On a group visit to London, myself and a few others went along to the Frank Auerbach retrospective at Tate Britain. Having spent time looking at Auerbach’s work in books and online, it was a completely different experience to […]
It’s just one room, but what a room. Fifty years of work are condensed into what could stand as a mini retrospective of Frank Auerbach’s work. The landscapes are mostly the familiar subjects of Primrose Hill and Camden Town: Mornington […]
Ivan Grieve talks to us about growing up in the Bohemian North London of the 1960s, his unusual methods of self portraiture and dealing with the Devon rain.
Rana Begum, Sonia Boyce and Ben Rivers will select new and recent fine art graduates for the latest edition of the annual, nationally touring exhibition.
Five recommended shows from across the UK, including: A selection of portraits curated by artist Leo Fitzmaurice at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Jesse Darling’s sculptures, drawings and objects in the latest in Tate Britain’s ongoing Art Now series of free exhibitions; and at Firstsite in Colchester, Raqs Media Collective’s exploration of the history of psychological disorders caused by conflict.
This week’s selection of recommended shows includes: An exploration of how the head and face have been depicted in art at Graves Gallery, Sheffield, Lily Cole’s film Balls at the Foundling Museum, London, and Lucy Skaer at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh.
The annual open submission exhibition for new and recent graduates will this year launch at Liverpool Biennial before moving to London in December.
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.
This week’s selection includes film installation in London, photography in Penzance and a celebration of Aspex’s 35th anniversary in Portsmouth.
A few years ago I did a residency at ‘The Beaney’ in Canterbury and I posted six blog posts about my time there. These posts are no longer available on their website and so I thought I’d re-post them here. […]
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Arts Council England make changes to length of funding agreements, artists call for Israel to release detained Palestinian poet, and Pokémon Go causes increase in visitors to museums.
I went to see this exhibition with the entirety of my bank balance, and it was completely free. Walking through Manchester Gallery you’re faced with a double stairwell symmetrically opposite one another. Paintings fixed to the wall, these paintings scream […]
This week’s selection includes participatory art in Llandudno, conceptual art in Somerset and painting in Liverpool.
Have been feeling a bit overwhelmed with ideas which are started but not completed lately. Each day I think “i could do that” I need several lives/elves to produce what I would wish too. A workshop of assistance would also […]
This week’s selection includes abstract painting in London, a re-evaluation of Outsider art in Manchester, drawings from the Arts Council Collection in Lincoln, and ceramics in Glasgow.
Frank Auerbach (1958) Self-portrait [charcoal, watercolour on paper] Occasionally, rarely, something hits you like a bolt of lightning and everything changes in second. My lovely friend and fellow artist Val has been writing a blog and I’ve been following […]
Looking again at the human figure, I discovered the artist Daniel Richter. I have chosen to focus on this particular image by Richter called Spagotzen, because I love the range of vibrant colours and the lack of identity he has […]
Six a-n writers – based in Glasgow, Manchester and London – pick, in no particular order, their top five exhibitions of the year.
This week’s selection includes Frank Auerbach’s paintings of people and the urban landscapes in London, British sculpture from the ’70s and ’80s in Coventry, and a radical coming together of the Situationist, Beat and Punk movements in Southampton.
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This week’s selection includes a timely exploration of migration in London, surreal storytelling in Manchester and a homely exhibition in Cambridge.
De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea is currently showing Bridget Riley: The Curve Paintings 1961-2014, featuring more than 30 paintings and studies. Dany Louise takes a tour of the show with Riley and finds out more about her approach to painting and abstraction.
In the lead up to its centenary celebrations, the Ben Uri Gallery – which presents work of Jewish interest or by Jewish artists – has curated No Set Rules, an exhibition of works on paper from its own collection and that of Philip Schlee. Dany Louise visits the small space and discovers more about its history and ambitions.
