• Day-to-Day Data

    …told, the etymological roots of the words ‘flame’ and ‘pay’ translated via a strict, self-invented code. Their hermeticism has a cloudy conviction that goes way beyond games playing. Martin Herbert

  • Ellie Harrison Profile

    …concept of workplace solidarity’. Work-a-thon is at once a symbolic and potentially literal counterforce, aiming at modelling or realising community. Is it art? Personally, I’d rather not know. Martin Herbert

  • Bus Regulation: The Musical staged at the Bluecoat on 13 November 2022

    Bus Regulation: The Musical (Merseyside)

    …& Merseyside, Capital Transport Martin, T, 1990, Merseyside Transport, Merseyside Tramway Preservation Society Martin, T, 1999, Liverpool’s Buses, Merseyside Tramway Preservation Society Maund, TB, 1992, Crosville on Merseyside, Transport Publishing…

  • Artists speak about โ€˜valueโ€™ at For the love of it

    …motivations, money seems pretty low on the list,” said Artquest’s Russell Martin as he introduced For the love of it, a conference exploring the goals and motivations of artists. Curated…

  • Paid to Live Like Common People

    …not sure we’ve even been promised a finished product. Back in an earlier century, a hit song by Pulp told the story of an affluent artist from St Martin’s College…

  • Pecha Kucha Dundee

    Pecha Kucha

    Alice Black, Darshana Jayemanne, Lynne Campbell, Stuart Hamilton, Lynsey Penny, Dave Close, Martin Zeilinger, Maryam Deeni, Morag Smith, John Butler, Ellie Harrison and Lenna Cumberbatch….

  • Glasgow searches for transport integration

    …look like.” SPT has also had a recent change in its political leadership – with respected chair Dr Martin Bartos, a Scottish Greens councillor representing the west end of Glasgow,…

  • Detours film project at 2011 Edinburgh Art Festival

    …History of Privatisation at Inspace) through a discussion about politics and Britain’s broken society with a poignant backdrop of recent riot footage. The left-wing comedienne’s other detour looks at Martin

  • Zombies walk through Birmingham City Centre in April 2015

    High Street Casualties: Ellie Harrison’s Zombie Walk

    …Pablo Robinson Piñero, Daniel Rull-Levene, Marta Sobilo, Jacob Sobilo, Michael Sobilo, Marcin Sz, Ben Taylor, Lisanne van Dijk, Eline van Gurp, Martin Villau, Destiny Walton-Brown, Jennifer Wilkins and Justin Winfield….

  • State of the arts

    …number of techniques, ranging from satchel-chucking to evening bag-twirling. The gold-medal winner Russell Martin, had this to say: “I was please with my performance, but I think the international handbag…

  • GSA MFA Auction

    Pio Abad, Sam Ainsley, Claire Barclay, Beagles & Ramsay, Oliver Braid, Martin Boyce, Jon Burgerman, Fiona Burke, Amelia Bywater, Celeste Carballo, Kaifeng Chun, Ruth Claxton, Phil Collins, Kate Davis, Emily…

  • Treat Yourself

    …to, shall we say, matters of the water closet. The art itself is impressive, with top-bill names like Mona Hatoum, Martin Parr and Sophie Calle leading a vivid and wide…

  • A pool of creative talent

    …Ellie Harrison’s online work, just long enough to make the this exhibition is a timely reminder that the past is the best place to build the future on. Martin Vincent…

  • Vault Art Glasgow

    …prominent as Alasdair Gray and Turner Prize nominee Martin Boyce, as well as a clutch of promising young unknowns, will buck the trend on all these counts. Running from Friday…

  • Fair Exchange

    …Borland and Martin Boyce. Paying homage to the mercantile history of the building, many works have been made for the fair with the theme ‘art and commerce’ in mind. Interest-free…

  • Digi-Monde: ‘Painters’ of Modern Life

    …uses. Martine Dejeans and Madeline Strindburg also use painting to produce frankly positive images of technology as well: Dejeans’ grids have a sunny palette which belie their chilly grid structure,…

  • Digi-Monde

    Martine Dejeans, Ellie Harrison, Paddy Hartley, Margareta Kern, Andrea Rossi, Madeline Strindburg, Naomi Tronski and Joanna Woodward….

  • Insignificance

    …images accrued by Mass-Observation, reflected their surreal aspect in his own photographs of street life, as subsequently the photographs of Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr were to do. You will…

  • Treat Yourself

    Sophie Calle, Michelle Charles, Brian Eno, Leo Fitzmaurice, Ellie Harrison, Paddy Hartley, Mona Hatoum, Nancy Honey, Anne-Claire Maurier, Jorge Molder, Martin Parr, Angela Rumble, Gabriella Sancisi, Helen Sweeting, Shellburne Thurber,…

  • Re: Thinking: Time

    Alistair Gentry & Joe Magee, Ellie Harrison, Scott Martin, Damien Robinson and Ming Wong. Curated by Ele Carpenter….

  • Let a Public Train take the Strain

    …a nation we would regain use of that organ that invented trains in the first place, the loss of which is increasingly often lamented: the British “railway mind”. Andrew Martin

  • The New Conservatism: Complicity & the UK Art Worldโ€™s Performance of Progression

    …to, in the words of poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, ‘gradually strengthen the hand of capital and weaken the hand of labour’. According to journalist Iain Martin, this was the year…

  • The ‘Glasgow Effect’ is not in our control

    …world: What will it mean to do “good work” in the future? The Oxford Martin Institute predicts that 40 per cent of existing jobs in America and Europe – both…

  • The yellow on black sign installed outside Eastside Projects, Birmingham in 2013

    Early Warning Signs

    …Arts, Solent Showcase, UH Arts, BOM (Birmingham Open Media), Democracy House, CCA Derry~Londonderry, Central Saint Martins, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Kinning Park Complex, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, PEER and…