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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

September issue of Art Monthly, art jobs, calendar of art events, gallery maps, podcasts, artist opportunities and more

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Issue 489 September 2025

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Hilary Lloyd, Very High Frequency, 2025

Interview

Woman with a Camera

Hilary Lloyd interviewed by Chris McCormack

One of the things about filming people is that if somebody is doing something that they are consumed by then they will become glorious, otherwise they're feeling under threat from the camera or what's being demanded.

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From the Back Catalogue
Art Engagement
Lizzie Lloyd asks whether an artist needs to describe themselves as socially engaged in order to engage socially. First published in 2022, now free online.


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Jo Spence, in collaboration with Terry Dennett, The Highest Product of Capitalism, 1979

Feature

Talking in Class

Dave Beech argues that we are still lacking the political will or the theoretical tools to talk about class

Downplaying the political narrative has the mysterious effect of pushing the working class as an empirical category into the history of capitalism while denying it a place in contemporary capitalism.

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Mark Leckey, Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, 1999

Feature

Dance Class

Chris Townsend celebrates the transgressive power of dance, from the bacchanale to the rave, and laments its repression under late capitalism

Consider the dance marathons of the US's 1930s depression era, dramatised in Sydney Pollack's 1969 film They Shoot Horses, Don't They? If there's a finer allegory of industrial capitalism's ruthless demands upon the human, I'm struggling to find it.

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Maryam Tafakory, Razah-del, 2024

Profile

Maryam Tafakory

Luisa Lorenza Corna

The brilliance of Maryam Tafakory's approach lies in reversing the usual way prohibitions are signposted: she turns the gaze towards the film industry's efforts to keep desire within the frame, and the shifts in image-reading this prompted across Iranian spectatorship.

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Editorial

Forgive Us Our Trespasses

The government's heavy-handed response to Palestine Action protesters spraypainting military jets only highlights the draconian nature of new anti-protest laws and their devastating impact, particularly on the lives of young campaigners.

It is instructive to compare the present government's overreaction regarding Palestine Action with that of the government of the day to the activists from the anti-nuclear Women's Peace Camp who, on 24 July 1983, committed a similar act of trespass on the RAF base at Greenham Common.

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Artnotes

CCA Action

CCA Glasgow issues an apology after it called in police in response to peaceful protests; Anish Kapoor works with Greenpeace to campaign against fossil fuels; Amy Sherald cancels her solo show at Washington DC's National Portrait Gallery after the institution capitulated in advance to President Donald Trump's discriminatory agenda; IMMA dispels press reports of censorship over a Derek Jarman screening; the government publishes its underwhelming plans for the arts; plus the latest on galleries, people, awards and more.

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nabbterri, a suitable host, 2025, Helsinki Biennial

Exhibitions

Rebecca Horn: Cutting Through the Past

Maria Walsh

Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Alice Adams

Matthew Bowman

Leonardo Drew: Ubiquity II

Andrew Chesher

Permindar Kaur: Mirror, Mirror

Prem Sahib: Doubles

Paul Carey-Kent

Sophie Podolski: Wisdom Should be Sung

Milly Thompson: My Body Temperature is Feeling Good

Daniel Culpan

Kaari Upson: Dollhouse

Elizabeth Fullerton

Magical Realism: Imagining Natural Dis/order

Ellen Mara De Wachter

Helsinki Biennial: Shelter – Below and Beyond, Becoming and Belonging

Lucia Farinati

36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts: The Oracle

Toby Üpson

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Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell, Direct Action, 2024

Film

Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell: Direct Action

Nicholas Gamso

Ben Russell and Guillaume Cailleau's new documentary is a sort of love letter to the famed ZAD commune and the rugged beauty of its human and more-than-human denizens, though ultimately it is a languishing, unrequited love, which aggravates its subjects and raises questions about how best to represent activist movements, if at all.

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Jenkin van Zyl, Lost Property, 2025

Film

Jenkin van Zyl: Lost Property

Michael Kurtz

Much has been made of the maximalist intensity of Jenkin van Zyl's art, but his intelligence as a filmmaker is often overlooked. Central to Lost Property, for instance, is the interaction between linear content and cyclical format.

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Yasmina Reggad, we dreamt of utopia and we woke up screaming. all before… all after…, 2025

Sound

Yasmina Reggad: we dreamt of utopia and we woke up screaming. all before… all after…

Stephanie Bailey

Initiated in 2016 and composed of live radio broadcasts, performances and installations, this latest iteration continues Yasmina Reggad's polyglot investigation into the role of radio in previous revolutions and its resonances today.

