News briefing with national and international stories, including: Creative Scotland in crisis as two board members resign over regular funding decisions; EVA International announces final list of artists for Ireland’s biennial.
The committee of the artist-run Glasgow gallery, which last week was dropped from Creative Scotland’s portfolio of regularly funded organisations, has issued a strongly-worded statement lambasting the decision.
Thoughts on developing a Coaching practice
Adding some images of Stage 4 (final stage) to give me time to write this last post. One day on I’m still feeling pretty tired, through pleased the journey is completed and I am still in one piece (just!) It’s […]
Five projects posted by a-n members on our busy Events section and this week including exhibitions in Herne Bay, London, Newcastle upon Tyne, Newton Powys and Penzance.
The a-n Biennial Bursaries 2018 are now open for applications, with 20 awards of £600 available to a-n Artist and Joint (Artist and Arts Organiser) members to attend the launch of either the Berlin Biennale or Manifesta 12 in Palermo, Sicily, in June.
I am going up to Dalby Forest with fellow artist and co-director of DAD Joanna for an event organised by Selfscapes, a new research cluster at York St John University which aims to investigate both the body and place as sites for interconnected […]
I spent most of last year applying for Arts Council grant funding for the next stage of Peace Painting, however, even when I received feedback, and adapted the proposal to consider the feedback, and advice from the a-n team at […]
Currently featured on the a-n Instagram, the work of a-n member Dr Catherine Baker involves collaborations with clinical science practitioners and patients, and contributes to different fields of study. Richard Taylor finds out more.
Using learning from approaches taken in Australia and the USA, Susanne Burns offers a critique of the competitive UK subsidised arts system, identifying changes required for organisational and artist economic sustainability.
Dense report focusing on the economic contribution and potential of the creative industries sector in the regions based on ONS and other statistical data.
Explores the historical context of public collecting and the dilemmas and challenges of developing museum collections within shrinking budgets and rising international art prices.
Crafts Council update on the 2012 demographic figures, with methodology that makes them compatible with DCMS standards and SOC codes.
The a-n bursary, apart from funding my printmaking adventures, has afforded me five professional development sessions with Mark Devereux of Mark Devereux Projects. Originally, this bursary formed part of a bigger research and development project, for which I applied to […]
I keep trying to figure out what it is about print that draws me. There’s something in the mechanical reproduction of the hand-drawn gesture. It’s drawing but not-drawing. And about the unique (hand-embroidered) object versus the (mechanically printed) edition or […]
For a few years, my eye has been increasingly drawn to the etchings and aquatints of other artists: Paula Rego, Louise Bourgeois, Betty Goodwin, Tessa Horrocks, Eben Goff, David Hockney, Norman Ackroyd, among others. As a gift to myself in […]
Thanks to the a-n Professional Development Bursary I’ve started down a new road. Wish me luck.
Feeling exhausted after the longest run yet at about 20 miles, amazingly I arrived around the same time as before, The day started with the worst weather imaginable: tipping down with rain, a high wind and a chill in the […]
