Visual Arts
Art and the Shopping Mall
For most people, shopping malls would be generally regarded as existing at pretty much the polar opposite end of the…
Art and Money: Strange Bedfellows
“A starving artist…sacrifices material well-being in order to focus on their artwork. They typically live on minimum expenses, either for…
Platform 1: Shock and Bore
I’m advised that a column can be personal and opinionated. As some things just get me hot under the collar,…
Career profile: Maeve Davey, communications and co-ordination at The Beat Initiative
Meabh Ritchie talks to Maeve Davey who works for The Beat Initiative, co-ordinating community and carnival arts production in Belfast…
REVIEW: Aberdeen Art Gallery, The Collection
Gordon Haynes reviews the collection at the Aberdeen Art Gallery as a mixed bag - "it’s warm and it’s mostly…
How to write a best seller: An interview with Rusty Young
What does it feel like to write a best-selling book? Rusty Young published Marching Powder in 2003 and its ingredients…
Interview with Walter Keeler, Welsh Artist of the Year
Walter Keeler has been a potter for over forty years and has just been made Welsh Artist of the Year.…
Virtually dancing
All you professional dancers out there, imagine a world where you could turn a jete' into a mid-air pirouette, where…
Career Profile: Nick Hennegan, theatre producer
Nick Hennegan set up Maverick Theatre in Birmingham in 1994 with composer Robb Williams - on the eve of their…
Career Profile: Graeme Walker, artist, writer and country
Graeme Walker is an artist who studied at the University of Northumbria, and has worked in the UK and the…