A panel including the artist Richard Wentworth, art collector and patron Robert Hiscox and Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s Director of Programmes Clare Lilley, have been debating who should fund public art and what its role should be.
Locus+ is celebrating 20 years of innovative visual arts projects and publications by launching its first ever fund-raising Print Portfolio at the Venice Biennale. We find out more from Director and Founder Jon Bewley.
Arts producing agency Forma is celebrating a decade of working with leading artists by reappraising previous projects and announcing a raft of new ones. We speak to founder David Metcalfe and artists Matt Stokes and Graham Dolphin about the past, the future and the role of the producer.
As an exhibition of works on paper opens in Southwark Park to celebrate three decades of the Bermondsey Artists’ Group, we talk to two members about the organisation’s thirty year commitment to art, community and learning.
The Contemporary Art Society’s National Network conference in Nottingham took as its theme ‘commissioning for public collections’ and featured presentations from directors and curators from some of the UK’s leading visual arts organisations. We report from the day.
It has taken me awhile to find time to edit the conversations I have been recording. But I have finally finished editing and putting online the first in my new series of creative conversations! I start this new series by […]
Liverpool (various), Liverpool
15 September – 25 November 2012
Unlike many international art biennials, Liverpool Biennial has deep roots in its host city’s contemporary art scene. As the festival reaches an intriguing point in its 13-year history, with a new director and considerably reduced budget, we assess its importance to the city’s visual arts infrastructure.
He’s been mulling over it for a little while – there are truths that must be approached tangentially. He suspects that ‘It’ is common to many of us. But how can he pretend to be an ‘artist’ when it is […]
Beaconsfield, London
12 November 2001 – 12 February 2012
Quay House, Spinningfields, Manchester
27 – 30 October 2011
Approached by Modern Art Oxford to deliver art sessions at a Sure Start children’s centre in the Rose Hill area of Oxford, artist Jon Lockhart began a four-year residency at the centre as part of MAO’s ambitious Paul Hamlyn Foundation funded offsite programme.
Saatchi Gallery, London
27 October 2010 – 17 April 2011
HMS website is growing. I built it myself and sometimes I get it wrong. Today, I learn that I made two errors affecting 2 groups showing next year. I credited the wrong name with the wrong image for one and […]
I’ve been a serious art gallery visitor over this last few weeks, well it gets me away from eating the remnants of the Quality street tin where the only sweetie’s left are the one no one wants. I’ve ventured to […]
I keep beating myself up about some aspects of my work. I’m not sure if it is unhealthy, or, more positively, simply a way of appraising it. I suppose the answer to that depends on mood. Perhaps it is the […]
i got back last night from a busy few days, still on a liverpool high. going to try and sum up the trip in a compact fashion… arrived weds lunchtime and went straight to the walker gallery, met marketing anne […]
Saatchi Gallery, London
3 March 2008 – 3 March 2016
From over 2,000 entries, 59 projects were shortlisted for Artists Taking the Lead. Artists get a
Tonight we (Saulius and I, Andrus if he’s back) will draw a line of light through a location in the city. I found the spot on a tip from Anja Westerfroelke – an artist from Linz who, with Marie Francoise […]
Project Space Leeds, Leeds
25 March – 27 June
