Ellie Woods sees an abandoned Scottish town through the eyes of an amnesiac at FACT’s current, discordant exhibition… Shona Illingworth wants us to experience the edge of the world. At least that’s what it feels like. Edging down...
Think you could make tiny artworks to sell from special vending machines? Oriel Wrecsam is looking for artists across the UK to do just that… Lucozade, jelly beans, bouncy balls, condoms… We’ve all...
Hannah Elizabeth Allan finds an uncanny domestic space at The International 3 gallery: where the familiar is transformed into the sinister… Overwhelming the small, white-walled gallery of International 3, a pair of large-scale screens display a...
It is obvious from the passion displayed by its practitioners that live art is here to stay. If we can give artists in the North-West more moral and financial support, says Garry Cook,...
Would you pay $25,000 to do an internship at a top entertainment company? No, neither would Hannah McHaffie; here she looks at graduate expectations and asks: should it be an honour to work in the arts in...
Recreating Hitchcock’s Psycho with paper and light, and changing the way we see nude statues forever: Deb Laing meets resident artist Kristin McGuire at the Williamson Gallery and Museum… Multi-award winning husband and...
As Walter & Zoniel unveil their new manifesto, we take a look at how artist declarations have been inventing — and destroying — art movements since the 1900s… ‘The artists manifesto’, noted Alex Danchev, author...
What would a manifesto for 2015 look like? According to Walter & Zoniel, it should encourage confidence in artists, sensory experiences in the visitor, and acknowledge the tension between theory and practice… We last saw London-based...
Ahead of the exhibitions’ closing weekend, Alice Benbow looks again at what Ligon and Pollock — two American artists whose practices are separated by almost 40 years — have to say about the...