The long list for the biennial painting prize has been announced, with four painters set to be awarded prizes of £2,500, and an overall winner receiving £25,000.
So, I’m not very good at describing my own work, especially recently made paintings, scruffy (I said yestoday) indeed! That says nothing – it’s just the surface appearance. Also, I am looking from a point of view of honesty and […]
Biennial art prize split between two artists who will also have joint exhibition at gallery based in Newtown, Wales.
Curated by Bergen Kunsthall director Martin Clark, the Art Sheffield 2016 festival is alive with the city’s industrial and political history, with gallery spaces and culturally significant sites hosting newly commissioned and older works. Cathy Wade feels the reverberations.
With more than double the anticipated number of responses, the Artists’ Livelihoods survey into how visual artists in England live and work forms part of the most comprehensive study of its kind in over a decade. Stephen Palmer reports.
Established by a-n as an integral part of a-n’s Artist membership for practising visual and applied artists, AIR identifies and explores issues that impact on artists’ practice.
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here My friend Jill sent me a message from Venice, telling me she was heading to Florence today. My heart cried out to be transported there instantly! Now, I’m a real contemporary art girl. Defo. But…. […]
The Wife of Bath sighed as she realised that whichever way you looked at it, it was all about lust
This week’s selection includes light works in Birmingham, conceptual art in London and cross-disciplinary practice in Edinburgh.
Part of this R&D process is to see how I can integrate my sculptural and performance work within my forthcoming solo project. I want to develop a hybrid of the two. So far, I have only ever performed in a […]
This week and for the next few weeks I am really busy just making and organising things for the summer when I have a series of events coming up: I am making a plinth for on of my pieces […]
Creatives for Europe, a coalition of organisations, trade unions and representative bodies from the arts and creative industries, launched last week with a panel discussion at the House of Lords. Pippa Koszerek reports.
There has been a lot going on. A common fantasy I have is that once all distractions are out of the way, I’ll finally get to have some precious time in the studio and will be able to focus solely […]
Face in the sand, 2016 So while I sit chilling on the golden sand beach on the Island of Gozo in Malta…. No, I don’t wish to do any thinking or work, well would you? I do a quick sketch just […]
I am so grateful for a-n for awarding me the a-n professional development bursary. This is a great help towards taking my practice to the next stage. My practice explores the in between areas of fact and imaginary, still […]
Some images of the ‘Silent Spaces’ exhibition a couple of days before the private view. Lighting and fine tuning still to do, but almost there. Final hang used 24 pieces. Opens 16th April. Show curated by Alan Kluckow at Alan […]
The Glossary Album: “Death and the Maiden (to purchase paradise again, which we had lost through our own fault)” These are the sensibilities of a Seventies adolescence. The Barbie gender ideals of old school toy designers juxtaposed with the glam […]
