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Last week, week 26
Last week, week 26
AirVideo 31st August Preview (invite only) 7pm -9pm 31st August – 7th September open to public ‘Alternative Possible Worlds' involves 17 international video artists who have gained recognition as emerging talents. The work has been selected based around concerns about […]
Window Projects The window of Number 4 Broad Street has become a taster for artists to show their work to the passers by of Hanley City Centre. Past work includes the fading memories of Katie Shipley's ‘A Place to Forget […]
Chris Simcox-airspace studio artist Some things that Chris has been up to… Architecture week "A Fuller Space" This was an event that intended to demonstrate the need within town centres for use of space to be explored in different ways, […]
Laurens had his opening at Imagine Gallery, Bei Gao, yesterday [Sunday]. Interesting, highly polished work that looks at toys and gaming and global influences on local culture. For this show, he has done some work in 3d software inspired by […]
Shilihe Market, cricket section Wow, hit the singing insect jackpot today [Tues], which was great. Kelly, the Red Gate translator came with me to Shilihe Market [which I had not been able to find on my own] and here amongst […]
More images from Shilihe
For some reason I can’t fathom my Apple Mac wont allow me to put links in so have to put them in on a PC. Anyway, my on-line photographic exhibition is now up and running – complete with short film!- […]
Contents include: ‘Making Artists Visible’ focuses on open studio events while in ‘Workspace for Artists’ studios and workshops are in the spotlight. In reviews Alex Hetherington at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Dr Stephen Riley reflects on insightful videos by Thust and Raban in the exhibition ‘North and South’. PDF version [size 11.3MB]. Requires pdf reader.
Lee Simmons on Sue Cohen’s practice as an artist/curator and her focus on bringing art into the public sphere.
Trade off draws on intelligence gathered at the NAN Roadshow events focused on themes around the art market. Emilia Telese’s opening essay offers analysis of the markets for art in the UK and introduces the set of newly commissioned articles […]
Sara Haq on Indra Khanna, curator at Autograph, her career progress and independent projects.
Lee Simmons talks to Emily Druiff about her curatorial practice, partnership working and her shift from artist to curator.
This months a-n Collection: Trade-off explores the markets for art in the UK drawing on intelligence gathered at the recent series of NAN Roadshows1.
Elizabeth Masterton, Therell Always Be An England, installation, 2007. Photo: Paul Ridout
AIR news and benefits, plus Open dialogues.
If you were the Arts Council, how would you do it?
Yvette Mutumba on Shaheen Merali – artist, curator, researcher, writer, observer and globetrotter.
Sonya Dyer on the development of Suki Chan’s practice.
Martine Rouleau wonders what or who is susceptible to change the market. Can artists adapt it to their own expectations and should the demands of the market influence artists work?
26/8 – At the end of this second week I feel I’ve started to get a studio habit established, helped in no small part by having taken on a car and driver. Since this costs about the same as a […]
I finished a mammoth Diary project update earlier. Scanning, editing and uploading the images is easy and doesn't take me long. However, writing the small bits of blurb about each envelope takes me forever because I see the Diary Project […]
"Do you have an anti-bullying policy?" "What about risk-assessment?" – just more questions I was asked this week. And my response:"We haven’t even got a proper sink yet." What do we do if it starts raining cats and dogs and […]
New toys Much of my residency has been unexpectedly spent exploring online resources new to me. Up till now I have only ever had dial up connection whereas here I have super high speed broadband; it has been a bit […]
Web site goes live. Well, at 1am this morning I get an e-mail from my web designer- ex graduate from Glasgow School of Art- to say that he has uploaded my photographic exhibition "The Children of Craig-y-nos" to its new […]