The UK boasts literally hundreds of visual arts competitions annually. Here, we look at some of the most significant opens and prizes on offer this year.
‘Serious Playtime’ came and went in a whirlwind of activity providing an array of exciting artworks and performances. Following their exhilarating multimedia performance on the opening night Paul and Ritchie Dixon led a daylong gun-making workshop. The gallery was overrun […]
I’m here. I mean, I have been here for 3 months, and I feel settled now. It still feels quite bizarre, I can barely get my head around it. It’s been an ambition to come here for a long time, […]
Dalry Primary School, Dalry, North Ayrshire
19-23 November 2007
Not much has been happening with me here in France; hence I haven’t sent you any news. The last few days I’ve been working in my studio, working very hard to try and finish some of the skins before they […]
Twelve days after my last blog entry, I’ve sent out a lot of press releases and made enquiries about the possibility of holding a mini Open Day within Wood Dalling’s own Christmas Market in the Village Hall on December 1. […]
Despite common parlance, globalisation is not a synonym for contemporary neoliberal capitalism; it is rather an historical process of cultural drift and metamorphosis.
Andrea Rosen, New York City
20 October – 24 November 2007
Projects unedited blog by Alexandria Clark
yes. NY appartment was real afterall, thankgod. and mary and rebecca have met up to go over the workshop materials. the writers workshop is now called 'Writers Hub' as part of the writing live, performa programme. here is the press […]
Ceramic artists Elise Austrin, Karen Atherley, Jo Davies, Akiko Hirai and Joanna London are amongst exhibitors in ‘Handmade 07’, being held at Chelsea Old Town Hall 27-30 November.
Project Space Leeds (PSL), Leeds
12 October – 15 December 2007
About me: White Winter Publishing starts as just me, so it seems that talking about myself and my reason for wanting to start this little business is a good place to start. White Winter Puublishing is currently just an […]
S Mark Gubb profiles Moot, a Nottingham-based gallery that aims to act as a catalyst for the local arts community.
S Mark Gubb on Birmingham-based Colony, a space inspired by the artist-led initiatives of the 60s and 70s.
Skulptur Projekte 07 and Documenta 12, Munster and Kassel, Deutschlan
7-12 September 2007
Whitechapel Gallery, London
6 September 2007
Exploring selected arts organisation with significant facilities and programmes for digital and new media practices.
Highlighting new projects by organisations located in Aberdeenshire, Cumbria, Devon, Dumfries, Fife, Mull, Lancashire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Suffolk, and Western Isles. “There is, in truth, nothing essentially backward-looking, conservative or traditional in rural culture. There are too many innovators, in too […]
After a far-reaching review and reshaping exercise, the Crafts Council has launched its new three-year plan. Describing itself as the national development agency for contemporary crafts in the UK, its key areas of work for the future are summarised as […]
Yvette Mutumba on Shaheen Merali – artist, curator, researcher, writer, observer and globetrotter.
Web site goes live. Well, at 1am this morning I get an e-mail from my web designer- ex graduate from Glasgow School of Art- to say that he has uploaded my photographic exhibition "The Children of Craig-y-nos" to its new […]
Since applying, and being accepted on an MA Fine Art course, commencing at the end of September, there has been a feeling of being "on hold". The desire to create new work has become an increasingly tentative process to the […]
Twenty-eight artists feature in this major international exhibition of contemporary glass.
With just over twenty-four hours in Lille, the apd ‘Sojourn’ was a whistle-stop tour, but one that attempted to broach the prospect of greater exchange between French and British artists and arts organisations by understanding equivalent professional development provision.
