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NAN’s mission is to promote the aspirations of artists and the development of practice through peer dialogue and exchange.

Welcome to NAN

Introducing the guiding principles of NAN, its aspirations and advisory structures, with illuminating reports on the impact of peer reviewed bursaries and artist generated discourse on practice and development.

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AiM (Artists in Mind), '"wellbeing through the arts"', mixed media, July 2010. A collage of work by the AiM artists.

Project development

Emilia Telese talks to artists' groups about their NAN bursary funded projects

Videoclub goes to Hamburg

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Artists in Mind go to London

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Nathan Bean, 'Heart', Concrete. Photo: Dan Thompson.

NAN blogs

NAN supports artists' self determination. Read this month's pick of blogs by artists involved in DIY and artist led culture.

Empty Shops Network
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The Art Work of Team Work
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CoExist Arts Project Space Read on »

Katie Gilman, 'Wedge', 2010. Katie Gilman is a member of POST Artists. POST Artists received a NAN bursary in June 2010.

Network focus

Because artists benefit from stimulating discussions and exchange, NAN has collaborated to create more opportunities for artists to get together and share experiences and contacts.

Network Focus: Artists Quarters Read on » 

Network focus: POST Artists Read on »

How to make friends and influence people
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'Figure Ground Brighton'. Photo: Margherita Gramegna

Critical contexts

Read the NAN commissioned web resources published here

 

Jo Thomas reports on public art debate series Figure Ground
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Emilia Telese explores How artists relate to their social and peer community in the latest NAN paper. Read on »

DIY debate

Read current articles selected by NAN about artist-led culture

Artists & empty shops Read on »

 

 

‘NAN advisory group, London, December 2009’.

Peer practice

NAN's Advisory Group of ten artists from around the UK steers development of programmes and projects, assesses and awards bursaries, and reviews future plans and directions, ensuring peer review is integral to all NAN activities.
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Reviewing the first year of Go and see
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NAN as a model of peer reviewed funding
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Latest news

June 2010 NAN bursary winners announced! Read on »

 

DIY culture

Through theTate Darkly: read Ansuman Biswas total darkness experience at Tate  Read on »

Regenerationism: artists as gentrifiers? Debate  Read on »

Download the NAN interview podcast at Gene Pool, South Hill Park. Read on »

Jane Watt examines NAN’s relationship to the current networking climate. Read on »

‘Fig 2 Dr Perri 6's diagram,’.showing network signatures of the basic institutional forms of social organisation. Dr Perri 6 (2004) ‘Your friendship networks’ in Helen McCarthy, Paul Miller and Paul Skidmore, (eds) (2004) Network Logic: who governs in an interconnected world? London: DEMOS.

Find a network!

Looking for like minded friends? New to your area? Search through the NAN artists' networks database to find your nearest artists' initiative with the new NAN network search tool. Find me an artists' network »

Seven artists’ networks have been added to the NAN Networks database this month.
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‘Promotional image for 'Cohabitation'’, tactile BOSCH's programme of international collaborations. Photo: Philip Babot.

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Consultation

Arts Council England is seeking your views on its future plans through a massive consultation process Read on >>

Support artists' mobility campaign.
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