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a-n's publications foreground the issues that affect you as an artist.
Collaborative and peripatetic working
Do you work with other artists, practitioners or experts in other fields? Does your work change and evolve from each different situation? Explore the ways in which artists practices are expanding and developing in response to collaborators and communities.
Community engagement
HTML version of Community engagement in which Catherine Wilson explores the myriad ways artists can engage with specific communities via residencies, collaborations, cross-cultural projects and research. Subscribers read on…
Publication in html, a-n Collections September 2008
Playing up
Gillian Nicol explores the nature of collaborative and creative processes involved in making artwork in the public realm.
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Publication in html, a-n Collections March 2007
Collaborative relationships
Rohini Malik Okon introduces her selection of articles for the first a-n Collections. Subscribers read on…
Publication in html, a-n Collections June 2005
Collaborative relationships
To preface a new ongoing series exploring relationships between artists and their collaborators, we asked some of today’s most interesting curators for insights into their practices. Subscribers read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine May 2008
Taking things into your own hands
Surviving as an artist means negotiating the artworld on your own terms. Whether you're an artist-curator, blogger or you just want to establish a reasonable charge rate, read about taking the production, promotion and critique of art into your own hands.
The art of blogging »
Subscribers open pdf file …To celebrate the launch of Artists talking, Jane Watt explores the development of Projects unedited, a-n’s open space for artists’ blogs.
Downloadable pdf version [size 658 KB]. Requires pdf reader.
a-n Collections February 2008
Show some initiative!
Susannah Thompson questions the levels of critical engagement within the artist-led scene. Subscribers read on…
Publication in html, a-n Collections July 2005
Curated space »
Open …Pdf laserprint quality version of Curated space publication [size: 837Kb]. Requires pdf reader.
Future forecast November 2005
Establishing a Charge Rate for a Working Artist »
Financial expert Richard Murphy’s practical framework to demonstrate how visual artists can take responsibility for their working arrangements and establish, and make a case for, their charges and fees. Download pdf [Size 234KB].
An interactive version of this publication can be found as The artist’s fees toolkit at www.a-n.co.uk/toolkits
Good practice October 2006
Spaces for working
Your working environment can be key to what you produce, whether the view from your 'studio' is rolling hills or whatever you can see over the top of your laptop. These publications tackle the tangible and intangible spaces in which artists are operating.
Country living
According to the billboard-sized text panel at the entrance to Global Cities, shown at Tate Modern this summer: “More than fifty per cent of us now live in cities and according to the United Nations this number is set to rise to seventy-five… Subscribers read on…
Publication in html, a-n Collections November 2007
Networking – the artist without the studio
Charlie Fox on what networking means to artists. Subscribers read on…
Publication in html, a-n Collections July 2006
A new space of operation
I’ve been working in and around transdisciplinary practice for the last twenty years now, and have found it to be a fertile and stimulating ground both for those working consistently within it or just passing through, I’ve just noticed that only recently has it started to become fashionable. Subscribers read on…
Publication in html, a-n Collections October 2006
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