A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: high-profile artists support charity art auction for children in hospices, plus artist and curator Ingrid LaFleur to run for mayor of Detroit.
The decision by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to close the gallery after over 30 years of exhibitions has prompted a storm of protest from artists and those working in the visual arts, with the latest ‘mass visit’ designed to keep the pressure on.
Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and this week taking us to Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Wales.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Alasdair Gray to exhibit at Glasgow Library, Christo cancels project in protest against Trump, and Saatchi gallery to exhibit selfies.
Using a camera opens up a secondary world. The photograph itself is often a documentative tool, arguably a medium of truth. An installation however, within a gallery setting may appear staged. Tracey Emin’s My Bed (1998) is a good example […]
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Anish Kapoor banned from using world’s most glittery glitter, the second ACE diversity report, and Gdansk community mural cut up and put on sale by British art dealer.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Martin Creed’s alternative Christmas carol, most people don’t think Turner Prize entries are art and fire at California artists’ collective claims 33 lives.
The Shropshire-born artist grew up on a farm, with his childhood experiences influencing everything from the content to the materials of his paintings. Here he discusses the continuing importance of painting and his latest body of work, currently on show at the Saatchi Gallery’s ‘Painters’ Painters’ exhibition.
Come along tonight 6th December 6-8 and meet the artists The work entitled Bedload part 1 and 2 started in the summer when the A20 was blocked and instead of heading off to Kent, my daughter and I diverted to […]
Scottish culture secretary Fiona Hyslop has intervened in the protests over the recent closure of Inverleith House gallery in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
‘The Last Editions’ is the final chance to celebrate the work of The Multiple Store and to buy one of the high-quality editions it has been commissioning since 1998 by artists including Turner Prize nominees and winners. Co-founder Nicholas Sharp talks about his reasons for starting the project, and why it’s now time to wrap things up.
My project for this year is revolving around the issues surrounding gender equality, focusing on Emma Watson’s UN speech on the subject. By issues, I mean the fact that women and men are expected to have completely different personas because society […]
I am now in my last part time year of a Fine Arts degree. Last year I wrote the dissertation, for which I got a First! which was such a reward for sweating blood, but also made a mark for […]
The biggest British survey of artist use of neon from the 1960’s to present day
This week’s selection includes a group drawing show in London, neon lights in Blackpool and digital art in Brighton.
Looking at adoption from the birth mother’s perspective gives the adoptee an idea of the range of circumstances and emotions of mothers who either readily gave up their babies for adoption or who were, and still are, forced or bullied […]
I felt that walking over the wallpaper was like walking over my past. However, the footprints were pressed into my past. The paper and my feet merged. Arguably you cannot separate yourself from your past. I was angry with elements […]
Well it isn’t exactly Tracey Emin and my bed is not the title ,but if have finally partly put together part of my installation of embroideries titles’The worst Journey in the world ‘which was a phase coined by Whinston Chirchill […]
This work’Tippi Hedren’ was an appliquéd suit to pay homage to the actress in the film’The Birds’ by Alfred Hitchcock the work was a collaboration between Tracey Emin and Sara Lucas in the 1990’s when they ran their’shop’ which was […]
Setting up a website for the Professional Practice module has been another learning curve, taking into account my limited computer skills. However, having grasped the basics I have found it to be a great way of reviewing my practice and […]
The idea I have for displaying the video of my brother is to have it on a monitor with a set of headphones that the viewer can put on and sit and listen to it. I want the viewer to […]
The DACS Foundation has launched a three-year open submission project, with successful applicants receiving expert and bespoke legacy consultancy to develop and sustain their archives.
