Bidoun is a quarterly magazine dedicated to the arts and culture of the Middle East and its diaspora. Launched in 2004, it provides a unique platform for fresh ideas and original work by contemporary artists, architects, designers and writers. Bidoun […]
Nicholas Sharp on the Artist’s Resale Right Regulations 2006.
Room, Bristol
2 February – 5 March
After close involvement in campaigning for the Artist’s Resale Right, painter Simon Black is warmly welcoming this new right.
Yuen Fong Ling on shifting Identities in Hong Kong
Kai-Oi Jay Yung (Fine Art, University of Dundee) is an interdisciplinary artist concerned with identity and our increasing obsession with spirituality. "I am intent on exposing our search for jouissance in this post everything era of top 100 lists."
Nests and cocoon-like forms intrigue me because they are often built directly into existing structures, such as trees or architectural features.
Baltic Centre of Contemporary Art, Gateshead
21 January –26 March
Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby
21 January – 5 March
S1 Artspace, Sheffield
26 January, 9 and 23 February
Artists Mike Chavez–Dawson and Len Horsey have been running a successful night of edgy performance/live art in Manchester for over a year, and now the ‘club night as an artwork’ becomes a travelling coach ‘tour as an artwork’ with ‘Auto […]
Contents include: Is UK arts policy damaging the arts? Culture Vultures publication reviewed. Why are artists poor? A conference summary. Artists occupy empty flats in Hastings with a remit to contribute to local community. In reviews Maurice Doherty in Glasgow and artists of Chinese heritage explore migration in Plymouth. PDF version [size: 9.4MB]. Requires a pdf reader.
Anthology of reflections by artists who have experienced NAN, edited by Jane Watt as part of her review of the NAN initiative. Includes specially commissioned article ‘Creative connections’ by Susannah Silver, alongside articles from the a-n archive illuminated by Vox […]
Declan Long on two new Dublin-based galleries, and the relationship between artist-led spaces in Ireland and the UK.
Jane Watt on the first of two publications that give an overview of NAN activity to date (2006).
Susannah Silver catches up with artists involved in one of the first NAN Scotland events at Cove Park, and finds out about networking in rural areas.
A series of Vox box style reflections by some of the artists who have experienced NAN.
Dan Miller reports from the NAN Scotland event in Stirling, January 2006
Writing about findings from her independent review of the NAN (Networking Artists’ Networks) initiative, Jane Watt highlights how ‘trust’ is a crucial factor in supporting artists’ critical and professional development. “This five-letter word,” she says “could be an evaluator’s (or […]
In November, some forty representatives of directors, visual artists and writers from thirteen European countries met in Amsterdam for a conference organised by EURO-MEI.
In January we asked a-n subscribers to tell us their thoughts about us and additional benefits and services they needed in a survey to selected UK regions and Wales and by request. All who returned their completed surveys by 31 […]
We are two African artists based in Nottingham and we felt the need to add our perspectives to the comments of the past two issues of a-n regarding EMACA visual arts. We feel that it is appropriate that artists who […]
I have recently completed an interdisciplinary visual project with the aid of an AHRC grant, within the Department of Cultural Geography at Royal Holloway College. As an artist currently in dialogue with an academic department I am interested in the […]
AV Festival 06, the UK’s newest, and largest, international festival of film, digital arts, music, games and new media will take place in various venues in NewcastleGateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough this month, with the theme of ‘Life’. Explains AV Festival […]
Plymouth Arts Centre and Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery
14 January – 25 February
