The third Folkestone Triennial has been attracting widespread media coverage thanks to artist Michael Sailstorfer’s buried gold bars on the town’s harbour beach. Dany Louise takes a tour of the town and finds many more artistic treasures in this intelligently curated festival of art in the public realm.
A new art colony and residency retreat, initiated by artist and priest Father Paul West and curated by Aid & Abet, is being pioneered in the Fenland market town of Wisbech.
Set to open in 2015, the University of Leicester has revealed designs for a new gallery at Embrace Arts.
A survey commissioned by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation ArtWorks’ initiative has revealed that whilst artists are willing to pay for training to deliver arts in participatory settings, employers and commissioners should contribute too.
The Other Art Fair returns to the Old Truman Brewery for its second year during ‘Frieze week’ in October, while this year’s Frieze Art Fair includes the fair’s inaugural Artist Award winner and a new Live programme.
Bristol-based WORKS|PROJECTS has announced the closure of its current gallery space in order to pursue ‘new, expanded programme’ from the end of 2014.
Yann Seznec’s Edinburgh Art Festival commission, Currents, uses recycled computer fans and digital technology to recreate global wind patterns in a former police box. Chris Sharratt finds out more.
Following the opening of its new £10 million arts building in June, fine arts consultancy John Jones welcomes its first artist in residence as part of The Project Space programme of exhibitions, events and outreach activities. We speak to artist Ruth Proctor, and learn more about the space from curator Cassandra Needham.
New temporary sculptures by Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan get a soft launch in Glasgow tomorrow, before heading north to the Hebridean islands of Skye and North Uist. Part of GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary in Scotland.
With galleries in Zurich, London and New York and a stable of international artists, many will be familiar with art dealers Hauser & Wirth. The power couple’s decision to base their latest venture in the picturesque town of Bruton, Somerset, however, might take some by surprise.
London can be an expensive place to be an artist, but what are the advantages of basing your practice outside the capital, and how are those that choose to stay in London making it work? Pippa Koszerek reports from Standpoint Gallery’s recent MAP Symposium.
a-n’s new look website is live, with a test phase encouraging members to ‘try out, share and feed back’.
This week’s selection takes in two career spanning survey shows – Giulio Paolini in London and Bruce McClean in Colchester – plus there are ‘earthy’ new works by William Cobbing in Middlesbrough, and a new film installation questioning the concept of freedom by Grace Schwindt in Birmingham.
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 leader of one of England’s National Portfolio Organisations speaks out about transparency, whistle blowing, the curse of arts buildings, and why artists feel disenfranchised from the arts funding system.
As cuts continue to bite, arts organisations are plugging the funding gap by replacing paid staff – such as gallery invigilators – with unpaid volunteers. We look at three galleries in Liverpool and Bristol that have done just that, and assess what this growing trend could mean for both individual artists and the UK’s arts ecology.
With less than three months to go to the Scottish independence referendum, what does Creative Scotland’s recently published Annual Plan 2014-15 say about the country’s approach to public investment in the arts? Johnny Gailey argues that it represents a significant divergence from the UK narrative of funding cuts, economic benefits and philanthropy.
Stoke has one of England’s lowest levels of participation in the arts, something which Appetite, part of Arts Council England’s Creative People and Places programme, is aiming to improve with three years of events and performances. We report from the north Staffordshire city.
A continuous 24-hour event taking place this weekend in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall will celebrate the launch of new digital art platform The Space.
The recent AD:uk/NCVO conference, Public Services: The Value of Cultural Commissioning, asked important questions about public sector commissioning of artists and arts organisations. Chris Bailey reports from Doncaster and adds a few questions of his own.
A new collaborative research study from Warwick University and a-n will explore the impact of artist-led initiatives on cultural value.
For London-based artists, finding a secure, affordable, and long-term studio can be a struggle, with many existing spaces threatened by the relentless march of redevelopment and rising rents. Lou Boyd, Kitty Knowles and Emma Finamore of EastLondonLines.co.uk discuss the problem with artists and studio providers, and uncover how artists in east London are rising to the challenge – and finding new solutions.
a-n/AIR’s Paying Artists campaign launches today with its own dedicated website at www.payingartists.org.uk
Three more museums and galleries will create “long term visible homes for the Collection” and develop supporting digital activity to maximise its reach.
Eight international projects are in the running for the £30,000 award to create a future-facing artwork for Bristol and beyond.
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