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'Your Ears Later Will Know to Listen'

Sound

Your Ears Later Will Know to Listen

Irene Revell

Rather than reconstruct the 'problem' of the colonial (sound) archive, here we are plunged into just a dozen or so of the numerous ways that work interrogates these histories on its own terms and in resistance.

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How to Set Up an Art School

Books

How to Set Up an Art School

Natalie Bradbury

The book owes as much to punk and DIY traditions as bureaucratic institutions: an irreverently styled sausage on a stick designed by the artist Bruce McLean, which is presented to students in place of a traditional graduation certificate, gives a particularly good sense of TOMA's ethos.

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Sweeney's Bothy, one of the Bothy Project residences

Reports

On Residencies

Maria Fusco

Residencies are an unstructured time away from everyday life, an opportunity to reflect, not to renounce the everyday but to understand it.

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Sean O'Connell, Sam Batley, 2025

Reports

Letter from Barnsley

Lillian Wilkie

This ambivalence, around class, tradition and masculinity, and around Barnsley's industrial heritage, gives Sam Batley and Sean O'Connell's work a contemporary relevance and compelling energy.

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view over Malta International Contemporary Arts Space (MICAS)

Reports

Letter from Malta

Laura Robertson

'These stones are yours,' prize-winning Maltese poet Immanuel Mifsud writes, 'they arose from your land / from your body, your soul, your mouth.'

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John Chamberlain, Etruscan Romance, 1984, estimate £300,000–500,000, sold for £463,550

Salerooms

London Summer Sales

Colin Gleadell

London's summer auctions continued their precipitous slide downwards in June when Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips amassed just £101m between them for their modern and contemporary art sales, though one silver lining came in the form of further evidence that women artists are finally starting to be valued in line with men.

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an artwork by Pete Doige not Peter Doig

Artlaw

Fake or Fortune?

Henry Lydiate

Had the claimants chosen not to pursue Peter Doig, but instead to publicly exhibit and market the fake painting with their attribution of his authorship, would the artist have had any legal right to prevent them? That's where moral rights come in.

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Linder, A kind of glamour about me, 2025

2025 Winner

Acts of Defiance
Ren Scateni on artists who are remaking Scottish histories

Performed at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh was A kind of glamour about me, a collaboration between Linder, choreographer Holly Blakey, composer Maxwell Sterling and fashion designer Ashish Gupta. The commissioned performance looked at how bodies (often women, non-binary and queer) have been historically controlled and coerced by the environments they find themselves in.

Art Calendar

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Felicity Hammond, V3: Model Collapse, 2025
artist talk, 6.30pm 12 Sep, The Photographers' Gallery, London

