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studio space in Swansea needed
Hello, Does anyone know of any studio spaces available to rent in Swansea or surrounding area please? Thank you
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Sea Garden
A group show inspired by the museum’s seaweed collection, illuminating one of the hidden roles of women in scientific research.
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Rural contexts: Curating in rural places
Rosemary Shirley explores new approaches to curating in rural contexts including New Geographies, a project developed by a consortium of nine arts organisations based in the East of England, and Ian Giles work as part of the project, Open Ramble East, which looks at queering rural places through rambling walks.
40th Anniversary Feature
40 Years 40 Artists: Mona Hatoum
Mona Hatoum discusses the ways in which her own work “became more confrontational” in the 1980s through live performance and direct street action.
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Dear Christine (A Tribute to Christine Keeler)
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The Geranium Project
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Pen to paper to foundry
I ran my crowdfunding campaign (to help with foundry costs to cast my sculpture in bronze) with nothing but preliminary drawings, maquettes and digital visualisations of the piece in situ. Bearing in mind that in the past my art has […]
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Rural contexts: Robbie Coleman and Jo Hodges, artists exploring relationships, systems and change
Jo Hodges and Robbie Coleman’s collaborative and multi-disciplinary practice questions our relationships with environment and landscape. Sally Davies talks to the Dumfries and Galloway-based artists about working in, and interpreting, rural contexts.
40th Anniversary Feature
40 Years 40 Artists: the 1980s
Read the first 10 conversations in our 40 Years 40 Artists series of interviews with artists who feature in a-n’s archive.
40th Anniversary Feature
40 Years 40 Artists: Anne Bean
Anne Bean recalls co-founding Bow Gamelan Ensemble and “resonant living and working situations” in 1980s Mexico and Poland.
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06/01/20
Today was the first Art Lab of 2020! We had 3 presentations already booked otherwise we would’ve moved to the new format which is 2 presentations and then a kind of ‘marketplace’ informal/unstructured show and tell where anyone can bring […]
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Rural contexts: Rebecca Spooner, Creative Director, Peak – Contemporary Art in the Black Mountains
Peak is an arts organisation based in the Black Mountains in Wales that works with artists and communities to respond to the rural environment. Peak’s Creative Director Rebecca Spooner speaks to Rosemary Shirley about the organisation’s contemporary arts remit for making and showing art in rural places.
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Rural contexts: Morag Colquhoun, artist living near Brecon
Artist Morag Colquhoun, whose practice includes sculpture, photography, installation, performance, video, textiles and curatorial practice, discusses the benefits and pitfalls of working in a rural context.
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Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize opens to the Public in London
My piece Chemo Day Drawing 13 June 2019 is currently touring as part of the The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019 exhibition which will be on show in The Chainstore at Trinity Buoy Wharf from 18 January to 1 February 2020. […]
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Stand Up! Call for Submissions
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East Midlands
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“It could have gone horribly wrong”: Coventry Biennial by Isaac Nugent
Continuing our series of articles on the Coventry Biennial, which each of the eight participants on the programme submitted following the November workshop, here’s Isaac Nugent’s 1,000-word feature. 7. Coventry Biennial by Isaac Nugent “It could have gone horribly wrong.” […]
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“It is not a commercial showcase”: Coventry Biennial by India Nielsen
As a task following on from the first workshop in Coventry, each of the writers on the programme was asked to produce a 1000-word feature on the Coventry Biennial. After feedback and a light edit, this is India Nielsen’s article. 6. […]
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Now Showing 325: The week’s top exhibitions
Our regular selection of shows to see around the UK, including a major retrospective of Bridget Riley at the Southbank Centre, London and a new video installation by the ZouZou Group at Ikon, Birmingham.
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05/01/20
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04/01/20
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03/01/20
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a-n Documenta Bursary BLOG
A pint glass half full (or half empty) with (euro) “slummy”. As in – “This machine only takes coins. Got any (euro) slummy, mate…?”[1] Non-denominational; a stretched cling-film ceiling (or floor) between myself and you – “slummy”. Cling-film, a temporary […]
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Printmaking at home, pros and cons
Some time ago, during November, I tried making some prints at home, first making monoprints on a gelatin plate, then small screenprints. I had all the necessary tools and materials in a cupboard. The amazing thing was that it was […]
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The Lake and The Shed (with many thanks to J.K Rowling)
Now you know I love to work to music and with music… but some days are best served silent. Yesterday and today are such days. I used to say to students “trust the process, something will happen to make a […]