How do fine art courses prepare their students for life after art school? How is professional practice shaped by factors such as location, course philosophy, and the cultural and political climate? Sarah Rowles unpacks the findings of Q-Art’s new publication, Professional Practice: 20 Questions – Interviews with UK undergraduate Fine Art staff exploring how students are prepared for life after art school.
Serbian artist wins fifth edition of award for emerging artists and receives three-month studio residency at Griffin Gallery next year.
UK-based artists Phoebe Boswell, Rebecca Moss and Andy Holden are among the 21 artists shortlisted for fourth edition of the Future Generation Art Prize.
I’ve reached the second month of the residency in good spirits after having made a productive start on the project in September. I’ve become familiar with the new environment and subject of my current project. I had been spending long days in […]
A new publication by critic and writer John Berger and artist John Christie presents their correspondence of letters and small books, creating ‘artists’ books within a book’. Sarah Bodman finds reading it an enchanting experience.
North East Contemporary Visual Art Network launches 10-year plan to drive agenda for visual arts in the region.
As the international art world descends on London for Frieze Week – which for 2016 takes place a week earlier than previous years – we take a look at the art, craft and design fairs taking place in the capital.
This week I had a sudden urge to revisit the poetry of T S Eliot, which I first encountered in undergraduate English Literature; I recall feeling baffled by The Wasteland and unable or unwilling to get to grips with its […]
The inaugural award for mid-career female artists will see the Edinburgh gallery present a new exhibition by Glasgow artist Jacqueline Donachie.
The Mohammed VI Museum Of Modern and Contemporary Art is located in the centre of Rabat not far from the train station and near Terminus Hotel which showcases a sun terrace and great views of the city. The Museum is […]
Kwong Lee of Manchester-based Castlefield Gallery discusses how the gallery works with universities in the city in to provide professional development support to students and contribute to cultural policy research, and offers his views on practice-based research and PhD programmes. Based on an interview by artist Steve Pool.
Today met with Marouane Aouinat the painter after he invited me to his home in an old part of the souk. Marouane graduated a year ago from university of Tetouan. http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/nafas/articles/2013/inba_tetouan He showed me his journal and some of the […]
A new development in south London that will provide between 80 and 100 workspaces for emerging artists and creative entrepreneurs is in the final stages of construction, with a hot desk space, gallery and café already open. Artist and Hotel Elephant co-director Emily Woodhouse speaks to Jack Hutchinson about how the project, established in 2009, found its new home.
With a long and close relationship between the UK and Poland stretching back over generations, and an estimated 800,000 people born in Poland currently resident in the UK, what is the Polish view on Brexit and its implications for the visual arts? Emma Sumner talks to Polish artists, curators and visual arts professionals to find out.
Renowned for his work exploring issues of security and secrecy in the ‘war on terror’, Edmund Clark’s Negative Publicity sees the British photographer examine the CIA’s programme of extraordinary rendition. On the occasion of a new monograph and year-long exhibition at the Imperial War Museum London, he talks to Tim Clark about the challenges of photographing invisible mechanisms of state control.
Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section, take us to Fareham, Hertford, Sway, Southampton and Stroud.
Myself, along with 5 other local university graduates, have each been shortlisted for this exciting opportunity. Our art will be shown alongside the current exhibition, which includes work by Leonardo Da Vinci and William Blake. On show until the 25th Sept.
The winner of the inaugural award named after the Acme Studios co-founder will receive a rent-free shared studio and bursary as well as mentoring and studio visits.
Artists Lucy Parker, Rachel Pimm and Katie Schwab present newly commissioned work in a show marking the 10th anniversary of Jerwood Visual Arts’ national programme supporting visual arts practice.
An up to date account offering an insight into my current residency escapade at AirSpace Gallery in Stoke
Edinburgh Art Festival’s Platform exhibition provides early career artists the opportunity to develop and show work at this high-profile annual festival. Richard Taylor talks with one of this year’s artists whose intriguing commissioned work was built in the Scottish Highlands and fine-tuned through collaboration during residencies in Abroath and Holland.
