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I am a History of Art student at the University of East Anglia in a love affair with contemporary art. When I received an email back in December with the opportunity to work alongside other young art lovers as part of a collaborative inspired by Jeff Koons, it was a

Young people in Southampton respond to Louise Bourgeois, creating their own exhibition. Last September I began working as an ARTIST ROOMS Trainee for the exhibition Louise Bourgeois: A Woman Without Secrets at Southampton City Art Gallery. Eight months later, as the exhibition comes to an end, I take a look

"How is this art?" This was the question that came to mind when I heard about Lawrence Weiner’s exhibition that was coming to Woodhorn. Art, to me, meant paintings and drawings. And this wasn’t art. One day I received an email about a young people’s group that was going to

This is a world that is increasingly becoming immersed in images and image making. From masterpieces of all proportions, mediums and materials hanging on the walls of museums to abandoned gratuit newspapers strewn across the heavily trodden walkways of the city to an advert for the latest Hollywood episodic comicbook

Welsh students respond to Francesca Woodman through photography and performance. The key turned in the lock and the old door swung open, disturbing a couple of pigeons who fluttered noisily into the roof space. Shafts of October light filtered through the partially boarded-up windows into Newtown’s former police station. Nine

My name is Sipho Eric Dube. Since May 2014 I’ve been involved in the mac Birmingham ARTIST ROOMS project. I took part as a dancer and would eventually go on to lead my own event as part of the second phase of the project; inspired by the ARTIST ROOMS collection

On 5 July 2014 we, the Burton Art Gallery Youth Collective, were given the opportunity to travel to London. Our first stop was at the Lisson Gallery, where many of us were able to view the work of environmental artist, Richard Long, for the very first time. The first piece

Happy birthday Ed Ruscha! Scottish children interview one of the world's greatest living artists after encountering his work through ARTIST ROOMS. Ed Ruscha has an extraordinary career spanning six decades from the early 1960s until the present day. The ARTIST ROOMS collection holds a remarkable survey of Ruscha’s work dating

Anthony d'Offay and Jerry Gorovoy visit ARTIST ROOMS: Louise Bourgeois in Middlesbrough. Louise Bourgeois was an artist of exceptional courage. Her works are as though she owes nothing to any other artist, living or dead. She made work about the inside of the body. She made work about love and

mac Birmingham’s Next Generation programme, in collaboration with ARTIST ROOMS, explores the work of young people in galleries and the role that galleries play in young people’s lives. Through the project, mac has been able to provide a space in which young people can deconstruct the work of Robert Therrien