I recently watched Artsnight, presented by the artist Ryan Gander, in which he spoke about the origins of creativity and the phenomenon of ‘positive jealousy’ that is a characteristic of conversations between artists sharing their ideas (2016). In Gander’s description, […]
Have been feeling a bit overwhelmed with ideas which are started but not completed lately. Each day I think “i could do that” I need several lives/elves to produce what I would wish too. A workshop of assistance would also […]
I’ve just finished an ink sketch of Goya’s plate 39 (minus casualties) and I thought I’d add it to my blog. I found it tricky filling in behind the missing bodies as the tree didn’t seem to add up, for […]
Commemorations include eight new commissions installed at galleries across the UK plus two new touring exhibitions.
Lithuania First week back into uni didn’t actually happen until October for myself and a few others, as we travelled to Lithuania for a week’s residency (22nd – 29th September): We flew to Kaunas airport from Stansted, met by Rimantas […]
The inaugural North festival in Warrington has brought pavilions from city’s including Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool – as well as art that responds to Ikea – to the streets and galleries of the town. Laura Robertson reports.
The inaugural North festival of contemporary art opens in Warrington in October with a series of city pavilions and an exhibition that invites artists’ responses to Ikea. Laura Robertson speaks to some of the artists involved and the London-based gallerist behind the event.
British Art Show 8 curators Anna Colin and Lydia Yee have selected the artists for this year’s exhibition, which opens in Leeds in October.
The new director of mima in Middlebrough, previously deputy director at Grizedale Arts, reflects on a year that he likens to an art world fairground ride with Ryan Gander and Jeremy Deller at the helm…
Manchester’s Castlefield Gallery is celebrating its 30-year history with a forward-looking exhibition featuring artists who are ‘shaping the future of contemporary art’. Liz West, an artist based in the city, speaks to the gallery’s director and to fellow Manchester artists, about the important role it plays in the area’s art ecology.
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.
This year’s Frieze London art fair is as big and busy as usual, and includes some impressive booths from artworld big hitters as well as a first for a non-London English gallery. Chris Sharratt reports.
Cardiff Contemporary brings together a range of special commissions, exhibitions and residencies across the city for a five-week festival of the visual arts.
This weekend’s Manchester Contemporary art fair has got more galleries and artists than ever, and it’s in a new venue, too. Chris Sharratt reports.
Aside from a few decades in the middle of the twentieth century when abstraction and minimalism ruled and anything vaguely figurative was pointedly ignored by the art world, the human figure has been the most timelessly familiar and most frequently […]
Summer is here and what better way to celebrate than to avoid the sun and head straight to your local gallery. We’ve selected some of the best exhibitions coming up over the next few months, from large-scale blockbusters to smaller but no less important shows across the country.
This week’s most significant international art event is the opening of the 19th Biennale of Sydney, now minus its founding sponsor after protests and withdrawals by a number of participating artists. Plus we take a look at Paris, Madrid and the German city of Gelsenkirche.
Following a public consultation, Conrad Shawcross has been selected to create a new commission for Dulwich Park in south London, to honour and replace a stolen work by Barbara Hepworth.
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.
This year’s Bloomberg New Contemporaries features the work of 46 students and recent graduates from UK art schools. Ranging from minimalist purism to a giant ‘fish finger’, it provides a snapshot of current work that delights and bemuses.
I have also looked at Ryan Gander this piece he did really inspired me to think of my own practice and maybe push my own boundaries more. http://www.disabilityartsonline.org.uk/ryan-gander been thinking about new work as well spring boarding of this degree […]
After over 20 years as an automonous organisation, film and video commissioning agency Picture This is to merge with Bristol’s Spike Island.
Found these sketches l did for my time in Cyprus 2012 which illustrates the obstacles that l faced while away. Been looking back at the piece l mentioned about Ryan Gander with Adrian Searle for the Guardian in 2012, he […]
Found this artist on Internet called Heejung Kim, she uses video projection to demonstrate the confines of our own identity. The video’s projected on object similar to mine, showing frustration and conflict within themselves. One film called Continuously Standing up […]
