Photo Cafe Social
On 14 June, 7-9pm at 1000 Trades in Birmingham I’ll be hosting a Photo Cafe Social with a talk and a curated selection of photographs on body and place. I’ll […]
Q&A with Sonia Boyce
With a solo show at ICA and as part of a group exhibition at Eastside Projects, Sonia Boyce is exploring ideas around play, improvisation and sculpture – including a collaborative […]
Q&A with Hardeep Pandhal
A body of new work by Hardeep Pandhal is the subject of a current solo exhibition at Eastside Projects titled Nightmare on BAME Street. Programmed as part of the two-year project […]
Make/Shift/Space
I have written an essay on Make/Shift/Space, a portable structure hosting events and artist residencies which visited a variety of different sites on 2016. This forms the introduction to a […]
Best exhibitions of 2016: a-n writers pick their top five shows
Five a-n News writers – based in London, Birmingham and Glasgow – pick, in no particular order, their top five exhibitions of the year. Anneka French selects: Prem Sahib: Grand […]
The Human Document
Two distinct halves comprise The Human Document, a photographic study of poverty at Warwick Art Centre’s Mead Gallery. The first and most compelling half contains one hundred black and white […]
Q&A with Katie Paterson
Scottish artist Katie Paterson has achieved international acclaim for her multi-disciplinary projects that mine the depths of the cosmos and the idiosyncrasies of planet Earth. From music bounced off the […]
Matthew Krishanu: Expatriates
Expatriates is a solo exhibition of paintings of English expatriates in India and Bangladesh. The portraits are shown alongside fragmentary landscapes that depict trees, overgrown ruins, and old missionary buildings. […]
International Photography Residency
I am delighted to have been awarded a new international residency opportunity, in collaboration with GRAIN and the IED Madrid, for a proposal that looks at my relationship with photographic practice. […]
Ayan Farah: Maps
Ayan Farah’s large paintings are stained, soaked and dipped with natural pigments sourced from across the world – plant dyes, clay, mud, terracotta, ash and India ink. You might imagine […]
