Open exhibitions are becoming an increasingly common aspect of the visual arts landscape, with high-profile big hitters such as the BP Portrait Award and Royal Academy Summer Show joined by a growing number of smaller-scale shows. But with most charging an entry fee and with no guarantee of being included, are artists simply being asked to subsidise the sector with their own money? Jack Hutchinson investigates.
The winner of the Visitors’ Choice award of this year’s John Moores Painting Prize is Juliette Losq for her painting Vinculum.
Started back at college today and our tutor was talking to our year group about the importance of always having your journal to hand – to capture your thoughts as you think them! She pointed out that by the time […]
This week has very much been a visiting exhibitions week. On my last day off (Wednesday) I walked up the steep hill to the Bridewell to see ‘Searching: Unexpected Treasures’: http://culture.org.uk/2014/09/searching-unexpected-treasures-exhibition/ I missed the PV last week, but to be […]
“Self-critical, vital and engaging,” say the judges of this year’s John Moores Prize on the state of contemporary painting in Britain.
From over 2500 entries, 52 artists have been selected for the 2014 John Moores Prize exhibition, the UK’s largest prize devoted to painting.
Funds will be used to purchase new works for UK museums.
Drawing Room’s Drawing Biennial 2013 presents over 200 A4 works by an international line-up of artists.
Annabel Tilley talks to Gary Hume about twenty-five years of practice, prizes and paint.
Well…a lot of work going on in the back room here, but I have got to the point that I no longer know if things are hanging together well or quite where to go next. I think I need to […]
Yes Emily Speed you started a positive trend in 2010 …. The annual Summing Up In 2011 1. No SUGAR! I gave up sugar for a whole year [minus alcohol]. Feel marvellous. Sugar addiction fixed! I ate no biscuits, cakes, […]
Jack Hutchinson reports from the awards ceremony of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards.
Since the loss of the studio and gallery Annabel Tilley and I have been stacking up meetings all over the place. Firstly with our very understanding Fenton Art Trust and Local Arts Officer trying to secure all the funding we […]
Update: New Year’s Resolutions & January 2011 Giving up sugar It is now 39 days since I last ate any sugar – chocolate, cakes, sweets, biscuits, sugar itself, etc. And far from feeling deprived, I actually feel liberated! Perhaps, unconsciously, […]
I am delighted to have been interviewed by Chantelle Purcell in one of our in house interviews: you can read it here http://coregalleryinterviews.blogspot.com/2011/01/… Below as well a taster “In this interview we look to the past and survey Core Gallery’s […]
Footnotes: the emerging artist Finding Ones Place – How did I get here? I am wondering how did I get here? In some respects I feel like I haven’t had the time or space to think properly for a decade. […]
Rose Wylie, 'Funeral of Yasser Arafat'.
It’s time to gird up your loins and take the annual trek to East Anglia to see the 14th East exhibition at Norwich Gallery. Presenting work by thirty artists, selected from 1,600 entries from thirty-eight countries, with sixteen of the […]
