In the autumn, Boris Johnson London’s Mayor, set out plans to enhance Londoners’ experience of arts and culture in the capital saying that his job is not to back heritage over modernism [but] to encourage all manner of artistic expression.
The British Ceramics Biennial (BCB), launched on 1 December 2008 and directed by A FINE LINE partners Barney Hare Duke and Jeremy Theophilus, is a major initiative to create a programme of events and activities and a showcase Biennial event in Stoke-on-Trent to take place in October/November of 2009, 2011 and 2013.
New commissions by artists Richard Higlett and Jennie Savage will be presented by Locws International to coincide with the Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts.
The October art fair frenzy kicks off with Art London 2-6 October at Royal Hospital Chelsea, celebrating its tenth anniversary by presenting eighty galleries, 1,000 artists and five continents.
Imagine attending a concert but instead of sitting or standing, you walk.
Animate Projects is looking for ambitious, original and thought-provoking proposals that develop the possibilities of animation: films that explore ideas of what animation is, with new forms and processes, compelling narratives, and challenging content.
Students from universities and art colleges across the UK will be travelling to the capital to showcase their work over the summer.
News of John Newling’s residency and The Art House opening.
A look at the Glasgow international festival, Asian art triennial and Bucharest Biennale 3.
A look at the winners of recent competitions and prizes.
An overview of funding news for England, Wales and Scotland.
News of gallery developments, expansions and relocations.
‘Beacon’ is a recurring feature within the Lincolnshire expanse, with 2007 seeing the fourth annual collection of sited works in the county’s rural landscape and towns.
Leeds-based artists Lucy Gibson and Yvonne Carmichael are curating a new gallery space in Leeds.
30 Years of Side Gallery
Until 10 November
Nottingham-based Reactor’s newly-commissioned, site-specific project, The Tetra Phase set in Manchester’s The Old Fire Station beside Piccadilly Station employs CCTV to offer a unique perspective. Set in this disused historic building – known only as The Station – it presents […]
Initiated by Glenn Holman and Andy Parsons in 2003, the aim of Floating world is to identify ways in which artists can disseminate their ideas widely using the medium of artists’ books.
Artists and artists’ support agencies have benefited from recent Arts Council England funding rounds.
Presented annually at Frieze Art Fair, the curatorial programme consists of site-specific interventions and installations, performance, debate and conversation through Frieze Commissions, Frieze Talks and The Cartier Award.
Public art is the opportunity for an artist to affect a locality, and to engage and challenge its community.
A 1991 intercity rail map re-presented to look like a tree; a sculpture that changes position with the seasons and an exhausted Mars slumped against the foliage are three of the works short-listed for the 2007 Jerwood Sculpture Prize.
The British Council plans to redeploy a third of the currently money spent in Europe to Muslim countries in the Middle East and Central Asia.
Zoë Walker and Neil Bromwich’s Limbo-Land is a multi-media installation focused around the space of oblivion, confinement, or transition.
A £3m investment to Scottish studio development organisation Wasps is designed to make them self-supporting in five years, and no longer dependent on arts revenue funding. A new partnership with the Scottish Arts Council will transform Wasps into one of […]
A merger between Cywaith Cymru/Artworks Wales and CBAT The Arts & Regeneration Agency, Wales in October has created the largest public art company in the UK.
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