April saw the launch of Scotland’s first purpose-built artists’ studios complex in Glasgow, enabled through an initiative from WASPS. The building at 77 Hanson Street is capable of housing 200 artists and makers, alongside residential accommodation for visiting international artists […]
February saw the announcement that the Artists Association of Ireland was battling with a grave financial situation. After legal advice, the Board moved to restore financial stability by making three staff redundancies. This has included Stella Coffey its long-standing Chief […]
Resource, the Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries has produced a detailed plan for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport showing how England’s regional museums can be revitalised over the next five years. Proposals were requested following the publication […]
From some 2,000 entries from artists across the UK, ninety-two works were picked for the Hunting Group Art Prizes 2002 exhibition. On the shortlist for the £12,000 first prize and £5,000 young artist prize are Nicholas Archer, Peter Freeth, Tomoya […]
Continuing our series of articles focusing on the career development of well-established artists, painter Geraint Evans talks to Sally Shaw about his success.
Artists Yusupha Jawara and Sabera Bham met through a project called artxchange, which brought artists over from the UK to share skills with Gambian artists. Eddie Chambers tells how this first meeting, and the realisation that both had similar concerns in their work, led to collaboration.
Networked Bodies is an ongoing research and development project for New Work Network. Through examination of alternative models of funding and commissioning, the aim is to establish a radical new model for commissioning live work. It is envisaged that this […]
Since 1993 the Arts Foundation has given over £500,000 to individual artists through its fellowships programme. This provides unrestricted support for talented, emerging artists at a time in their careers when they need help the most – after commitment but […]
In 2001 Lorna Green took part in projects in Austria and Korea that had been organised by the Artists in Nature International Network (AiNIN), a web-based organisation for artists, musicians and writers who work site-specifically with and in nature.
Simon Collison made his first visit to Iceland in summer 1998 as a guest artist at Straumur Art Commune. He had read about Straumur, some five miles from Reykjavik, in the catalogue for ‘New Territories’, a touring exhibition born out of an exchange programme, instigated by Stamford Arts Centre and featured in [a-n] MAGAZINE in 1997.
Initiated by London-based Live Art Development Agency, Focus Live Art was an unprecedented set of meetings across England that brought together artists, promoters and funders to consolidate the strengths and achievements of the live art sector, to address issues of […]
Benedict Carpenter has won this year’s Jerwood Sculpture Prize, worth £20,000. The prize takes the form of a commission for the Jerwood Sculpture Park. Open to sculptors under 35 or within ten years of graduation from art school, the artist […]
Susan MacWilliam reports on her residency at Caribbean Contemporary Arts (CCA), Trinidad.
Glasgow-based artists Ben Woodeson and John Beagles give accounts of two very different recent events in Berlin: the artist-run BBQ Project and Art Forum Berlin, the city’s annual art fair.
“The Victorian nude. Supported by Tate members” From a Tate Britain press release. “There is a need to ‘skill-up’ artists’ design and communication skills in order for them to gain a better understanding of working in a ‘client relationship’ in […]
Are the proposals to turn the regional arts boards into regional offices of the Arts Council of England simply a one-off that goes against decentralisation trends, or is it the harbinger of policies for recentralisation? At an international seminar on […]
An installation by Nick Crowe for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s Bothy Gallery responds to the internal space and hints at the landscape beyond. For Nasdaq Landscape, Crowe displays his drawings on twelve flipcharts, each combining a graph with a landscape, […]
John Dummett reports from an international festival of live art in the Croatian capital.
Jacqueline Moon reports on how she developed her interest in the architecture of cities through travelling from her home town of Glasgow, to Barcelona.
Glow is an installation of 702 gilded, suspended light bulbs first shown at Artspace in Sydney, Australia in February 2001 and exhibited this summer at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea. Glow started life as one in a series […]
In its thirty-five year contemporary history, the residency has become a complex affair, according to research by the Centre for Cultural Policy and Management in Newcastle upon Tyne. A study conducted by Kevin Stephens as part of the Year of […]
Until 5 January the Myles Meehan Gallery at Darlington Arts Centre plays host to incredible paper sculptures that contain projected images from Japan and England and conjure up the nature and characteristics of river movement. The installation, Light on Water […]
An added bonus for the seventy-seven first-time exhibitors at the Chelsea Crafts Fair in October was the opportunity to win the Crafts Council newcomers awards. Worth £250 for each of the two week’s programmes, these went to jeweller Susan Pietzsch […]
Art.tm’s Director Gordon Rogers explains the organisation’s role in facilitating and promoting the work of visual artists in the heart of the most dispersed population in Europe.
In the summer Edinburgh-based artist Julie Read attended IMPACT, the Second International Printmaking Conference in Helsinki. She also took the chance to check out the local artscene.
