Installation of paintings from 2020-2021 by artist Iain.H.Williams

Our annual Open Exhibition aims to be demonstrate the wide range of artwork being produced throughout Blackpool and the Fylde Coast today. In line with Grundy Art Gallery’s founding principles of showing the ‘art of the day’ and echoing Blackpool’s motto of ‘progress’, we have requested that artworks submitted must have been created within the last 12 months and that the artwork has never been shown at Grundy Art Gallery before. Bringing together works produced in a wide range of media, from painting, drawing, photography and sculpture, the annual Open Exhibition always provides viewers with an exciting and diverse viewing experience.

https://www.pointsofreturn.org/ This will be a physical international group exhibition, curated by artists David Cass & Gonzaga Gomez-Cortazar. It will share a selection of work currently on show on the A La Luz Points of Return website.  Points of Return will highlight some of the impacts that human actions have had on our planet and foster critical thinking about positive change. The title of the exhibition references the fact that we haven’t reached the dreaded “point of no return” – there are still opportunities for our civilisation to curb climate change and move toward a balanced and more sustainable and harmonious way of inhabiting Earth. Points of Return will bring to the surface the problematic relationship the human species has toward planet Earth and highlights how human activity, particularly since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, has induced climate breakdown. Yet, we firmly believe there are reasons for optimism. The projects exhibited will...

Part of The Lowry's EDIT series, Conversations Series III: Narratives is the culmination of a summer 2022 residency at Venture Arts. The resulting exhibition shows what happened when 12 artists, some with and some without learning disabilities, spent 20 weeks together exploring how their own personal heritage may be connected and influencing each other's own artistic style and process. A collaborative approach to making art has been at the core of the residency, with the artists having taken inspiration from the overwhelming style and character of the club in which the residency was run in Whalley Range, Manchester. There are also huge comedy, reggae and supper club influences of group idols such as Sid James, Sparrow Martin and Julie London. Expect a unique show of brand new art, music and TV specials, complete with it’s very own Beaver Bar. The image shows guests at The Julie Party, the exhibition closing event. Following some moving speeches from Venture Arts artists, guests...

I've been invited by 108 Fine Art in Harrogate to exhibit the work created in my aa2a artist residency. This is a joint exhibition with another artist Siobhan McLaughlin, who is a fine artist based in Edinburgh and who has recently completed an artist residency in St. Ives

Within the Second Year Fine Art Winter Showcase, I displayed a body of work which I had produced throughout the semester whilst exploring ceramics, lo-fi, and natural materials in an attempt to explore tactile engagement within artistic practice and specifically art exhibitions. I displayed these sculptural objects for interaction with the public and encouraged my peers to handle the works.

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A look at a large selection of the books and prints produced by Highchair Editions over the course of the last 12 years, plus some new work produced especially for the space.

AA2A YSJ artist Lucy Wright will be exhibiting the piece 'In the Lonely Country 1' as part of the Leeds Artists Show, opening 15 February to 30 April 2023. Leeds Artists Show 2023 features new and recent work by the selected artists and takes place during LEEDS 2023 Year of Culture. The exhibition also introduces the next generation of artists with drawings and paintings by 20 young people from Leeds primary schools. The selection panel included Derek Horton (writer-curator), Hardeep Pandhal (artist), Isabelle Marklew (performance artist and sculptor, and member of Leeds Art Gallery’s Youth Collective), Kadish Morris (critic-writer) with Holly Grange (exhibitions curator) and Jane Bhoyroo (principal keeper) from Leeds Art Gallery. 

Format23 Photobook Market and Exhibition, the three-day event will take place in the heart of Derby from Friday 16 – Sunday 19 March 2023, and will bring together publishers, bookshops, artists, photographers, and collectives from across the globe. 

Collect is one of the world’s most influential fairs focusing on contemporary art and design made in the last five years by living artists. Collect 2023 takes place from 3 - 5 March (Previews 1 and 2 March) at Somerset House in the heart of London.

Our “New Members” exhibition is packed with inspired works blurring the lines between art and craft. Showcasing something for each artistic taste; from the likes of Gail Altschuler, timeless simplicity by Jennifer Amon and Verity Howard’s sculptural pieces. The wide array of display also includes complex pieces from Timothy Copsey, red stone clay improvisational music inspired work of Julian King-Salter, domestic objects by Francis Lloyd-Jones balancing between looseness and definition, to a more contemporary storytelling through figurative ceramics by Craig Mitchell, and narrative visual fragments by Carolyn Tripp.

