The fourth b-side multimedia festival is set entirely on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, creating site-specific work that includes performance, installation and film work. Dany Louise talks to the director of this distinctive and nuanced ten-day event.
Vane and Breeze Creatives are taking over Durham’s Old Shire Hall for an art fair and auction, with proceeds going towards the creation of The Experimental Studio – a purpose-built work space for resident artists in Vane’s Newcastle space.
The Artists’ Assembly Against Austerity is to launch this month. We speak to Season Butler about how artists can get involved.
Following this week’s meeting with Louise I’ve got an action plan for getting the work under the noses of people who might like to tour the exhibition. I’ve found that my experience of writing these blogs is that if I […]
The Other Art Fair returns to the Old Truman Brewery for its second year during ‘Frieze week’ in October, while this year’s Frieze Art Fair includes the fair’s inaugural Artist Award winner and a new Live programme.
The first in a series of independently curated group exhibitions during Liverpool Biennial, Axolotl has an abundance of connotations, within the press release we are teased with curious narratives
This week’s selection of must-see shows includes a ‘breathing’ bulb in London, an evolving artist-led group show in Sheffield, and the auto-creative work of Gustav Metzger in Cambridge.
A collection of events happening in August, September and October 2014, focussing on MA and MFA degree shows, festivals and graduate shows.
Almost a week into the residency and Chiang Mai is beginning to feel more familiar. I’ve visited Seascape gallery, Pong Noi gallery, went to a talk about artist-led activity in Japan at 31st Century art space (made of shipping containers) […]
After an epic 40 hour journey I have arrived in Thailand. Katie Hawker who runs the artist-led project Surface Arts along with her assistant a local artist called Pitchaya, have been showing me the ropes, introducing me to local artists […]
Hackney WickED returns for its sixth incarnation in seven years – this time with Arts Council England funding.
As Glasgow prepares for the 2014 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony at Celtic Park tonight, Chris Sharratt takes a look at Jim Lambie’s new public art piece in the city’s east end, and some of the other visual arts activity taking place during the Games.
Artist-led festival Hackney WickED has announced the successful artists in its inaugural Arts Council England-funded commissions and bursaries scheme.
KALEID 2014, takes place tomorrow, 19 July, with an exhibition of works by the ‘fifty most interesting artists who do books’ plus the launch of a newly commissioned sculptural photobook by Liane Lang.
To sound quintessentially English – Summer is a delight at Hestercombe. The gardens are in full bloom and the landscape is bursting with vibrant foliage and healthy flora. My recent stay was different to my previous experiences merely because now […]
This piece will be a record or trace of my travels around the UK, as I visit a number of the UK-based artists involved with the Revolve:R project, in their home-cities including Bristol, Liverpool, London, and Glasgow.
London can be an expensive place to be an artist, but what are the advantages of basing your practice outside the capital, and how are those that choose to stay in London making it work? Pippa Koszerek reports from Standpoint Gallery’s recent MAP Symposium.
A new publication by US-based choreographer Andrew Simonet is a call to action for artists to harness their creative know-how to create an economically sustainable lifestyle.
Following last week’s announcement by Arts Council England of its new National Portfolio of funded organisations, Mark Robinson takes a closer look at the figures to find that, whilst the portfolio has many of the same strengths and weaknesses as the first one created in 2011, ACE has failed to significantly redress the funding imbalance between London and the regions.
A question that I find relevant to both my personal practice and my expanded practice is; do varying modes of sustainability and organisational structures effect the output/content of artist and curator led projects? Now two-thirds through our ‘go and see’ […]
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Arts Council England has announced the 670 organisations that will make up its new National Portfolio of regularly-funded organisations. Included are some new additions, while 58 organisations leave the portfolio entirely.
An open letter from artists in Manchester is calling on publicly-funded galleries to do more to support artists who live and work in the city.
