The programme for the sixth edition of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, the first under new Director Sarah McCrory, combines the local and international to create a busy 18 days of contemporary art activity across the city.
The shortlist for the 2013 Griffin Art Prize, for emerging artists working in painting and drawing, has been announced.
We report from this year’s Abandon Normal Devices festival at the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology in Liverpool, and explore the role and influence of digital culture and new technologies in a selection of the artists’ work.
Currently listening to: Costing the Earth: CSI Landfill BBC Radio4 08/10/13 3:30pm Tom Heap discovers landfill mining: finding value in what’s been thrown away. He visits Belgium to meet the first prospectors digging for treasure in trash. For years rubbish […]
As I may have mentioned earlier the designs for these mosaics were inspired by the Ecological Report written about the development site with guidelines for the developer as what to plant and what type of habitats to create to encourage […]
Four of Scotland’s leading environmental organisations are hosting seven artists’ residencies funded by Creative Scotland, as part of the Year of Natural Scotland.
This week’s recommendations range from Sarah Lucas’s major show of new and existing works at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, to the citywide Art Sheffield festival.
“I believe that with its many subspecialties, art therapy has the key, or perhaps a key, to our understanding of the mechanisms underpinning change in all kinds of psychological treatments… because art therapy is closest to what we now understand […]
I spent most of Friday in Norman St Empty shop space, which was a very productive day! I met an artist who seems very keen to participate with us and get involved. I had been thinking a lot about the […]
This is my first Solo show at Paul McPherson Gallery, London. The show is a collection of figurative-abstract works inspired with people, modern commuters that are travelling to work in and around London. The collection will be focusing on people, […]
See….. now this is what happens, too much time in the cooler things start going funny! As I mentioned my friend who has defected to the east…he tells me the ‘old people’ in the east where he is are all […]
I’ve had a week of minor worries, but after a sunny weekend I’ve put it all behind me. Before I started at Lincoln I worried about my proposal. What if it’s a dull, wet summer and I can’t take the […]
So… i’m up to date and despite hardly doing any work for the last few weeks, I am artist of the day on the Altrincham Arts Festival facebook and twitter sites : https://www.facebook.com/AltrinchamArtsFestival The rest of the time though…. 3 […]
Sustainability Both artists who I spoke to have experience of making projects/artworks that are site or context responsive. We talked about how there can be a frustration with the process of applying for things. With open call opportunities, conceiving of […]
Ok. Back from Hastings where my patient friend Tracy has shepherded me through finding my domaine name [still there after several years] originally a present from my son who said grab the .com while it’s available. Turns out he has […]
The year begins! Our tutors have given us pep talks – much like football coaches give to players before a match, to ensure we use the space the course leader has fought hard for or else loose it to another […]