Selected Events

  • Listening Walk with Dr Andrew Brown
    Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, Wed 3 Sep 1.00pm
  • Conversation: School and the Migrant Experience in Britain
    Autograph, London, Wed 3 Sep 6.00pm
  • Rambert and (LA)HORDE Ballet national de Marseille Performances
    Hayward Gallery, London, Wed 3 Sep 7.00pm
  • Manchester Camerata Concert: The Angel in the Marble
    The Whitworth, Manchester, Thu 4 Sep 6.15pm
  • CTM Festival
    Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Thu 4 Sep 7.30pm
  • Switched-On Bach: Virtuoso Electronic Performances of Wendy Carlos
    Bold Tendencies, London, Fri 5 Sep 7.30pm
  • Archaeology Masterclass: The Kingdom of Kent
    Folkestone Museum, Folkestone, Sat 6 Sep 10.00am
  • Anti-Racism Banner Making Workshop with Maggie Stick
    Centrala Space, Birmingham, Sat 6 Sep 1.00pm
  • Helen Edwards: Remembering Our Bodies as Earth
    Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, Sun 7 Sep 2.00pm
  • Making Something Out of Nothing: Women, Sculpture & Visibility in 1980s London
    Courtauld Institute, London, Tue 9 Sep 6.00pm
  • Bodies of Water Symposium: Regenerative Art Practice
    The Black-E, Liverpool, Thu 11 Sep 12.30pm
  • Hands That Hold History: Late Events
    Wellcome Collection, London, Thu 11 Sep 4.00pm
  • Earth Rising Festival
    IMMA, Dublin , Fri 12 Sep 5.30pm
  • Artist Talk: Felicity Hammond
    The Photographers' Gallery, London, Fri 12 Sep 6.30pm
  • Park Nights: Temporary Boyfriend Performance
    Serpentine Gallery, London, Fri 12 Sep 8.00pm
  • GLUE: Book Fair and Creative Programme
    Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Sat 13 Sep 12.00pm
  • Should Art Be Political? Millet and Labour
    The National Gallery, London, Tue 16 Sep 6.00pm
  • Newlyn Art Walking Tour
    Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Thu 18 Sep 10.30am
  • Art Event Night
    Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Thu 18 Sep 5.00pm
  • Curator Talk with Kerry James Marshall
    Royal Academy of Arts, London, Fri 19 Sep 6.30pm
  • Emma Critchley: Soundings Performance
    Tate St Ives, Saint Ives, Sat 20 Sep 10.20am
  • Fungi Foray and Wild Food Picnic Guided by Mark Williams
    Cample Line, Thornhill, Wed 24 Sep 1.00pm
  • The Land Sings Back: Botanical Visions, Fugitive Assemblages and an Art for the Afterlife
    Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, Thu 25 Sep 6.00pm
  • Do Ho Suh: An Evening of Storytelling, Cinema and Reflection
    Tate Modern, London, Thu 25 Sep 6.30pm
  • One Island Many Visions Symposium
    Drill Hall Gallery, Portland, Sat 27 Sep 9.30am
  • Contact Improvisation Jam
    CCA, Glasgow, Sat 27 Sep 2.45pm
  • Performance of Her Father's Voice by Shane O'Reilly
    Draiocht, Dublin, Sat 27 Sep 7.30pm
  • Pride of the Caribbean: Evening of Stories and Music
    Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Thu 2 Oct 6.00pm
  • Symposium on Embodied Ideals: The Representation of Women in European Public Sculpture (1836-1937)
    The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, Wed 8 Oct 10.00am
  • Chance Encounters: Archival Fabulations and Feminist Art History
    Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Fri 10 Oct 1.30pm

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  • Jun: Morgan Quaintance analyses the absence of discussion of working-class lives in the arts, and the cultural influence of the middle class in how such lives are understood. Hosted by Chris McCormack.
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Jobs

The Online Drawing Development Year

A year-long online programme designed for arts graduates and artists with a studio practice who seek live drawing tuition and structured critical dialogue with tutors, mentors and peers.
The Royal Drawing School | 17 Sept
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Collections Manager, Heberden Coin Room

University of Oxford | 29 Aug
my.corehr.com

Sales Executive

HBA Art, London | 29 Aug
careers.hba.com

Art Technician

malca-amit, London | 30 Aug
artsjobs.org.uk

Driver (Art Logistics)

Blueberry's Fine Art Services, London | 30 Aug
artsjobs.org.uk

Gallery Associate - Paid Work Experience

Thompson's Galleries, Aldeburgh | 30 Aug
artsjobs.org.uk

Archivist (Maternity Cover)

Rotherham Museums | 31 Aug
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Art and Object Handler x 2

Royal Museums Greenwich | 31 Aug
app.vacancy-filler.co.uk

Book Buyer

Tate Enterprises Limited, London | 31 Aug
jobsearch.tate.org.uk

Creative Producer

London Museum | 31 Aug
jobs.londonmuseum.org.uk

Gallery Assistant

BSMT Gallery, London | 31 Aug
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Object Conservator

Royal Museums Greenwich | 31 Aug
app.vacancy-filler.co.uk

Project Worker - Kick The Dust

Norfolk Museums Service | 31 Aug
careers.norfolk.gov.uk

Public Programmes Officer

Bletchley Park Trust, South East | 31 Aug
bletchleypark.org.uk

Apprentice Archivist

Imperial War Museum, London | 1 Sep
iwm.org.uk

Ashmolean Archivist and Records Manager

University of Oxford | 1 Sep
my.corehr.com

Guest Curator - Open Call

Artelier, International | 1 Sep
artelier.com

Head of Marketing & Communications

The Story Museum, Oxford | 1 Sep
storymuseum.org.uk

Commissioning Editor

Art UK, Scotland | 2 Sep
artuk.org

Museum Assistant

Bath Preservation Trust, UK Wide | 2 Sep
bath-preservation-trust.org.uk

Research Assistant for the Japanese Collection

University of Oxford | 2 Sep
my.corehr.com

Assistant Archivist

British Museum, London | 5 Sep
bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com

