| THE ILLUSTRATORS | THE BRITISH ART OF ILLUSTRATION 1870-2010
Chris Beetles has championed the innovative world of illustration for the last thirty-five years, producing outstanding annual exhibitions and museum quality catalogues which have stimulated this formerly overlooked area of collectable art.
This extraordinary exhibition covers the remarkable history of British illustration, from the witty sketchbook observations of Charles Doyle,... |
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| Ken Howard | An Artist s Odyssey
Renowned for his paintings of his cluttered studios in London and Cornwall, his sparkling views of Venice and busy Cornish beaches, Ken Howard’s work is ‘inspired by light’. As a young artist Howard first studied at the Hornsey School of Art and, following a period of National Service, he continued his studies at the Royal College of Art in London and in 1973 he was appointed... |
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| Richard W Boardman | Sculptures
Richard W. Boardman attended Colchester School of Art and Central School of Art, London. At an early age he was exposed to the rich use of animal imagery in Russian folk stories. In his own work he has continued the development and symbolic use of animal images such as the bird, the fox and the Egyptian inspired Sphinx interpreting each form with his own highly developed sense of... |
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| Into the Gravy - The Cooperative Impulse
A talk on collaborative practices and professional development in contemporary art
curated by Gabriella Arrigoni
Vane
Tuesday 26 October 2010 6.30pm / performance 8pm
Participants: Tim Brennan (artist and lecturer, Sunderland University), David Butler (Coordinator of LifeWorkArt – Newcastle University, and Co-Director of Intersections), Chris Dorsett (artist and Reader in Art... |
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| Render 10
Culture Lab, Newcastle University announces RENDER 10; an exhibition featuring creative digital media works from the Culture Lab research community.
RENDER 10 presents the forwardlooking scenarios of contemporary audiovisual practitioners from the Digital Media Masters of Research course, as well as members of the Culture Lab research community. Focusing on live media, performance,... |
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| Johan Grimonprez
Belgian artist Johan Grimonprez was propelled to international prominence when his highly acclaimed one-hour video Dial H-I-S-T-0-R-Y, a smart, visually complex and utterly compelling cultural history of aeroplane hijackings, was first shown at Documenta X in 1997. In 2008, a first version of his new film, Double Take, took the Basel Art Fair by storm. Like Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, Double... |
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| Yane Calovski at Contemporary Art Society, London
Over one hundred years the Contemporary Art Society has gifted more than 8,000 works of art to public collections in this country. For 100 years, the Society has acted as a catalytic agent in the contemporary visual arts ecology of this country, developing audiences, artists, curators, collectors and collections alike. Thanks to the close working partnership with the Society's... |
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| Sophisticated Boom Boom (in b&w)
Domo Baal is presenting 'Sophisticated Boom Boom (in b&w)' an exhibition by Ailbhe Nà Bhriain, Peter Linde Busk, Stephen Dunne, Lothar Götz, Heide Hinrichs, Steve Johnson, Sharon Kivland, Ansel Krut, Jeffrey TY Lee, Siân Pile, Felicity Powell, Mark Prince, Lizi Sanchez, Shaan Syed and Mhairi Vari.
To those concerned with beauty and truth, the world can seem an ugly place.... |
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| Chris Ofili
'Hip, cool and wildly inventive' - The Guardian
'You can’t fail to be entertained' - The Times
'Modern Master of radiant colour' - Daily Telegraph
Chris Ofili’s intensely coloured and intricately ornamented paintings are on show at Tate Britain in a major survey of the artist’s career that brings together over 45 paintings, as well as pencil drawings and... |
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| Michael Victor Jackson, Ben Pritchard | Paintings
Wiebke Morgan is presenting stunning and contrasting paintings by Ben Pritchard, co-inciding with his inclusion in the Jerwood Space´s survey of contemporary painting, and Michael Victor Jackson, the first chance to see his work in the UK for three years.
The show premieres a selection of works from Jackson´s recent series of paintings of his parents´ front room. While... |
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| The Long Loch: How Do We Go On From Here?
The Long Loch: How Do We Go On From Here? is a discursive exhibition project featuring work by Kate Davis and Faith Wilding, commissioned by CCA for Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2010.
The project explores convergences within the artists' separate practices that expand, illuminate and learn from feminist concerns and legacies in ways relevant and pertinent to 'a... |
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| André Stitt | Substance: Residue, Drawings & Partial Objects 1976 - 2008
Substance: a major solo exhibition by André Stitt launches between 6pm and 8pm on Friday 29th January 2010. Stitt is one of Northern Ireland's most important contemporary art exports. He is currently based in Cardiff but the themes that inform his practice are rooted in his formative years in Belfast. His work is highly charged, generally hard hitting and may not be suitable for all... |
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| Rose Wylie | Film Notes
UNION is announcing “Film Notesâ€, Rose Wylie’s second solo exhibition at the gallery.
Applying a defiantly unsophisticated aesthetic, Wylie’s large two-canvas paintings begin as drawings of frames recollected from films. Essentially they are remembered images, their ‘accuracy’ is a matter of truth to their impact on a once-viewing.... |
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| Icons of a Modern Age - Bartha Contemporary s Anniversary exhibition
Bartha Contemporary is presenting the exhibition 'Icons of a Modern Age' marking the gallery's tenth anniversary.
The installation feature's works by four gallery artists, Henrik Eiben (Ger. b. 1975), Clay Ketter (Amer. / Swed. b. 1961), Mike Meiré (Ger. b. 1964) and Beat Zoderer (Swiss b. 1955). The private view will take place on Saturday January 23rd from 3 to 5 PM.
Henrik... |
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| James Lee Byars at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
"Like a sculptural sigh of wonderment, the piece is typical Byars: touching, vulnerable and ethereal."Robert Clark, The Guardian
Yorkshire Sculpture Park launches St Bartholomew's Chapel as a unique exhibition space with The Angel, a spellbinding work by the late American artist James Lee Byars (1932-1997). Built in 1744, YSP is opening the chapel to the public for the first time... |
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