Here, we profile a selection of courses offering postgraduate level study for artists seeking to develop their practice further within creative, supportive and critically challenging environments.
Chris Fremantle highlights key themes and issues around collaboration making use of a-n’s extensive archive of texts on the subject.
Artist S Mark Gubb talks to Magazine Coordinator Chris Brown as he prepares the last ever issue of a-n Magazine.
We’re proud of what a-n Magazine has achieved over its thirty-two years. On the occasion of the last print edition we invited many of our collaborators and contributors to help us celebrate and mark this moment by giving us a ‘few words’ – a short testimonial of what a-n means to them. Here, they reflect on our significant role for artists and on the value of a-n Magazine, publications or initiatives.
Everything is still looking good up at the park. Not sure quite how many Fruitflowers are still working as I found the end of a balloon on the floor so I imagine there may have been a bit of ‘overinflation’ […]
Louise Payjack-Guillou [email protected] Statement: ‘I Cherish Even Her Shadow’ is a body of work exploring motifs of death, rebirth and collecting. Using Victorian jewellery as a reference, this series is a modern interpretation of mourning jewellery. Man-made fossils trap and […]
John Kenny Illustrator, was a total legend My stint in the cooler finished at 11pm yesterday. I must be somewhere like 2 thirds, 3 quarters of the way through now. about a month of solitary, its not been too intense. […]
When your energies are strictly rationed (I’ve got M.E.) you constantly have to prioritise and, instead of focusing on all that you can’t do, make the most of what you can (there’s a Crosby Stills Nash & Young song in […]
Francesca Aggio makes large scale pots and wraps them in rope and clay. Why? Read on to find out. How do you make your work? I coil the body of the vessel using stoneware and then apply detail using porcelain […]
This weeks Meet and Greet is Amy Edmondson, Amy is new to our class and has flung herself into it, she’s a considerate little soul and (I think) that’s what makes her work so haunting. Use five words to describe […]
So here I am, done all the distracting tasks, nothing left to cause any further avoidance. I have to practice this song. I have committed myself to doing a live performance tomorrow, on a dimly lit staircase in the basement […]
As part of the degree show, we were asked if we would like to create a painting that will be available for £40 with two options of either keeping the lot, or splitting it 50/50 with the painting department. Seeing […]
Ways of Seeing East Anglia It was on a trip to Middlesbrough in late March that I caught up with Richard Forster http://richardforster.net . Richard was one half of our first Satellite In-conversation (with Susan Collis http://www.seventeengallery.com/index.php?p=2&id=1… ) at Norwich […]
I hope you enjoy my most recent photos. They show work that awaits marking from the external examiner. I am currently in my first year on an FdA Course with the University of Northampton. Is it a drawing or a […]
16 hours of art. Performing Un sou pour vos pensees (A penny for your thoughts) in London for the first time; outside the Tate. On the second day two Tate assistants approached me, I offered them a penny for their […]
“What I’m trying to do is make something happen by throwing a pebble into the water and creating ripples…I don’t want to control the ripples.” Yoko Ono. My practice is predominantly photography based and my most recent works have involved […]
→▪ [a starting point] decision – take part in work(mapping&writing)shop entering parallelwhite longwalls spaceful of strangers beanbags with bodies maps and markmakers papers and people anticipating introductions: names→performwrite↑student→Dartington↓artist↔ exploration↓energies←wonderings→performancewriting↓ document↑dancing↔words→tutor↓enthusiasms↔ experiences↑openess←info→structured↑ready→to→GO↔ beginning joining NOW leave follow any straight line as […]
Feedback Great reviews and positive feedback regarding the Encompass Fine Art Exhibition. Still many visitors calling in to view this venue and its artwork. For all those who don’t know we are still open until the 17th June every Friday, […]
I have taken down my month long exhibition as part of Oxfordshire Art Weeks festival. I sold well but sadly on the penultimate night one of my more expensive paintings disappeared. My son, who was helping me, and is a […]
Modern Madonnas, Private View: 31 May 6.30 – 8.30 pm You are warmly invited to the private view of ‘Modern Madonnas’, an exhibition celebrating the mother and child relationship on Thursday 31 May between 6.30 and 8.30 pm RSVP 01372 […]
Map team please this is important Introducing ‘Globe Lilo Wash’: “All the work wanted to do was expand so I had to dress it quickly in fur and silver” The fur was taken from a taxidermied squirrel that lived in […]
My piece for the Clifford Chance show is all packed up and almost ready to go. I have bought a couple of small hooks and want to spray them white but it is not easy buying spray paint here. Which […]
So this is all for him? Introducing ‘lady erricson’ We need to talk about lady erricson >okay< It comprises of? >a poster, two small yellow plastic objects with inlets to slot and hold the poster’s form, oil paint and black […]
I have recently arrived in New Ferry where I am undertaking an artist in residency at the New Ferry Butterfly Park. It is organised by Carol Ramsay who is passionate about the park and made a wonderful job of organising […]
Testings I’ve been testing out a few different formats for the drawings: the black and white photo isn’t grassy enough though…so colour it is. I want it to be clear that it’s a drawing on a photo of some grass. […]
