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Experience: Culture, Health and Wellbeing training course
As a teaching artist, I am always looks for ways to improve the quality of their drawing and painting skills, as well as their well-being.
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B.E.A.T. – Beaudesert Eco Arts Trail
So, we have a title. Our first meeting with directors and staff who will be involved in BEAT was held yesterday. We applied to Cannock Chase AONB to run a pilot project where we take people with enduring mental health […]
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Artists making Spaces…
Yesterday’s trip to Leeds with the Fruit Factory Network had, for me, an overarching theme: Artists making spaces East Street Arts, make spaces happen for artists to work, live and engage with communities in. Their inclusive, can-do attitude pervaded the […]
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Sarah Roach
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back to …
Preparing to travel to Dance4 next weekend and looking forward to having the time-space-support to work alone in the studio on a series of dance studies and drawing experiments, as well as work with some new collaborators, be in dialogue […]
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tilt-rhythm-back: dances & drawings
2 week R&D residency at the international Centre for Choreography, Dance4, Nottingham 1-14 July. Supported by A-N-Bursaries.
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New two-year research project will explore impact of socially engaged practice
News In Brief: The new Paul Hamlyn Foundation-funded project will look at whether socially engaged artistic activity can really make a positive difference to a community. Plus: Kitty Anderson announced as new director of LUX Scotland; Hannah Rothschild, chair of National Gallery’s board of trustees, to step down after four-year tenure.
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Craft Central Makers Market at The Forge 29-30 June
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co-curating/co-creating!
Is it co-curating or is it co-creating! Or is it putting up a small display in a glass cabinet? Any one of those would describe my morning at the Beaney Museum and Art Gallery in Canterbury, with the arts lead […]
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Susan Absolon Open Studio
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Members’ Events: sensory installation, British wildflowers, Thames psychogeography
This week’s selection includes exhibitions and events in London, Wiltshire, Lowestoft and La Trimouille in France – all taken from a-n’s busy Events section featuring shows and events posted by members.
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Art Night 2019: “A love letter to Walthamstow”
London’s largest free contemporary art festival returns with a programme of exhibitions and events, taking place over one night and two locations, Walthamstow and King’s Cross. Curator Helen Nisbet and artists Emma Talbot and Joe Namy explain what to expect.
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Degree Shows 2019: this week’s openings
Degree shows season continues with mid-June being one of the busiest periods for visitors to see work by graduating students. Here’s a selection of shows are open this week across the UK from Sunderland in the north east of England to Plymouth on the south west coast.
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Listening
The way I paint involves a ‘listening’ – a paying attention to the surface texture through touch and vision and being aware of my own reaction. Noticing what is thriving now in our immediate world – both plants and […]
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Substrata
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Curious Treasures
A research project funded by A-N Artist Bursary (2019).
Above image: object/detail from installation, ‘as small as the world and as large as alone.’ shown at Project78Gallery, St Leonards on Sea, 2019
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Mind Garden
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Nicky Hirst: Algorithms, Grail Moths, Largish Tom…
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ActionSpace Presents TUBE LINES at Tate Exchange
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Diary part 2
DAY 6 Progress, progress, progress. Despite not having to achieve a specific outcome I feel the need to see finished works. I have to remind my self that I am here to explore new ideas, not necessary produce works- at […]
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Degree Shows 2019: alien structures, a multisensory installation, and protest art applique
For our first a-n Instagram take over this week, a-n’s Narbi Price was on hand to post from the Fine Art Degree Show at Newcastle University, where he is currently a PhD candidate. As Price explained in his first post […]
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Resistance in the face of Aggression: Cold War Nuclear Bunker Series
A continuation of my theme “Resistance in the face of Aggression”, these pieces are based upon nuclear bunkers, primarily the Secret Bunker in Fife, Scotland which I visited and took sketches and photographs as the basis of my paintings, which are all oil on canvas.
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TRANSCRIPT: Neurodivergent Leaders in the Cultural and Academic Sectors?
Why aren’t there female leaders who identify as neuro-divergent in the arts and academia? Who are the gatekeepers? What needs to change?
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Light, observed
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TRANSCRIPT: Too Much/ Not Enough ‘Neurodiversity’ in UK art & academia?
It’s been 1 year since my #MagicCarpet was launched at the Art Workers Guild, when we unpacked the term ‘neurodiverse art’. Since then, there’s been a mini-explosion of activities tagged ‘neurodiversity’ in UK arts & academia, but, or hence, the term remains contested.