HOME: A Public Art Project for Peckham
As a society we are less fixed on living in one place, Julia Vogl’s latest work HOME is a large scale public art work, audio and visual, that reflects Peckham’s residents’ ideas of why London is their home.
As a society we are less fixed on living in one place, Julia Vogl’s latest work HOME is a large scale public art work, audio and visual, that reflects Peckham’s residents’ ideas of why London is their home.
The Crafts Council touring exhibition entitled Block Party: Contemporary Craft Inspired by the Art of the Tailor is housed in the New Walk Museum and Art Gallery of Leicester, the third leg of its journey.
Now in its third year, LCA Award and Exhibition boasts one of the largest contemporary art prize funds in the country. This year’s shortlisted artists will compete for the £10,000 prize.
Collaborations between fashion houses and the art world are nothing new. Unlike some of the commercial tie-ins we witness today, everyone is a winner when these spheres work creatively together.
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People are always wishing, hoping for some sort of transformative experience from art. At Modern Art Oxford, walking up the stairs makes the visitor focus on the time and speed of the journey.
There is a lot of bitter chatter about public funded arts organisations at the moment. There’s the much contested ACE capital-funding programme, rumours of the…
Artists are more known, recognisable and part of the fabric of daily life than ever before. Art is no longer niche; it’s here, right in front of our faces.
Born into a Muslim family in Birmingham in 1978, London-based artist Idris Khan decided to stop practising Islam when he was fourteen years old.
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The first comprehensive exhibition to examine how UK artists and designers have produced acclaimed works, from post-war to the present day.
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Jes Benstock chats about his latest film, which charts 40 years of sculptor Andrew Logan’s eccentric and kitsch Alternative Miss World beauty Pageant.
Jerwood Drawing Prize has run since 1994, and is exhibited in the Jerwood Space. Later, it will tour to venues including Bay Art Gallery, Cardiff and the Burton Art Gallery & Museum, Bideford.
In autumn 2011, a major survey explored a 20 year period in Soviet art and architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Text by Matt Swain This display, which is a forerunner for the V&A’s forthcoming exhibition Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990, explores photographs that make reference…
Text by Lyndon Ashmore At first glance the exact shape of things to come suggested by the sculptures included in this exhibition can seem disparate…
Text by Angela Darby Literature has long been an essential driving force behind many contemporary visual artists’ practice. The exhibition Convergence at Golden Thread Gallery…
