
Degree Shows 2017: This week’s openings, 1-3 June
This week we highlight 12 degree shows across the UK, including openings in Belfast, Bristol, Newcastle, Brighton and Leeds.
This week we highlight 12 degree shows across the UK, including openings in Belfast, Bristol, Newcastle, Brighton and Leeds.
Selectors Caroline Achaintre, Elizabeth Price and George Shaw have chosen 47 new and recent fine art graduates for the annual open submission exhibition, which this year will take place in Gateshead and Newcastle.
As art and design degree shows open around the UK, a-n’s annual guide is the perfect degree show season companion. The a-n Degree Shows Guide 2017 captures the buzz of ideas and activity that this time of year is all […]
For the next couple of months we’ll be presenting a weekly pick of degree shows across the UK as they open to the public, selected from the a-n Degree Shows Guide 2017 listings. We start this week with final-year shows from Falmouth, Lincoln, Oxford Brookes and Chichester.
Yesterday’s announcement of the 2017 Turner Prize shortlist saw two artists over 50 nominated – Hurvin Anderson and Lubaina Himid – reflecting the recent decision to drop its longstanding under-50 rule. Fisun Güner welcomes the change, arguing that it better reflects the reality of many artists’ careers while also ensuring a particularly strong line-up for this year’s prize.
The shortlist for this year’s Turner Prize includes painting, film, drawing and installation and features two artists who would previously have been too old to be considered.
The perfect degree show season companion. Includes an in-depth introductory interview with Elizabeth Price, listings of more than 70 shows across the UK, plus contributions from Christine Borland, Nicolas Deshayes, Laura Oldfield Ford and many more practising artists and final-year students. Available on issuu and as downloadable pdf.
Highlights for the week ahead selected from a-n’s busy Events section and including exhibitions in Cardiff, London, Plymouth and Salford.
22 awards totalling over £40,000 have been presented at the opening of the RSA New Contemporaries exhibition in Edinburgh, which showcases works by 2016 graduates form art and architecture schools in Scotland.
Having graduated from the Royal College of Art last year, London-based artist Holly Hendry has won numerous awards and just opened her first solo show in a UK public gallery at Baltic, Gateshead. Anneka French talks to her about her whirlwind career so far.
Artists including Sir Antony Gormley, Martin Boyce, Cornelia Parker and Douglas Gordon have created new works utilising debris from the Glasgow School of Art fire, to be auctioned at Christie’s London to raise funds for the restoration of the art school’s Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed building.
This week’s selection includes paintings in Oxford, film in London and woodcut prints in Carmarthen.
Birmingham’s Grand Union is developing its programme and making plans for the future having secured £130,000 from Arts Council England and with the appointment of Mac Birmingham’s former director as its new chair.
Five a-n News writers – based in London, Birmingham and Glasgow – pick, in no particular order, their top five exhibitions of the year.
A roundup of some of the best open studios, artist-led festive sales and exhibitions in the run up to Christmas.
Yesterday I visited London with a fellow part-time student Gill and her husband Bob, we went straight to the pop up exhibition on the Strand called Infinite Mix, curated by the Hayward Gallery in association with The Vinyl Factory. It […]
This week’s selection includes breakdancing in Glasgow, vast audio-visual work in London, and participatory exhibitions in Bristol and Manchester.
This week’s selection includes Spiritualist watercolours in London, North Indian art in Glasgow and an exhibition curated by a former Turner Prize winner in Manchester.
This week’s selection includes sculpture in Kendal and south London, graffiti art in Manchester, and video installations in Oxford and Gateshead.
This week’s selection includes an immersive audio-visual installation in Liverpool, painting in Glasgow and Middlesbrough, plus new video works in London.
This week’s selection includes a Surrealist exhibition in Liverpool, a bumper drawing show in Oxford and sculpture in Newcastle upon Tyne.
This week’s selection includes Palaeolithic-inspired paintings at Camden Arts Centre, Chinese performance art in Manchester, and an Anglo-Japanese alliance in Stoke-on-Trent.
Founded in 1994, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists programme has helped some of the UK’s best-known visual artists with no-strings-attached financial support at crucial points in their careers. On the eve of the announcement of this year’s awards, Chris Sharratt talks to the foundation’s head of arts and to 2012 recipient Ed Atkins.