Five talented emerging makers unveil the results of their £7,500 Jerwood Makers Open commissions this week in London. We talk to the Director of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and two of this year’s selected makers about the project.
An artwork by Kevin Hunt created as part of Signpost that aims to draw attention to some of the most superb activity being facilitated by emerging independent artists and curators right now in the UK.
friday afternoon, Plymouth University’s Marine Institute and a meeting with Paula Orrell who is currently involved with Tamar Project; Artangel; Efford Take A Part; Alias Arts; Karst Projects; Curatorial and Visual Arts South West. The Marine Institute is a fabulous […]
TAP, Southend-on-Sea
28 June – 28 July 2013
55th Venice Biennale, Venice
1 June – 24 November 2013
This week I visited to the “Fieldworks: Co-researching Self-organised Culture” exhibition at Gallery II, at Bradford University http://www.brad.ac.uk/gallery/whats-on/spring-summ… The exhibition, a joint project by Andy Abbott and Caroline Hick, Fellows in Art at the University of Bradford, explores the question“Should […]
Week 37: 27th May – 2nd JuneI’m back in London again and just in time to see the new Wellcome Collection exhibition of Japanese Outsider Art, entitled Souzou. As the exhibition information explains: ‘Souzou is a word which has no […]
The Centre is Here symposium saw representatives of alternative art schools presenting their visions for art education. Kathryn Ashill, who starts an MA at Glasgow School of Art in September, found plenty to take on board as she prepares to embark on her course.
Programmed in relation to the current Ellen Gallagher exhibition at Tate Modern, the Afrofuturism’s Others seminar provided an enticing introduction to this cultural aesthetic. Artist and curator Sonya Dyer reports.
Venice Biennale, Venice
1 June – 24 November 2013
Carroll Fletcher, London
24 May – 6 July 2013
As the first results from AIR’s Paying Artists Survey make clear, artists are finding themselves at the end of the arts food chain as funding cuts bite. Here, a-n’s Director looks at how things stand and suggests a future where practitioners determine the status of their art and of artists.
Bad news for art and culture in Bradford over the past few days. Last week it was announced that Bradford One gallery is moving from its central location in Centenary Square to Cartwright Hall to make way for the new […]
Turner Prize nominee Tino Sehgal has been awarded the Golden Lion for best artist at the 55th Venice Biennale.
As Tate Liverpool celebrates 25 years since it opened on the city’s waterfront, we garner the views of artists and curators in Liverpool, and get a sense of its huge impact on the area and the city’s art community.
Working internationally is key to the development of many artists’ practice, but without gallery representation the hurdles are considerable. With the 55th Venice Biennale soon to open, we speak to three artists – including one showing in Venice – about the challenges of working abroad without a gallery, and also get the views of an independent curator.
Week 31: 15th – 21st AprilDespite all the hard work researching, writing and making, there are still lots of opportunities to explore and travel which come out of the PhD. This weeks adventure came courtesy of the Fruitmarket Gallery in […]
And The Mentor Is . . . Well I was hoping to share with you what I learned from my first meeting this week but unfortunately, due to circumstances, its been postponed a couple of weeks till the 21st. Instead […]
In a time of austerity, it’s become more important than ever for the visual arts to articulate their value to society. But, asks Claire Doherty, Director of arts producers Situations, what forms of evidence should be produced and whose criteria are we to use?
Interpretation Matters, a new site from a-n contributor Dany Louise, is dedicated to the presentation of written interpretation materials in galleries.
A series of conversations on curatorial and participatory practices with Felicity Allen, Editor of the Documents of Contemporary Art anthology: Education. Guest speakers address dynamic pressures within UK art institutions through the lens of activism, feminism and globalisation. This session […]
So much of my commitment to writing this blog is also given over to responding to and leaving comments on other artist/blogger’s posts. It’s formed an ongoing, reciprocal exchange and it’s the interactions with others that have contributed to the […]
This week (Part two) Soon after the meeting with Karen, I went to the ‘ON | OFF Chinas Young Artists’ group show at the UCCA, one of the only non-commercial galleries in the 798 art ‘village’. The show featured the […]
Week 25: 4th – 10th MarchAfter all the planning and preparation, the time was finally here for the 16th International Contemporary Artist Book Fair. I’d spent a long time and a lot of effort on online promotion developing the website […]
