Michael Landy is a British artist, probably most famous for his artwork Break Down (2001), where he destroyed everything he owned. However, I am most interested in the series of works that Landy created after the fact, called Nourishment (2002). These works are […]
Michael Landy is a contemporary, sculptural artist. In 2001, he created a piece of work which was commissioned by Artangel and The Times. It was entitled Break down and was created in a former C&A store in Oxford Street, London. […]
National Gallery, London23 May – 24 November 2013
South London Gallery, Peckham
29 January – 14 March 2010
The tutorial with Anne-Marie was really helpful. As she didn’t know my work or practice at all, she was able to give an objective and outside opinion and view of my work, which I haven’t gained so far, as I […]
Gary Hume reflects on his successes during the 1990s and on being “prepared to risk my career for being an artist.”
Five recommended shows from across the UK, including: William Kentridge at The Whitworth, Manchester, ‘All I Know Is What’s On The Internet’ at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, and drawn portraiture at The Drawing Gallery, London.
In Brief: News briefing with national and international stories, including: Scottish artist Jennifer Lee wins 2018 Loewe Craft Prize; Five New York museums seek dismissal of artist Robert Cenedella’s $100 million lawsuit.
After researching Michael Landy’s Breakdown, primarily for my dissertation, I have become interested in unpicking everyday objects. I found the processes Landy used to order, catalogue, destroy and document all of his possessions intriguing. I especially was interested in how he kept […]
A portrait of mother and child wins the BP Portrait Award 2017.
A three-man shortlist for the BP Portrait Award 2017 sees a return of the traditional artists’ muse, as the selected artists depict important women in their lives.
Biennial exhibition features more than 200 new and recent works on paper by international artists, with prices starting at £250.
Recipients of the 21st annual Awards for Artists, the largest individual awards made to visual artists and composers in the UK, revealed at keynote speech in London.
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.
This year’s Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year has been awarded to Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery, which reopened in February after a £15m extension.
As I am coming to the end of my degree course and writing the blog about my work I thought it would be a relevant time to reflect on how both have enabled me to grow as an artist. It […]
The recently re-furbished Whitworth in Manchester and Belfast’s The MAC are among the contenders for this year’s Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year.
When I researched and wrote my dissertation on the figurative work of Lucian Freud and Jenny Saville I was convinced that my work would move towards large figurative portraiture. Over the summer last year I did research and plan my […]
Tinguely and Michael Landy both included oddities into their works such as skulls, umbrellas etc and i thought after breaking this mug i would put it back together and use it as well.
The search is on for the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2015, with the fundraising charity announcing that the photographer Martin Parr has been commissioned to produce a portfolio of the shortlisted museums.
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.
The painter George Shaw has been announced as the National Gallery’s ninth Rootstein Hopkins Associate Artist and will work in the gallery over a period of two years.
Among the 1200-plus works in this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is a huge text painting by Bob and Roberta Smith, featuring the transcript of a harrowing interview with a doctor recently returned from Syria.
I went to a talk with Michael Landy in the Atrium building and found this really inspiring. He talked about many of his artworks and the two that stuck out for me were ‘Breakdown’ and ‘Closing Down’. We learnt about […]
Artist Michael Landy came to UCS not long ago, and talked to us about his art career from when he had a piece of work selected on the BBC TV show ‘Take Hart’, and how his career went from that […]
