In collaboration with Ikon gallery, Birmingham-born artist Gillian Wearing has immortalised a local family, consisting of two sisters and their children, in a bronze artwork sited in Centenary Square outside the new Birmingham Library.
As it took some time to post my first entry, I think it is appropriate to spend some time recording the activities of October. Preparation for one of these events began some months ago when Barton’s in Beeston, Nottingham announced […]
This collection of articles shows my interests which reflect my personal practice. My work can be viewed on saatchi art.
to hours and twenty minutes before the deadline … submission made to a residency opportunity. this one has been very significant – however the outcome of the submission goes. i spent weeks going around the houses and in the final […]
Manchester’s Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art has appointed a new director, Zoe Dunbar, who will join the organisation in December.
In Photo Show, editor Alessandra Mauro offers a kaleidoscopic look at 12 landmark photography exhibitions and perhaps a new perspective from which to approach the medium. Tim Clark is excited by the first book of its kind.
My flight is at 8.40pm. I am flying with Cathay Pacific. I arrive in Hong Kong at 4.20pm on 1st November and then fly with Dragon Air to Xiamen, landing at 6.55pm where Ineke and May will meet me at […]
I have to ask myself this, as when I first started creating art work it was mostly drawings in sketchbooks I hadn’t even painted on a canvas before I started university. so why painting, and why abstract? To be brutally […]
Fifteen days since the knee op. Can’t drive yet… another couple of weeks probably before I can get back behind the wheel. I am climbing the stairs, one at a time, good leg first, like a toddler. I can walk […]
I have now spent just over two months here in Stoke-On-Trent as part of my Graduate Residency. And again my weeks have been filled with exciting activities along side my own developments in the studio. Here is what I have […]
Hello, At the moment I do workshops in the UK. I am currently looking to do the same workshops abroad in the USA, Canada and mainland Europe. Can anyone give me advice as to anywhere I can cover myself with […]
I am a final year art student at University Campus Suffolk. My work has developed into the challenge of figurative painting. Recently I have begun to explore the figure and bold pattern combinations and the way the pattern wraps and […]
a-n’s Granted professional development programme of workshops and seminars for artists and visual arts freelancers launches a new strand this autumn, working in partnership with Medway Council’s Recreate project, and offering one-to-one advice for the first time.
In the months before our 3 day sounding lab we sporadically exchanged references that excited us, stuff we’d read, artists that interest us, workshops we’d led or attended, observations from making new work.. references included: Denis Smalley – Spectromorphology: explaining […]
I have taken the close ups of my painting ‘Wild Flowers’. I really liked the effect created by taking smaller sections of the painting, to see more detail, it almost looks like new different paintings. The blue splatters pop against […]
Creative Scotland has announced details of the 119 organisations that make up its new Regular Funding portfolio, benefiting from regular support over a three-year period.
V&A ban drawing in Turner exhibition
Having set the bar so high recently with his Torqued Ellipses and the Gestaltkunstwerk, The Matter of Time at the Guggenheim Bilbao, the question arises as to whether Richard Serra can continually raise sculptural parameters? It is a tough challenge […]
