Calendar & Events

The degree shows are the perfect place to discover fabulous original art by talented emerging artists and though not widely attended they are open to the general public. The degree shows are a culmination of art students work over the course of their degrees and as the artists are right at the start of their […]

The world’s largest philosophy and music festival returns to Hay-on-Wye – How The Light Gets In  runs from 26th May – June 5th 2016.  Bringing together 700 carefully curated events that will make you think, talk, dance and play in the beautiful setting of Hay.. Nobel Prize-winners and Mercury Prize-nominees alike gather in one place for a week of […]

Manchester School of Art, MA Show 2015 Is currently running – 1st – 9th October  

Some MA Art shows we’ll be visiting this month – WIMBLEDON COLLEGE OF ARTS, Postgraduate Summer Show 2015 3rd – 10th September, Saturday 11.00 – 17.00, Sunday CLOSED, Monday – Friday 10.00- 20.00 •Digital Theatre • Drawing • Theatre Design Wimbledon College of Arts, Merton hall Road, London, SW19 3QA ARTS UNIVERSITY BOURNEMOUTH – MA […]

The degree shows are the perfect place to discover fabulous original art by talented emerging artists and though not widely attended they are open to the general public. The degree shows are a culmination of art students work over the course of their degrees and as the artists are right at the start of their […]

This past week I’ve been in Scotland. I always enjoy visiting the Scottish shows where the quality of the graduating artists is very high. The Edinburgh MFA was a small show – the MFA is slightly different to the MA and this year, there was some excellent work on show – though much of it design based (which we […]

Read Brian Dillon’s fantastic review of the Tacita Dean exhibition on at The Common Guild in Glasgow.  An example of why good criticism matters. Discussing contemporary artists (like Sam Taylor-Wood) updating the traditional nature morte, Dillon shows how a good critic’s ability to make fine distinctions between only nominally similar endeavours, allows us to see […]

Karen Rosenberg of the NY Times made some good observations about artist Damian Ortega back in October: How Things Work (or Sometimes Don’t) – “The humor in Mr. Ortega’s art can also be traced to his first career, as a political cartoonist for Mexican magazines and newspapers. It’s both a strength and a weakness: he […]

Until 23 Jan 2011 Adrian Searle lyrically reviewed the exhibition in The Guardian, and detailed Parreno’s negotiation of the reception of his work, and his achievement of a “magical synchronicity”. Searle writes that  “The whole exhibition is a kind of journey the audience has to follow. The experience feels communal, and I think this, too, […]