door#14 (mixed media on canvas board) Doors often harbour many story remnants, especially if they bear signs of layers of paint or marks on wood. Think how many snippets the doors you encounter would hear, see or sense just in […]
Premiere STARTS RESIDENCIES DAYS 2020 – Final Event Friday, February 28 – Sunday, March 1st CENTQUATRE, Paris – FRANCE
A budget is an essential tool for any artist planning a new project, making a funding application or drawing up a business plan, while a-n’s Exhibition Payment Guide asks artists to provide a clear exhibition proposal and budget in advance of negotiation. This guide by the Cultural Enterprise Office in Glasgow offers straightforward advice on how to construct and manage a simple budget.
a-n’s Exhibition Payment Guide says artists should make sure they provide clear evidence of their work and experience when approaching a gallery with a proposal. This quick guide offers advice on the main areas to consider when developing a proposal, and includes tips on what to include when responding to an approach from a gallery or making a speculative pitch.
door#13 (mixed media on canvas board) I always imagined a sweet shop having a pink sweet-coloured door, the sugary treats oozing out of the pores of the building. Fruit salads and lemon bonbons are calling to me from beautifully lined-up […]
Artists and advisers identify key questions to ask to help sift the good opportunities from the mediocre, and the downright mendacious.
Consultant and curator Mark Doyle offers advice on how to generate sales and develop a market for your work, through building relationships with clients and collectors.
In the second part to ‘Selling your work: building relationships with clients and collectors’, consultant and curator Mark Doyle provides further recommendations for sales, aftercare, and maintaining relationships with clients and collectors.
Hi 2020 just started for me, and I have so far reached my goals. I climbed a mountain, I had some tropical holidays and did lots of healthy stuff. A big and sad step but necessary was to stop every […]
Artists, collectors, gallery directors, curators and dealers offer tips and guidance on selling your work and maintaining relationships with clients and collectors.
Announcing the recipients of this year’s a-n Artist Bursaries, which offer awards of £500-£1,500 to a-n Artist members wishing to undertake self-determined professional development over the coming year. We take a look at some of this year’s funded projects and hear from successful applicants.
Acrylic on Canvas with painted sides
W 86.5 x H101.5 x D3.7
£2700
Technology and biology collide in this painting. A robotic conceptualisation of mankind, at the intersection between life and technology, this painting reconciles two worlds.
The online exhibition of selected black and white drawings from my Beachtime Stories series, curated by Sue Crellin-McCarthy is now live. If you missed the exhibition at The Margate School’s Line gallery, here is a chance to see some of the drawings. The complete series […]
door#12 (mixed media on canvas board) The world of doors within doors – looks cosy inside doesn’t it? Glimpses of these layers of doors always captures my imagination, what lies within? And is the reality as lovely as it looks? […]
Paintings, print and drawings
door#11 (mixed media on canvas board) The ordinary door with the big personality! I’d like to meet the person that lives here :) Click here to shop.
In recent years many artists have moved from major conurbations to smaller towns or cities in the UK, with access to cheaper work space and accommodation, improved health and wellbeing, and the need for stronger community networks among the factors influencing their decision to relocate. In this guide, Dan Thompson explores the many and varied reasons why artists move to a new place.
Nine artists share their stories and advice on how to make the most of moving your home and practice to a new location. In this follow up to Dan Thompson’s guide to relocating, artists working across a range of practice areas discuss how they found new networks, refuelled their practice and sought out support mechanisms following a move.
At the outset of this blog I stated … “I am used to working within a framework … created by budget, or brief, or client, or timescale…. I am comfortable in my art practice where I have a similar framework […]
I’ve been here 2 weeks now, and I’m beginning to get more of a feel for how I, at least, relate to the trees here, feeling like I am actually meeting some of them and getting more of a sense […]