Best known for Seizure, his 2008 Artangel commission for which he covered the interior of a South London flat with copper sulphate, Roger Hiorns’ current show at Ikon Gallery sees him back in his home city, where he also hopes to soon bury a decommissioned Boeing 737. Fisun Güner talks to the artist.
151-189 Harper Rd, Elephant and Castle
3 September – 30 November 2008
The Church of St Paulinus, Richmond
8 November – 8 December 2007
Milton Keynes Gallery
4 April 2006 to 5 May 2006
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.
In Brief: News briefing with national and international stories, including: Roger Hiorns secretly buries plane near Ipswich; Sophia Al-Maria wins first major US award for contemporary Middle Eastern art; selectors announced for Jerwood Makers Open 2019.
Birmingham’s Grand Union is developing its programme and making plans for the future having secured £130,000 from Arts Council England and with the appointment of Mac Birmingham’s former director as its new chair.
This week’s selection includes a waiting room with a difference in Newcastle, sound and moving image in Plymouth, and Tantric drawings in London.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Winners of Wolf Prize announced, high-profile artists support strike on Trump’s inauguration day, and Bangor University fine arts courses under threat.
Built in 1971 and all but abandoned by the cash-strapped local council in 2013, Turnpike Gallery in the former mining town of Leigh near Wigan, is entering a new stage in its history with the creation of a community interest company to run its programme. Natalie Bradbury speaks to arts manager Helen Stalker as the gallery relaunches with the Jerwood Drawing Prize touring exhibition.
The current director of Whitworth Art Gallery and Manchester Art Galleries is expected to take the top job at Tate.
Artist John Walter wins the Hayward Touring 2017 Curatorial Open with his proposal Shonky: the Aesthetics of Awkwardness.
‘This Is An Art School’ project, offering the public free studio workshops, launches the Tate Exchange Associates programme of over 100 events.
With scrutiny of the government’s Brexit plans intensifying as Theresa May’s end of March deadline for triggering Article 50 to leave the EU gets nearer, artists are responding to the uncertain climate in a variety of ways. Pippa Koszerek, who as an artist is herself involved in Brexit-related events, takes a look at some forthcoming projects.
This week’s selection includes the art of taxidermy in London, contemporary works inspired by Georgian painting in Bath, and Turner’s watercolours in Edinburgh.
Exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from a-n’s busy Events section.
This week’s selection includes architectural drawing in London and painting in Edinburgh, plus assemblages and video in Birmingham.
A new exhibition featuring proposals for a permanent artwork in the city has just opened, featuring scale models from Brian Griffiths, Roger Hiorns, Heather and Ivan Morison, Susan Philipsz and Keith Wilson
This week’s selection includes ‘solo’ shows in York and Nottingham by two artists who include examples of other artists’ works to create a dialogue around their own, while a double-header in Leeds sets in place a more formal conversation around the meaning of sculptural objects.
MK Gallery and Milton Keynes Community Foundation have announced the four shortlisted artists for the inaugural £10,000 New City Art Prize for the Visual Arts.
Three more museums and galleries will create “long term visible homes for the Collection” and develop supporting digital activity to maximise its reach.
Young children are kinesthetic learners. They think by moving. They learn by touching and pushing and hearing the sound things make when they’re dropped or knocked over. Taking young children to a gallery can be a trial for all concerned. […]
On friday evening I used my dear old laptop at the studio to write a post but due to the computer’s age I could not upload it … now it is Monday and here it is … It was great […]
Funds will be used to purchase new works for UK museums.
After seven years as head of the Arts Council Collection, in October Caroline Douglas became the new Director of the Contemporary Art Society. She looks back on a hectic, ‘high-octane’ year.
