MURDOCH, Kate '10x10' (2012)

Through her installation of 100 objects, each one free for you and I to take on condition of exchange for another left in its place, artist Kate Murdoch explores ideas around trade and currency - what is an object worth to you? How much do you want it and what are you prepared to give in return? 10x10 will be on display from 19-22 September as part of Coastal Currents, a festival of visual arts in Hastings  & St Leonards, East Sussex.

www.coastalcurrents.org.uk

www.katemurdochartist.com/ten_by_ten.html

Image © Kate Murdoch

Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2012

GI, as this otherwise slightly wordy festival is known, opens today and looks like it may be rich pickings for those seeking to add to their Priceless Collections... One option is to temporarily augment your collection by borrowing a work for 3 days through the Art Lending Library, a collaboration between Market Gallery and Walker & Bromwich. Alternatively you could seek out The Glasgow Sunday Schools project by PC favourite Ruth Ewan which will include some of her poster works and a new publication.

Also, though not strictly speaking a thing to take away, a special mention has to be made of the brilliant Jeremy Deller and his new work Sacrilege, an inflatable replica of Stonehenge sited on Glasgow Green - you can't take it away, but I am assuming it's free to bounce, and that to me sounds priceless!

For more information about this and the many other exhibitions and events during GI visit their website - http://www.glasgowinternational.org

LIVERSIDGE, Peter - "Proposal for Low" Royal Festival Hall, April 3 2012

If he had not grown up to be an artist, I am fairly sure Peter Liversidge would have been in a band. He loves music intensely, it features frequently in his work, and among his most favourite groups are Low, an unlikely sounding but acclaimed Mormon indie rock outfit from Duluth, Minnesota. They will play the Royal Festival Hall on April 3 2012 and Liversidge has been invited by the band to create the backdrop for the show. He will also be giving away 500 free copies of the Proposal for Low on the night, in an envelope marked 'Proposal for Low'.

Availability: Limited, edition of 500 available at the event

FOWLER, Luke @ Inverleith House, Edinburgh - 12 February to 29 April 2012

Currently to be found within Luke Fowler's new exhibition of photographs and film at Inverleith House, Edinburgh is the poster stack illustrated here.

Availability: Free, until exhibition closes on 29 April 2o12

Photograph by Michael Wolchover.

FERRIS, James (b. 1980)

Okay, so this is not technically speaking free, but bearing in mind the prices to be found in many London galleries, it's near as dammit, and spectacularly generous on the part of artist and gallery. A new exhibition, '50/50' by James Ferris, opens at Limoncello gallery in London on Thursday 26 January 2012 comprising 200 original paintings made between 2008 and 2011.

The first person through the door on the opening night will be able to choose any painting they wish for £1. The second person to cross the threshold may make their selection and pay £2. And so on, until the two hundredth work is sold for £200 and the exhibition is sold out. If the paintings were terrible, that would perhaps take the shine off this a little, but having had a quick look at the preview images here, I am very sad that I can't get there to nab one of my favourites for myself. If you live anywhere near London, I suggest you make a date in your diary now, and don't be late!

All images Copyright of the Artist, with thanks to Limoncello, London