Deputy Director

London/Hybrid: £45 k, oversee finance, operations, HR, governance and organisational development in support of the Director working closely with Trustees and the staff team.
LUX | 29 Sept
lux.org.uk

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Freelance Curator

Portsmouth City Council | 5 Sep
visitportsmouth.co.uk

Freelance Exhibition Designer

The Witney and District Museum, South East | 7 Sep
witneymuseum.org.uk

Head of Programme, Quays Culture

Lowry, Salford | 8 Sep
thelowry.peoplehr.net

Administrator

Fabrica, Brighton | 10 Sep
fabrica.org.uk

Director of Development & Audience Insights

Ikon Gallery, Birmingham | 15 Sep
ikon-gallery.org

Curator

Manchester Jewish Museum | 21 Sep
manchesterjewishmuseum.com

Administration and Data Assistant

Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, North West | 26 Sep
tulliehouse.co.uk


Residencies/Fellowships

Talking Forests Residency

Forgan Arts Centre, Scotland | 1 Sep
forganartscentre.co.uk

Residency for Rotherham-based Artist

Invisible Flock, Yorkshire | 19 Sep
invisibleflock.com

Photography Dark Room Residency

Worthlessstudios, New York | Rolling
worthlessstudios.typeform.com

Residencies for Artists at Risk

Artists at Risk, International | Rolling
artistsatrisk.org

2025 Artist & Writer Residencies

Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts | Rolling
gibraltarpointcentre.ca

Palazzo Monti Residency

Brescia, Italy | Rolling
palazzomonti.org


Competitions/Commissions

Artist Callout

Leighton Hospital, Crewe | 29 Aug
artsjobs.org.uk

Collections in Dialogue: Artist Co-Commission

Leeds Art Gallery | 29 Aug
form.jotform.com

Public Artist - Macclesfield Market Hall

Cheshire East Council | 29 Aug
artsjobs.org.uk

Pride of Grove Vale Mural

Southwark Council, UK Wide | 31 Aug
artsjobs.org.uk

Visual Artists Required

The Worcester Plinth | 31 Aug
artsjobs.org.uk

Artist Commissions - Light Up Leigh Parade

Down to Earth, North West | 1 Sep
artsjobs.org.uk

Artist Commission Call Out: Celebrating Railway 200

Severn Arts, West Midlands | 14 September
severnarts.org.uk

International Award for Art Criticism

IAAC, London and Shanghai | 14 September
iaac-m21.com

Open Call: Public Art Opportunity in Purley, Croydon for 3 Sculptures

Artelier Art Consultancy, London | 21 September
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Call for Artists: Vinter House Public Art Commission

Harlow Art Trust | 22 September
sculpturetown.uk

Aesthetica Art Prize

Aesthetica Magazine | 30 Sept
aestheticamagazine.com


Scholarships/Grants

Funding for Underrepresented Artists

The Black Heart Foundation, UK Wide | Rolling
blackheartfoundation.org

Black Artists Grant

Creative Debuts | Rolling
creativedebuts.co.uk

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants

Pollock-Krasner Foundation | Rolling
www.pkf.org

National Lottery Project Grants

Arts Council England | Rolling
artscouncil.org.uk

Grant Programme

ARTCRY | Rolling
artcry.co.uk

The Digital Artists Grant

The Moniker Foundation, Creative Debuts | Rolling
avnode.net

Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grants

Art Fund | Rolling
artfund.org


Exhibiting

$5,000 Curatorial Grants

The Lumen Prize 2025, UK Wide | Rolling
lumenprize.com

300 sq/m Gallery Space Available for Free

Mayfair | Rolling
gallery@allartwelcome.com


Courses/Workshops

Abbas Zahedi: Begin Again Ecological Grief Workshop

Tate Modern, London | 6 Sep
tate.org.uk

Online Course - Starting an Archive

The Photographers' Gallery | 23 Sep - 28 Oct
thephotographersgallery.org.uk

Turnips Morning

Turner Contemporary, Margate | 25 Sep
turnercontemporary.org

Friday Night Life Drawing: The Body in Motion

Royal Academy, London | 26 Sep
royalacademy.org.uk

Macaronic Poetry Workshop with Chris McCabe

Barbican, London | 11 Oct
barbican.org.uk

Interfaces Monthly

Barbican & The Trampery | Rolling
docs.google.com

Artquest One-to-One

Artquest | Rolling
artquest.org.uk


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