40th Anniversary Feature
From the a-n archive: Jenny Saville, Saville’s road, March 1996
Jenny Saville discusses the role of luck, hard work and dedication in her practice as a painter.
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Jenny Saville
Modern Art, Oxford
23 June – 23 September 2012
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We’re calling for Government investment in the visual arts
A major new report supported by a-n calls for Government action to protect artists’ livelihoods by investing in the country’s visual arts sector.
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Michelle Watson – Hues of Change
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The crisis
My journey to getting a degree in Fine Arts- 2nd year project 1
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* 08/01/21: Interim Exhibition meeting, ideas and breast representation
Discussing our Interim Exhibition 08/01/21: this exhibition is part of our final degree project and due COVID we are unable to use the Art Station space in Saxmundham for our exhibition so we had to reorganise. See my notes from this […]
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* 16/12/20: Bathroom projections and development
1-1 with Jane 11/12/20, we discussed the way I wanted to to experiment more with placement projection and see how the setting adapted the portrayal of the film. See initial notes below: We spoke of different environments to place the projections […]
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Charoula Nikolaidou
An interview with Greek artist Charoula Nikolaidou currently exhibiting in Anorioton as part of a new exhibition series of contemporary Greek art in London.
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Now Showing #299: The week’s top exhibitions
A selection of recommended shows, including: Eileen Simpson and Ben White’s Open Music Archive at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, plus a celebration of the past 50 years of black creativity in Britain at Somerset House, London.
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Buy art for Christmas: 10 gift ideas, including prints, scarfs, mugs, t-shirts and more
Want to avoid the high street this Christmas and support artists and visual arts organisations instead? Jack Hutchinson offers 10 ideas to get you started, from limited edition prints to Brexit sick bags.
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Untitled blog post from "Procrastinations of a working man."
So things are progressing rapidly within my work at present. My working habits are on the verge of changing and all feels good in the world right now. A caveat- things in my drawing world usually operate at a glacial […]
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Now Showing #239: The week’s top exhibitions
This week’s selection of recommended shows includes: new works by Karen Cunningham in Dumfriesshire, Damien Meade’s paintings based on clay maquettes in London, William Copley’s mail art project in Sheffield, and Jenny Saville’s portraits in Edinburgh.
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In Brief: Anti-Trump mural sparks public art dispute in New Orleans; is the museum boom over for UK?
News briefing with national and international stories, including: archive of Black Panther Party photographer Stephen Shames enters Briscoe Center Collection; artists take legal action against Artist Pension Trust; Edinburgh Art Festival announces partner programme; Arts Council of Wales to deepen links between NHS and arts.
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NOW SHOWING #226: The week’s top exhibitions
This week’s selection of recommended shows includes sculpture at the New Art Centre, Wiltshire, Rose Wylie at the Serpentine’s Sackler Gallery, London, plus a different take on the threat of climate change at the University of Hertfordshire.
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Linda Nochlin (1931-2017): feminist art historian who changed way we think about artists and their work
The American art historian and author of the groundbreaking 1971 essay, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?, died on 29 October aged 86. Fisun Güner considers her writing’s influence and continued significance today.
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NOW SHOWING #187: The week’s top exhibitions
This week’s selection includes landscape painting in Edinburgh, speculations on the impact of global warming in Trowbridge, and photographic studies of identity and gender in London.
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In Brief: Art made from fire debris raises funds for Glasgow School of Art
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Court rules Jeff Koons plagiarised French photographer for Naked sculpture, and street artist Plastic Jesus installs works across the US in response to Trump’s revised executive order on immigration.
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Pictures of… artworks made from the ashes of Glasgow School of Art fire
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.
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Haunted Beauty with Nadine Talalla
Haunted Beauty with Nadine Talalla, Emerging Female Artists at the Dissenters’ Gallery, London W10 Exhibition: Dissenters’ Gallery, 391 Ladbroke Grove, London W10 5AA 27th January – 5rd February nadinetalalla.com | dissentersgallery.com Further Events: Artist Workshop – Saturday 28th January, 2pm Conducted by […]
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BP Portrait Award 2016: Girl in a Liberty Dress wins top prize
This year’s top prize goes to Clara Drummond for her third BP Portrait Award of the same sitter.
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NOW SHOWING #145: The week’s top exhibitions
This week’s selection includes figurative art in London, book art in Brighton and art meets science in Salford.
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Workshop 3, Ikon, Birmingham
The third and final workshop in the first a-n Writer Development Programme took us to Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery on Thursday 19 November for a session led by The Arts Desk‘s visual arts editor, Fisun Guner. All five programme participants braved train delays and […]
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Reflection #7
Since last week my mind has been all over the place; last week was so overwhelming due to continuous studio work, foundry workshops and the gap critique that I was involved in. However, I finally feel that my practice has […]
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Anging women
Displaying my work presented a few challenges. With regards to my degree space, one of the other students agreed to swop walls with me and the women to whom i sharing a wall with, so that we have enough space […]
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Forms of Containment
With my written coursework finished, my attention has shifted back to my art practice and to ideas that I started work on last year. A continued interest throughout this time as being been around the theme of containment and with […]