Search Results for: commissioned by the Contemporary Visual Arts Network North West (CVAN NW)

Total posts found for "commissioned by the Contemporary Visual Arts Network North West (CVAN NW)" — 32
02/11/2015
(stills) - Brass Art, Shadow Worlds | Writers' Room : Freud's House, 2015 Courtesy the artist and The International 3.

“Frightening with its familiarity”: Shadow Worlds | Writer’s Rooms — Freud’s House Reviewed

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...

15/10/2015
Jackson Pollock, 1912-1956 Portrait and a Dream (detail) 1953 Oil and enamel on canvas Overall: 58 1/2 x 134 3/4 in.   Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Algur H. Meadows and the Meadows Foundation, Incorporated © Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots And Glenn Ligon: Encounters And Collisions — Reviewed

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...

08/10/2015
Lu Yang, Cancer Baby. Both Sides Now II – It Was the Best Of Times, It Was The Worst of Times?

Vive La Révolution! Both Sides Now II — Reviewed

Kat Houghton explores a vibrant collection of films that depict the people caught in the midst of political change; from the handover of Hong Kong to the Scottish Referendum…  This time last year, Chinese...

29/09/2015
Computer art slide, at Manchester School of Art’s historic Visual Resources Centre

What Is Art School For?

As questions about contemporary art education abound — from the Houses of Parliament to artists’ studios — Liz Mitchell asked key art school representatives across the UK what they thought. The response was an unexpectedly impassioned debate, centred...

24/09/2015
C-Art 2015, Cumbria, UK

Art In Extraordinary Cumbrian Places: C-Art 2015

Amy Thomas visits the festival unifying artists all over the Cumbrian countryside — to sell art, meet tourists and showcase an extraordinary landscape… For two weeks this September, Cumbria is opening its doors...

08/09/2015
Graeme Durant, Consequence Of Love (2015) - It Was a Dark and Stormy Night, Castlefield Gallery

LaunchPad: It Was A Dark And Stormy Night — Reviewed

Bizarre, chaotic and optimistic: Naomi Cull finds that banning the curator at Castlefield Gallery has a liberating and playful effect on the artists… What seems like a conventional group show — a selection of artists...

26/08/2015
Joanne Lee, Witches Knickers (2015), detail

A Green And Pleasant Land? Rural Reality Questioned At The Harris

How do we understand our relationship with our rural peripheries? Sue Flowers considers a mix of creative responses to the British countryside at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, and finds stereotype and complexity hung side-by-side… On...

28/07/2015
Charlotte, wife of Jack Cooper with infant 22 April 1923 © Estate of Fred Shaw, courtesy of Gypsy Lore Society Archive, University of Liverpool

Celebrating The Outsider: Helen Sear And Fred Shaw — Reviewed

A celebration of the outsider? At the Victoria Gallery & Museum, Ruth White finds two photographers, separated by more than 100 years, find common ground in their ostracised subject matter… Visit the Victoria Gallery...

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