Arts education charity The Arts Society has launched CULTUR.ART, a new creative health charity, founded on the principle that the arts can be vital for our physical health and wellbeing. Headed up by former Sotheby’s Head of Media Nigel Hilditch, CULTUR.ART’s mission is to bring art to more people, and show how easy it is to engage with art whether that be digitally, or in person. Unlocking the health benefits of the arts for a...
Turner Prize winning artist Grayson Perry speaks out in a candid new interview for The Arts Society Magazine’s winter issue, out on November 2nd. Interviewed by British art historian Jacky Klein, Grayson Perry provides his unconventional take on how Covid-19 has affected the art world and beyond. He also discusses coping with uncertainty and rising to the challenges of being an artist living in the future as well as the bigger picture, from the nation’s...
The Arts Society has announced Abigail McGourlay, 20 from Sheffield, as the winner of the national Isolation Artwork Competition for young artists during lockdown with her painting titled Brewing. Abigail’s winning artwork alongside the other seven shortlisted artists can be viewed as part of a virtual art exhibition here. Brewing is a self-portrait which shows Abigail drinking a cup of tea in the bath, two things she says she has found comforting during lockdown. She...
