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Artists' strategies
Although commercial considerations drive the art market, the practice-driven activities of artists operating individually or collaboratively not only provide the artists themselves with profile and development but also offer insights for art world professionals into new directions in contemporary visual arts practice.
Profiles
Studio Voltaire
S Mark Gubb profiles Studio Voltaire, the first and only artist-led gallery and studio complex in South West London. Read on…
Profile, a-n.co.uk October 2007
The International 3
The International 3 is an exhibition and project space based in Manchester that runs as a not-for-profit company. S Mark Gubb looks at their activities and development. Read on…
Profile, a-n.co.uk October 2007
Transmission
Sorcha Dallas profiles Transmission, the Glasgow-based artist-run gallery, that was established in 1983 by graduates of Glasgow School of Art. Read on…
Profile, a-n.co.uk April 2003
Profiles: artists
David Kefford
David Kefford is a sculptor who uses low-tech craft processes to transform found objects into surreal creations imbued with human characteristics and emotions. Read on…
Profile: artist, a-n.co.uk June 2007
Lucy Panesar
Lucy Panesar’s college aspiration was to be a practising artist and part-time college lecturer, and a methodical approach to her career has made this a reality. Read on…
Profile: artist, a-n.co.uk June 2007
Nicky Hodge
Nicky Hodge featured in the Fine art and Painting sections of a-n’s Signpost publication for new graduates in 2001-3. Since then, exhibitions with Danielle Arnaud Gallery have served to demonstrate the value of the artist-gallery relationship. Read on…
Profile: artist, a-n.co.uk June 2007
Tanya Axford
Paul Moss profiles Tanya Axford and discusses the strategies she has employed to maintain her practice. Read on…
Profile: artist, a-n.co.uk April 2003
Features
Against the grain
Richard Taylor talks to three recently founded artists' groups about doing it 'DIY', progress so far and what the future holds.
Read on…Feature, a-n.co.uk June 2010
Risk and failure in art and blogging
Christopher Thomas considers the importance of potential failure in art-making as described in artists' blogs. Read on…
Feature, a-n.co.uk June 2009
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a-n Collections July 2005
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Energy and overspill
Peter Suchin considers the motivations of artist-led spaces in London’s East End. Read on…
Publication in html, a-n Collections July 2005
Trading places
Ruth Claxton examines the changing aspirations of artist-led spaces. Read on…
Publication in html, a-n Collections July 2005
Features
All the fun of the fair
Organised by artists in east London,'Roman Road Revel' was a village fête with a difference. Lucy Wilson reports on this and other artists-led projects that appropriate traditional community fairs and festivals. Read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine September 2003
Big red ball
American artist Kurt Perschke reports with an account of his self-organised large inflatables 'RedBall Project' in Barcelona. Read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine December 2002
Locative networking
Iliyana Nedkova responds to the networking themes that arose at Amorphous combustion, part of a body of specially commissioned writing published now on www.a-n.co.uk Read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine June 2004
More than a stopping place
Laura Hewitt on Hotel Mariakapel, an artists’ initiative where the ideas of intimacy, dialogue and collaboration are fundamental concerns. Read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine April 2005
Symbiotic beasts
Kirsten Lloyd and Juliana Capes report back from a conference in Rotterdam that reaffirmed their belief that artist–led initiatives have a vital role to play in shaping the arts sector.
Read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine September 2004
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