
Video piece wins Jerwood Drawing Prize 2016
The four award winners of the longstanding art prize that celebrates and promotes insight into contemporary drawing have been announced.
The four award winners of the longstanding art prize that celebrates and promotes insight into contemporary drawing have been announced.
For the latest instalment in her monthly series on artists’ books, Sarah Bodman looks at the work of British artist Angela Thames as her year-long residency at Chawton House Library in Hampshire draws to a close.
‘Visual AIDS is a haven for me and my contemporaries, nurturing, honouring, protecting and utilizing our work. Its intergenerational approach to activism through visual art gives my 28 years of mercurial survival a historical significence, and contemporary vitality.’ Eric Rhein, […]
Last night I relaxed after a nightmarish day at work by completely unplugging for an hour. I put John Coltrane on the stereo and sat on my living room floor with a sheet of lining paper and some marker pens. […]
Yes, yes, yes! Through An Artist’s Eye is almost ready to launch! The creative work is long done, our film is receiving it’s final touches and our booklet is at the printers along with all our exhibition materials. We are […]
So….finally…I’ve crossed the final hurdle in the long but amazing lead up to the 3rd Contemporary Art Triennial, Coup de Ville 2016. I arrived in Sint-Niklaas last Wednesday to apply the finishing touches to my work before the VIP […]
The annual arts education conference, which this year takes place in Liverpool, will explore how issues of access and activism impact on galleries and the visual arts.
Serf, the latest addition to Leeds’ expanding workspace scene, offers much more than studio space for artists – it provides a support structure for early career artists at a crucial time in their development. Lara Eggleton reports.
‘Striations, digging machines, blades – both depicted and the tools used to make the work – slashes, slices, gouges, and dissections, how could we not call this exhibition DiG?! Extract from Exhibition introductory statement, by Jane Boyer
A long and in some ways disillusioning day, that will take a little processing time to fully put into perspective. I had some time to spare before my meeting with Nelson Santos, Executive Director of Visual AIDS, so I went […]
London-based painter Cathy Lomax wins the first edition of this new, artist-led prize, selected from a shortlist of 15 artists.
The American artist’s new permanent large-scale video installation, Mary, joins his 2014 piece, Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water), inside St Paul’s Cathedral.
Over the past 5 or 6 weeks I’ve been producing work in response to my day trips to Colne and Nelson. In an earlier post I talked about making collages and quick abstract responses with paint and ink which were […]
Lorna Green commented: This is an image of the sheet music for the nine art in nature sculptures in the same order as on the ground. !0 minutes of the performance of about 40 minutes can be seen as a […]
Artwork looking at gender equality, stereotypes and displacement.
This week’s selection includes video in London, drawing in Poole and a different take on domesticity in Leeds.
A message from Barack Obama to the librarians of the world