Application deadline: 20 June Sunny Art Centre is accepting submissions for 2017, for its international art competition – the Sunny Art Award. The competition is open for a variety of submissions which can range from two-dimensional works such as paintings, drawings and photographs, to three-dimensional sculptures, ceramics and jewellery. A total cash fund of £6,000 […]
Open Call | Barbican Concert Hall Wall Commission, London
Deadline: 4 January, 4pm Barbican are inviting artists, collectives and designers across all disciplines, including those working with digital technology and new media, to respond to the phrase: What’s going on here, then? The winning work will be installed from late January until May 2017 on the Concert Hall Wall. Thematically the work can touch […]
Open Call | Transgender, Gender and Psychoanalysis Exhibition, London
Deadline: 11 December, midnight The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis is holding a conference on the 11th and 12th of March 2017 on the theme of Transgender, Gender and Psychoanalysis. A series of fringe events will accompany the conference during the preceding week – including an exhibition in London SE1 to run from 5th – 12th […]
V22 London Launch Pilot Project – Studio Workspace Crèche Facilities
V22 is pleased to announce that it is developing workspace crèche facilities in its studio building in Dalston, London. This is a pilot project aimed to help parents who are also artists, creatives, freelancers and entrepreneurs, to continue their work whilst not giving up being hands-on parents. If successful V22 want to make it an […]
VAN November/December 2015: ‘Humour was the Key’ Alan Phelan Talks To Caroline McCarthy About Her Career
Career Development: HUMOUR WAS THE KEY ALAN PHELAN TALKS TO CAROLINE MCCARTHY ABOUT HER CAREER. Alan Phelan: You studied in NCAD but soon moved to London for a Masters at Goldsmiths. What made you remain in London? Caroline McCarthy: It wasn’t a conscious decision. Studying in London, I had made a lot of new friends […]
The Finnish Institute in London, Announces the Finnish Residency Artists, UK and Ireland
Four Spaces, Four Artists The Finnish Institute in London announce the Finnish residency artists for the UK and Ireland The Finnish Institute in London is delighted to announce artists Ville Haimala, Essi Kausalainen, Kimmo Modig and Hanna Husberg have been chosen for artist residencies in the UK and Ireland. The Institute organised the residency programme […]
VAN Critique March/April 2014: Jaki Irvine at Frith Street Gallery, London
Jaki Irvine ‘this thing echoes’ Frith Street Gallery, London 17 January – 1 March 2014 Golden Square, where Frith Street Gallery sits reservedly, is a be-statued lulling-patch just off the persistent traffic of London’s Regent Street. In what might be an homage to a visitor’s typical route to the gallery – traversing buzzing throngs of […]
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VAN September/October 2013: Critique Supplement | Pádraig Timoney at Raven Row, London
Pádraig Timoney ‘Fontwell Helix Feely’ Raven Row, London 27 – April – 23 June Eminent American literary critic Harold Bloom’s concept of the ‘anxiety of influence’ theorised that poets were perpetually in contention with their own precursors, wrestling with the rampant references that inevitably populate art forms burdened by long traditions. The idea’s unhappily […]
VAN March/April 2012: Pure Imagination
Artist Angie Duignan Explains How She Created Work for the ‘Imagination of Childhood’ Exhibition at the V&A Museum of Childhood in London, which ran from October 2011 to February 2012 ‘The Imagination of Children’ brings together nine visual artists who are fascinated by children’s ability to play and ‘make believe’; in particular, the ways in which […]
First results of our meetings during the Venice Biennale
On Thursday we will have our decisive meeting with ArtQuest about future collaborations and partnerships. “Artquest provides critical engagement and practical support to London’s visual artists and craftspeople, working with practitioners in London throughout their careers.” Following detailed discussions about partnering, VAI and Artquest are now investigating how to take the wealth of information contained […]
VAN May/June 2011: Ongoing and Roundabout
AILBHE NI BHRIAIN TELLS THE STORY-SO-FAR OF HER CAREER AS A PROFESSIONAL VISUAL ARTIST. I recall reading an article (somewhere) in which John Baldessari said (to someone) that approximately one percent of art school graduates go on making work after college – and of that percent only one percent make a living from their work. […]
VAN January/February 2011: Honouring Creativity & Craft
Anne Callanan talks to Deirdre Quail, acting Curator, FE McWilliam Studio and Gallery. Tucked away between Newry and Belfast, it can be easy to drive past the FE McWilliam Gallery without even being aware it is there. Though easily missed, once visited, it is never forgotten. As well as the striking architectural layout, the permanent […]
VAN July/August: Signs of Change
Adam Stoneman Considers why Ireland Needs Graffiti Art With a Message. The question of whether graffiti counts as art or vandalism – or both, still divides the opinion of the average person on the graffiti covered street. However, the Irish cultural establishment has been less equivocal in embracing this countercultural practice. These days it is […]
VAN09 – Play is Older than Culture by Justin McKeown
Justin McKeown discusses the concept of SPART and other Sport/Art hybrid practices.
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