Current and archived a-n publications
Lively, topical news, reviews, features and debate around the environments for visual arts practice.
This month in arts funding news Dany Louise reports on how ACE funding cuts are impacting on small-scale production and artist-centred organisations; and we re-publish Variant's intelligent commentary on Creative Scotland's vision; in Reviews Maria Fusco selects texts by Liz Buckley, Anneka French, Gabrielle Hoad, Rachel Murray and Travis Riley; Collaborative relationships uncovers Motion Disabled, a digital exploration of the bodies of people who are physically different; Big picture is by Lilah Fowler; and in Debate Cara Courage examines the gender imbalance in the arts workforce and asks if it's really down to women wanting to 'have it all'? Read on…
Design show reviewed and Liverpool's FACT profiled along with artists Sonja Boyce and Emilia Telese. Engaging young people in gallery education and exploring trends in public art commissioning. Live art in Croatia, artist's comminities in the USA and Hull's artist-led initiatives. Read on…
Artist's story by Richard Billingham. British School at Rome residency report and International Printmaking Conference in Helsinki. In 'Retail Therapy' Brigid Howarth discusses successful small scale product lines funding artists practice. New media features in reviews, also Jacqueline Donachie at Spike Island, Bristol. Read on…
The artist formerly known as curator: Rob Hunter attends discussion forum. Ben Woodeson and John Beagles report from Berlin and Susan MacWilliam on Caribbean residency. News of USA arts education initiatives and summer project in southern France. Lucy Kimbell explores ways artists engage with business culture. Read on…
Geraint Evans' rocky road to success. Residencies in London and Japan, plus Toronto's art scene explored. Artists from UK and Gambia get together and Rosemary Shirley explains how new technologies allow artists to work remotely. Hewitt and Jordan, Adam Reynolds, and new online project reviewed. Read on…
Cwaith Cymru, Artwork Wales in the public realm and engaged practice at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh. Reviews from G39, Kettle's Yard and Angel Row Gallery. Callum Innes artist's story. Site specific projects in Austria and Korea working with and in nature. International artists install work in homes across Edinburgh. Read on…
Richard Wilson on career development and Emma Safe on artists' responses to the coast. Neil Zakiewicz investigates artists using the web. Insight into Glasgow Project Room's support for emerging artists, plus reports from Observatori, Spanish cross-form festival and arts scene in Halifax, Canada. News on training programme for disabled artists. Read on…
Tania Kovats traces her career path. New international focus looks to Ireland and Sweden; Arts Council England centralised; new technologies impact on applied art. Grennan and Sperandio, FrenchMottershead and Welsh artists reviewed. Brendan Fletcher on how artist-led activities have enlivened the Manchester scene. Read on…
Cornelia Parker and Stefan Gec discuss commercial pressures and publicly sited projects. Reviews from Belfast, Alnwick, Bournemouth and Matt's Gallery, London. Orientation in the Mumbai Arts scene and Gwangju Biennale in Korea. From Wales, creative crossover between artists and musicians celebrated in Capsule, a new visual arts venture. Read on…
Jane and Louise Wilson on making work in Russia. Wood and Harrison discuss long-distance collaboration. Louise Coysh visits São Paulo Biennial. Report on environmental art project in Belize and Rural Artspace in Wales revealed as place for art-making, community engagement and sustainable living. Read on…
Sculpture, ceramics and glass reviewed, plus Caroline Broadhurst on her journey from jewellery designer to fine artist. Profiles of artists' groups from the UK and USA. Caravan Gallery tours the UK, Susan Miller explores Barcelona on a travel grant and Alf Lohr travels across a sheet of paper. Read on…
Marcel Network, a new era of international multimedia collaboration? An overview of websites selling art. Paul Stone investigates artists in Norwich and engagement with East International. A monumental proposal for the public realm by Langlands and Bell, Dan Archer discusses juggling teaching, exhibiting and commissions. Read on…
Pete Clarke looks back on first Liverpool Biennial and plans for future. Simon Morrissey reports from Riga and Vilnius and Neil Zakiewicz profiles Triangle Arts Trust. Artists' perspectives on language and place explored plus winner of Jerwood Applied Arts Prize writes about his work. Read on…