By OCA student Alice Vale Have you heard about Michael Landy’s Art Bin? It’s at the South London Gallery until 14 March and anyone can take along a work they wish to be shot of and dump it in a 600 square metre skip. The press might be latching on to this happening as...
The Real Van Gogh, The Artist and His Letters. This Royal Academy exhibition is on until 18 April so there is plenty of time to get there. Painfully crowded though it is, it’s highly recommended. Despite my cynicism that there could be little new to learn about one of the best painters that ever...
At the risk of sounding Yorkshire-centric, I highly recommend a visit to two exhibitions – one called “Code: Craft”, a display of stunning visual digital art at the Millennium Galleries in Sheffield, and the other, an exhibition of the equally stunning sculpture and drawings of Peter Randall Page at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. On...
From the Guardian: the earnings may not be great for most creatives, but the diversity of other roles artists are forced to take on to make ends meet is entertaining and, according to those interviewed, can feed creativity. See here …
The first known drawings known are cave paintings, the most famous of which are those in Lascaux, France. Such early examples of mark making were clearly designed to communicate a message, but the aesthetic quality of these communications was transparently demonstrated in the earliest of marks, not just in cave paintings, but also in...
Sheila is the Chief Exec of Axis Web, the repository for contemporary artists in the UK. Sheila talks eloquently about art of all eras, so I jumped at the chance to go and hear her talk about contemporary art in Sheffield last week. Her definition of ‘contemporary art’ is ‘made within the last 10...
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