Does joining with higher education institutions bring a promise of financial stability for cash-strapped arts organisations, alongside an increase in audiences? a-n Director Susan Jones reports from an Arts Council England conference that sketched out a new landscape for the contemporary arts.
A new batch of research has just been published as part of a-n and AIR’s ongoing Paying Artists campaign.
This week, our global roving eye takes us to Estonia, Mexico, Bangladesh, Switzerland and Colombia.
I had a plan. I was going to spend the whole day there, 9am till 5pm. I was going to arrange things, hang things, sort it all out then sit and work. I’d got lunch, tea bags, music. And chocolate. […]
The Artists International Development fund application has now been submitted, so all we can do now is get on with our own work and hope for the best. (And not breathe of course!) With just over seven weeks to go, […]
Week 65: 9th – 15th DecemberAfter my work with flexagons I decided to focus a bit more on paper based structures that I could incorporate into my book objects. I began by conducting a library search for related terms, which […]
I’ve been looking into the different ways I could portray a destructive vibe within my photographic work. The photographs purpose is to show a character that has been abused. (Abused by the expectations of the media: photographers- film makers etc.) […]
Over the past two years at University I have been trying to understand my own work, and why it is I make the artworks that I do. I’m beginning to understand in reflection that I enjoy exploring process and material. […]
Installations that never were… I’ve two pieces of work I view as installations which move the collages I make from a fixed relationship with the wall to a shifting one. However, reliance on a solid vertical surface remains a constraint […]
Old Skool Breaks 8 : From A Dizzying Height – the invite
After my last post I have spent some more time in the studio and thinking about what project I would enjoy more and I am definitely going with the second idea I have previously mentioned. I thought about what work […]
Decisions February 7th Since graduating in June 2013 I have felt compelled to rush about in small circles planning what to do next. The need to ‘network’ ‘exhibit’ ‘develop my work further’. All these things seemed to matter. I felt […]
illusion is when your mind is hallucinating and think that something is there but it is not. sometimes when you walk you feel that everything around you is spinning and immediately the reaction you have is: “the room is moving”. […]
Digital production company The Workers have won the new Tate IK prize to develop an ambitious online night time exploration of Tate Britain.
