History Is Now: 7 Artists Take On Britain Hayward Gallery, London / Tue 10 Feb 2015–Sun 26 Apr 2015 With campaigning for the 2015 General Election vigorously under way, three artists – […]

I’m delighted to say that I’ve been successful in securing a place on Contemporary Visual Arts Network North West’s critical writing programme. Having attended the first workshop two weeks ago, I’m […]

Not: The Art of Resistance, Holden Gallery, Manchester (19 January – 27 February 2015)  In Herman Melville’s novella Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853), the narrator recounts the story of Bartleby, a […]

You Would Cry Too If It Happened to You: Bob and Roberta Smith’s Art Party When Bob and Roberta Smith wrote his public letter of protest against the marginalisation of […]

I have new drawing work in the excellent Drawing Paper, produced by Mike Carney and Jon Barraclough: After almost 2 years of Tumblr radio silence we are pleased to announce […]

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, […]