Tom Inns, whose time as director of Glasgow School of Art has been marked by two major fires at the school’s historic Mackintosh building, has resigned.
A response to Anne-Mie Melis’ SLOW LANDSCAPE exhibition at ArcadeCardiff
Art etc. No. 13 Knowledge-gathering The last few weeks has seen an enormous accumulation of knowledge. Following on from the HMS/Contre-Courant exchange in April, we have now hosted the French artists. This was primarily exhibitions at 35Gamble and HMS Gallery […]
I’m at it again. I’m packing and printing in readiness for my third trip to University College Cork, who’ve been immensely supportive of the performative side of my practice over the past few years. This time I’m all about ‘undergarments’. […]
I attach four artworks I produced with the vast image library I gathered in 2016 on my tour of Britain with the help of an a-n Travel bursary. ‘Grand Tour II: Homage to Soane (after Gandy)’ 2017 was shown as […]
What role do accidents play in the artistic process? Like many artists, I feel that I have a bit of a “schizophrenic” mind. On the one hand, I am an obsessive planner; before beginning a project, I undertake extensive research, […]
In the summer, I visited Fogo Island, where I offered a rock classification service and spent time at the Museum of the Flat Earth as a Visiting Artist. Alongside these activities I also visited a number of museums on the […]
Other News In Brief: Creative Scotland bosses deny new ‘acceptable conduct’ document is attempt to silence critics; little-known artist wins world’s biggest portrait prize worth over £80,000; Venice museums reopen after worst floods in 10 years; artist defends appropriation of a fellow artist’s work without permission.
Well, I almost never paint. It makes me nervous and I am in awe of the tradition of painting and the discourse around it. But I kind of wanted to have a go again. So here is the result. To […]
Yesterday I launched a new personal project, #BlackSquares365. Each and every day for the next year I will create a small artwork from scratch and post it on Instagram and Twitter before the end of the day. Each piece is […]
Every day for 365 consecutive days I will make a new small artwork from scratch around the idea of Black Squares
Selected from a-n’s busy Events section, featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n members, this week’s selections are from London, Birmingham, Totnes, and Farsley Village in West Yorkshire.
But you don’t really care for music, do you? Well it goes like this: The fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah lyrics by Leonard Cohen But the version I […]
Winner of prize will receive award of £2,000, plus a critical essay on their practice written by Matthew Collings, and an invitation to become a member of Contemporary British Painting.
“I wouldn’t have written this poem if it wasn’t for…..” These are the words of my poet friend Heather Wastie in her new book “Don’t Oil the Hinges” It’s a great way to introduce a poem as it provides the […]
The new V&A East, due to open at east London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in 2023, will feature a brand-new museum, plus a collection and research centre.
In a new a-n Resources profile to coincide with Bobby Baker’s 14–18 NOW commission ‘Great & Tiny War’ – the run for which has just been extended – Lydia Ashman talks to the artist about her experiences of the mental health system and the need to address ‘transgenerational trauma’.
For the latest in our ongoing series looking at the visual arts across the UK, Cardiff-based artist Freya Dooley provides a tour of her home city’s lively and supportive scene.
Current work explores globalisation through its accelerated impact on city space. Operating at the intersection of urbanisation, postcolonialism and interculturalism, urban-spatial movements are sampled and traced within densely populated and expanding cities.
