AN ANDOVER arts charity has secured a further three years of funding from Arts Council England. Chapel Art Studios (CAS) will continue to be supported by Arts Council England and will remain part of its national portfolio. Established in 2009, CAS was first made a National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) in 2018. The charity applied for and was granted a renewal of the funding it has received ...
For centuries in Western art, depictions of the artist’s studio—by artists from Courbet to Matisse to Wolfgang Tillmans—have shown it largely as a masculine environment. But as epitomized in such paintings as Night Studio (2009) by Nicole Eisenman and The Artist in Her Studio (1994) by Paula Rego, it has long been both a testing ground and a sanctuary for women artists as well. ...
Patty MacHalec, a longtime arts advocate in Wayzata, is forging her own place in the art world as a painter.She’ll be showing her oils, acrylics and pastels at Necce’s Ristorante during Art Leap 2022, an open studio touring event. Patty MacHalecContributed/Patty MacHalec This year’s Art Leap offers 24 locations in Hubbard and Becker counties, highlighting more than 90 local and regional artists. Sites will ...
AN ART group that started in lockdown will be proudly showcasing its work as part of a county-wide initiative this summer. Artists, venues and galleries will be opening their doors to the public for Hampshire Open Studios from August 20 to 29. Winchester art group Strange Times Quest will be taking part, welcoming the public to St Mary’s Chapel Hall over the August bank ...
A young artist has had her painting printed on a set of 20 postcards after she won a competition put on by a local artists' collective.Orianna Stretton, a seven-year-old student of Woolhampton Primary School, won the Open Studios’ under-18s competition after painting a re-creation of her favourite artwork at this year’s INSIGHT exhibition.Orianna’s chose to paint a version of Paul Forsey’s ‘Combe Gibbet’, a ...
Image: Sucker Punch ProductionsYou may not have heard, but Horizon Forbidden West is out now on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. The highly anticipated sequel to 2017's Horizon Zero Dawn, Guerrilla Games has been working on this ambitious open world title for years — and now the developer's ready to celebrate the game's release alongside its fellow PlayStation Studios. As has become customary amongst ...
Exhibition of the weekSurrealism Beyond BordersAn ambitious attempt to see surrealism not just as something that happened in Paris, Belgium and Spain but as a global movement with branches from Egypt to Mexico. Tate Modern, London, 24 February to 29 August.Also showingA Century of the Artist’s Studio: 1920-2020How artists create their own caves of creativity, from Picasso to Walead Beshty and Kerry James Marshall. ...
Britain’s empty high street shops and derelict department stores should be transformed into artists’ studios and galleries to bring life back to city centres, according to the outgoing director of one of the country’s leading art spaces.With artists being pushed out of city centres by soaring rents and living costs, galleries under financial pressure and high streets struggling, Iwona Blazwick, who has led Whitechapel ...
Art, art studios, inspiring gardens and creative homes galore will be on display in La Jolla and Pacific Beach during the San Diego Coastal Art Studios Tour on Saturday, Sept. 18. The free one-day, self-guided tour will feature more than 30 artists in six locations — three each in La Jolla and PB.Artists Dot Renshaw, Cherry Sweig and Leah Higgins have been working on ...
Cooling a studio space is important for the artist and often for the artworks themselves. But if you occupy or share a lofty, sprawling place, cooling can be difficult and costly. A portable air-conditioning unit allows you to direct cool air to the area where you’re working, or, depending on the size of your space, the entire room. Most quality picks on the market ...
