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Flowers East, London
8 July – 8 August
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Ale and Porter Arts, Bradford on Avon
16 July – 20 August
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Cecily Brennan: Balancing
Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
30 June – 27 August
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Nathaniel Mellors: Hateball
Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
25 June – 30 July
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On what there is
Spectacle Gallery, Birmingham
10-24 July
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Eight to create
Creative 8 is a new initiative from the Clerkenwell Green Association (CGA) in London. It is a new style of 360 degree support for craft exhibitions and designer makers supported by the Arts Council, England. Eight designer makers will be […]
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Groundwork commissions
Environmental regeneration agency Groundwork East Midlands is working with five nationally recognised artists to embed a more highly developed approach to arts commissioning. This project builds on a growing recognition within business and charitable sectors – Groundwork’s main networks – […]
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September means design
London is awash with design this month, when the London Design Festival takes place. Established in 2003 to celebrate and promote London and the UK’s creativity, it acts as an umbrella, encompassing activity from across the design spectrum. The first […]
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a-n Magazine August 2005
Contents include: PARTNERS initiative places Scottish artists in local communities. Group shows including ‘New Contemporaries’ reviewed, plus putting the ‘temporary’ into Contemporary Art Norwich. Letters on teaching, school residencies and voluntary work. Graham Dolphin remembers Berlin, Dan Willson pictures his […]
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Future forecast: Social space interviews
Read the Social space interviews in full along with Becky Shaw’s Introduction and Matters arising.
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Code of practice
89% of those attending a Code of Practice event in 2004 said it provided practical examples they could employ in their practice and 87% said it suggested where they could go to for access to further advice and information. As […]
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Exhibiting participants’ work
Do you work with fine/contemporary art, photography, new media or other visual arts projects which result in participants’ work being exhibited? It may be alongside the artist’s work, as part of the artist’s work, or separately as a spin-off project. […]
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Future forecast: Social space
Social space addresses dynamics and divergences within artist’s practice in the social realm. Guest edited by Becky Shaw with contributors including Ricardo Basbaum, Sarah Cole, Lubaina Himid, Richard Layzell, Andre Stitt and Una Walker. The second publication in Future forecast […]
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Future forecast: Social space
Part of the 2005-06 Future forecast series, marking a-n’s 25th anniversary, Social space addresses dynamics and divergences within artists’ practice in the social realm.
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Networking Artists’ Networks (NAN) – facilitating artists’ collective action
A year into this strategic action research project aimed at connecting artists and their networks, we are delighted to announce Esmée Fairbairn Foundation’s commitment to three-year funding in support of enhancing the number of UK artists’ bursaries available. The project […]
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New contributions
Artists are our major stakeholders, contributing over £340K annually in subscription income. In turn, we return over £120K annually to artists through employment and commissions for research, writing and presentations. As part of our ongoing commitment to consulting with artists […]
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Coming soon
Look out in September for Good exhibition practice with contributions by Lee Corner and Paul Glinkowski. Subscribers automatically receive copies of each of our 25-year publications. a-n Magazine August 2005
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2005degrees unedited
We’ve had an excellent quality of response to ‘2005degrees unedited’, our critical showcase of graduate exhibitions and new writing. Christine Durrant reviewed Swindon College’s Drawing for Fine Art Practice including Deborah Edwardes’s “gentle narratives [that] conjure up a quiet surreal […]
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Dan Willson
This month’s artist’s story took the unusual form of a comic strip.
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Art I remember seeing in Berlin
Graham Dolphin created a text-work inspired by his weekend on the artists’ research trip to Berlin, 1-3 July. Dolphin’s work also featured on the cover of August a-n Magazine.
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The hole of France: Part 1
Stephanie Délcroix on the processes of public commissioning in France.
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Editorial – 2005 August
Feedback from artists involved in July’s artists’ research trip to Berlin highlights some of the benefits from artists’ involvement in the NAN initiative. Miranda Whall, in Berlin for a six-month residency, and organiser of the Berlin programme confirms how doing […]
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Approaching Berlin
Miranda Whall and Graham Dolphin discuss programming and participating in a research trip to Berlin.
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Lecturers resigned
I was fascinated to read your letters page in the July issue of a-n Magazine. Perhaps a new, refreshed debate should commence regarding the value and recompense for all forms of teaching the arts. I have always valued teaching not […]
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Openings
After organising exhibitions in a variety of temporary venues since 1997, Newcastle-based Vane moved into a new development phase in July with the opening of a permanent gallery space. The opening exhibition, ‘Yes No’, brings together two artists, Richard Forster […]