George Shaw: Reanimating The Post War Council Estate – Sue Hubbard
The British painter George Shaw embraced the liminal spaces of the council housing estate of his childhood to create paintings…
2 July 2022
The British painter George Shaw embraced the liminal spaces of the council housing estate of his childhood to create paintings…
2 July 2022
For the past two-and-a-half years, George Shaw has been the National Gallery’s Rootstein Hopkins Associate Artist. Armed with a sketchbook, the teenage Shaw made… Read More
29 March 2016
Herbert Art Gallery Coventry offers the Chance to win an original Shaw Turner Prize Nominee George Shaw is exhibiting his… Read More
14 November 2011
A closer look at Turner Prize 2011 nominee George Shaw George Shaw is a painter of nostalgia; his… Read More
25 October 2011
Stolen Picasso and Mondrian Paintings Recovered – George Osborne Appointed Chair British Museum – Phyllida Barlow Highgate Cemetery Sculpture
29 June 2021
The South Bank Sky Arts Award (originally The South Bank Show Award) has announced the three shortlisted visual artists for the 2018 award.
29 May 2018
The Watts Gallery Trust has announced that Alistair Burtenshaw has been appointed as the new Director of Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village
23 April 2017
Maria Balshaw has been confirmed as the new Director of Tate. She is currently Director of the Whitworth (University of Manchester) and Manchester City Galleries, and Director of Culture for Manchester City Council
17 January 2017
A reduction bronze statuette of Peter Pan, “The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up”, is to be sold on 11 March… Read More
4 March 2015
The Manchester Art Gallery will present Raqib Shaw’s largest solo exhibition to date from February. This major exhibition will feature… Read More
24 January 2013
Mat Collishaw makes a return to oil painting, in a new London exhibition, for his second solo exhibition at Blain|Southern…. Read More
7 January 2013
The Turner Prize is among contemporary British art’s most prestigious and influential awards. It was established in 1984 to honour a British artist
27 September 2023
The Southbank Centre including the Hayward Gallery may close until April 2021. This is as a result of the economic impact of COVID-19.
28 May 2020
Back in 1977, in the catalogue for ‘Perceptions of the Spirit in 20th-Century American Art’, theologian John Dillenberger argued that… Read More
10 March 2019
Bloomberg New Contemporaries is to leave its home at the ICA London for Block 336 in Brixton.
23 November 2017
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2017 launches in Gateshead showcasing new and recent fine art graduates
2 October 2017
Autumn sees the launch of a number of exciting exhibitions around the country, confirming that you don’t have to visit the capital to see first rate art.
7 September 2017
Artbytch looks back on a depressing year with great exhibitions.
22 December 2016
This week Artbytch looks at the announcement of the shortlisted Turner Prize nominees for 2016.
13 May 2016
Pace London presents an exhibition of work by the Japanese artist Kohei Nawa. The exhibition will be staged at Pace… Read More
5 September 2015
Reality: Modern and Contemporary British Painting is a new exhibition curated by artist Chris Stevens and organised by the Sainsbury… Read More
13 July 2015
This exhibition has a bold ideological mission to represent 21st century painting as a distinct, vibrant discourse. Painting – despite… Read More
16 February 2015
The Royal College of Art has been an institution of excellence since 1837. In the beginning the Government School of… Read More
15 November 2012
Back in 1837, the Government School of Design opened its doors in Somerset House on the Strand in London as… Read More
18 October 2012
Tate Britain has put on display a major donation of British Art by the prominent collectors and philanthropists Mercedes and… Read More
4 October 2012
The David Roberts Art Foundation an independent, non-profit foundation and a registered charity founded in 2007 is about to open… Read More
18 September 2012
The ‘not to be missed’ Liverpool Biennial has had its press launch on Friday (14 September) and will be open… Read More
13 September 2012
Vyner Street has been receiving its share of adverse publicity lately, with some critics questioning whether this cultural enclave in… Read More
12 August 2012
Turner Prize Nominee 2011 George Shaw attracts record crowds To celebrate the milestone of one million visitors to the Herbert… Read More
17 December 2011
Channel 4’s ‘Grayson Perry On Taste’ signals new spate of arts commissions from artists like Banksy, George Shaw, Hilary Lloyd,… Read More
8 December 2011
Jury awarded Martin Boyce with prize due to his ‘consistency’, ‘sense of poetry’, and ‘pioneering contribution to the current interest… Read More
7 December 2011
Winner of Turner Prize 2011 announced by Mario Testino at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Martin Boyce has just… Read More
5 December 2011