40th Anniversary - a-n The Artists Information Company

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: 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: 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: Tai Shani

Tai Shani discusses the need for change around artists’ pay and the “ethical gap between artists and institutions.”
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: 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: 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: the 2010s

Introducing the fourth and final set of conversations in our 40 Years 40 Artists series of artist interviews.
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: 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: 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.
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 1980s

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