The Cultural Campaigning Network has organised a roundtable session with Keir Starmer MP to put forward the case for culture within any Brexit negotiations. a-n members are invited to submit their questions.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: high-profile artists support charity art auction for children in hospices, plus artist and curator Ingrid LaFleur to run for mayor of Detroit.
Exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and including events in Newcastle upon Tyne, Gloucestershire, Pembrokeshire and Kent.
Kayt Hughes’s recent solo exhibition at Gallery North ‘My Five-Year-Old Could Have Done That’ suggests that out of play, great and even profound ideas may emerge. Outside of the arts, the concept of play is associated almost exclusively with children […]
Opinion, only very slightly informed.
A Parable for Endeavour, a collaborative film made with Joanna Jones and Helen Lindon is being previewed at my old college, King’s College Cambridge on 11 March for International Women’s Day. Watch the trailer. Website
My fourth short film is taken from a poem I wrote a few years ago while experiencing quite severe depression and would take a lot of long walks across the city, mostly looking at the ground. I initially made a […]
My personal ‘spherical journey’ has taken me to some interesting places. Spherical objects are very tactile, but are also visually, mentally and emotionally captivating. The sphere is a symbol that has been used in different media since primitive times and […]
A recently launched survey from the Creative Industries Federation examines the role freelancers play in the UK’s creative industries.
The Drive & The Waiting Game Before the painting ‘The Fare’, I painted the image ‘The Waiting Game’, I liked this painting, and I think that it’s important that I show why I think that it didn’t give off the […]
A new Collaboration between Sharon Campbell and Rachel Ramchurn
Last month I was invited to give an hour’s talk about the Peace Painting project at the annual Paradigm Arts Art & Design Conference at The Collection Museum and Art gallery, Lincoln. Images and experiences are in this blog Recent […]
This week, I have had to take a day off. Here is a blog in which I try to express some thoughts. Some other thoughts to go with it include: Wanting to give talks about Portrait Of Ian Duncan Smith With […]
Four artists each receive £25,000 to create new work and a £5,000 artist fee, plus a 13-week exhibition at Baltic, opening summer 2017.
In May and June 2017, a-n will be delivering five Assembly events at locations across England, featuring speakers and training on a range of subjects.
This is a painting that I have started (and not yet finished) of my friend Summer. I wanted to paint this portrait so I could practice sewing into it, but it’s taking so long for me to finish. I’m struggling […]
Gustav Metzger, the German-born artist best known for his work as part of the 1960s auto-destructive art movement, has died at his home in London.
The exhibition is installed thanks to Carol and Glen who helped me put it all up. It’s perhaps a bit odd in a way, but the work always seems somehow different when it is up on the walls in an […]
As my work recently has been more research based I was told to just go for it, not think just do for a while, so that’s exactly what I’ve been doing. Keeping to my theme of lips and red and […]
The British Council consider the implications of Brexit in terms of an opportunity for Britain to present its “creative genius” to the world.
to encourage artists to “keep going”
