Ellie Harrison’s latest project ‘Work-a-thon for the Self-Employed’ will take place at Toynbee Studios, London on 13 June as part of the Two Degrees festival.
This month’s bites.
The weeks and months after graduation can be a daunting time. After three years or more of support and guidance suddenly it’s time to go it alone. There are many different ways to pursue your career as a professional artist and no two people will follow the same path. Here, four recent art graduates describe their journeys: from joining a peer-led network to working as an artist’s assistant, they each have a different story to tell.
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
15 March – 9 April 2011
a-n’s analysis of ACE’s new National Portfolio Organisations (NPO) for funding 2012-15.
Short sector commentary on Arts Council Wales review of revenue-funded clients in December 2010. Included as an early effect of the 2008 “credit crunch” and the resulting “austerity” programme which resulted in significant changes to cultural policy and cuts to arts funding across the UK.
Turner Contemporary, Margate
16 – 25 April 2011
Summary of the key areas for development that the AIR Council has set out for the forthcoming period. Downloadable PDF version. Requires PDF reader.
This week has all been about preparing for my performance for the Studio Chongqing symposium at the Chinese Arts Centre curated by Nina Chua and Jessica Longmore. Before it started Jessica introduced the event and whilst she was doing this […]
We’re currently preparing for a book art show, but a really special one. It’s been my dream to present this show in London some time. “Prospero’s Library” began as an idea from Moscow-based writer and artist Mikhail Pogarsky, who imagined […]
Sporting League: Game 36 Novia kept up the pressure after an away win against Pacifica…Universo cemented their successful return to the league by beating closest rivals Delta to all but take eighth position…Bayerns made a swift recovery against doomed Lunderbach […]
This week I managed to quell a steadily growing sense of guilt by making time to meet with Cherry Tenneson (long term collaborator, “Tenneson and Dale”). It was the best kind of meeting – short, but productive. Within 45 minutes, […]
EASTBOURNE FESTIVAL The fourth Eastbourne Festival started this weekend, the beginning of 3 weeks of music, arts and literature events in the town. Many Eastbourne artists, including Blue Monkey Studio, open their houses and studios for the festival and it […]
BLUE MONKEY BRAINSTORM Looking forward to meeting with the other Monkeys tomorrow to brainstorm ideas for the Network opening programme : )
I’ve spent 8 hours walking the streets and thinking. I’m trying to bring everything together and think about how to present what I have been doing since October. The walking was for work but it gave me some time in […]
RE-VISIT, RE-VIEW PART 3 The next project I’m working on is a one weekend only show in an empty shop space (with a difference), entitled Display Only, on the 14tth and 15th May as part of Eastbourne Festival. I say […]
Well the exhibition is fast approaching, with a mass of things to complete and organise over this Easter bank holiday. Currently my main focus is the construction work, building large wooden boxes (total of 11m in length) to act as […]
