Lost Plots – A66 Roadscape Competition
18 December 2006 • Dan Sumption
Tees Valley Arts on behalf of Middlesbrough Council with partners Halcrow are seeking expressions of interest from Landscape Architects, Designers,… Read More
Author: Dan Sumption
Dan Sumption co-founded FAD with Mark Westall in 2001. He now lives in the North of England, where he writes and draws trees.
Deuteronomy and the Godlove Museum
15 December 2006 • Dan Sumption
Long-time FAD favourites Auriea Harvey (entropy8.com) and Michaël Samyn (zuper.com), working as Entropy8Zuper! , have at last released the final… Read More
I don’t know about online art, but I know what I like
15 December 2006 • Dan Sumption
This article appeared in the first ever edition of FAD Magazine, back in 2002. We are reprinting it here to… Read More
P P Priestley: artist interview
30 November 2006 • Dan Sumption
Paul P Priestley (“Peep” to his friends) is one of the greatest artists working in the UK today. If you haven’t heard of him, this is not surprising: he does not court art market attention, works primarily for his own satisfaction, and his work has mainly been seen only by those lucky enough to stumble upon his small but crowded workspace within Sheffield’s BLOC studios.
Auditory
29 November 2006 • Dan Sumption
An exhibition of site – responsive sound and audiovisual installations and performances at Holy Trinity Church, Leeds, featuring work by… Read More
Is Cleaning a Crime?
27 November 2006 • Dan Sumption
Alexandre Orion is cleaning São Paulo’s tunnels by scraping the deposited vehicle exhaust soot from the walls to make hundreds… Read More
P P Priestley at Bloc
26 November 2006 • Dan Sumption
P P Priestley at BLOC, Sheffield . Scaled-down, wooden-framed sculptures of anthropomorphised churches fill the gallery and courtyard, enacting various… Read More
Welcome to Canvas
22 November 2006 • Dan Sumption
Canvas, held at Mine and Pulse at Leeds University Union, is a creative showcase/outlet for everybody's artist endevours, featuring Music,… Read More
Deviant Art Festival: call for submissions
16 November 2006 • Dan Sumption
The Deviant Art Festival is inviting submissions from UK artists for its second annual show in the town of Trollhättan,… Read More
Institute for Crazy Dancing
13 November 2006 • Dan Sumption
The ICD is an international and irreverent collective of thinkers, do-ers, dancers, musicians, artists, builders and clowns. It specialises in… Read More
Andy Warhol, Computer Artist
13 November 2006 • Dan Sumption
Andy Warhol acquired a battery of Amiga computers in the months after their launch, and experimented using these computers with… Read More
Footprints in the Snow
9 November 2006 • Dan Sumption
Footprints in the Snow is a series of art editions posted quarterly to subscribers. Includes specially printed, Xeroxed, individually detailed… Read More
Manifesto of Surrealism
3 November 2006 • Dan Sumption
(And to continue…) MANIFESTO OF SURREALISM BY ANDRÉ BRETON (1924)
Futurist Manifesto
3 November 2006 • Dan Sumption
(Just because)… "We have been up all night, my friends and I, beneath mosque lamps whose brass cupolas are bright… Read More
How Advertising Spoiled Me
2 November 2006 • Dan Sumption
A great blog showcasing the best of global advertising: How Advertising Spoiled Me.
Recipe for Popul(ar/ist) Art
26 October 2006 • Dan Sumption
According to research… …Two Russian artists, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid … hired a professional polling organization to conduct a… Read More
How Things Fly
24 October 2006 • Dan Sumption
Work by Nichola Pemberton and Sue Goldschmidt Private View: Friday 27th of October at 6pm Exhibition Open: 28th of October… Read More
Tortured Barbie
24 October 2006 • Dan Sumption
Another in the occasional series "is this art?" (Compare with this work, recently purchased by the Tate Gallery)
FAD’s visit to Frieze Art Fair
17 October 2006 • Dan Sumption
A ready-made, spotted in Sheffield on the way to the fair: Sarah Lucas's "The Man Who Sold The World": Self-portrait:… Read More
Last Chance to… Sea?
12 October 2006 • Dan Sumption
There's just a few days left to see Paul Russell's exhibition of somewhat Martin Parr-esque photography at Gallery 435 in… Read More
Collecting Contemporary Art
10 October 2006 • Dan Sumption
Last Thursday I went to an inspirational talk at the Site Gallery , Sheffield. Part of the CIQ 's First… Read More
Save Sheffield’s Coolest Towers
4 October 2006 • Dan Sumption
A message from Go: This is Sheffield calling. Our city needs your help. We've had an idea to change… Read More
That Newsweek Afghanistan/Liebowitz Thing
29 September 2006 • Dan Sumption
It seems as if it's been hard to move on the web this last week without stumbling on somebody (rightly)… Read More
Art of Noise in Leeds
21 September 2006 • Dan Sumption
Art of Noise is a new monthly event at Mine Bar in Leeds University Union. Each month the event will… Read More