Castle Hill’s Art Exhibition, a new event by Castle Hill Church in Dryden Road, is hoping to provide local artists with the chance to showcase their work. The event is set to take place this July with opportunities for artists to buy tables to show their work and for buyers to enter for free to
The show is now open at Art Centre Washington (ACW) with Present Continuous, Present Imperfect, the second solo exhibition by painter, curator and art instructor Rory Williams, running until April 25. Rory said: “I first exhibited at ACW in the 2024 Spotlight Open Exhibition with my painting Durham Miners’ Gala (2024), which was awarded second
Selina Maden, who specialises in wildlife art and pet portraits, took third place in the annual Art of the Year competition run by international art shipping specialists PACK & SEND. Selina first picked up a paintbrush when her daughter was seven, creating a mural that sparked an early passion for art. After stepping away for
You don’t need me to tell you that many of the finest paintings in Britain can be found in London, or that a good chunk of those are clustered in the National Gallery. What, though, of art beyond the capital? Recently, my editor set me a challenge: to identify the United Kingdom’s 100 greatest paintings
Sheena Bulpitt, who works from her home studio in Upton Lea, secured second place for her piece A Certain Sense of Self in the annual contest run by international packing and delivery firm PACK & SEND. The competition highlights emerging UK artists, with winners receiving £250 in vouchers to support the shipment of their work.
Art UK has finished a project to record and digitise public murals across the UK, bringing the total number of outdoor works on the website to more than 21,000. Launched in January 2024 and funded primarily by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Art UK Murals Digitisation and Engagement programme set out to document 5,000
The charity Art UK has completed a major nationwide effort to document murals and street art, creating what it describes as an “unprecedented cultural snapshot” of one of the UK’s most “accessible and democratic” art forms. The Murals Digitisation and Engagement Programme, launched in January 2024, has recorded more than 6,600 works, bringing the total
Some of the UK’s smallest public murals are on bollards in Shrewsbury while one of the biggest is on a 1960s 16-storey block of flats in Gosport. Perhaps the funniest though is in Cardiff. Ahead of last summer’s Oasis concerts it was a straightforward copy of Liam Gallagher’s viral post on X declaring: “Because Cardiff
We’ve assembled our annual guide of graduate shows taking place across the country in the next few months, where final year art and design students will present the fruits of their labour. We suggest checking the links for specific details on presentation formats, with many offering a mix of physical and online showcases. Take note
Spring has finally sprung, and as the capital’s parks and gardens start to burst into life, its art scene is also a hive of activity. Some brilliant shows have opened in the last few weeks – there’s Beatriz González at the Barbican, Catherine Opie at the Portrait Gallery and Hurvin Anderson at Tate Britain, to name a