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Helps you with all aspects of your studies from academic research to getting yourself out there.
Where now? and how?
Wondering what to do next and how to get yourself out there? Read good tried-and-tested advice on negotiating the obstacles and finding the best route to where you want to go.
2008 Degrees »
Open …Showcase of the best art and design graduate shows. Includes updates from six of last year's bloggers and from four graduating artists that featured in a-n's Degree show supplement 1998 publication who review their progress.
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Annuals Apr 2008
Good practice for new artists »
Open pdf file …An introduction to the wide range of practical and insightful material available to new artists on www.a-n.co.uk Includes Artists’ profiles that illustrate how artists from a range of practices and disciplines have negotiated their own paths through the art world. Read the full profiles in Artists’ profiles index where you will find over 250 artists’ profiles. See Practical guides, written by artists, curators and experts, and interactive Toolkits, to evaluate and develop your practice. Download pdf [ Size 500kb].
Good practice June 2007
Artists' profiles 2
Frances Lord pulls together themes and strands that emerge from sixteen newly-commissioned interviews, which reflect the sheer diversity of working practice within the applied arts. Subscribers read on…
Publication in html, a-n Collections June 2008
A starting point for research
Dealing with the data-gathering rather than the theoretical , Indexing intelligence in an indispensible guide to facts research from side of further reading and research.
Indexing intelligence
Updated for 2008 Research papers, Indexing intelligence is a listing with live weblinks of accessible 'facts and figures', research studies, conference reports, publications and other resources that are pertinent to all those working in the visual… Read on…
Feature (resource), Research papers July 2008
Alternative modes of dissemination
Why follow the crowd? You don’t reply on others to tell you what work to make, so why follow other people's career paths? Whether, it's starting a blog or self-publishing, these essays explore the impulse to self-organise.
The art of blogging
To celebrate the launch of Artists talking, Jane Watt explores the development of Projects unedited, a-n’s open space for artists’ blogs. Read on…
Feature (resource), a-n.co.uk February 2008
Thinking Machines v The Big Swap
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way as you judge, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." Matthew 7:13 To read too many books is harmful. Mao Zedong Getting your fair share is all… Subscribers read on…
Publication in html, a-n Collections October 2005
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
Trading places
Ruth Claxton examines the changing aspirations of artist-led spaces. Subscribers read on…
Publication in html, a-n Collections July 2005
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