A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Parliament debates the EBacc’s omission of creative subjects for almost three hours, Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli barred from leaving country ahead of London visit, and pair of paintings from Dutch golden age reunited after 351 years.
Five projects from a-n members, selected from our busy Events section, take us to Hull, Langport, Leigh on Sea, London and Spalding.
The largest contemporary art festival in the UK returns for its ninth edition with 42 artists paying homage to Liverpool’s history and future through themed ‘episodes’.
The artist and professor in Fine Arts, Sonia Boyce, is leading a three-year AHRC-funded research project into British Black artists and modernism in the 20th century. She talks to Laura Robertson about why the work needs to be done and what she hopes to achieve.
This week’s selection features sculpture shows in London and Leeds, an exploration of of post-industrial landscapes and production in Sheffield, plus an exhibition of drawings in Sunderland.
What does 2016 have in store in terms of conferences and events, exhibitions, art fairs and festivals? We take a month-by-month look at what the year has to offer – and we’ll be adding new events for later in the year as they’re confirmed.
Commissioned artists will make new work for the biennial, presented in a series of locations across the city including Tate Liverpool, FACT, Bluecoat, and Open Eye.
This week’s selection includes Carsten Höller’s major survey show at the Hayward Gallery, London, a workout of the mind and body at Mima, Middlesbrough, and 50 years of Bridget Riley’s work at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea
A central event in the Liverpool art scene, the Fair showcases artwork of around 100 artists. I recently showcased a triptych of works titled ‘Seismic Shift’ in this year’s Liverpool Art Fair 2015.
I’ve been going on Twitter a lot recently. There are good and bad points to this. It’s good because I read lots of interesting articles about art and politics and if I then share them with my followers I feel […]
Aims for 2015 Have a dedicated studio space Build going to lectures and giving talks into year Go out of my area to see art twice a month (book ahead!) Aims for January Train self to get up at 615am […]
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 international curator and former director of Liverpool Biennial looks back on a year that, amongst many other things, saw him curate the third Folkestone Triennial.
This blog entry marks the start of the demise of our Fine Art degree at a University in the East Midlands. Although we have been closed to new starters for two years now the part-time structure of the course means […]
But I do think it is important to write about what I’m doing and also to review where I am up to with all the things I am meant to be doing, so I’ll use this blog post to do […]
While on my recent (quick) visit to Liverpool to attend the John Moores Painting prize PV – I noticed on my early morning walk back through the city that some of the paving has similar qualities to the sandstone clay […]
The 8th Liverpool Biennial is a more modest affair than previous years with less visibility across the city, and while the core programme is deftly curated, it leans heavily on work from the past. Chris Sharratt reports.
It is always when I am most busy that I have a lot to say and want to write something, but I suppose that would make sense wouldn’t it? Also the site has been down for a few days (it’s […]
This year’s Liverpool Biennial is the first that director Sally Tallant can really call her own, having arrived in Liverpool only a few months before the 2012 festival. Now with a new, earlier July start date and a refreshed approach, Laura Robertson finds out what has changed at the UK’s biennial of contemporary art.
Destination: Allenheads, Northumbria Days: 5 Activities: Drawing mainly, some painting, reading, blogging ;o) Weather forecast: Rain From Monday to Friday Next week I’ll be staying at Allenheads Contemporary Arts for a residency where I plan to focus intensively on drawing […]
The full programme for Liverpool Biennial 2014 has been announced and includes works by Sharon Lockhart, Will Holder and Jef Cornelis, and will open with the performance of a new composition by Michael Nyman commemorating the Hillsborough disaster.
What does 2014 have in store in terms of conferences and events, art fairs and festivals? We take a month-by-month look at what the year has to offer.
I spent a fantastic day with Vicky yesterday and have a hangover to remind me of it. That yellow wine (a bit like sherry) really does slip down too easily. We spent the day wandering round various markets – from […]
A much better day! I cracked on with my work, despite the piercing damp cold. My hands and feet are sore, but I’m finding a way. An odd thing happened this afternoon. I went downstairs to fetch more bamboo and […]
