The shortlist for this year’s Jerwood Sculpture Prize, worth £25,000 as a commission, reflects the independence of mind of artists who have graduated from art school within the last fifteen years. In keeping with the spirit of the competition, the […]
Simon Webb talks to artists from across the UK about drawing and its place within their practice
Lars Bang Larsen’s discussion of visual art extends beyond new sites and contexts to ask questions of how art meets the idealogical spaces of politics and mass media – and how behaviour has become aesthetic.
From his favourite café on the busy ‘Cally’ Road, London, Richard Wentworth takes Stéphanie Delcroix safely on his journey to the other side of the street.
Now in its third year, Art At The Centre enlists artists to work within city-centre developments, Rosemary Shirley investigates.
Since 29 January, London’s Chisenhale Gallery has been transformed into a fully functioning employment agency, one that caters only for spare time positions. Ella Gibbs’ project is a new commission for Chisenhale and is based on a standard job centre, […]
SSW (Scottish Sculpture Workshop) is an organisation that has always focused on artists and artistic processes. Located in rural north east Scotland it offers accommodation as well as workspace and has often been used by artists to pursue a period […]
UK photographer Simon Norfolk is amongst the four finalists for this year’s Citibank Photography Prize. Jitka Hanzlova (Czech Republic/Germany), Bertien van Manen (Netherlands) and Juergen Teller (Germany/UK) were also selected from eighty nominations by Frits Gierstberg, (Netherlands Photo Institute), Paul […]
Anecdotal Cardiff is an artist-initiated project produced in collaboration with Artworks Wales under the Good Ideas residency scheme. The project brief invited artists to construct and set-up their own residency with a host organisation before approaching Artworks Wales for up […]
In 1999 after living in London for twelve years my family and I moved to Portsmouth.
Paul Edwards describes how residencies provide him with the opportunity to concentrate wholly on his practice.
An artists’ gathering will take place on 29/30 March in Manchester as part of a move by [a-n] THE ARTISTS INFORMATION COMPANY’s to support and enhance the networking of artists’ networks. This has been informed by recent surveys that have […]
Stare is an interactive live art piece that seeks to redefine the rules of engagement between artist and audience. Concerned with the passive role of the art object, John Rogers attempts to reverse the balance by making unbroken eye contact […]
Becky Shaw describes how she negotiated the difference between the expectations of her work and the reality of her practice when she received a prestigious international art prize.
Lucy Harrison gives an account of a collaborative project in Tallinn, Estonia.
Carolyn Black’s first time working away from her home and studio was a UNESCO funded residency in Java, Indonesia.
Art Works in Mental Health was developed in 2002 to increase understanding of the role of art and artistic expression in the lives of people who are affected by mental illness through showcases of their work. The project culminated in […]
Annie Cattrell is concerned with the hidden structures and systems of life. Her work evolves by isolating and fragmenting these systems in three dimensions, allowing the viewer to access the physical boundaries between the interior world of the body-mind and […]
Photography, animation and video feature in an exhibition by emerging artists at London’s Pump House Gallery until 9 March. Recent Goldsmiths graduate Finnish artist Axel Antas seems to create something out of almost nothing. Dust, condensation, clouds and snow have […]
Illustrating the approach she brings to her new role at [a-n], Gillian Nicol highlights some of the challenges and opportunities for artists and their practice today, looking broadly at education and employment, status and lifestyle and the impact of widening access to technology.
Heralded as the north of England’s answer to the Turner Prize, the Comme ça Art Prize North aims to raise the profile of artists living and working beyond London. Worth £10,000 (against the Turner Prize of £20,000), the prize will […]
A new commission from Julian Opie has launched redevelopment of the West Wing at Barts as a national Breast Care Centre of Excellence. Architects Greenhill Jenner’s proposal will create a contemporary, state-of-the-art medical facility with strong ‘patient appeal’ whilst celebrating […]
Located in a ‘cultural industries’ area ourselves for the past three years, we can confirm that the advantages – creative networking and exchange, vibrant working environment, immediate access to like-minded cultural specialists, mutual support in development, etc – are there […]
The UK/German company Uninvited Guests has almost completed its tour with Offline, a unique brand of performance and multimedia work combining hi- and low-tech, the visceral and the virtual. Material for Offline was gathered by wandering the web as electronic […]
Millais Gallery, Southampton
10 January – 1 February
