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Artists as advisers

It’s great to see a number of AIR members amongst the 152 people recently appointed by Arts Council England to write assessments on the artistic work of its regularly funded organisations.

Assessors include artists, arts managers, academics and journalists. Their artistic assessments will feed into the Arts Council's evaluation of regularly funded organisations, providing a basis for discussions about artistic quality and a broad evidence base to inform the Arts Council's funding decisions. Assessments will be shared with arts organisations and may provide a useful context for organisations' own conversations about artistic quality. The assessors have been awarded a two-year contract for services to write between ten and fourteen reports annually for a fee of £1,000 a year plus expenses. Mike Golding is Associate Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for BA (Hons) Contemporary Photographic Practice course at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. He gained an MA in Fine Art at Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic in 1989. In 1994 he began his career in higher education after over 20 years of working with photography in a variety of fields. He uses still photography and digital video to make work about the past, memory and photography and the role they play in social, political and psychological formation. Mike's work has been exhibited nationally and...

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