This year’s New Contemporaries exhibition in Nottingham reveals that UK art school graduates are conscientious, striving for professionalism and seemingly unwilling to make a decisive break with current established practice. Wayne Burrows reports.
I found some papercutting work on a web site for sale and described as Modern and contemporary. The seller said that she had made some of the papercutting images and other members of her family made some of the others. […]
Does anyone know of any affordable spaces in London where I can teach my indigo workshops? All I need is access to a sink. Any suggestions gratefully received.
I have never had such a long holiday in my life – it was wonderful. But I’m itching to get back to things. To be involved in regularly making work and reflecting allows for connecting with ones self and an […]
My Cycle of Artistic Practice for Processes, Research and more! This afternoon I wanted to draw up a mind map of my arts practice of how successful I might have to be in the art world. Research I think […]
Is there any kind of standardized or definitive guidance for fine art prints? I’m getting fed up of seeing giclee prints alongside traditional hand pulled prints and sometimes at a far greater cost or am I behind the times? Any […]
Our individual patterns eluding perception Here we are affecting, coexisting and intertwined. Here we fold back in We suddenly realise our proximity to other flesh and readjust. Prefacing this language of bright eyes and dark smiles Environments are invisible space. […]
There is something quite special about working by the stream. I enjoyed sitting there and picking apart my thoughts about the landscape and it’s boundaries. I had been thinking about boundaries as a notion contracted by man. Questioning whether […]
Artists, gallerists and curators offer tips and guidance on how to price work when exhibiting in group shows, selling at open studios, or applying for open competitions.
I struggled to place the items back in the landscape. The process of collecting and painting had become a ‘thing’ in itself, and so when it came to placing such jarring colours into this site which had provided me with […]
Well, I am pretty chuffed as I sold a mono print at the Art Market in Maidstone to someone I didn’t know. It was great to be able to talk to the buyer about my work and direct her also […]
The inaugural Plymouth Art Weekender presents work across the city by over 400 local, national and international artists. Artist and AIR Council member Steven Paige welcomes this audacious new festival and looks at how the city’s visual art ecology has developed in the five years since British Art Show 7.
Three artists start a new gallery project
This week’s selection includes Ai Weiwei’s widely acclaimed Royal Academy show, a multi-screen installation in Liverpool, and an examination of the history of online scamming in Manchester.
Alexander McQueen, razor shell clam dress. Metamorphosis was an ongoing theme for the London fashion designer Alexander McQueen. This is also a subject I have explored in my own work. I was very pleased and lucky to see the Alexander […]
My thoughts have very much been with the studio news this week, but as the deadline for the book exhibition I’m organising was up on Friday, I’ve had to shift my attention to go through all of the submissions. I […]
