British Art Show 8 opens in Leeds on Friday 9 October and the city – currently bidding to be European Capital of Culture 2023 – is responding with a raft of additional activity. Leeds-based writers and artists Amelia Crouch and Lara Eggleton report on what the city’s homegrown and artist-led organisations are up to as Leeds City Council throws its support behind a showcase of the city’s buoyant visual arts scene.
The inaugural North festival in Warrington has brought pavilions from city’s including Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool – as well as art that responds to Ikea – to the streets and galleries of the town. Laura Robertson reports.
I have been doing some volunteering at the British Ceramics Biennial, which has not only given me the opportunity to meet a bunch of great people and contemplate the outstanding array of works on show .. it has also given […]
Hi does anyone know a reliable postal company that can insure ceramics- or an insurance company that insures ceramics in transit? I am starting to get national orders and really need to sort this out as I make Raku fired […]
In 2014 GRAIN Photography Hub and the Library of Birmingham approached artist Mat Collishaw, creator of spectacularly crushed butterflies, corrupted, syphilitic flora, and monumental, dark zoetropes, to respond to the rich photography archive held at the Library.
Some new work on paper.
To help better understand my work, I have decided to look at these clay sculptures from when I first started to make them, and why they have stayed with me and I continue to make them three years on. I […]
Today I am disappointed at having spent (wasted) time applying for UnLtd funding to set up the LAN as a social enterprise, for this to be unsuccessful. I was advised that I need to research social enterprise – as far […]
Whitechapel Gallery and Max Mara fashion group have announced the shortlist for the sixth Max Mara Art Prize for Women.
My prep for a new set of portraits of British Raj officers, based on the collection of the City Palace Museum, Udaiphur, India
One of the themes currently being explored in the 2015 British Ceramics Biennial, in Stoke, is ‘the production line’. The AirSpace studio artists currently have a show titled Assemblage, in the AirSpace Resources Room, that reflects our own interest in […]
I often use Pinterest as a source for inspiration, whether it’s images of natural forms to inspire new hybrids for my work, or artists work that I like or ideas I think are worth examining. I came across Regine Ramseier’s […]
The fourth British Ceramics Biennial in Stoke-on-Trent comes as the industry in the city is enjoying a modest upturn. Reporting from the city, Bob Dickinson finds plenty of evidence of ceramic creativity alongside well-founded concerns over the loss of traditional industrial skills.
This week I have been firming up dates and plans for my artist parent residency research event at Manchester Art Gallery in November. I wanted to use a space that can accommodate everyone with activities for the children and adults […]
I was hoping to see the elusive ‘green ray’ which occurs sometimes when the sun finally sinks on the horizon. Only shades of violet remained. I found this stone circle that someone had made on the sand and it interacted […]
