THREAD AND WORD – A WALK WITH SHRINES AT THE MARGATE BOOKIE A Walk with Shrines, unwrapping, revealing and reflecting. Elaina Arkeooll reflects on her Ofrenda’ Blue Beard’s box’, Guy Debord and The Book of Proverbs We unwrapped Elaina’s offering […]
Voids of life are true calling disguise as emptiness. Embrace them and you will find your purpose
Documentation of exhibition – Inland Project at APT Gallery for DeptfordX 2018. Collaborative project by Flora Bradwell, Sylwia Narbutt and Scott Lawrence Macfadyen.
Maintaining this blog, as I’ve mentioned many times before, provides me primarily with a record of my work. It also provides me with a space in which to reflect and think back on the things that are easily forgotten and […]
‘8 Poor Copies’ is both a response to Richards’ show ‘Poor Copy’ at Northern Charter in April 2018, and a kind of manual for thinking through our respective practices, including our show ‘PooR Life by dog people’ at Transition Two Gallery, opening next week
Other News In Brief: Ireland’s EVA International announces theme and guest curator for its 39th edition; Arts Council England awards £5m to Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 plus announces latest small capital grants; fluorescent Ugo Rondine public sculpture unveiled in Liverpool.
Fred had a limp yesterday and seemed like he wanted to stay in so we didn’t go out. But Today it’s a miraculous recovery overnight and were out and so is the tide. This means there is a massive wide-open […]
The Plymouth-based organisation has made the ‘unavoidable decision’ to cut its visual arts programme as part of a major rethink which involves relocating its cinema programme to a new site at Plymouth College of Art.
I met Tracey Kershaw for the first time when I signed up for a group critique session which she organised and ran at Backlit, an artist community in Nottingham. Being a nervous participant I arrived a bit too early but […]
Selected from a-n’s busy Events section, featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n members, this week’s selections are from Shropshire, London, Ipswich, Taunton and Nottingham.
I record my train journeys in moving image. I am fascinated by manmade objects in the fields that we are so familiar with we fail to notice them. The are mundane objects: pylons, renewable energy towers, gas holders, railway tracks, electricity […]
2018 A-N artist bursary blog documenting the research and development of new works by Euphrosyne Andrews.
A selection of international exhibitions at museums and art galleries that either allow free or discounted entry with an IAA card, now available to a-n members. This month we visit Denmark, Norway, Germany, Hungary, Turkey and France.
Diving into a world of sensors, programming, hardware, software it becomes evident to structure what I want to learn, whilst keeping an open mind for the possibilities each separate element has to offer. A form and functionality is roughly shaping […]
Hi there, I recently ran a workshop which resulted in a participatory installation. It involved people sharing written contributions and I want to document these somehow, online. Has anyone seen examples of this other than the standard blog? I really […]
On Sunday 7th October 2018, “Sound Scape” was performed at The Lowry in Salford, a theatre and exhibitions venue, in the Promenade Gallery with photos and information about L. S. Lowry, 1887-1976, RBA RA, who drew and painted in the […]
Redevelopment will result in 42% more studio space, plus a new gallery, dedicated learning space, public garden, and café at south London site.
Newcastle-based Mani Kambo uses religious rituals inspired by her Sikh upbringing in work that straddles film installation and performance, as well as screenings and cyanotype printing. Richard Taylor talks to the artist, who is one of 25 a-n members recently awarded a mentoring bursary.
ecologies of care was initiated by artist Ria Hartley in 2018. The project comprises a growing toolkit of resources designed to support artists who have access requirements to express their needs. Hartley speaks to Lydia Ashman about the toolkit and why artists’ health and wellbeing should be a sector-wide priority. This resource is available in text format and also as a video format sound recording.