EXHIBITION CATALOGUE This exhibition initiates a wider project by Phil Barton towards a celebration of the 40th anniversary of Lindow Man’s discovery in August 1984. The Lindow Moss area includes a former raised bog – less than a kilometre from where you are standing – which has been severely reduced and damaged from a combination of centuries of peat cutting, the spread of agriculture, development, alterations to drainage, pollution and waste tipping.  The wider area includes Lindow Common, Newgate Nature Reserve, Rossmere and extensive areas in agricultural use still supporting an extensive landscape of Moss Rooms formed by peat cutting. The whole area is known as Lindow Common or Moss, but this exhibition focuses on the remaining cut-over peat bog known as Saltersley Moss where Lindow Man was found in 1984 (he's now in the British Museum). It has been heavily cut for peat, which ceased several years ago and,...

Chaiya Art Awards is the UK’s biggest art awards illuminating spirituality

A selection of independent, experimental and socially engaged publishers in the fields of art, architecture, design, humanities and visual culture. (Showing as Highchair Editions).

Members show, encompassing all print methods and painting.  The work shown:  Following on from my explorations in DNA relationships and ways of tracking movements of my ancestors around the world, I reached a point of trying to resurrect the past. Lazarus refers to that act of restoring something but being left with the melancholy feelings that stem from having witnessed something beyond this present time. The images depicted on the face trace the movement of young children across the Anatolian planes, carrying only the cooking utensils that they would use to keep them alive. The image taken from a 1923 Red Cross publication, sets the scene for the tumultuous years that unfolded from that time, until the passing of my parents and my recent visits to Crete. The olive trees, the people being shipped away from the war-torn coastal regions of Asia Minor and back the other way in an...

The two part sculpture was made after an art residency in Jerusalem. Jerusalem Stone (Hebrew: אבן ירושלמית; Arabic: حجر القدس) is a name applied to various types of limestone, dolomite and dolomitic limestone, common in and around Jerusalem that have been used in building since ancient times.  The colour varies from white to pink, yellow and tawny. The two forms symbolise the difficult yet essential symbiosis of two religions. The two-part sculpture was made after an art residency in Jerusalem. Jerusalem Stone (Hebrew: אבן ירושלמית; Arabic: حجر القدس) is a name applied to various types of limestone, dolomite and dolomitic limestone, common in and around Jerusalem that have been used in building since ancient times.  The colour varies from white to pink, yellow and tawny. The two forms symbolise the difficult yet essential symbiosis of two religions.

Hinterlands Group is a group exhibition that invites us to consider our relationship with the land and its ecosystems

Unpolished found me through Instagram. They liked my work with paper aswell as clay and asked for a large body of work for a solo throughout October but enough to them sell through the newly launched web shop. 

Partition Parabels is a joint exhibition with Tarla Patel and Rachel Magdeburg, at Artcore Contemporay Art Gallery in Derby city centre. This is a mixed media exhibition as part of two artist in residence work in response to the 75th anniversary of the Partition of India. For the residency Partition Parables at Artcore, artists Tarla Patel and Rachel Magdeburg have, in different ways, explored the relationship between humans and plants. Through their individual projects, the artists have examined the theme of ‘Partition Parables’ and explicitly and subtly responded to the site and activities of Artcore, and the objects and communities of Derby. Tarla Patel presents her installation Seeds to Home through photography, sound and video, and Rachel Magdeburg presents a new series of paintings Under the Walnut Tree: Cryptic Painting using a range of media.

THUD! is an audio-responsive sound installation based on the ideas of active participation and co-creation: the sound installation continuously records and overlays accidental sounds of the audience members passing through the gallery space and assembles a sonic landscape from all the accidental sounds like foot shuffles while constantly replaying the emerging soundscape back into the room. A preview on 19 November, 2-5pm, will feature live performances by jazz and electroacoustic musicians Paul Jolly, Rick Jensen and a live stream by a noise artist and DIY experimentalist, Aurora, hailing from Slovakia.  

Group exhibition.  I presented the work "Hold On" - hand knitted black wool yarn and painted canvas blocks, canvas sewed into blocks, 1.80*60cm.

