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Signpost
Aimed at art and design students and emerging artists and the tutors and advisers working with them, Signpost is the new graduates' guide to being an artist.
Presenting profiles of artists, designers and makers at different career stages who talk about their professional development since graduation, these pages provide insights into the world of the visual arts and the strategies artists employ to raise their profile, find work and gain professional development.
Introduction
Profiles
Ceramics - career development
This selection focuses on ceramics. It includes profiles of Amy Azelda Cooper, a graduate from Wolverhampton who showed at New Designers, Helen Felcey who completed an MA in Ceramics in Cardiff in 2001, Isla Chaney who took up the Crafts Council's… Read on…
Profile, Signpost 2001 - 2003
Design - career development
These profiles focus on design, demonstrating the range of its application. It includes MA graduate Helen Felcey, Next Move recipient Isla Chaney, Helen Carnac who went on to do a trade show in Germany, Tim Parsons' and Shin and Tomoko Azumi's… Read on…
Profile, Signpost 2001 - 2003
Digital art - career development
This section looks at digital media. It includes William Gurney's development from media design to work for the BBC, Jeremy Wood's GPS drawing project, Marion Kalmus' extensive use of this media for site-specific installations and Adele Prince's… Read on…
Profile, Signpost 2001 - 2003
Engaged practice - career development
These profiles focus on socially-engaged practice, in which an artist's relationship with people is an integral aspect of the process of art-making. It includes Michael Pinksy who has supported himself through residencies, Pauline Bailey for whom… Read on…
Profile, Signpost 2001 - 2003
Film & video - career development
These profiles introduce film and video. Dan Bass combines illustration with filmmaking and benefits from the networking each brings and Grace Weir who after a residency at PS1 in USA, represented Ireland in the 2001 Venice… Read on…
Profile, Signpost 2001 - 2003
Fine art - career development
The fine art selection of profiles is the biggest in the Signpost topics, demonstrating how many artists choose this as their route, often combining developing their own exhibitions and installations with undertaking paid work through workshops,… Read on…
Profile, Signpost 2001 - 2003
Illustration - career development
This profile introduces illustration with Dan Bass who combines illustration with filmmaking and benefits from the networking each… Read on…
Profile, Signpost 2001 - 2003
Interdisciplinary - career development
These profiles feature artists whose practice is interdisciplinary. Included are Louise Brookes, who recognises the need to be flexible and open to negotiation, and Adele Prince whose qualifications are in dance and interactive… Read on…
Profile, Signpost 2001 - 2003
Jewellery - career development
These profiles look at jewellery. Includes Michael Carberry for whom a jewellery career followed being a jockey and Angela O'Kelly who studied design and applied arts jewellery to MA level at Edinburgh and whose work now melds jewellery and… Read on…
Profile, Signpost 2001 - 2003
Painting - career development
These profiles introduce artists whose practice focuses on painting Included are profiles of Matt Golden, who uses his studio more as a place for trying out ideas and Nicky Hodge who is represented by the Danielle Arnaud Gallery in… Read on…
Profile, Signpost 2001 - 2003
Photography - career development
This profile introduces photography, with Stephen Monger whose BA in Photography at Exeter led to an MA in Advanced Practice and Theories: Photographic Studies at University of… Read on…
Profile, Signpost 2001 - 2003
Public art - career development
This section is a taster of public art. Often an aspect of an artist's broader practice, it includes profiles of Michael Pinsky whose projects may be permanent or temporary and Marion Kalmus whose digital works have been presented in galleries and… Read on…
Profile
Sculpture - career development
This profile is a taster to sculpture as a medium in its own right, outside public art. It includes Grace Weir whose work employs new media and Amy Azelda Cooper, a graduate from Wolverhampton's ceramics and sculpture… Read on…
Profile, Signpost 2001 - 2003
Textiles - career development
These profiles introduce textiles. It includes Lisa Stickley whose textile design degree at Central St Martins lead onto a place on the RCA printed textiles MA, and Angela O'Kelly who studied design and applied arts jewellery to MA level at… Read on…
Profile, Signpost 2001 - 2003
Time-based art - career development
These profiles introduce practice that is time-based. It presents Antony Hall, who studied in Cardiff and Manchester, and Tim Brennan who has a BA from Hull, attended the Slade School for two years and took an MA in Public History and… Read on…
Profile, Signpost 2001 - 2003
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