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…
Support schemes for artists, art in the public realm, slack spaces. Big picture features Nina Murdoch. Nick Slater and Kathrin Böhm in Collaborative relationships. Read on…
Emilia Telese's analysis of a number of parallel art markets in the UK; open studio events around the UK and calls to take part; Rod McIntosh's guide to negotiating a better rate of pay; plus Beacon co-director John Plowman and artist Kelly Large discuss a residency at Kesteven and Sleaford High School. Read on…
Includes: Widening the audience for visual artists feature; John Holden on cultural exclusivity; Matthew Houlding in Big picture; plus 15mm films & beaconsfield in this month's Collaborative relationships. Read on…
In Collaborative relationships Brian Mcclave & Gavin Peacock on how they joined forces within their artistic careers; Tracey Eastham discusses bad curating in debate; Artist residency programmes in the UK and beyond. Plus Hans Borgonjon profile and Richard William Wheater in Big picture. Read on…
Up for Debate, The art of amateurism plus Home office curbs non-eu artists; Lucienne Cole's socially engaged project at Whitworth Art Gallery in Collaborative Relationships; Michael Shaw is this month's Big picture - his residency at Davy Markham engineering drew on computer aided design and rapid prototyping. Plus Prizes and awards focus and Commissions news. Read on…
Double issue includes Collaborative relationships: Margherita Gramegna and Francis Knight; Big picture by Rowena Dring plus special commissions and workspace features. Read on…
Live art focus; Neil Armstrong and Specials Clinical Manufacturing in Collaborative relationships; Big picture features Ally Wallace at Victoria Baths, Boundaries of perception in the Scottish Highlands and Islands Read on…
Professional development schemes for artists explored; Lauren Healey talks to Gallery Glue about its relationship to NAN; Kevin Carter, Civic Architects and Louise Kirkup in Collaborative relationships; plus recent projects outwith the urban in Rural responses. Read on…
Felicity Shillingford on collaboration, networking and reviving her practice, Mark Gubb tackles commissioners, consultants and artists on the hot topics around public art processes, and Lynn Harris and Paul Stanley talk about their collaborative working and subversive advertising. Read on…
Double issue with Lara Farrar on arts criticism in the internet age, reviews focus on art in the public realm and Caroline Wright on her commission for Towner Art Gallery. Sally Sheinman and Sanna Moore discuss their collaborative practice plus advice on maintaining your practice. Read on…
Swansea round-up in Reviews, plus Charles Danby on artist Chloë Steele and the curatorial role of Day and Gluckman. Artists Sarah Craske and Stacy Keeler and Margate Rock’s curator Jessica Baum discuss their working relationship. Summary of artists support policies in Canada, England and Australia. Plus Sarah Morpeth in 'Big picture' and degrees shows advertising from around the UK. Read on…