Visual arts

Read our November 2019 newsletter featuring the collaborative ties between the UK and East Asia including the Culture Diary and Arts Council Hong Kong visual arts and design mission in December, British Council's UK in JAPAN 2019-20 and a selection of events combining East Asian and British culture.

We also request high quality imagery for the Culture Diary calendar and possible promotional opportunities.

This is in addition to our usual selection ofstrategic partner and industry news, and welcomes to our latest registered organisations.

With World Cup Rugby at fever pitch for England fans, all eyes are on Japan for its upcoming sports and cultural events. British Council is leading on the UK in JAPAN 19–20 season, a year-long programme of cultural and education-focused events and activities in both Japan and the UK which provides opportunities for British and Japanese organisations.

The Culture Diary and Arts Council England is taking a delegation of visual arts leaders and emerging designers from across the UK to Hong Kong next month from 2–7 December. The mission takes place at Business of Design Week and is a direct result of working with a number of Culture Diary members eager to expand their creative and cultural practices internationally. The mission will work with the Department for International Trade and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office via the GREAT Britain Campaign.

After two years of work, Sarah Lucas’s major retrospective opens 2 November 2019 – 16 February 2020 at Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, realised in close collaboration between the artist and curator Yan Shije, director of the museum.

Four internationally-renowned designers have been chosen as finalists to design a spectacular light installation in the world-famous Blackpool Illuminations.

The competition, announced earlier this year, attracted interest from across the globe. The winner will receive a £100,000 award to take their project from concept to manufacture.

The finalists will have their work will be judged by a panel chaired by Blackpool Illuminations Creative Curator Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen on 20 November. The shortisted finalists are:

Read our October 2019 newsletter featuring an autumnal visual arts display including Frieze London,  SXSW Art Programme 2020, and BFI London Film Festival.

We also request high quality imagery for the Culture Diary calendar and possible promotional opportunities.

This is in addition to our usual selection of editor's picks events, strategic partner and industry news, and welcomes to our latest registered organisations.

East London gallery Hoxton 253 presents Paper-Scissors-Rock, a solo exhibition by American collage artist Brian Reinker, opening on 21 November.

Atom Gallery has invited over 40 artists to produce an original artwork on empty pizza boxes for an exhibition to raise much needed funds for Hackney Foodbank. A wide variety of artists from London's urban and street art scenes (and some from further afield...) will be spraying, painting, printing and drawing on pizza boxes supplied by local pizza companies.

The Science museum is collaborating with Tate, National Gallery, V&A, National Muiseums Scotland, the Estorick Collection and more to create a new exhibition examining the Art of Innovation.

The SXSW Art Programme – part of SXSW 2020 in Austin, Texas taking place on 13-21 March – brings the opportunity for visual artists at the intersection of art and technology or working on an experience through immersion or social engagement, to display their work and enhance the festival landscape for delegates.

The final deadline to apply and submit your concept or work is 11 October 2019.