Best known for Seizure, his 2008 Artangel commission for which he covered the interior of a South London flat with copper sulphate, Roger Hiorns’ current show at Ikon Gallery sees him back in his home city, where he also hopes to soon bury a decommissioned Boeing 737. Fisun Güner talks to the artist.
A team led by the American light artist Leo Villareal with British architects and urban planners Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, has won the Illuminated River International Design Competition.
#loleithaart ‘hair done’ pastel on paper. 58×42 My reflections on preparing hair, washing, conditioning and blowing drying, straightening and a quick trim until we get the perfection we desire. I drew this as I was waiting for the potatoes to […]
I am a third-year undergraduate student currently studying at UCS. Perception Series:
While working on my dissertation, with the focus on Augusta Savage & Kara Walker’s artwork. I work with the same focus on Identity, perceptions, and the representation of these subjects.
The first thing to note is that ‘The Tate’ in this instance is a shed in an Ilkley backyard. While it’s not just any shed – but in fact a seasonally open, non-commercial gallery slowly building a good reputation- it […]
Frieze London is back for its 13th edition with 164 galleries from 27 countries, plus a rejuvenated Frieze Projects programme of artists’ commissions. Chris Sharratt reports.
The curator of the 56th Venice Biennale has revealed the 136-strong list of participating artists for the International Exhibition, including works by many high-profile names such as Steve McQueen, Jeremy Deller and Oscar Murillo.
I have been looking at many different artist these are just some of my favourites. I have yet again found myself in a bit of a creative runt so I have been looking at some inspiring works, I also think […]
I have a great respect and admiration for the great Old Masters and Contemporary artists who have painted large canvases with large areas of intricate of pattern. In particular I am thinking of …. Joshua Reynolds, Gainsborough, Gustav Klimt and […]
A recent 10th anniversary fundraising auction by the London-based not-for-profit contemporary art foundation Parasol Unit has raised over £2million from sales of work donated by artists.
Gasworks, the South London studio and exhibition/residency space, has plans to redevelop and expand the building its been based in for nearly 20 years. Before it does, though, it’s raising funds with a high-profile auction. We talk to Director Alessio Antoniolli and artist and former studio holder, Alexandre da Cunha.
I then looked at Chris Ofili, who did not use animals within his art but animal feces, elephant feces to be precise, which again in this day and age is hardly shocking. He made it shocking by using it within […]
PechaKucha x Chol Theatre at The Media Centre, Huddersfield, 29/11/12 Slides 16-20 Crap: Chris Ofili – Afrobluff (1996)Chris Ofili’s Turner Prize winning elephant dung paintings began with a British Council-funded visit to Zimbabwe at the beginning of his career in […]
Arch 402 Gallery, London
9 September – 16 October 2011
The New Art Gallery, Walsall
21 January – 20 March 2011
Concerning the word ‘spiritual’ in art. Mark Dean considers the historical roots of art’s contemporary alliances to spirituality and asks whether art is the new religion.
The New Art Gallery, Walsall, Walsall
21 January – 20 March 2011
The Royal Academy of Art, London
10 November – 19 December 2010
Topshop, Brighton
4 December 2010
Comings and goings amongst arts professionals and curators, designed to aid networking and collaboration.
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
18 June – 12 September 2010
Pots of Liquid Flesh It was a Friday evening. Mike and Bill were playing chess and I was surfing the internet searching for images of Lucian Freud’s paintings. Suddenly I stumbled across a painting by Jenny Saville, and the hairs […]
Paint, pigment, canvas, aluminum, resin. I’m presently consumed with having to think about the technicalities of how to actually make what I paint and paint on. I have just started to paint with oils following comments in my recent assessment […]
Dan Thompson from The Revolutionary Arts Group reveals how artists are once again making use of empty spaces as a means to kick-start both the cultural and economic well being of town centres, and suggests seven steps to enable this area of practice to flourish.
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, officially re-opened its upper galleries to the public in October with Connect, a new permanent exhibition that makes connections between works of art from different cultures and times.
