Margaret Harrison, winner of the 2013 Northern Art Prize, is the latest high-profile artist to announce their support of a-n/AIR’s Paying Artists campaign.
Founded in 1994, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists programme has helped some of the UK’s best-known visual artists with no-strings-attached financial support at crucial points in their careers. On the eve of the announcement of this year’s awards, Chris Sharratt talks to the foundation’s head of arts and to 2012 recipient Ed Atkins.
Helen Goodman, MP for Bishop Auckland and Shadow Minister for Culture, Media and Sport, has announced her support for a-n/AIR’s Paying Artists campaign.
Former a-n director Susan Jones will be sharing evidence gathered through a-n/AIR’s Paying Artists campaign over a hearty lunch of vitamin-rich soup at Stoke-on-Trent’s AirSpace Gallery, the latest event in a series of talks and workshops.
This week’s selection includes two major survey shows – radical Russian Kazimir Malevich at Tate Modern, and French conceptualist Daniel Buren at BALTIC – plus a new film installation by Noémie Goudal at New Art Gallery Walsall and darkly humourous paintings by Moyna Flannigan at Glasgow’s GoMA.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park announced as winner of £100,000 prize.
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.
Among the 1200-plus works in this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is a huge text painting by Bob and Roberta Smith, featuring the transcript of a harrowing interview with a doctor recently returned from Syria.
Stay on the case. I have been lucky enough with this project to find plenty of bang on context, with many major contemporary artists dealing with the same issues or working in a similar way. British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare addressed […]
Recently I have been looking back at the crisis commission exhibition of 2012. Artists such as Yinka Shonabare, Anthony Gormley, Tracy Emin, Gillian Wearing and Jonathan Yeo created works to raise awareness and money for the homeless charity Crisis. Although […]
Yinka Shonibare was another artist I studied whilst doing my Dissertation. Although there are many I admire I think he is quite probabally a favorite of mine. Yinka Shonibare MBE is well known for his exploration of colonialsim and post […]
Ikon Gallery will be looking back at key periods from its 50 year history as it celebrates its half century this year, starting with two exhibitions by Jamal Penjweny and John Salt.
Guildhall Art Gallery, London
7 September – 8 December 2013
This week is ‘Frieze week’ in London, and as well as the internationally recognised Frieze Art Fair in Regent’s Park, the city will be awash with other fairs, some artist-led and focused, some themed, and some unashamedly commercial.
Have had a few very tired days, all of me in the horizontal, thoughts, gestures, desires, and at one stage pondered the image of my brain’s coils and curls unfurled and laid out next to me, two fleshy greyish-white cords […]
A to Z over M to E (Notes to self) Albeit. Art ⋅ arrow ⋅ aspiration ⋅ application Brief encounters. Bravado ⋅ breath ⋅ break Crochet the core. Make a cosy for my heart Downright dedication ⋅ denial ⋅ deferral […]
Even if I am a kind of pop-up figure in the land of the upright, an occasional visitor in sitting country and residing mostly (and not in state) in the realm of supinity – my art finds ways to stand […]
Fruition Apologies for the long absence since my last diary post! A combination of two things have conspired to this neglect – childrens summer holidays (say no more) and completing major commission work for the Victoriana: The Art of Revival […]
Lordy… Good Lord… Good Gosh… Goodness me.. Bloody Hell.. Any variation on this theme of: IT’S HAPPENING! IT’S ALMOST HERE! Degree show madness is hitting me.. big time. I am panicking, freaking out, acting like I have no ‘brought-upsy’ whatsoever, […]
London’s leading artist-led fair springs into step.
Exciting News Nothing to report on the bursary front this week as I havent yet had my first meeting but as I wanted to commit to writing on this blog on a weekly basis I thought I’d share some good […]
Here they are! The last two of my foundlings. At least I think so. Will put together the photos and have a look at them as a series and consider how I would like to show them. So much to […]
I’m back, so to speak. Spent a very enjoyable day yesterday with a young and interesting artist scouting for suitable venues to show together in Leytonstone during the Leytonstone Art Trail in the summer. With the sun looking like it […]
A new partnership project seeks to make the birthplace of Moore and Hepworth the sculpture capital of Europe.
Adam James, The Booger Dance
