19 March – 17 April 2010 The Royal Watercolour Society [RWS] at Bankside Gallery is the premier centre for excellence for the art of watercolour. Established in 1804, the Society aims to encourage innovation in, and raise the profile of, this quintessentially traditional English medium. 2010’s Spring Exhibition is the latest chance to view and purchase [...]
Friday, February 5, 2010 by Michael Lovelock
The winner of the artrepublic street art competition is Brighton based artist Grant DeJonge (Attached is the winning image entitled ‘Lost’, plus winner Grant Dejonge with wife Jacquie and street artist Inkie) Preparations have begun to transform a 2 storey-wall into an original work of art. The wall kindly donated by myhotels has been prepped, and [...]
Thursday, February 4, 2010 by Michael Lovelock
EXHIBITION EVENT: Friday 12 February 2010, 6.30pm-9.00pm Charlie Murphy will present a short artist talk about The Anatomy of Desire, followed by a live performance of the commissioned score by Jorge Queijo. A book launch and reception will be held in the Gallery from 8.00pm. FREE COACH FROM BOURNEMOUTH TRAIN STATION TO EVENT A coach will run from [...]
Thursday, February 4, 2010 by Michael Lovelock
The Royal Watercolour Society Open Competition [formerly known as the 21st Century Watercolour Competition] is an open painting competition organised by the Royal Watercolour Society. An exhibition of successful submissions will be held at Bankside Gallery, London, next to Tate Modern, from 19th February -11th March. Admission is free, all the paintings will be in [...]
Posted on Mon, Feb 8, 2010 by Michael Lovelock
Free to Air Commissioning Opportunity
This is an opportunity for a London-based artist to produce a major new film, video or digital media work to be commissioned and produced in collaboration with Film and Video Umbrella during 2010. The work will be staged at two London venues during the Autumn, alongside a screening programme and other [...]
Posted on Mon, Feb 8, 2010 by Michael Lovelock
17th April to 30th August 2010
Captain Cook Birthplace Museum, Middlesbrough
17th April 2010 marks the opening of an exhibition of new paintings by celebrated artist Mackenzie Thorpe to commemorate 240 years since the explorer Captain James Cook first landed in Australia. Thorpe is back in the UK after a series of exhibitions in Japan, Australia, [...]
Posted on Fri, Feb 5, 2010 by Michael Lovelock
Tees Valley Arts is celebrating after being awarded a grant of £75,000 over three years to support its work as an arts development agency.
Rowena Sommerville, Director of Tees Valley Arts commented: “we are very grateful for the continued support of the Northern Rock Foundation as well as our other regular funders Arts Council England, the [...]
Posted on Fri, Feb 5, 2010 by Michael Lovelock
Script is delighted to announce a programme of screenwriting activity over the next few months. The programme is funded by Screen WM and delivered in partnership with Red Room Films, Animation Forum West Midlands and Hello Digital.
The programme is aimed at writers who would like to develop their skills and learn the tools of the [...]
Posted on Fri, Feb 5, 2010 by Michael Lovelock
The Directors of Marlborough Fine Art are delighted to announce their forthcoming exhibition of new work by Thérèse Oulton which opens on Wednesday 10th February 2010 and runs through to 13th March.
Those who are familiar with Thérèse’s work will be initially surprised by the apparent change of direction that her work has taken. In place [...]
Posted on Thu, Feb 4, 2010 by Michael Lovelock
A contemporary approach to the Tullie House porcelain collection
Tullie House Art Gallery: 6 March – 9 May 2010
The Robert Hardy Williamson collection comprises over eight-hundred pieces of predominately 18th and early 19th century English porcelain from key English porcelain factories. The owner of a successful ship-building business at Harrington in West Cumbria, Williamson amassed this [...]
Posted on Thu, Feb 4, 2010 by Michael Lovelock
Wellcome Collection is thrilled to announce the presentation of its first major performance arts production. Pressure Drop, starring the legendary singer-songwriter Billy Bragg and his band, is the latest play from On Theatre and will be taking place in Wellcome Collection’s largest gallery space. This passionate drama from acclaimed writer and theatre director Mick Gordon, [...]
Posted on Wed, Feb 3, 2010 by Michael Lovelock
17 March – 23 April 2010
An exhibition of six new works by Paul Hodgson and Publication of Cold Eye Hodgson’s response to poems by Dan Burt
Hodgson’s new works are concerned with exploring different kinds of uncertainty as a key to pictorial narrative; ‘keys to narrative rather than narrative itself’ he says. In the catalogue text [...]
Posted on Wed, Feb 3, 2010 by Michael Lovelock
The Various Lives of Thought: Fictional Machines, Thought Droppings and Mental Maps
Currently running at Sarah Mysercough Fine Art until 22 February 2010, this installation comprises the relics of an expedition in search of a thought inside the head.
The black box of the mind has been opened by the invention of non-invasive brain-imaging technologies that have [...]
Posted on Wed, Feb 3, 2010 by Michael Lovelock
Film and Video Umbrella present Simon Pope – Memory Marathon
Dray Walk Gallery, Truman Brewery, London
4-14 March 2010
Stratford East Picturehouse, Greenwich Picturehouse and Rio Cinema
6–7 March 2010
Beijing 2008, Athens 2004, Sydney 2000, Berlin 1936, Mexico 1968, London 1948, Barcelona 1992, Calgary 1988, Moscow 1980, Munich 1972…
Memory Marathon is artist Simon Pope’s extraordinary 80-minute film bringing together [...]
Monday, February 8, 2010 by Michael Lovelock
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