This week’s selection includes abstract painting in London, a re-evaluation of Outsider art in Manchester, drawings from the Arts Council Collection in Lincoln, and ceramics in Glasgow.
With International Women’s Day 2016 on Tuesday 8 March, we highlight a selection of exhibitions and events by women taking place across the UK.
Artist Sonia Boué has produced a new video calling on Arts Council England to consider the problems facing neurodivergent artists when applying for funding.
Highlights for the week ahead selected from our busy Events section and featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n’s members.
Sculpture and installation artist to create new work for solo show at the 57th International Art Biennale.
The People’s Market in Wrexham town centre will be transformed into a new arts and cultural hub for Oriel Wrecsam gallery following major capital grants from the Arts Council of Wales, Wrexham Council and the Welsh government.
For the latest in her regular series for a-n News, Sarah Bodman introduces two works from a new collection of 13 artists’ books to be launched at PAGES: The Leeds International Artists’ Book Fair.
The Science Museum Group says it is to review recent feedback over plans to move a significant photography collection from the National Media Museum, Bradford, to the V&A in London, as the campaign site 38 Degrees puts out a further call for signatures to its petition to block the transfer.
The Italian artist and hardcore punk singer Nico Vascellari presents his large-scale, haunting audio-visual installation, Bus de la Lum, at Manchester’s Whitworth. Dany Louise asks him about the work’s meaning and his wider practice.
The Art UK website project aims to digitally archive every publicly-owned painting, drawing, sculpture and print held in UK collections.
Arts Council England funding will support three-year project to develop contemporary visual art produced in Sheffield.
This week’s selection includes a harrowing installation at the Whitworth in Manchester, influential abstraction in Sheffield, and a group exhibition of works about socialism across venues in Newcastle and Gateshead.
This week’s selection, chosen from listings posted by a-n members on the site’s Events section, includes exhibitions in Birmingham, Bury, Colchester and Shrewsbury.
London-based artist wins third edition of £5,000 prize, with additional awards also announced at ceremony in Walsall.
London-based artist to create new work in response to gallery’s neo-classical Duveen Galleries.
16th annual Pavilion to be designed by Copenhagen and New York-based Bjarke Ingels Group, with four architects also commissioned for the Summer Houses project.
Out There: Our Post-War Public Art focuses on the period 1945-85 including 1972’s City Sculpture Project, which saw artworks temporarily sited in eight cities across the UK. After attending an event featuring Sculpture Project artists Garth Evans and Liliane Lijn, a-n Writer Development Programme participant James Steventon considers the notion of ‘shelf life’ in public art.
The Contemporary British Painting Prize offers winner a solo exhibition at Swindon Museum and Art Gallery plus a £2,000 purchase prize for their work.
Juneau Projects’ new song responds to the history of a former timber yard and the redevelopment of the riverside area with a constructed pilgrimage for the audience.
Speaking at a Glasgow Film Festival event on producing artists’ moving image in Scotland, Turner Prize nominee Luke Fowler has called for the creation of a cinema dedicated to artists’ work and experimental film.
Central House in Aldgate – currently home to The Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design – has been sold to a property developer as part of the London Met’s relocation plans.
This week’s selection includes a statement on global culture’s impact on the individual in Penzance, photography and film in Edinburgh and sculpture in Wakefield.
The annual open exhibition at Nunnery Gallery in London will this year be curated by Kent-born painter Anj Smith.
Launching today, a-n is a lead partner in a comprehensive survey into how visual artists in England live and work, part of a new Arts Council England research project that will shape future support and initiatives for artists. Take part and share your views on the day-to-day realities of being a professional artist and the challenges and barriers you face.
Zurich theatre where movement was founded 100 years ago seeks $13.1m from benefactor to help preserve historic building.
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