AIR

Artists from each English regions and Wales are responsible for steering AIR’s programmes and development, leading the research and campaigns and representing artists’ issues and concerns to others.

The initial steering group established to launch AIR in October 2006 will be replaced by new members to ensure AIR develops in response to artists' changing needs.

Chris Brown – is an artist and co-founder of the Cardiff-based artist-run organisation Contemporary Temporary Artspace and its gallery base, g39, that works closely with artists, curators, writers and arts organisations to build up a strong network of support and advocacy across Wales, and has an increasing focus on the country’s relationship with the rest of the world. Chris Brown is also a founder member of the NAN Advisory Group.
www.g39.org

David Cotterrell – a London-based artist and lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, current commissions and projects in the public realm include a collaboration with Heisenberg and Page and Park Architects for the the Gorbals Artworks Programme, Glasgow, a Project Award’ with Cabe, Bristol and the British Council Commission for the Shangai Biennale.
www.cotterrell.com

Rob Kesseler – an artist and Professor of Ceramic Art & Design at Central St Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, his work inhabits a territory where design, fine art and applied art overlap. In 2001 he was awarded a three-year fellowship from NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) t work with microscopic plant material in the herbarium at Kew.
www.robkesseler.co.uk

Elpida Hazdi-Vasileva – based in South East England with a practice that encompasses commissions, exhibitions and residencies, recent projects include a residency at Sirius Art Centre, Cork, Ireland and exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Arts, Skopje, Macedonia in November 2006.
www.elpihv.co.uk

Mitra Memarzia – artist in the West Midlands who has exhibited internationally, through her PhD in theory and practice in fine art, she brings to the group specialist knowledge of identity, displacement and representation, and of the Middle East and women.
www.memarzia.org

Stephen Palmer – artist and Editorial Production Manager for a-n The Artists Information Company he is based in Newcastle. His work is shown in exhibitions in the region and elsewhere.
www.stephenpalmer.org.uk

Claudia Pilsl – Austrian artist based in Bristol, whose work has been presented across the UK and Europe, with recent solo shows at Bend in the River, Gainsborough (2006), im Pavillion, Wels, Austria (2005) and Station, Bristol (2004).
www.formatnetwork.com

Paul Scott – Cumbrian-based artist, writer and curator who exhibits and teaches nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions and commissions have taken place Australia, Norway, Sweden and the UK. He has been Vice Chair of a-n’s Board since 2000.
www.cumbrianblues.com

Sally Sheinman – an American who grew up on a dairy farm on the Canadian border and later worked on Wall Street, she received a BA from the State University of New York at Albany and undertook postgraduate studies at Hunter College, New York City. She has lived in Britain for the last twenty years; and works in Northampton on a range of temporary and permanent art projects.
www.sallysheinman.co.uk

Erika Tan – artist, curator from UK and Singapore, her work has evolved from an interest in anthropology and moving image, often informed by specific cultural, geographical or physical contexts. A contributor to a-n’s Future forecast research enquiry, her work is shown nationally and internationally.

Helen Thomas – painter living in Wakefield working through exhibitions and residencies, she has been an a-n subscriber since 2003 and collaborated on the a-n subscriber event in Wakefield held as part of our 25-year anniversary programme.
www.toastedorange.co.uk

Caroline Wright – based in Suffolk, she works in performance, video, photography and visual art whilst also lecturing at Norwich School of Art and Design. She has shown across the UK and Europe in galleries, festivals and site specific locations. In recent years she has explored human communication, looking at the philosophical and physical aspects of information exchange.
www.carolinewright.com

First published: a-n.co.uk September 2005. Updated October 2008