When the inaugural Asia Triennial Manchester launched in 2008, global interest in Asian art had hit unprecedented levels. An increasing awareness of the exciting work being made across the vast […]

Class Of 2014: The North-West’s Top Emerging Artists Unveiled As the degree show season descends, Jack Welsh asks universities across the North-West to nominate their best visual art graduates… For […]

Two new exhibitions and a series of artist residencies feature in the second phase of The Tetley’s relaunch: A New Reality Part 2. Launching a major new contemporary arts space […]

Tate Britain Commission 2014: Phyllida Barlow The vast, neoclassical Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain aren’t traditionally associated with anarchic, sculptural chaos. Yet septuagenarian British sculptor Phyllida Barlow has managed to […]

On a mild Friday evening in mid-October, a week or so before the clocks went back, the third Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival (WCAF) launched. For the majority of the evening, […]

Jack Welsh speaks to Mark Boulos about his new video installation, Echo, and the other works on display as part of his current solo show at FACT. Jack Welsh: Your documentary films critically engage […]

Colour, as Josef Albers astutely observed, ‘deceives continually.’[i] As I write this text on a laborious train journey, the seat before me, I would argue, is a faded medium vermillion red, in […]

Jack Welsh talks to Glasgow based sculptor James McLardy about his current solo exhibition White Teeth in the Planetarium at The Royal Standard, Liverpool. Jack Welsh: What inspired the title of your exhibition at The Royal […]

If you trawl through the abundance of press releases, organisational remits and artistic opportunities available online, you will likely notice a recurring word. The core meanings of this simple noun […]