Contents include: Second report from ‘Jetset’ conference considers artists’ approaches to global networks and corporate branding. Impact of the property market on studios, and of artists on rural communities. New website showcases Scottish craft; textiles and abstract painting reviewed – […]
Jane Watt profiles PACE, public art commissioning agent for Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital.
East Street Arts (ESA) is a model example of what the purchase and refit of studios involves.
More than just a studios building, Stroud Valleys Artspace (SVA) represents a hub for artists in the area.
Search under ‘rural’ on www.a-n.co.uk and you’ll find a fascinating array of features and profiles of artists and organisations whose work context is rural. Artists including Roxane Permar in Shetland, PALP in Cornwall, Emma Baird Murray in Wales and Ian […]
Studio-based artists have been made vulnerable by the recent property boom as run-down former industrial buildings attract developers with an eye for a lucrative conversion. Some studio providers though, have managed to stay put and in some cases have moved on to better premises. Paul Glinkowski offers this progress report on artist-led studios projects in Leeds and in Stroud.
Paul Glinkowski looks at the experiences of John Keane and Frauke Eigen, artists who have worked in war-torn locations outside of official state sponsored programmes, and talks to Dominic Nutt of Christian Aid who worked with Keane in Israel and Palestine.
International fairs are a great opportunity for researching galleries and making contacts, here is a selection of just some of the 150 showing at this year’s Frieze Art Fair.
For the first year, fourteen Hidden Art designer–maker studios will be opening their doors to the public in September during the London Design Festival and 100% Guaranteed. Hidden Art Open Studios provides a unique opportunity for design enthusiasts to visit […]
The training-led development programmes that were the norm in artists’ professional development delivery some years ago are giving way to new projects that focus around contemporary practice and are driven by ‘real world’ situations. They recognise that being a visual […]
Paul Stone examines some of the issues arising from the a-n event in June.
The a-n team was at New Designers 2004 at Business Design Centre, London in July to launch the Artists’ toolkits – a brand new series of professional practice tools on www.a-n.co.uk that are of value to visual and applied artists […]
Sally O’Reilly talks to Penny Johnson, Director of the Government Art Collection, in the sixth and final article in the ‘Crossing Over’ series.
An Tuireann Arts Centre, Portree, Isle of Skye
1 May – 12 June
A recent Crafts Council report shows that female self-employed entrepreneurs have emerged for this growing sector, currently estimated to worth over £800 million. The report, the first on the crafts sector for ten years highlighted the importance of lifestyle satisfaction […]
Scotland’s largest studio provider, Wasps Artists’ Studios and sister charity the Wasps Trust, have launched capital projects worth £6.5million in three cities as part of strategies to benefit visual artists. To date, over £4.3 million has been earmarked to buy […]
In May, the Open Studios in Brighton celebrates twenty-five years as the longest standing artists’ studio in the city. Located in the historical fisherman’s arch directly between the piers, it has long been the workplace of artists and craftspeople of […]
Presentations by consultant Lee Corner and a-n Director of Programmes Susan Jones on the Code of Practice for the Visual Arts were incorporated into Engage’s Making Connections series of seminars during March. Held at Queen’s Hall Hexham, Artsway New Forest […]
In summer 2003 I took part in Excavate Overlay, a multi-disciplinary project involving artists, a writer/ anthropologist, archaeologists and members of a rural community in Caithness, Scotland.
“I’m drifting far out in space with Michael Jackson’s face, and all I want to do is get back home.”
Giles Sutherland looks at the relationship between glass artist Keiko Mukaide and Edinburgh College of Art.
Artist-led Leeds Sculpture Workshop has rented property in Leeds for over ten years. Now the studio has moved into a permanent home that will enable artists to rent studio facilities at affordable prices in a professional atmosphere. This is a […]
John Beagles comments on the increased presence of artist-run initiatives at this year’s Glasgow Art Fair.
Paul Glinkowski profiles the work of Paul Bonaventura, co-founder of The Laboratory, the research wing of the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at the University of Oxford, in the fifth article of the ‘Crossing over’ series.
Gillian Nicol reports on Montreal’s vibrant artist-run sector.
