This week, London’s disability-led arts organisation Shape launches a new networking event to bring disabled and non-disabled artists together. We talk to programme coordinator Ben Fredericks about the project.
The winner of this year’s Liverpool Art Prize is artist and photographer Tabitha Jussa.
Arts Council Wales has announced that photographic artist Helen Sear will be representing Wales at the 2015 Venice Biennale.
Three weeks after a devastating fire at its historic Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed building, Glasgow School of Art’s Fine Art students present a showcase of their work that is both economical and emotionally charged.
Our PICTURED series on visually-rich art books is one year old. To mark the 25th instalment, Tim Clark takes a close look at The Photobook: A History Volume III, co-edited by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger and the latest instalment from the acclaimed series on the history of the photobook.
This week is the final week of the Birmingham leg of Bill Drummond’s World Tour (2014-2025), London’s Foundling Museum celebrates the legacy of William Hogarth through the work of four contemporary artists, and Sheffield’s Site Gallery presents an exploration of the rave scene.
Ten days have passed since the Fantastic Tales show ended and it already feels like weeks ago! This year we had record-breaking numbers visiting The Ceramic House nearly every day we opened. The highest count was 264 in a single […]
This week, we catch a New Wave of emerging artistic talent at Birmingham’s RBSA Gallery and explore national identity through Rachel Maclean’s timely exhibition at CCA in Glasgow. Plus there are shows in London, Exeter and Liverpool to enjoy, including a life-size reconstruction of Piet Mondrian’s Paris studio at Tate Liverpool.
Although I have previously mentioned the work that was involved in the making of Heavy footprints, and have discussed possible ideas of what to project onto the screens, I have realised that I have not spoken about what will be. […]
Destination: Allenheads, Northumbria Days: 5 Activities: Drawing mainly, some painting, reading, blogging ;o) Weather forecast: Rain From Monday to Friday Next week I’ll be staying at Allenheads Contemporary Arts for a residency where I plan to focus intensively on drawing […]
Earlier this week I completed all of my dry point etchings ready to be framed and displayed on the wall of my installation space. I made the decision to use previous etching plates to print with and to supplement these […]
German photographer Michael Schmidt has died just days after winning of the Prix Pictet photography prize 2014.
I am reminded of another poem by W.B.Yeats The Second Coming Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed […]
The relationship between vitrines and institutional critique has inspired my latest collaborative project, ‘The Imaginary Museum’, a direct reference to the Andre Malraux publication ‘Museum without Walls’ (discussed in week 60). Under the auspices of the Artist Book Collective, I […]
As the degree shows season gathers pace, we take a trip to Dundee for the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design show.
Day 9 of my open studio as part of Powys Arts Month. I’m open together with four other artists – painting, illustration, automata, photography, drawing. Its been amazing but my head is so full of conversations that Im experiencing information […]
Royal College of Art graduate Neil Raitt has been awarded the £5,000 Catlin Art Prize for a new body of work, comprising large-scale abstract paintings that experiment with repetition and perspective.
Basement Arts Project, Leeds
9 – 25 May 2014
Drawings inspired by images from magazines, books and the Internet, a sound and sculpture installation made in response to a gallery’s architecture, and private histories laid bare through a series of photographic compositions – this week’s selection includes exhibitions in Edinburgh, Wakefield and Manchester.
