Now in its fifth year, ANTI continues to alter its physical character through a programme that occupies changing sites in this Finnish Lakeland town.
Arts Professional’s recent survey shows that arts organisers across all art forms are badly paid, with over half earning less than £25K annually.
Aspex, Portsmouth’s contemporary visual art gallery, opens in its new premises in the heart of Portsmouth’s regenerated Gunwharf Quays in December.
The Arts Council of is hosting a conference on Arts, Health and Well-being in Wales on 5 December with the overall aim of presenting and discussing a Draft Strategy for Arts, Health and Well-being.
Six jewellers are competing for the UK’s most prestigious prize in the applied arts, the
South Central is a not-for-profit contemporary art space that started in July and is based in the Southgate Centre shopping mall, Bath, an area due for redevelopment.
Northern Art Prize, a new prize for contemporary artists, launched in November.
Short-listed for the 2006 Jerwood Photography Awards are Zoe Hatziyannaki, Peter Oetzmann, Paul Plews, Indre Serpytyte and Paul Winch-Furness, whose work is on show at the Jerwood Space, London until 9 December prior to a national tour.
Artists are getting record resale royalties as DACS made the fourth set of royalty payments in October.
A writer for a-n Magazine 1997-98, Richard Gagola, who died suddenly in October, will be remembered by friends and arts colleagues for his wit, infectious humour, and commitment to the visual arts.
A merger between Cywaith Cymru/Artworks Wales and CBAT The Arts & Regeneration Agency, Wales in October has created the largest public art company in the UK.
Engage, the association that promotes the understanding and enjoyment of the visual arts, launched the enquire report, Inspiring Learning in Galleries on the 6 November at Tate Modern, London.
Every age rewrites its history in its own image. Each age produces art that reflects that image, whether consciously or not.
I have recently been very badly treated by a gallery – as in not told about artworks sold, then not paid, then given bouncing cheques and downright lies and evasion.
The recent coverage in a-n publications on good practice and rates of pay for artists is very useful, but I think that an important issue has not been covered.
I read with interest your latest Good Practice publication, Negotiating your practice.
I am writing about the article in October’s a-n Magazine reviewing The Edinburgh Annuale, ‘Annuale III’ by Guyan Porter.
Avigail Ochert is correct in her observation that for the purposes of considering salaries “artists’ pay scales should not be compared or equated with teachers’’”.
Various venues, Lancaster and folly.co.uk
29 September – 21 October
Various locations, Cumbria
30 September – 15 October
Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
16 September – 19 October
Oriel Davies, Newtown
10 October – 18 November
Matt’s Gallery
10 October 2006 to 10 October 2006
Contents include: Littoral helps save Schwitters’ Merzbarn for the nation, Michael Cousin introduces International residencies focus and Steve Dutton examines curatorial internationalism. ‘No place like home’ at Beacon and the damage caused by media controversy – while a new site-specific […]
The Jerwood Space
10 October 2006 to 11 November 2006
