Above Rachel Thomson & below Alix Marie, 'Above No. 2 Large Cloud-on 2010 & below Self Portrait with ear', Above cyanotype below C-type print, 2010. Photo: Rachel Thomson & Alix Marie. Courtesy: the artists. Joint winners of Photosensitive 2011
Jina Wallwork, 'Tree Loop', acrylic, 2011.
For recent art school graduates determined to travel past the shackles of debt, a residency is the way to meet fresh faces, exchange ideas and practice with artists from other countries. Fiona Flynn, from Chelsea College of Art, fills us in on Nida Art Colony in Lithuania and its residency programme.
Lauren Healey interviews the artists shortlisted for the Liverpool Art Prize about making work, support structures for their practice, and their reasons for basing themselves in the North West.
Peter Cutts and Sarah Gladden, 'Untitled', Monoprint and inks on paper, November 2010. Photo: Sarah Gladden. Courtesy: of the project 'Consequences'. A piece taken from the collaborative drawing partnership between artists with and without learning disabilities, a research project into the potential benefits and impacts of collaborative art making within inclusive arts.
Courtesy: Neil Warburton.
Izzi Ramsay, 'Isola Bella Island from Lake', Photograph, April 2011. Photo: Izzi Ramsay. Digital archival prints in limited editions
Rose Sanderson, 'Rabbit Fetus', Acrylic, 2011.
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
15 April – 26 June 2011
Alex Pearl trades on repetition, loss and the ‘destabilising language of humour’. Here he talks to Andrew Bryant about these and other forces at play as discussed in his Artists talking blog.
