Sporting League: Game 37 Sporting Radio: Pundit A: “Well my friend, we’re on the cusp of finding out who are going to be crowned champions this season…would you put a few sportingos on Novia now?” Pundit Y: “It’s never over […]
How do you know if it’s a eureka moment or you’ve just compromised your plans entirely and been distracted by something shiny? I’d imagined something different and I still don’t know what it is. It’s about paper, but what is […]
The visa is obtained, the new plane ticket bought and Misha will arrive from Moscow to London in the morning. It will be the first time we’ve worked together in person since a residency project in Kronstadt 2003 – 2004. […]
There are 42 days until the Degree Show day and much less than that to the assessment! I have a fair idea of my work for the space i am wanting to use. It will be a challenge with my […]
Shown here are the early year 2 works. ‘Paperbacks & Guidebooks’ was a still life painted in acrylic, all of these books are also used via photograph in ‘Books’ and ‘10 Paperbacks’ which are more graphic. ‘10 Paperbacks’ is unfinished […]
I’m focussing now on my upcoming solo show in June, and have finally got a crowdsourcing pitch together, although I’ve never done this before, so I have no idea whether I’ve done it with the right time frame, but fingers […]
Link to my latest post on Blogger, http://thepurpleshedstudio.blogspot.com/ Exhibition Openings, Jaume Plensa (yep, got to see the man himself at the YSP) and Claymills Vicorian Pumping Station. Next Weedend is the Draycott Arts & Gardens Festival, then at the end […]
We had a chat last week with artist Jayne Sanders, who has agreed to show some work for the Art Trail, and during the conversation, she expressed a need to have written confirmation of the arrangements. So this weeks job […]
Couple of weeks until degree show. Theres going to be smoke machines, roof suspended massive dangling black diamonds and a deafening nuclear warning siren… … and thats just in the room i’m in. My work is quiet, humourless and fairly […]
I’d intended on going into university today but the last 10 days of 4-10hours of walking has taken it out of me, plus my house is a mess and i can’t do anything when it’s like that. So today I’ve […]
A busy few weeks here at Spike Island, leading up to Open Studios – which open on Friday 29th April for the whole bank holiday weekend:- http://www.spike-island.org.uk/events/openstudios2… Over the last month, Sam West has presented our research project both to […]
not sure I have it in me to be a dictator. Think I need to delegate.
The book art project has to be postponed by a day as the Russian curator Misha Pogarsky, had his visa delayed due to Easter holidays People often don’t know this but embassies take the holidays of the country they belong […]
“Let’s give a warm NTU welcome…”
In December 2010 the Arts Council of Wales announced its new portfolio of revenue clients. From 116 existing clients more than thirty were lost. Five months on we asked the sector what the impact has been and how the visual arts in Wales has reacted, and what England might anticipate following last month’s ACE announcements.
Launched in March, Creative Scotland’s first corporate plan presented an ambitious vision for the nation’s arts, culture and creative industries. This is backed by core Treasury financing of £35.5m with £14.5m of Scottish Government funds for specific initiatives, unspent reserves from the interim between Scottish Arts Council/Scottish Screen and Creative Scotland, some lottery funding back after diversion to the Olympics and reduced overheads due the merger that included a 30% staff cut.
Select committee reports are an acquired taste, but anyone with access to the internet and half a day to spare will find the Culture, Media and Sport Committee’s recent report, Funding of the Arts and Heritage, and the evidence that informed it, an illuminating read. Published just two days before English arts organisations received results of their applications for Arts Council funding from 2012, it attracted a quick flash of publicity for some of its bolder conclusions and recommendations.
On 30 March, Arts Council England announced the winners and losers in the new National Portfolio Organisations (NPO) for funding 2012-15. Here’s a-n’s take on what’s happened, the likely impact on artists, independent arts professionals and the arts ecology as well as highlights from some of the many comments and discussions that are in train.
In March, AIR – Artists Interaction and Representation – put its weight behind calls for art education to be accessible to all, following a survey in which 95% of its members gave hearty support to the view that art education should be accessible “irrespective of background and financial status”. Here we outline AIR’s campaign and the survey’s key findings to provide evidence for artists to use.
Jack Strange, Zip and Zing
AHM (Sam Ainsley, David Harding and Sandy Moffat) presented the second of three one-day symposiums across Scotland in April.
National Association of Local Government Arts Officers (NALGAO) re-launches this spring as Arts Development UK (ADUK), to reflect the changing nature of arts development and those involved. Lorna Brown, Head of Arts & Cultural Strategy West Sussex County Council and NALGAO Chair, reports.
A collaboration between Harris Museum and Gallery and Folly, ‘Current’ is an experiment into collecting digital and new media artworks, on show at Harris Museum until 4 June.
In March, artists got together to discuss and share their strategies for surviving the cuts without compromising practice, ethics or professionalism.
The end of the art and design academic year is often the time for travel and other ways of broadening horizons. Here’s a few of the many options around and about.
