reward excellence and talent in contemporary drawing. In contrast to last years exhibition the work here is more diverse, encompassing works on paper, DVDs, animated drawings, projections and Read on…
Jerwood Space, London
19 September - 18 October 2007
The Implicasphere project aims to explode and tangle the apparent simplicity of meaning of ordinary, concrete words like 'mice' and 'string' by exploring the associations that attach to them. Implicasphere's co-editors Cathy Read on…
Cornerhouse, Manchester
8 August 2007 to 8 August 2007