Issue 239
Winter 2025/2026


The Artwork Logo



Dec 6, 2025

See pdf for current issue (below):
ArtWork Newspaper Issue 239
Winter 2025 (5.02MB)

Download a free Adobe PDF Reader to view pdf files.
Please click here for "back numbers"

ArtWORK


Send us details of an event for listing on the ArtWork Guide here

Articles

Borderline cases:

BACK IN MAYA Berwick-upon-Tweed was named the happiest place to live by the Guardian. I’m with some visitors, who’d hoped to see a show at the Maltings arts centre. Shut, it’s being demolished, ahead of a £ 25M+ redevelopment… read more>>

Editorial Comment

IT WAS NOT a particularly edifying scene, but the BBC big game hunters got a couple of scalps relatively easily after the Daily Telegraph was joined by the Daily Mail and Borid Johnson(!) in the chase… read more>>

A Smart Search Box can produce better sales results at minimal cost!

THE IMPORTANCE of accurately searching online content of an organisation's website could not be overemphasised as it could help enhance further interests in the business and eventually increase the overall revenue… read more>>

Old None's Almanack*

December 2025. Following disastrous eco¬nomic forecasts for the UK in 2026 the Gov¬ernment, its hand forced by the Treasury, has appointed the independent think-tank, Artless, to advise on future policy… read more>>

The old order changeth in the far South West

IT HAPPENS to the best and, in some cases, the worst of us. Our housing situation changes and we down-size. Not only Mr. Mountbatten Windsor is calling in the removals… read more>>

The world of wood faggotters, yowlers and biscuit-oddmen…

YES, this Journey Through Britain's Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades by James Fox is primarily about the importance of making by and with human hands, blessed with opposing thumbs, enabling us to manipulate and grip… read more>>

Harvest time at Edinburgh's City Art Centre

SCOTLAND'S CRAFT world got a big boost this autumn with the inauguration of HARVEST – A feast for the senses,a sparkling craft design show on the fourth floor of the City Arts Centre in Edinburgh… read more>>

A festival with a difference

THE LIGHTS DIMMED slowly in St Andrew's Church and the audience grew quiet, waiting for the first notes to sound. The ancient stone, watched over by medieval effigies, drew in the candlelight as a violin line rose from the back of the nave… read more>>

Maxwell Macleod – Last Words

THE RECENT death of the sculptress Fox Pitt has finally broken a surely unique family line of three commercially successful sculptors working in Scotland at the same time – grandmother, Janet, her daughter, Leonie Gibbs and granddaughter, Jeanie Gibbs… read more>>


NORTHERN BOOKS FROM FAMEDRAM It's a half price Xmas offer for ArtWork Readers (just £10)

Xmas Offer from Northern Books
Click here for online purchase or
print and fill the form