40th Anniversary News

40 years of supporting artists

Our 40th Anniversary programme includes a new series of Artists Newsletter publications and interviews with leading artists.

A Q+A with… Maria Hatling, a-n 40th Anniversary logo creator

We speak to Maria Hatling about what inspired her a-n at 40 logo design, her painting practice and what she’s been up during a tumultuous 2020.

40 Years 40 Artists

40 Years 40 Artists: the 2010s

Introducing the fourth and final set of conversations in our 40 Years 40 Artists series of artist interviews.

40 Years 40 Artists: Zarah Hussain

Zarah Hussain discusses the impact on her practice of technological change and social media, and reflects on events of 2020.

40 Years 40 Artists: David Shrigley

David Shrigley discusses the importance of art for health and wellbeing and how social media is “a forum, like an exhibition or a book.”

40 Years 40 Artists: Rachel Maclean

Rachel Maclean considers national identity and how "artists can help establish a more critical vantage point on how we read and consume images".

40 Years 40 Artists: Gina Birch

Gina Birch reflects on her career, from founding post-punk band The Raincoats to falling “hook, line and sinker for paint”.

40 Years 40 Artists: Gaada

Amy Gear and Daniel Clark, founders of Gaada in Shetland, describe how they are "creating an art world on an island."

40 Years 40 Artists: George Shaw

George Shaw remembers the excitement and optimism of graduating in the late 1990s and considers "the role of an artist as a truth teller".

40 Years 40 Artists: Tai Shani

Tai Shani discusses the need for change around artists' pay and the "ethical gap between artists and institutions."

40 Years 40 Artists: Prem Sahib

Prem Sahib outlines the changes he's experienced as an artist over the last decade and the "power of refusal" in the role of art.

40 Years 40 Artists: Ryan Gander

Ryan Gander considers the changes to the "value system" of the arts over the last two decades.

40 Years 40 Artists: the 1980s

Read the first 10 conversations in our 40 Years 40 Artists series of interviews with artists who feature in a-n's archive.

40 Years 40 Artists: the 1990s

Read the second set of conversations in our 40 Years 40 Artists series of interviews with artists who feature in a-n’s archive.

40 Years 40 Artists: the 2000s

Read the third set of conversations in our 40 Years 40 Artists series of interviews with artists who feature in a-n's archive.

Artists Newsletter

Artists Newsletter #4: The 2010s

For our final anniversary publication, Holly Willats explores how social media became a game changer for artists’ practices.

Artists Newsletter #4: Nora Silva

Download and print Nora Silva’s poster artwork. Presented alongside the publication of Artists Newsletter #4: The 2010s.

Artists Newsletter #4: TOTALLER

Download and print TOTALLER’s poster artwork. Presented alongside the publication of Artists Newsletter #4: The 2010s.

Artists Newsletter #4: Jeremy Hutchison

Download and print Jeremy Hutchison’s poster artwork. Presented alongside the publication of Artists Newsletter #4: The 2010s.

Artists Newsletter #4 Podcast: Pictures of flowers

Listen to a special podcast commissioned alongside this issue of Artists Newsletter.

Artists Newsletter #4: Slow Install’s a-n Instagram takeover

Featuring the work of 5 a-n members.

From the a-n archive: On the cover, David Shrigley, June 2012

The final print issue of a-n Magazine included a wrap around cover of art works by David Shrigley.

From the a-n archive: George Eksts included in Essex Road at Tintype, December 2014

Eksts’s video Essex Boulevard was among the works included in this group show celebrating London’s Essex Road.

From the a-n archive: Rachel Maclean Q&A, May 2017

Rachel Maclean discusses her Venice Biennale work Spite Your Face in this Q&A from May 2017.

From the a-n archive: Artist’s story, Zarah Hussain, October 2004

Zarah Hussain also featured on the cover of the October 2004 issue of a-n Magazine.

From the a-n archive: Jeremy Hutchison, Change the World or Go Home, November 2011

Review featuring Hutchison’s video work The English Tourist and the Oslo Agreement.

From the a-n archive: On the cover, Fiona Curran, January 2008

Fiona Curran was our featured cover artist and a review of her exhibition at MAC, Birmingham, was also included in the January 2008 issue.

Artists Newsletter #3: The 2000s

With a nod to the Noughties, Guest Editor Shy Bairns explores collectives and how artists work together to build their own art worlds.

Artists Newsletter #2: The 1990s

Catherine Bertola and Rosie Morris provide a platform for women artists and writers to highlight less visible, marginalised and precarious practices.

Artists Newsletter #1: The 1980s

In the first of a new series of publications celebrating the a-n archive, Black Hole Club unearth the past, probe the present, and look to the future.