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Jobs and opps interviews
Jobs and opps interviews
Artists and arts organisers reveal inside knowledge about their projects in conversation with Jobs and Opps online Editors Kate Brundrett and Lauren Healey.
International study – choices and considerations
With costs of second degrees in the UK soaring, artists are beginning to consider other options whilst arts institutions are keen to widen their horizons. Jobs and Opps Editor Kate Brundrett finds out more about internationally focused courses and what they offer in relation to studying in the UK. Her starting point is Valand School of Fine Art, housed within the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, where she gets cultural comparisons from Miriam Thorpe, a current MFA student, and MFA Course Leader Jason E Bowman. Read on…
Home page story, a-n.co.uk February 2012
International study – choices and considerations
With costs of second degrees in the UK soaring, artists are beginning to consider other options whilst arts institutions are keen to widen their horizons. Jobs and Opps Editor Kate Brundrett finds out more about internationally focused courses and what they offer in relation to studying in the UK. Her starting point is Valand School of Fine Art, housed within the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, where she gets cultural comparisons from Miriam Thorpe, a current MFA student, and MFA Course Leader Jason E Bowman. Read on…
Home page story, a-n.co.uk February 2012
Matthew Conduit on the (re)turn of Sheffield
Matthew Conduit tells Jobs and Opps Editor Kate Brundrett how the Sheffield art scene has come full circle and compares artist's survival strategies in the current downturn to the 80s economic landscape. Read on…
Home page story, a-n.co.uk January 2012
Liverpool’s creative hub
Lauren Healey speaks to Bryan Biggs, Artistic Director of the Bluecoat, about dissolving distinctions between art forms, working with artist studio groups and supporting artist development. Read on…
Home page story, a-n.co.uk August 2011
Liverpool Art Prize
Jobs and opps Editor Lauren Healey interviews the artists shortlisted for the Liverpool Art Prize about making work, support structures for their practice, and their reasons for basing themselves in the North West. Read on…
Home page story, a-n.co.uk May 2011
Micro-philanthropy
Ed Whiting, founder of WeDidThis.org.uk discusses the funding opportunities crowd-funding provides for both arts organisations and artists with Jobs and Opps editor, Lauren Healey. Read on…
Home page story, a-n.co.uk April 2011
Bridging the gap between the historical and contemporary
As the long awaited Turner Contemporary finally opens its doors, Director Victoria Pomery talks to Jobs and Opps Editor Lauren Healey about art, regeneration and Margate's newest gallery. Read on…
Home page story, a-n.co.uk March 2011
Local Arts Officers: Andrew Skelton
Andrew Skelton is the Public Art Officer for Sheffield City Council.He works within Planning and Regeneration and with a team of urban designers and landscape architects in Urban Design and Conservation. In addition, the Public Art Officer post was part funded by ACE to work with Housing Market Renewal and housing regeneration - an ongoing project called Creative Places. Sheffield's arts team sit separately within the Culture department.
Read on…Home page story, a-n.co.uk February 2011
Local arts officers: Aimee Green
Continuing the series of interviews with local Arts Officers, Kate Brundrett speaks to Aimee Green about arts strategies and regeneration priorities in the current funding climate. Read on…
Home page story, a-n.co.uk January 2011
Local Arts Officers: Helen Owen
As part of a series of interviews with local Arts Officers, Jobs and Opps Editor Kate Brundrett asks Helen Owen how Gloucestershire as a County will respond in a climate of funding cuts and government Spending Review. Read on…
Home page story, a-n.co.uk November 2010
Local Arts Officers: Clair Aldington
As part of a series of interviews with local Arts Officers, Jobs and Opps Editor Kate Brundrett asks Clair Aldington how visual arts projects are managed on the remote island of Shetland. Read on…
Home page story, a-n.co.uk July 2010
Local Arts Officers: Felicity Hall
Jobs and Opps Editor Kate Brundrett asks Felicity Hall about her role as Arts Officer for Epping Forest District Council, and the importance of delivering community-led practice Read on…
Home page story, a-n.co.uk June 2010
Graham Crowley on the state of play for contemporary painting
Graham Crowley is one of the most distinguished living painters in the UK today. As the deadline closes on entry to the John Moores 2010 competition, Jobs and Opps Editor Kate Brundrett asked him for his views on the competition’s significance and for his ‘take’ on the state of contemporary art practice. Read on…
Profile, a-n.co.uk February 2010
Kai-Oi Jay Yung talks to Kate Brundrett about life after college
Kai-Oi Jay Yung is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Liverpool. Since graduating from the University of Dundee in 2006 she has worked prolifically on exhibitions and international residencies, responding to the space and culture she occupies within them. Read on…
Profile, a-n.co.uk July 2009
Lorenzo Fusi tells Kate Brundrett about his aspirations for Liverpool Biennial 2010
Liverpool Biennial has appointed Lorenzo Fusi as curator for the International, the lead exhibition of the Liverpool Biennial festival of contemporary art. He will be working on the development of the programme for the next festival – the UK’s Biennial - which takes place in 2010. Read on…
Profile, a-n.co.uk May 2009
Getting the award
Paul Rooney works in video, sound and narrative and has exhibited prolifically in the UK and internationally. He is this year's winner of the Northern Art Prize nominated by Greg Hobson, Curator of Photographs at the National Media Museum. Read on…
Profile, a-n.co.uk April 2009
Safle Graduate Awards
Safle Graduate Awards Project Manager Cinzia Mutigli talks to Kate Brundrett about the ambitions of this new annual prize. Read on…
Profile, a-n.co.uk February 2009
Andrew Bryant at Tate Media
Internships can prove to be a good way ‘into’ an organisation, as Andrew Bryant is discovering, even if it means planning well ahead financially and preparing well beforehand. Read on…
Profile, a-n.co.uk November 2008
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