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Larry Achiampong: “Success is learning to adapt to your environment”

London-based artist Larry Achiampong uses film, sculpture and performance to create work that draws on his own Ghanaian heritage, colonial history, and his experience of growing up in Britain. Here Achiampong discusses the cultural and class-based issues he experienced in education, the impact of his degree on his current practice, and how his education has also influenced how he approaches teaching.

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Profile: Larry Achiampong by Trevor H Smith

For his writing task following the workshop at Jerwood Space, London, Bath-based Trevor H Smith chose to write an 800-word profile of the 3-Phase artist Larry Achiampong. Larry Achiampong wants to talk to you. More accurately, perhaps, Larry Achiampong wants […]

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Profile: Larry Achiampong by Jessica Ramm

As a follow up to the second a-n Writer Development Programme workshop at Jerwood Space, led by Fisun Güner, the writers were tasked with writing an 800-1000 word profile of one of the three artists featured in Jerwood’s 3-Phase exhibition. Edinburgh-based […]

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A Q&A with… Larry Achiampong, artist exploring the Black diaspora

Working in a wide-range of media from film to sculpture to performance, London-based artist Larry Achiampong draws on colonial history, his own Ghanian heritage, and the experience of growing up in Britain to create works that explore ideas around class, race and cultural identity. Wayne Burrows talks to him.

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Now Showing: must-see exhibitions this winter

Exhibitions featuring a-n members including Bobby Baker’s Edible Family, Pamela Schilderman’s hybrid sculptures and Nick Archer’s ethereal paintings. Plus Contested Bodies in Leeds, Coventry Biennial and Artes Mundi.

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40th Anniversary Feature

Artists Newsletter #4: The 2010s

For our final anniversary publication, Holly Willats explores how social media became a game changer for artists’ practices.

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40th Anniversary Feature

40 years of supporting artists

Our 40th Anniversary programme includes a new series of Artists Newsletter publications and interviews with leading artists.

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Now Showing: The week’s top exhibitions

This week’s selection features exhibitions and projects presented via online viewing rooms, social media and other online platforms, plus newly reopened physical spaces, including: Shape Open 2020 online exhibitions, Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair shifting online, Yorkshire Sculpture Park reopening with Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos’ monumental sculpture, Manthia Diawara films streaming for free on The Africa Institute website, plus Wysing Open Studios Online 2020.

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Now Showing 328: The week’s top exhibitions

Our regular selection of shows to see around the UK, including Larry Achiampong’s moving image, sound and sculptural installations at John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, Cassi Namoda’s first European solo exhibition at Pippy Houldsworth, London, and Hardeep Pandhal’s multimedia exhibition at Tramway, Glasgow.

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Now Showing #311: The week’s top exhibitions

This week’s recommended shows include Lucy Austin’s layered paintings at That Art Gallery, Bristol, a group exhibition of dystopian visions at Newlyn Art Gallery, plus the launch of this year’s Platform Graduate Award 2019 series of exhibitions in Oxford.

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a-n Degree Shows Guide 2019

Includes an extensive interview with London-based artist Larry Achiampong – a graduate of the University of Westminster and Slade School of Fine Art – plus insights from graduating students, lecturers and visual art professionals. Available on issuu and as downloadable pdf.

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