Gunpowder Park, the new ninety-hectare country park at the top of Greater London, has launched Bright Sparks, a major new award scheme for creative practitioners who want to work with the “physical and social aspects of open space”.
The recommendations of the Scottish Cultural Commission, published in June, have been roundly rejected in a debate in the Scottish Parliament.
Fourteen projects have been announced as recipients of the Sciart Awards 2005.
Michael Pinsky is the latest artist commissioned as part of COAST, a four-year arts project to raise the cultural and aesthetic profile of Essex’s coastal area.
The Bombay Sapphire Prize 2005 – at £20,000, the world’s largest annual award for artists, designers and architects working with glass – has been presented to glassmakers Anne Brodie, Ruth Dupré and Louise Gilbert Scott.
Lee-Anne Hampson is the UK-based winner of the 2005 Commonwealth Arts and Crafts Awards.
The Celeste Painting Prize, a new £15,000 prize for painting, has been launched in the UK.
Next year, employer organisation Creative and Cultural Skills will produce a comprehensive skills strategy, as the first stage of a new programme of support delivering new creative apprenticeships, better careers support for newcomers and a new management and leadership programme.
David Lammy MP, Minister of Culture, on the challenges facing visual artists.
Tarze Edwards, Chair of EMACA, speaks out about Arts Council England’s decision to ‘transfer funds from an unknown and failing project’.
Pdf version of publication intended to support professional development teaching within Higher Education.
Conistion, Cumbria
9 September 2005 to 9 September 2005
Plan 9, Bristol
9 September 2005 to 10 October 2005
Towneley Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Burnley
9 September 2005 to 10 October 2005
Four Corners, London
9 September 2005 to 10 October 2005
Café Gallery Projects, London and other venues
9 September 2005 to 10 October 2005
Beaconsfield, London
14 September – 20 November
36 Frederick Street, Birmingham
30 September – 29 October
87.7 FM, Cardiff
22-29 October
and
National Museum and Gallery Cardiff
6 December – 15 January
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
10 October – 31 December
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Launch 6 October
London, Winchester, Poole, St Malo, Nantes, Dijon, Strasbourg, Karlsruhe, Frankfurt.
Mark Hutchinson talks to John Russell about his theory and practice PhD at Kingston University.
Shifting practice, guest edited by John Beagles and Paul Stone, takes the artist-led initiative as its starting point.
Includes introduction by Beagles and Stone and articles from Ruth Claxton, Springhill Institute, Deborah Jackson, Peter Suchin and Susannah Thompson.
From the a-n Collections series.
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Collaborative relationships series exposes the working relationships between artists and the wide range of professionals they collaborate with. From the a-n Collections series. Pdf [size: 1.28Mb]. Requires pdf reader.
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