Studio on the worldwide webLocal paper, Allanwater News, carries a story this week about my online work with videos.I liked the headline: Reaching out to a whole new audienceIt includes the following quote from me:" I work with new media, […]
EXHIBIT, London (Nov-Dec 06) / MAK, Vienna (Jun 07)
6 June 2007 to 6 June 2007
The current interest in artist/architect collaborations seems to date back to the late 1970s when architect Richard Hobbs invited artists into the design process for the Viewlands-Hoffman electrical substation in Seattle.
Contents include: Artists find "a public space for experimentation" at Site Gallery and David Sherry makes Raymond Watson laugh. Ben Kelly wins the Football Art Prize and Paul Lewthwaite recalls a residency in a former sardine factory in Norway. Middlesbrough’s […]
Gillian Nicol explores the nature of collaborative and creative processes involved in making artwork in the public realm.
Focusing on public art, a-n Editor Gillian Nicol has selected key texts from a-n’s archive and other important sources. Her introductory essay explores the nature of collaborative and creative processes involved in making artwork in the public realm. It identifies […]
I have recently taken the decision to stop working on community projects and to concentrate on my own practice.
Introductory essay to an a-n Collection. Gillian Nicol explores the nature of collaborative and creative processes involved in making artwork in the public realm.
If I hadn't been lucky enough to visit Sky Blue, I wouldn't have experienced what conditions in the Antarctic are truly like. Here at Rothera, life is very comfortable in our centrally heated buildings, hot water, and meals cooked for […]
Not fully with it at the moment and I haven’t even started my project so that's bodes well for the future? The graphics tablet (the electronic drawing board) arrived over a week ago but stands unpacked in the corner. Is […]
Home again! Week researching book in South Wales, a real emotional roller-coaster. People kept saying:"I have never talked about this before…" It was a cathartic experience with some breaking down and crying. Came back to Scotland to find 53 phone […]
Hours drift away while I read about Berlin and shuffle all the brochures and listings. Planning to go out means studying the map and then the transportation system map. This takes a lot of time, but once I actually do […]
Windows204
1 January 2007 to 2 February 2007
Huddersfield Art Gallery
1 January 2007 to 4 April 2007
The untimely death in November of Deborah Rawson, ETA founder and director, has precipitated changes at this well-respected South East England-based artists’ development organisation, including staff redundancies.
Filmmaker Clio Barnard and sculptor Roger Hiorns are winners of the new Jerwood/Artangel Commissions worth £1million, promoted last year through a-n.
Projects unedited blog by Sara Hayward
For the past few weeks I have been experimenting with Monotype techniques which have yielded great monochromatic results. Today I have started to experiment with a new Saline Copper Sulphate Etching technique and the results are looking very encouraging. In […]
I'm not sure how to start this entry. I got back last night after nearly 3 weeks working at Sky Blue, an isolated BAS refuelling location 500miles south of Rothera, 75 degrees south on the Antarctic mainland. The stripped back […]
With inflation about to hit a ten-year high1, to what extent can the practices of artists nowadays resist the pressures of the real world?
Adventure playgrounds, or junk playgrounds, as they were known, began life as occupied building sites, wastelands and bombsites that had been colonised by city children looking for interesting and adaptable spaces in which they could play in relative privacy away from adults.
One of the main tendencies in public space has been to minimise risk – providing mini-cities in which risk has been all but removed.
Alley Cafe, Nottingham
1 January 2007 to 3 March 2007
Site Gallery
11 November 2005 to 11 November 2006
Tate Modern
7 July 2006 to 12 December 2006
