A seven-year campaign led by Littoral’s Ian Hunter and Celia Larner has saved Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbarn, in Elterwater Village, Cumbria for the nation.
Volunteer opportunities are the norm across the visual arts, often perceived as the only route for newcomers to the profession to gain the CV experience that will get them noticed and their foot on the career ladder.
Richard Deacon, Merlin James and Heather & Ivan Morison have been selected to represent Wales at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007.
An exploration of professional development support needs for makers in the West Midlands has identified that as makers’ working patterns are characterised as “multi-tasking portfolio workers”.
Hotbath Gallery, Bath
5-25 September
De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea
22 July – 17 September
Beacon, Lincolnshire
9 September – 10 October
Tricycle Gallery, London
12 September – 7 October
Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness
18 August – 19 September
Asia House, London
31 August – 11 November
“The UK’s leading information and advocacy organisation for artists and their collaborators”, a-n, a newsletter and ‘artists information company’, has become so grossly over laden with the argot of management consultancy.
Images by Vancouver-based artist Kathy Slade.
Maria Fusco’s innovative publication explores, through action and exchange amongst the writers, the notions and tensions within transdisciplinary practice. With contributions from Clare Cumberlidge, Craig Martin, Jane Rendell, Kathy Slade and Andrew Dodds. From the a-n Collections series. pdf [size: […]
I’ve been working in and around transdisciplinary practice for the last twenty years now, and have found it to be a fertile and stimulating ground both for those working consistently within it or just passing through, I’ve just noticed that only recently has it started to become fashionable.
With a background in architectural design, followed by research in architectural history, and then a period teaching public art and writing art criticism, my research has tended to focus on transdisciplinary meeting points – between feminist theory and architectural history, conceptual art practice and architectural design, art criticism and autobiographical writing – through individual and collaborative research projects.1
“Life flows forth out of the door from the limitation of isolated separate existence into the limitlessness of all possible directions”. Georg Simmel, ‘Bridge and Door’
Andrew Dodds contribution to The dream that kicks, a-n Collections.
Contents include: AIR membership scheme launched and Artists’ advisory group introduced. Charlotte Hodes wins Jerwood Drawing Prize. Edinburgh’s Annuale III reviewed plus shows in Isle of Mull, Vale of Glamorgan, Leigh and a radio broadcast. Catherine Wilson on her experiences […]
As you will have by now no doubt ascertained, The dream that kicks: Transdisciplinary practice in action is a curious collection of works, which at once demonstrates and queries its subject.
The Sassoon Gallery, Peckham, London
9 September 2006 to 10 October 2006
The winners of the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2006 have been announced.
The Old Grammar School
8 August 2006 to 10 October 2006
As a former teacher now working for the past five years as a gallery educator and also a freelance artist I have been interested to follow the a-n proposals on artists’ fees.
This month sees the launch of AIR – Artists’ Interaction and Representation.
Frieze Art Fair is upon us once again, and as well as 150 art galleries from around the world showcasing over 1000 artists’ work, visitors can take advantage of an ambitious curatorial programme, under the umbrella term of Frieze Projects.
