Untitled blog post from "Standpoint Futures Residency Programme"
Install view of the studio during Hannah’s presentation of work in progress, 22 – 23 September, 2011.
Install view of the studio during Hannah’s presentation of work in progress, 22 – 23 September, 2011.
I’m feeling rubbish today. I’ve picked up some horrible bug from somewhere or someone. But in between the really rubbish bits I’m managing to do a bit more reading, and nail down the concept of Quilt-As-Essay. I think I now […]
I used to work on The Herald newspaper in Glasgow many years ago – before I took redundancy to go to Glasgow School of Art- I was one of the writers for the Women’s page (OMG! that sounds so sexist…). […]
Perhaps this will give us an inkling of what traces and evidence we will be looking for tomorrow in Rendlesham? It is from the East Anglian Daily Times prior to the December 2010 30th anniversary conference of the Rendlesham or […]
Monday, our first full day back at the college, saw my appointment as the Student Rep. I happened to be in the library at the moment when everyone was gathered around the table in the cafe, declaring their refusals; I […]
When sending out the e-flyer about Touring Territories information detailing the search for UFO’s real or imagined- this came back from Les Bicknell – a UFO musical by the Red Rose Chain company. He didn’t elucidate if he went or […]
PANDEMIC! Sheffield University of Incidental Knowledge is taking enrollment for 2011/12 courses at PANDEMIC! Sheffield Saturday 1st October 2011, 12 noon onwards Bank Street Arts, 32-40 Bank Street, Sheffield, S1 2DS Performance / Music / Discussion / Planning Participants include: […]
Contents include: Artists, arts policy and funding: ‘A fair share?’ and ‘Understanding Turning Point’ are two new reports commissioned by a-n that aim to demystify the environment for contemporary visual arts practice; in ‘A preoccupation with cultivation’, Elizabeth Wewiora looks […]
The key finding of this study reveals that shockingly few individual artists apply for funding in their own right, and even fewer are successful. What this means is that there is little direct funding being given to artists to pursue and develop their own projects, under their own control – under 20% of available funding for the visual arts in England, 14% for Northern Ireland and around 18% for Scotland and Wales in 2009-2010.
In this 2011 report Phyllida Shaw unwraps the ‘what’s what’ and ‘who’s who’ of Turning Point, a 10-year Arts Council England strategy for the visual arts.
Is there enough funding going to individual artists and are the application processes user-friendly? These were questions a-n set out to answer in the fourth issue of what was then Artists Newsletter in 1980. Now, thirty one years later, we asked Dany Louise to do this research again, examining the current state of play for grants to individual artists as offered by Arts Council England, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Arts Council of Wales and Creative Scotland – including comparators of volumes of artists applying and success rates – and to ascertain whether a “fair share” has been getting into the hands of artists to develop their practice.
In her report on Turning Point, Phyllida Shaw unwraps the ‘what’s what and who’s who’ of this major strategy for England, to support discussions on greater participation by, and development for, artists within it.
James Rigler, Chatsworth Table, ceramic, marble, wood, steel, gold leaf, rope, 2011. Courtesy: Chatsworth House