
V&A wins Museum of the Year prize
This year’s £100,000 Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year has been awarded to London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.
This year’s £100,000 Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year has been awarded to London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.
This week’s selection includes a sensitive exploration of mental health in Nottingham, an exhibition of Belgium-based artists in Manchester, and in Edinburgh an overview of Scottish art since the end of the second world war.
The shortlist of five for the Art Fund’s Museum of the Year 2016 has been announced, with the winner of the £100,000 prize to be revealed in July.
My studio space, more photos: These photos are relevant for potential hanging of work. Notes I use the Notes app on both my I-pad and I-phone a lot, I find it is easier than pen and paper for general notes […]
Lithuania First week back into uni didn’t actually happen until October for myself and a few others, as we travelled to Lithuania for a week’s residency (22nd – 29th September): We flew to Kaunas airport from Stansted, met by Rimantas […]
The third and final workshop in the first a-n Writer Development Programme took us to Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery on Thursday 19 November for a session led by The Arts Desk‘s visual arts editor, Fisun Guner. All five programme participants braved train delays and […]
Ahead of next week’s climate summit in Paris, over 300 artists, writers, musicians and actors have signed an open letter calling on world leaders to reach an agreement to halt global warming.
This week’s selection includes Frank Auerbach’s paintings of people and the urban landscapes in London, British sculpture from the ’70s and ’80s in Coventry, and a radical coming together of the Situationist, Beat and Punk movements in Southampton.
One of the great things to have come out of my Stitched Time project has been that the artists involved have formed a loose group, which can expand and shrink and whose members flag up interesting events to go to […]
Artists for Ikon event raises £785,375 for gallery’s artistic programme and new commissions.
Over 180,000 people have visited the newly expanded Manchester gallery since it reopened in February following the completion of £15m refurbishment, smashing its previous highest annual visitor figure in just three months.
This course it was a fantastic journey trough the World of art, it was good to improve my skills and conduct me to the right field in the art World, in the beginning I had perhaps a little bit problems […]
This week’s selection includes a reimagining of the Magna Carta at the British Library, plus an examination of the strangeness of everyday life at Ikon gallery, Birmingham.
Major new sculpture commission to be installed in the Royal Forest of Dean in summer 2016.
I have lots of blogging to catch up on. Instalments about talks I’ve listened to by Sean Edwards, Ruth Claxton, Waving Not Drowning (event by Turning Point West Midlands) and a visit to the Artes Mundi exhibitions in Cardiff have […]
I am not going to rattle on again here about Cornelia Parker, but I am thinking about her pavement casts, and this has forced me to acknowledge what I have learned about my own practice lately. There is a gap […]
Is the signs of memory trace found within Cornelia Parker’s objects? Cornelia Parker talks about memories that are found in objects that hold crucial memorable evidence of what life the object has lived through. Parker has acquired a lot of different and forgotten […]
This has been a mixed week. I had a real battle with my laptop and new software I got for it so that I could capture individual frames from the cine film dvd, and then build those into a new […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I have on top of the cupboard in my studio an old grubby padded bra. I have stuck glass-headed pins into it in a floral pattern on the outside, as if beaded. The points […]
The Whitechapel Gallery has announced the 48 artists selected for its triennial open exhibition, presenting a cross-section of work being made across the capital today.
The west of England sculpture trail has announced it will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2016 with a series of new temporary and permanent commissions.
A few more photos from the progression of my installation the temperaments. All this work it’s part of then influenced by the work of Cornelia Parker, and as well Christian Boltanski
The Whitworth reopened this weekend following the extension being added to the rear. It was great to go and see what it is like now and it was not disappointing. The work on display by Cornelia Parker I especially enjoyed, […]
As mentioned it will be in a cast-shadows how i will represent kinds of temperaments, i try in my installation to give a good example of our temperaments.Perhaps the reason i want to make this work could be , because […]
Chaos and order in visual art – synopsis Aims of writing this: Clarify the context I’m working in. Aim to work more into and out of my practice with reflective journal writing and linking my work with wider […]