Contents include: FrenchMottershead on ‘microperformance’, Mostyn Open and Whitstable Biennale reviewed. Reports on guidelines for galleries within the Own Art scheme and new ACE visual arts strategy. Caroline Wright on exchanging Norwich for Tokyo; artists’ associations in Iceland; squatters’ rights in Rotterdam. PDF version [size 8.5MB]. Requires pdf reader.
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton
7 July – 27 August
Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich
8 July – 19 August
Leeds City Art Gallery
28 June – 27 August
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
20 June – 22 July
Exeter, Spacex
7 July 2006 to 9 September 2006
PAD Gallery
7 July 2006 to 8 August 2006
Guyan Porter reports on the recent NAN event that brought eleven artists from Scotland together with thirty artists and arts workers from the north west of England.
I’m 65, on a pension credit, no savings, and I live in a remote spot on the Wales/England border. So obviously money, and delivery problems feature. I’ve had to scale my painting and sculpture right down “can I take it […]
Ask yourself these questions. What makes you an artist? And what do you have in common with other artists?
New County Hall
5 May 2006 to 6 June 2006
The Old Truman Brewery
6 June 2006 to 7 July 2006
The Storey Gallery, Lancaster
7 July 2006 to 8 August 2006
The Public in West Bromwich went into administration in March – just months before it was due to open.
The launch of Arts Council England’s new strategy for contemporary visual arts heralds the sector’s prioritisation by ACE.
Wysing Arts, Cambridge
7 July 2006 to 8 August 2007
Just five months after the arrival of the Artist’s Resale Right, British artists are to receive their first royalty payouts from DACS. Distributions were made during July, with artists seeing the first tangible results of ten years of campaigning for […]
Sherborne House in Dorset faces an uncertain future following rejection of a £3 million Heritage Lottery Fund application to safeguard this Grade 1 listed building and secure its status as a Regional Centre for the Visual Arts. “The reaction is […]
Oriel Mostyn
5 May 2006 to 7 July 2006
Emilia Telese describes Icelandic solutions to artists’ interaction.
In your July 2006 issue you report on the new BRITDOCART scheme.
I’ve been a subscriber to a-n for a couple of years and have found your reviews to be really fascinating and informative, particularly the regional ones.
In the world outside the arts, when someone offers something – a house for sale, a job, work from a tradesperson, a proposal of marriage even – this is generally the opening gambit in a negotiation process by which what […]
The Lightbox, the new gallery and museum currently under construction in Woking, Surrey, is pioneering an innovative mental health and art project that aligns the history of this sensitive and often misrepresented area with current day attitudes. Artist Rachel Gadsden, […]
The programme ‘Climate Change: Cultural Change’ took place in June, 2006 in Newcastle-Gateshead, curated by Helix Arts with CarbonNeutralNewcastle.
