Now in its eighth year, the British Art Show is the largest and most ambitious touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK, bringing together emerging artists worth watching with those who have been working for three or four decades. Ciara Phillips – one of last year’s Turner Prize nominees – is a Glasgow-based Canadian artist who uses printmaking as a way of bringing about socio-political discussions.
With a curatorial focus this year on collaboration, BAS8 has provided Phillips with an opportunity to run community print workshops and create a publication based on the Irregular Bulletin, a newsletter produced in the late 50s/early 60s by radical educator and artist Corita Kent and her colleague, Sister Magdalene Mary.
British Art Show 8 Leeds Art Gallery 9 October 2015 – 10 January 2016
Interview by ANNA McNAY Filmed by MARTIN KENNEDY
Ciara Phillips at the British Art Show 8, Leeds Art Gallery, October 2015.
This show’s ambition to address testing times feels muted by a restrospective feel and with the exception of a few works, notably by Shiraz Bayjoo and Precious Okoyomon, there is little that is challenging or innovative
Four very different artists are contending for this year’s prize – Jesse Darling, Ghislaine Leung, Rory Pilgrim and Barbara Walker – with subjects including the Windrush scandal, our dysfunctional world and mental healthcare
This thoughtful and comprehensive retrospective spans more than 30 years of Wearing’s work, in which she explores the nature of identity and self and the masks – literal and metaphorical – behind which we hide
This five-yearly show is an ambitious undertaking, and a lack of coherence between the works and an unwieldy five-hour film programme are perhaps a consequence of this. Despite this, there is plenty to engage with here
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