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Compass Live Art invites residency proposals from artists working in any medium whose practice is based in public engagement
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‘Under the Shadow of the Crane’. Rochester Riverside, Rochester, Kent
Public Art & interpretation project
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Exhibition
Bus Stop, Bus Stop…are you ready…to do the Bus Stop
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Now showing
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Venue:
Coventry Station new transport interchange -
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February 08, 2022 -
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July 31, 2024 -
Location:
East Midlands
Event
‘I dreamt of Coventry and thought of you’.
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Venue:
Coventry Station -
From:
November 03, 2021 -
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November 10, 2021 -
Location:
East Midlands
Blog Post
A new old direction?
Being asked to send a list of available works to Uppsala city’s public art department has reminded me that I need to re-think how I make things. Looking at my work I see that it functions as temporary installation – […]
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Exhibition
Gillingham Pow
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Gillingham High St -
From:
August 31, 2021 -
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October 31, 2021 -
Location:
South East England
Conversation
Advice on new business to help artists
Hello As well as doing my own artwork I am starting to provide some design services to help other artists to work in the public realm. I have spent 20 years working for the artist Walter Jack on large, complex, […]
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Arts organiser
Artist LUAP brings good vibrations to Notting Hill
The latest in the series of vibrant public art installations overtaking Kensington + Chelsea’s empty retail spaces has been unveiled today. The next of the High Street Windows is presented by London-based artist LUAP, who takes over the All Saints storefront in Notting Hill.
Blog Post
Coventry’s Monsters
I want to talk to talk about an art trial that was in Coventry during October had term 2020, Coventry Monsters. Throughout the city where eight massive, inflatable monsters in bright colours and bold designs perched up high on buildings for the public […]
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Exhibition
PAUSE II
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Archive
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Venue:
Brighton -
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March 08, 2021 -
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April 08, 2021 -
Location:
South East England
Blog Post
Mellandagarna: the between days
Suddenly things are a lot calmer. Catching up on unread emails from Thursday evening and Friday I learn that my show in Uppsala is postponed. It should have opened on 16 January but Swedish regulations regarding covid-19 restrictions were strengthened […]
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Artist
Thamesmead Canal Mural Programme
Local Artist helps bring colour to Thamesmead’s Canals
Blog Post
Workplace – Taking Stock : Loughborough
‘Workplace’ Taking Stock : Loughborough Paul Conneally 31st October 2020 Taking Stock is a series of works linked to and emerging from artist photographer Christopher Mear’s walk to work as a retail operative. Here I transpose his walk directions from […]
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Arts organiser
Kensington + Chelsea Art Week
Public Art throughout the Royal Borough of Kensington + Chelsea. Free and open to all.
Blog Post
The opening of Involuntary México in Metro Hidalgo Station, México City, CDMX
The opening of Millree Hughes’ and I’s show ‘Involuntary México’ with and by the visionary Méxican artist curator, Aldo Flores of Salon Des Aztecas, opened on Saturday. It sees the Metro Hidalgo Station being transformed into one of the biggest […]
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News story
Members’ Events: good and bad pennies, non-binary workshops, jewellery from illegal waste
This week’s selection includes exhibitions in London, Bedford, Birmingham and Pontypridd, all taken from a-n’s Events section featuring shows and events posted by a-n members.
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Now Showing #281: The week’s top exhibitions
A selection of the week’s best shows, including: ‘pick pocket’ public art at The Ryder Projects, London; Clementine Drake’s carved plaster at Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh; and hallucinogenic paintings by Andreas Rüthi at Swansea’s Glynn Vivian Art Gallery.
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Artist
Creative Practice as a means of Problem Solving
I was recently asked to give a talk about starting out an art practice in Dumfries and Galloway, to a group of young artists – blueprint100 at the Stove. I’ve learned to avoid these experiences as I am usually far […]
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News story
Armistice Day: centenary of first world war to be marked by creative responses across UK
Commissions from the 14-18 NOW programme include Danny Boyle’s portraits of soldiers created on beaches and Rachel Whiteread’s Nissen Hut at Dalby Forest in North Yorkshire, while other shows across the UK range from frontline images by nurses and women ambulance drivers, to contemporary artists’ responses to war and the machinery that surrounds it.
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William Morris’ country home to be saved after £4.3 million National Lottery grant; New York City allocates largest ever cultural budget
Other News In Brief: Ireland’s EVA International announces theme and guest curator for its 39th edition; Arts Council England awards £5m to Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 plus announces latest small capital grants; fluorescent Ugo Rondine public sculpture unveiled in Liverpool.
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First permanent public sculpture in the UK by Rachel Whiteread revealed to mark centenary of Forestry Commission
The concrete structure located in Dalby Forest in Yorkshire is based on the steel structures used to house labourers who were working to replenish the country’s timber reserves following the first world war.
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Talk
Paddington Central Design Route Artist Talk – Liz West
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Archive
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Venue:
4 Kingdom Street -
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September 18, 2018 at 06:00 PM -
Location:
London
Blog Post
Extracts from the project diary #4 – HE(ART) Attack!
So it falls to me to sift though the footage and see what shape it suggests. I work through my usual method, which is to cherry pick all the material I feel might be useful. I make long timelines of […]
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News story
Members’ events: experiments in metal, perspectives on witchcraft, and an unusual estate agent
This week’s selection from a-n’s busy Events section, featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n members, includes selections from Glasgow, Grimsby, London, Ruthin and Southampton.
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News story
In Brief: Artist seeks buyer for film that can only be viewed once purchased; cleaners protest at Tate’s Picasso exhibition
News briefing with national and international stories, including: Chris Dercon and Volksbühne theatre part ways following protests; BP Portrait Award 2018 announces shortlisted artists; IXIA seeks views from public art sector.