Phoebe Cummings, Flora, detail from the floor of the residency studio, Victoria & Albert Museum, unfired clay, 2010. Photo: Sylvain Deleu
In 2009 and selected by regional groups, twelve arts commissions worth £5.4 million were awarded for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Emily Speed takes a look at how some of the Artists Taking the Lead projects are progressing around the halfway point between commission announcements and their presentation.
Comings and goings amongst arts professionals and curators, designed to aid networking and collaboration.
Following successful integration into the 2010 London Design Festival, Origin, the Craft Council’s Contemporary Craft Fair, will be at Old Spitalfields Market 22-28 September in a purpose-built pavilion, presenting over 200 makers with work to sell.
This month’s bites.
A look at current projects and commissions taking place in unconventional settings.
Ed Whiting, founder of WeDidThis, discusses the opportunities that crowd-funding provides for both arts organisations and artists.
Approached by Modern Art Oxford to deliver art sessions at a Sure Start children’s centre in the Rose Hill area of Oxford, artist Jon Lockhart began a four-year residency at the centre as part of MAO’s ambitious Paul Hamlyn Foundation funded offsite programme.
Art dealer René Gimpel of Gimpel Fils considers the relationship between artists and galleries, including contracts, gallery responsibilities and what commercial galleries do for artists.
Nottingham Trent, Nottingham
2 – 12 June 2011
What do festivals add to a city?
Project Space Leeds
28 April – 6 August
Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton
13 May – 25 June
ACME Studios, London
6-22 May
Cornerhouse, Manchester
8 April – 5 June
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
14 May – 10 July
Artists and arts organisations had the opportunity to debate current and future professional development needs and aspirations in June as part of strategic planning by Turning Point West Midlands.
Charlotte Frost has been researching and writing on digital and new media arts for over ten years. Here, she introduces her next projects as the last in her regular ‘Digital practices’ column for a-n Magazine.
Report from the recent conference held in London.
