‘Beware the Cat’ artist Penny McCarthy interviewed in The Guardian

'Your cat is watching you' Guardian article

A piece in The Guardian today by Arifa Akbar about new stage show ‘Beware the Cat’ includes an interview with Fine Art reader Penny McCarthy. The article “‘Your cat is watching you!’ The fearless felines hidden by their author”, by Arifa Akbar, appeared in The Guardian on Tuesday 25th June 2019. “William Baldwin concealed his 16th-century book Beware the Cat because of […]

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‘The Aerodrome’ exhibition dedicated to Michael Stanley at Ikon Birmingham features Keith Wilson’s ‘Puddle’

WILSON Keith - Puddle at IKON Birmingham

01 September 2019 Update: The Aerodrome was also reviewed by Neil Zakiewicz in the September edition of Art Monthly.   03 July 2019 Update: The exhibition was recently reviewed – read more here. Keith Wilson’s Puddle, a piece from more than twenty years ago, was recently permanently installed at Ikon Birmingham as part of a tribute exhibition to Mike Stanley. Stanley originally […]

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‘Noise’ – Rose Butler presents art, material and research at ‘Creative Interruptions’ festival of arts and activism

2019-06 BUTLER Rose - Creative Interruptions festival

Creative Interruptions: A Festival of Arts and Activism Monday 17 – Tuesday 18 June 2019 BFI Southbank Rose Butler will be presenting art, material and research titled Noise on Tuesday 18 June 2019. The work centres on contemporary surveillance and the reinforcement of UK borders following the EU Referendum and in the build up to Brexit. Creative Interruptions: A Festival of […]

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‘Empathy & Risk’ – Interdisciplinary initiative addressing systemic failure in contemporary crises

Empathy & Risk

Empathy & Risk is an artist-led inter-disciplinary initiative that addresses issues of systemic failure in contexts of contemporary global crisis. The initiative was born out of a conviction that artists’ perspectives have an important role to play in the framing of international, national and institutional responses to threat and conflict.  Empathy & Risk believes that the capacity of the arts […]

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Penny McCarthy’s gallery of ‘Beware the Cat’ series of illustrations

Two Cats Talking - Beware the Cat series (c) Penny McCarthy

Fine Art Reader Penny McCarthy writes about the research behind the Beware the Cat series of illustrations in a new blog post on the project’s website. The gallery of ink and brush illustrations are a response to Penny’s reading of the 16th Century text written by William Baldwin. Researchers from the disciplines of Fine Art, Theatre, Literature, and Linguistics at the University […]

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The Graveside Orations of Carl Einstein – Edited by Sharon Kivland and featuring Sharon Kivland and TC McCormack

The Graveside Orations of Carl Einstein

At the memorial for Rosa Luxemburg on 13 June 1919, the political radical, art historian, critic, and writer Carl Einstein gave an oration. There is no record of what Einstein said, how he said it, or what it addressed. This collection assembles a broad range of texts from artists, film-makers, writers, poets, critics, philosophers, and art historians. Each contribution is […]

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‘Vital Vagueness’ – Rose Butler presents art, material and research at The Free/Libre Technologies, Arts & Commons Unconference

2019-05 BUTLER Rose - UNRF Unconference

Rose Butler will be presenting art, material and research titled Vital Vagueness for the Unconference cluster Negotiating Digitalities in Art, on 30 May 2019. Unconference about Art, Design, Technology, Making, Cities and their Communities: Free/Libre Technologies, Arts and the Commons Organised by the University of Nicosia Research Foundation, as part of the project Phygital. The event will start on 30 […]

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Becky Shaw reflects her ongoing residency at Sarah Wigglesworth Architects

Becky Shaw artist residency at SWA

In her second artist blog post at Sarah Wigglesworth Architects (SWA) in London, Fine Art reader Dr Becky Shaw reflects on thermal imaging, visiting Siobhan Davies Dance, and ongoing renovations at 9/10 Stock Orchard Street. SWA create sustainable people-centred buildings, focusing on the use of good design to foster social wellbeing: Becky Shaw Artist-in-residence reflections: Prospecting The Sarah Wigglesworth and Jeremy […]

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‘Exemplaires 2019’ – Dr Sharon Kivland’s books featured in exhibition at Frac Bretagne

Logo of Frac Bretagne

Exemplaires 2019 – Des mots et des choses is an exhibition taking place at Frac Bretagne, Rennes between Monday 29 March and Sunday 26 May 2019 showcasing more than one hundred artists’ books in order to celebrate the encounter between language and images under six themes: the silent book, the exposed book, the catalogue painting, when the word is exposed, when the […]

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