
Lanty Ball wins Carter Preston Prize
Bluecoat Display Centre announces North West based ceramic artist as winner of inaugural craft competition.
Bluecoat Display Centre announces North West based ceramic artist as winner of inaugural craft competition.
As soon as we exchanged our prints I felt comfortable about responding to Guillaume’s work. The prints were open and left space enough for me to have a dialogue within them. There were a few prints that I initially found […]
The London-based artist Gillian Best Powell, founder of Cor Blimey Arts and Core Gallery in Deptford, has died aged 60.
I recently had a message from an old friend informing me that she had just hung two pieces of my work in her new home. These works had been languishing in the loft of her old house waiting for the wall space that […]
That was the first morning on that meadow. I remember it like cleaning our self’s. Washing all that crap off our bodies. The crap that weighed us both down. Amongst the crap was guilt. It wasn’t just that. We […]
That night I lived the rest of my life back in the old house. My dreams were so vivid that even the scents that filled my mind were real. Mandy and Sam were at the kitchen table, TC on […]
For such a horrible day, I expected the weather to have mirrored it more appropriately. Maybe rain that fell at such force it stabbed your coat and stung your skin or wind that brought down trees and brock fences. […]
The Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain((Regional collections of contemporary art) or FRAC, in Selestat houses the regional collections of contemporary art for the Alsace region. These public collections of contemporary art were the brainchild of Jack Lang, minister for culture in […]
In the piece Male and Female Genital Wallpaper (1989) (see Fig II) Gober uses, sketched parts of the human body in a repeating pattern. This combination of intimate areas, presented on a ‘household’ canvas, opens up a dialogue between the […]
Taking time away from her very busy schedule including Open Studios, teaching drawing at the Haute école des arts du Rhin (HEAR) Mulhouse, applying for an artist in residency in Iceland and her beautiful and bountiful allotment, artist and friend […]
My investigations began in Colmar where I had arranged to spend time in the workshop of Remy Bucciali, fine art printer and editor of contemporary etchings representing heavyweight French, German and Swiss artists. One of the last remaining master-printmakers, […]
This week’s selection includes landscapes in Eastbourne, portraiture at the Royal Academy and art meets science in Glasgow.
“Inundated by perspectives, by lateral vistas of information that stretch endlessly in every direction, we no longer accept the possibility of assembling a complete picture… We are experiencing in our time a loss of depth – a loss, that is, […]
This year’s Liverpool Biennial is busy, lively and timely, sprawling across 27 sites and featuring a broad range of cleverly realised works. Chris Sharratt reports from the city and selects five highlights.
I have been working and reworking, adding and taking away from this surface to achieve the perfect combination of matt vs shine. Creating a vast space to be lost in and a darkness which contains moments of light. I […]
Tuesday 6th September – Saturday 10th September
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Saturday 11am – 4pm
Yesterday,the first of several of our exhibitions that respond to our time in Athens, opened in Liverpool. It was ready in time for the opening of the Liverpool Biennial and its parallel Fringe , but as there were too many […]
Fine Arts blog, continued from previous [Cover her head part 1] that is “full up”
My week has been spent on trains: I’ve been to London twice, once to be in a panel discussion and once for a workshop. The train is a good place to work. Yesterday I spent 5 hours on trains and […]
Mark Robinson as he gets ready for a solo exhibition in Northern Ireland