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Zarina Bhimji
Manick Govinda profiles Zarina Bhimji and uncovers how two awards have played a pivotal role in her recent work.
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Zarina Bhimji
My past projects led me to reflect on the fact that commissions were affecting the way I made work, I felt that I needed to work without deadlines or commission agendas.
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NOW SHOWING #107: The week’s top exhibitions
This week’s selection includes a sound installation in Birmingham, photography and film in east London and a ten year anniversary exhibition at Newcastle upon Tyne-based gallery Vane.
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NOW SHOWING #41: The week’s top exhibitions
This week we get Somewhat Abstract in Nottingham, catch Charley Peters’ virtual show of interactive drawings online, and explore the relationship between the body and sculpture with Jonathan Baldock in Cardiff.
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Untitled blog post from "The Treatment of Six Characters"
112% funded, as promised my Kickstarter backers rollcall, plus others thanks. The Kickstarter campaign is now finished and has been fantastically successful, coming in at 112%!! It has been a great time: revealing, surprising and seems also to have become […]
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Untitled blog post from "Threads"
Went to New Art Gallery Walsall a few weeks ago. (I did blog about it) and saw everything, twice, but didn’t watch Zarina Bhimji’s Yellow Patch. I had a bit of a headache and didn’t want to sit in the […]
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Untitled blog post from "Attending Factory Nights"
Welcome to Walsall Stepping out of the train station I see a sign for New Art Gallery Walsall. The gallery is really close by and it is an impressive modern design. In the ground floor window looking onto the street […]
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Realising the value: how practice-based organisations will fare after ACE cuts
‘Ladders for development’ argues that the visual arts sector should pull together and support small visual arts organisations cut by Arts Council England because they “punch above their weight” and provide vital development of future artists. Six months on, Dany Louise interviews these arts organisations again, to find out how they’ve fared and what their futures hold.
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Future forecast: Outcomes and issues: An appetite for change in the visual arts: recommendations
Evidence-based recommendations on: Identifying the ‘new practices’ model, Valuing peer networks, Redefining public accountability, Supporting location and community and New ‘brand image’ for artists.
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Artsadmin commissions for town hall hotel and apartments
A-n’s Collaborative relationships series exposes the working relationships between artists and the wide range of professionals they choose to collaborate with. In 2009-10 a series of permanent artworks were negotiated for a major redevelopment of Bethnal Green’s former Town Hall into an exclusive hotel. Artsadmin’s Manick Govinda and Clare Qualmann of walkwalkwalk give their account of these negotiations and the work resulting from one of the commissions.
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The Arts Foundation
Manick Govinda explores The Arts Foundation’s numerous awards for individual artists and looks at the impact they have on the receipients.
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Manick Govinda talks to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye about her practice and the impact of awards from deciBel and The Arts Foundation.
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Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Manick Govinda’s profile of Paul Hamlyn Foundation, one of the most respected and innovative grant-giving trusts in the UK
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Awards by nomination
Manick Govinda on the often secretive processes behind awards by nomination as well as the benefits for artists in terms of recognition and critical acclaim.
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Fabric of Protest and Turner Prize 2007
Site Gallery and Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
19 October 2007 – 13 January 2008
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Diversity debated
Cultural diversity is a term that has pervaded our language and thinking across all sectors of life and institutions, and its latest manifestation of citizenship is perhaps the most coercive strategy being employed by government.
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Conversation with the artist
Edith Marie Pasquier introduces her selection of Artists’ profiles.
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Ace documentary
In your July 2006 issue you report on the new BRITDOCART scheme.
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Future forecast: Future Space
Read the Future space interviews in full. These interviews formed the base material for the Future space publication.
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Diversity developments
Winners of the decibel visual arts awards, aimed at black and Asian artists, and curators, were announced in March.
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Research trip
Works by Zarina Bhimji on show at inIVA are the result of research trips since 1998 to Uganda, the land of her birth. These visits also informed her first film Out of the blue, commissioned and co-produced by Documenta 11. […]
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8th Istanbul Biennial
Michelle Cotton examines how the local art scene reacts to the international attention focused on the city during the biennial.
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Risky business
In 2001 Zarina Bhimji wrote in [a-n] MAGAZINE about preparing to make her first film. Out of Blue, created for and premiered at Documenta 11, is currently being shown at Tate Britain. Here, Manick Govinda describes how a series of timely awards gave Bhimji the freedom to develop new work.
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Sonia Boyce
Continuing our series on the career development of well-established artists, writer Roy Exley meets Sonia Boyce to discuss how she has steered her career from British Home Stores shop assistant to celebrated artist.
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Zarina Bhimji and Nicola Percy were artists in residence at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) for thirty days, between September 2000 and January 2001. The NIMR, the largest institute of the Medical Research Council, is dedicated to biomedical research on a cellular level. The residency was research-based and each artist followed a different path.