News briefing with national and international stories, including: survey finds that North East arts organisations favour EU partnerships, despite Brexit; Raven Row to offer free spaces; Scottish Youth Theatre set to close after losing Creative Scotland funding.
Highlights for the week ahead selected from a-n’s Events section posted by members, with exhibitions and events in Birmingham, London, Oldham and St Helens.
I’m currently in the last term of university at Carmarthen School of Art, and this term I’ve been focusing on working with domestic, every day objects. My aim is to experiment with them and try to make them useless in […]
The arms manufacturer is no longer a ‘premier partner’ of the government-backed exhibition after artists and arts professionals backed a campaign against the company’s involvement.
The artist, who identifies as a ‘queer working class female artist’, says in a resignation letter that she has quit due to comments made by Tate director Maria Balshaw.
A year-long commission by artist Kristina Clackson Bonnington launches at University College London with the first three of a planned 12 portraits going on display.
Over the past few weeks as my residency approached I have been revisiting the mossland locations from within the scan data. This process helps me to focus on the memory and experience of being in place and then translate this […]
post dinner and we’re all sat solitary in the living room, our faces lit by our devices, the dog sleeps. i glance through the curtains at the last of the daylight backlighting a chimney and digital arial. this day has […]
During 2018 to July 2019 I am one of ten artists working as part of a project, ‘Surrey Unearthed’ across the Surrey Hills. I am an artist and papermaker and work by walking, collecting, interacting with people and making.
I have some work in a local restaurant called The Allotment run by an artist who bravely bought the business while completing her MA! I was invited to contribute the work, alongside 3 other artists including fellow artist and DAD co-director Joanna […]
Reflections on what turned out to be rather life altering.
A stimulating few days spent at Porthmeor Studios in St Ives exploring ‘chance into abstraction’ Out of the comfort zone and free to take a chance approach to composition and use of colour (for me) was liberating to say the […]
It’s International Women’s Day on Thursday 8 March and to mark the occasion we preview 10 art-related events and exhibitions taking place across the UK.
I had an instructive introduction to ‘process-based’ drawing today from Adam, as part of our preparation for the next two Underlined Project workshops: Thursday 8 March 6-8pm Tuesday 13 March 2-4pm This was a fascinating experience which involved taking turns to make […]
How I go about doing things as part of my residency does not go unnoticed and people at x-church seem to reflect and talk about it. This is good, yet also slightly worrying as everybody at x-church might understand better […]
A major aim of my Contemporary Art Cross-stitch practice is to push the boundaries of what cross-stitch can be, and attempt to create new ways of working within the medium. I began to experiment with painting on cross-stitch fabric, originally […]
