A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Arts Council England make changes to length of funding agreements, artists call for Israel to release detained Palestinian poet, and Pokémon Go causes increase in visitors to museums.
This week’s selection includes landscapes in Eastbourne, portraiture at the Royal Academy and art meets science in Glasgow.
Dale Lewis is one of three Jerwood Painting Fellows currently exhibiting work at Jerwood Space, London. He talks to Fisun Guner about working with mentor Dan Coombs, his mind-crushing experience as an artist’s assistant, and what inspires his open, chaotic and darkly humorous paintings.
My art has been influenced by and focused on mortality; it is the common denominator in my work. As we grow older our perceptions change and our nearness to death causes us to appreciate and regret our decisions in life […]
John Hoyland: Power Stations, Painting 1964 – 1982 Newport Street Gallery Newport Street London SE11 6AJ Advance Town 29.3.80, Acrylic on cotton duck, 84 x 78 inch (2134 x 1981 mm) Firstly, the exhibition. John Hoyland: Power Stations, Paintings 1964 –1982, […]
‘Baby baby’ Tissue paper, 2015/6 The power of birth! This particular piece is identifying our beginning, the hopes and dreams of a new life, innocence and happiness. All before LIFE’S stuff, incidents and perceptions are propelled, like the drivers in […]
#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 […]
Owners of pioneering Dadaist Kurt Schwitters’ last remaining Merzbau project call on Arts Council England and Tate to help rescue badly damaged site.
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 […]
Six a-n writers – based in Glasgow, Manchester and London – pick, in no particular order, their top five exhibitions of the year.
Why look into Jeff Koons? I wanted to look into Jeff Koons because of in my latest illness sculpture called ‘The possibility workings of inside a working man’ is a sculpture made from ready-made objects. This is why I wanted […]
Julia Peyton-Jones to leave position at Serpentine Galleries in July 2016, with recruitment for new director already underway.
Hilary Jack crates a world that is both familiar in the physical sense yet also goes deeper into the subconscious of the mentality of the artist recluse.
My Cycle of Artistic Practice for Processes, Research and more! This afternoon I wanted to draw up a mind map of my arts practice of how successful I might have to be in the art world. Research I think […]
This week’s selection includes ceramics and moving image in Birmingham, a science and art mashup in Newcastle, and the results of a year-long residency at the English National Opera in London.
Chinese artist and activist to unveil large-scale artwork outside the Gherkin in the City of London, as part of a festival celebrating the area’s architectural landmarks.
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This week’s selection includes a Surrealist exhibition in Liverpool, a bumper drawing show in Oxford and sculpture in Newcastle upon Tyne.
I need to think how I might construct a final ‘Self’ for this three-week period. I’m conscious of the physicality of ‘Me’. I reflect that I’m privileged to have the time to think about these things. I’m looking through the […]
EUREKA!! AM I A “ CON. ARTIST ? ” Is my work is of today and therefore CON.TEMPORARY ? Is my work driven by ideas and therefore CON.CEPTUAL ? I have enjoyed visits to the National Galleries, Courtaulds; Saatchi; Sainsbury; and Fitzwilliam Galleries plus […]
I was diagnosed with Dyspraxia and Dyslexia issues in 2014, which had seriously affected previous essay results and I began year six with enormous trepidation. The dissertation was looming on the immediate horizon and the diagnosis had caused me to consider ending my […]
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 […]
Turner Contemporary’s Self exhibition looks at artists’ self-portraits from the 17th century to the present day, exploring the changing way artists have seen themselves – and society has seen artists. Dany Louise reports from Margate.
My response to a series of broadcasts by Philospher Roger Scruton on what he percieves as real art and what he sees as fake art.
Its ten o’clock, Wednesday 13th August, 2014 – armed eventually with an up to date Google Chrome and an Internet Explorer tab open in reserve it can mean one thing only. The 2014 IK Prize winning project has landed. Welcome […]
