This week’s selection includes a sound installation in Birmingham, photography and film in east London and a ten year anniversary exhibition at Newcastle upon Tyne-based gallery Vane.
Last night a few of us got together in Commercial Union House to have a look inside each others studios. Alannah Lamb, Nick Christie and myself shared our work – with Paul Jex, Helen McClafferty, Jennifer O’Neill and Melanie Kyles […]
In collaboration with the exhibitions team at Salford Museum and Art Gallery, I have been working towards an exhibition of my late husband, Colin’s paintings. The launch took place on 18 July and was well attended with almost 60 visitors. […]
Edinburgh Art Festival opens this weekend with a programme of new commissions and exhibitions taking place across the city. Richard Taylor takes a look at some of the exhibitions and artists’ talks and tours that offer an alternative take on this year’s festival commission theme, The Improbable City.
Alex Farquharson, founding director of Nottingham Contemporary, appointed director of Tate Britain.
A few months ago I was invited by Kaavous Clayton to participate in a group exhibition exploring ideas around how space, places and territories are mapped through various methods in order to gain an understanding and perhaps an ownership of […]
This week’s selection, chosen from events posted by a-n members on the site’s popular Events section, includes glass work in Wakefield, a painting exhibition with a difference at Transition Gallery and a fusion of Abstract Expressionism and Renaissance art in Warrington.
My work is process-based, and often reflects my interest in primordial structures – I am driven when spontaneous actions form, beauty in chaos, order in chaos. The work draws on the tools used for capturing such as the telescope […]
This week’s selection features abstract painting in Hastings and a photography show with a difference in Birmingham.
My previous interest in the methods of Aby Warburg has led me to consider the ‘Atlas’ as a strategy for mapping cultural practice as well as an artistic method in itself. The use of atlases as a method of artistic […]
As artists find themselves at the end of the cultural food chain, Susan Jones suggests a new activism to reaffirm their status The so-called golden age of arts funding has given way to debilitating austerity, particularly for artists who find […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Words and images are starting to appear in reaction to nine women now… My friend and huge inspiration, Heather Wastie wrote a poem inspired by her trip to Dudley. Heather is the newly appointed Poet […]
Historical inquiry relies on the archive for its material in order to build narratives and explore connections between events. “The origin of the word ‘archive’… stems from the Greek and Latin words for ‘town hall, ruling office’, which, in turn, […]
This week I decided to consolidate my my own experiences of working in archives and collections by reading more about other artists working in this way, and particularly how these methods have been critically and historically received. One source of […]
As the degree shows season draws to a close, we republish the last of three interviews with art professionals from the 50-page a-n Degree Shows Guide 2015. Here, Louise Hutchinson, director of S1 Artspace in Sheffield, talks about how to present work and the tyranny of the student business card.
By Tracing the Pathway member Joe Dunne: I have never known a pile of soil to be so inviting to strangers. Well, strangers might be overstating it – that term evaporates the moment anyone comes over with a curious and […]
This week’s selection includes the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, figurative oil painting at the Serpentine and a look back at a 1970s artist project at Birmingham’s Eastside Projects.
Five events by a-n’s members – posted onto the popular Events listings page – include exhibitions and events in Bolton, Grantham, Hertford, London and Somerset.
The first of two summer exhibitions at the CASS, London is a high-calibre show featuring excellent curation. Jack Hutchinson reports, and finds that the student exhibitors are already planning for the future.
