The Nottingham-based artist Wolfgang Buttress attracted huge media interest with The Hive, his bee-inspired sculptural installation for the 2015 Milan Expo UK pavilion. Wayne Burrows speaks to him about the work, currently on display at Kew Gardens, and BEAM, a companion piece on show at this year’s Wirksworth Festival.
Best known for her abstract paintings, Russian-born artist Yelena Popova’s current solo show at Nottingham Contemporary in her home town is split across two spaces and includes a computer-coded video projection. Anneka French discovers more about her relationship with paint, digital imagery and collaborative working.
John Stezaker, known for his photographic collages constructed from found images, has turned curator for ‘Turning to See: From Van Dyck to Lucian Freud’ at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Anneka French talks to the artist about his new departure, how he selected works for the show, and where his own art fits in.
At 88, the American painter Alex Katz is as prolific as ever, producing large-scale works and exhibiting widely. With a new show just opened at the Serpentine Gallery, Fisun Güner talks to the Brooklyn-born, Manhattan-based artist about finding his way in the 1950s, getting noticed in the 1990s, and hitting his stride in his later years.
Birmingham artist Barbara Walker’s latest collection of drawings explores the often under-recognised role of black servicemen and women in the British Armed Forces.
Michael Dean, Anthea Hamilton, Helen Marten and Josephine Pryde shortlisted for £25,000 award, with three out of the four nominees working with sculpture.
After seven months of development by East Street Arts, Art Hostel in Leeds is open for business. Lara Eggleton tests out the sleeping facilities and reviews the specially commissioned artworks, decor and furnishings.
For her co-commission from Brighton Festival and HOUSE 2016, Gillian Wearing has created the film piece, A Room With Your Views, consisting of nearly 700 moving image “views” from windows around the world, sourced via a call-out for submissions. Dany Louise speaks to the artist.
At the recent two-day Social Making symposium in Plymouth, socially engaged practice was discussed in relation to Arnstein’s Ladder, a theory of citizen participation devised in the 1960s. Carolyn Black explores its relevance.
The Scottish artist and filmmaker Rachel Maclean is to present a solo exhibition for the Scotland + Venice partnership at the 57th Venice Biennale.
For the first Now Showing selection of 2016, we explore painting after abstraction in London, consider artistic positions that have been hard won in Edinburgh, and try to make sense of the ‘reality’ around us in Manchester.
Straight after the residency had finished with AirSpace, it was time to set up the Narrative exhibition . The exhibition ‘ Consume My Shopping Mall’ was shown in an empty unit. Most of the walls were white washed, we took […]
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.
This week’s selection includes a timely exploration of migration in London, surreal storytelling in Manchester and a homely exhibition in Cambridge.
This week’s selection includes George Shaw’s suburban nostalgia in London, Nicolas Party’s wall paintings and portraits in Edinburgh and Grayson Perry’s ceramic pots in Margate.
Newly commissioned works by leading contemporary artists feature in two-part fundraising exhibition for homelessness charity Crisis.
George Shaw is an artist who paints sublime landscapes that I like. They are of ordinary, everyday scenes – for example derelict places and housing schemes. He uses Humbrol paints which allow vivid colours in his work. They seem hyperreal. […]
This week’s must-see shows include Madge Gill in Twickenham, Edward Chell in Liverpool and a digital exploration of gravity in Derby.
Had I gone to Ingleby to sketch in 1797, I imagine I would have chosen the Anchor Church caves as my subject matter. Maybe this seemed too ‘old school’ for the artists of the enlightenment, because they’re not on my […]
With only a few weeks remaining of this year’s John Moores Painting Prize exhibition, we have some great giveaways on offer.
The Walker Art Gallery is hosting a series of debates, talks and tours that will interrogate the role of painting in contemporary art.
Mock Artist Talk +1 Q. Why often work with gloss paint? A. Gloss paint is a combination of the fluidity and structure of Oil paint, and dries faster than Oil (granted not as fast as Acrylic paint) but has still […]
Walker Art Gallery, liverpool
15 September 2012 – 6 January 2013
Tributes flood in for Michael Stanley, the well-regarded Director of Modern Art Oxford.