Run without interruption since 1769, the Summer Exhibition showcases art in all forms, from prints, painting, film and photography, to architectural works and sculpture by invited artists, Royal Academicians and emerging talent. The 2022 theme was ‘Climate’. Whether as a crisis or opportunity, or simply our everyday experience, it is an all-embracing subject. Work - Same Sky, Knitted mohair-silk, 30*30cm. 

I received The Tension Gallery Art Prize from Central Saint Martin's in June 2022. Three sculptures and a moving image and sound work was installed at @tensionfineart Gallery in South London, alongside the work of three other post-graduate students. This gallery describes itself as dedicated to showcasing the work and raising the profiles of emerging and mid career local, national and international artists. 'We show a mixture of contemporary & experimental art that questions what art is and what art could be'.

Underworld is an exhibition by Jeffrey Knopf, currently being held in the basement gallery of Mirabel street gallery Manchester, 12 November - 17 December, the exhibition is only open on Saturdays from 11am - 5pm

Sustenance is an interactive exhibition at York st John's Vessel Gallery curated by second year Fine Art students. Ive been working on this project with my peers during our first semster back, and we are so excited to have the opportunity to share our work so far.

At Craft Market Kendal, I will join 44 other artists and designers in exhibiting our work in the Malt Room, Foyer, and Warehouse Gallery at Brewery Arts over the weekend of 25 to 27 November 2022. The Craft Market represents everything outstanding about Cumbrian & Northern arts and crafts, and provides an opportunity to buy original art.

Bringing together selected artists, makers and crafts people from across Yorkshire.

Cunctation 2019 - 2022 meaning lateness/delay This exhibition marks a conclusion for a group of artists who began their ACPS fellowship and AA2A residencies in October 2019, prior to the first lockdown. We are grateful that UCLan and the ‘Artists Access to Art Colleges’ (AA2A) have continued to support us through these disrupted times and has allowed us to complete our residencies over three years, rather than the intended one year time scale. The Printmaking and Ceramics departments at UCLan foster a sense of innovation, discovery, adaptation, development and resolution. Working within a culture of research and innovation links between print and ceramics at UCLan continues to push the boundaries across both disciplines.

This exhibition investigates the relationship between drawing and making through collaboration. Inspired by a conversation between a student and tutor at UCA, the idea for this project is simple. What would happen if artists exchanged drawings and then reinterpreted each other’s drawings in three dimensions, using ceramics or glass? At the heart of this project are two questions: how does drawing inform making, and how can collaboration enrich practice?   The idea has evolved into a project between ten students and tutors on the Ceramics and Glass Masters at UCA who all demonstrate a strong relationship between drawing and making within their practice. This exhibition will show the drawings alongside the objects they inspired through collaboration. 

Curious Minds Virtual Exhibition

a•n Degree Shows Guide 2022 Online pdf Recognising talent: New art in the frameCelebrating the return of in-person degree shows, with a focus on the creative ideas and ambitions of this year’s graduates.

The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted to present, for the first time, the West Midlands Open, an exhibition of recent artworks in various media by artists from, or connected, to the region. The exhibition follows an open-call to West Midlands artists, including those currently attending an art school in the region or educated here in the past 10 years. The Gallery received over 500 entries from across the region, spanning Greater Birmingham, The Black Country, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. From these, a panel of independent judges and Gallery staff selected 250 works for exhibition. The West Midlands Open celebrates the quality, diversity and vibrancy of the local visual arts ecology and provides a platform and selling opportunity for artists in the region.

BA Fine Art Degree Show 2022 The root of the word control is the Latin contrarotulus meaning a register, counter, or record of something. CTRL, an abbreviation of control, is synonymous with a digital key which when combined with other keys, carries out an instruction, a shortcut, an action.  The 2022 graduating BA Fine Art students are a group who are full of ideas and things to say – the issues they are dealing with are both complex and important. Their exhibition CTRL is the result of a series of commands, manifest through creativity, technical skill, and an understanding of the potential functionality of art practice in what it can say and how it comes to be. Many of the student’s individual practices explore issues of identity, memory and loss, culture, heritage, environment, communication, and the foregrounding of marginalised voices. Their outcomes are in many ways connected through a sense of being and belonging – to personal, social,...

An exhibition of work by Turf studio members.

Pleased to be showing some of my recent work as part of this group exhibition of ceramics by alumni, staff and current MA students at the University of Central Lancashire.