
Events #38: The week ahead from a-n’s members
Event and exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from our busy Events section and featuring events and exhibitions posted by a-n members.
Event and exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from our busy Events section and featuring events and exhibitions posted by a-n members.
http://www.newcontemporaries.org.uk/2015/exhibitions-and-events
18th September 31st October 2015
Lots of time spent resolving technical matters – as usual. The video jack in the projector no longer works, so testing with laptop connected via VGA cable! At least it works.
Initiated by a-n and CVAN, with contributions from Scottish Artists Union, Engage and other key organisations, the UK’s visual arts sector made a joint submission to the Treasury Spending Review in Autumn 2015 outlining a number of key recommendations to help better support the sector.
Now in its third year, London’s Art Licks Weekend continues to expand beyond its south east beginnings, and this year features an increasing number of venues in the south west of the city. Pippa Koszerek speaks to the two artists behind Streatham Hill’s DOLPH projects, who will be sharing the ‘secrets’ of their practice during the four-day festival.
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here It’s not a T-junction or a crossroads. It’s more like that gentle uphill curve in the road that winds around a hill. You can’t see very far ahead. You can’t see where it’s going, what […]
Artist Raoul Martinez, twice nominated for the BP Portrait Award, joins nearly 300 cultural figures in rejecting oil sponsorship of the arts.
This guide by Sheena Etches and Nicholas Sharp outlines issues and practicalities to be aware of when negotiating and agreeing a contractual arrangement.
Here are two more drawings of my hybrids from my sketchbook. I am not entirely pleased with these two drawings, mainly because I feel like I was distracted while drawing them; the draughtsmanship feels of a lower quality than what […]
This year’s Turner Prize exhibition features work by Assemble, Bonnie Camplin, Janice Kerbel and Nicole Wermers, and is showing in Scotland for the first time in its 31-year history. Chris Sharratt reports from Glasgow.
On Saturday the 26th September I was involved in a charity event at the Three Tanner Bank, organised by a top man Nigel Divine, to raise funds for the refugee crisis. The day was a mixture of a ‘pop up’ […]
When launching a new project, it would be arrogant to expect it all to go smoothly, wouldn’t it? We recently applied for a pot of money and we were unsuccessful, dutifully we requested feedback which we read this morning – […]
The 11th Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, the first curated by new director Peter Taylor, had an increased focus on artists’ films and featured installations throughout the Northumberland town. Chris Sharratt reports.
Taught my first class today. Mark making using black and white charcoal and paints. It was quite nerve racking. I’m sure it will be easier next week. Its a great room to work in.
Discussions open with new National Gallery director following months of strike action.
It seems the hospital are having trouble negotiating with estates to have the walls painted, and had asked us for an outline of fees, without giving us an indication of available budgets, so I provided some example day rates as […]
The Art Fund, in partnership with Thomas Dane Gallery, has launched the Moving Image Fund for Museums, with Towner Art Gallery and the Whitworth its first recipients.
i think i’m through the worst bit of my feeling that i was no longer an artist. i probably am not an artist that survives financially by what they create. there’s no probably about it actually. it’s been quite a […]