Artists Newsletter #4: The 2010s

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Featuring the work of 5 a-n members.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.