Tomorrow is the last day...

http://www.theculturecloud.com/

It's cloudy outside, so stay wrapped up indoors and apply for the Culture Cloud

... see what we did there?

You've got untill midnight tomorrow (4th May) to upload your 2D artwork! Don't miss out!!

CULTURE CLOUD is a digital space for artists to upload their artwork onto a web portal where both recognised curators and public audiences will vote for the works they like.

There will be 2 winners - a ‘curators choice’ and the ‘public choice’ based on votes from the final stage (stage 4) of the competition. The overall winners of CULTURE CLOUD will receive a cash prize of up to £2000, a personal iPad app and the possibility of a solo show at New Art Exchange in the future.

**COMMENT OF THE PAGE**
Hetain Patel:At Home exhibition

For every page of the comment book in the NAE gallery we're picking the best comment and publishing it on the blog... will your comment be **COMMENT OF THE PAGE**?

Name: Laura Millward

Age: 28

Job on the blog: errm not quite sure what the title for this would be.. maybe Picture Editor or something visual sounding?

Favourite creative: 

Craig Thompson

A bit about you and what you do: 

I work as a Creative Designer, and love to draw and take photos in my spare time. I can also be found reading comics, drinking tea and rifling through old records in charity shops.

Hetain Patel Launch

Name: Alice Thickett


Age: 23


Job on the blog: General Overseer


Favourite creative: 
Keith Tyson. And any geek that works with Data Visualisation.


A bit about you and what you do: 
I work at the NAE on the front desk so you'll see me about. I manage a project group called No Official Name and try to make time to make my own artwork and buy other people's! 

LAUNCH AND RE-LAUNCH!

So with tonight being the launch of the new main gallery exhibition at NAE from Hetain Patel, WE'RE RELAUNCHING THE BLOG!!

Our first posts will welcome some of the new team who are going to work hard to keep the blog going! They're a nice bunch!

If you have anything to say about art or the NAE, get in touch by emailing alice@nae.org.uk

Tara for now mi ducks!

Some words from our director...

“…Launching 2012 with Rashid Rana is thrilling. Rana works out of Lahore, Pakistan and brings to the UK a body of work challenging the representation of photography within objects. His practice is informed and contextualised by paradox and contradiction, capturing simplicities, extremities and opposing perspectives in his art. Rashid’s work is shockingly brilliant in both size and concepts. He is recognised as one of the most significant artists from the South Asian region. His work of course transcends borders and his place in contemporary visual art is recognised globally. With his entourage of enthusiasts, he could be likened to a travelling rock star; apt considering contemporary Pakistan’s fascination with rock music. We have a full program of films, talks, performances, workshops and debates responding to the array of complexities highlighted in Rashid’s work…”

Skinder Hundal