Art work
Artist’s jobs and opportunities 1989-2003
Artist’s jobs and opportunities 1989-2003
Timandra Gustafson has been appointed Executive Director at Visual Associations. She brings a wealth of experience gained during her previous roles, including Head of Visual Arts for Northern Arts. My role will be to build on what has already been […]
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 […]
Delegates at the National Association of Local Government Arts Officers (NALGAO) annual conference, held in Brighton in May, benefited from a special interest workshop on dialogue and exchange around working with artists. Code of Practice for the Visual Arts researcher […]
Peter Freeman’s new light sculpture flashes to the beat of the street. Sited in February in a colourful area of Rochdale described by the police as being like the Wild West on a Friday night Pulse will share […]
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 […]
This month a-n will be out and about at Glasgow Art Fair. A Code of Practice seminar hosted by Susan Jones will take place Friday 16 April. The event is free to artists. See display advert on back page or […]
Identifying future patterns of living and working within our sector and the world beyond is a core function for national arts organisations like us. If we don’t know what people are thinking, and how their behaviour and relationships […]
Jane Watt looks into professional development initiatives available to artists working in the public domain, in the fourth of the six-part series ‘Navigating Places’.
Internet lurking and political subversion were two of the issues raised at a ‘blue skies’ workshop led by business and management consultant Jane Walker for a-n. The first of three planning meetings of a specially-convened UK artists’ advisory group, the […]
2003 Royal Academy graduate Renata Hegyi has won the £10,000 St James Group Fellowship. Taking the form of a bursary to assist a student from the Royal Academy Schools in their first year out of the college, it includes an […]
Promoting cultural diversity has become a policy priority for arts organisations, yet it is rarely questioned or criticised. Does cultural diversity policy challenge discrimination and broaden the arts scene, or risk politicising the arts at the expense of equality and […]
The theme of the June 2003 issue of South Australia’s Artlink may strike a chord with UK arts entrepreneurs, in that it explores critical mass the point at which a chain reaction begins, usually incited by a smaller explosion. […]
German artist Jochen Gerz’s new UK works come at a time of high tensions worldwide, and have been commissioned for a city known internationally for reconciliation. One of the world’s leading conceptual artists, Gerz has been working for nearly five […]
Artists whose work focuses on glass feature highly in exhibitions and events in the UK and Europe this summer.
Planning is now underway for the third Liverpool Biennial in 2004, a foreground for the City of Culture programme in 2008. For the 2002 event, over 180,000 visits were recorded at the UK’s only biennial of contemporary visual art and […]
Light is the key feature in two public art projects due for installation in September. Both are being created by Art2architecture a collaborative venture between artist Peter Fink and architect Igor Marko. By working with artists, landscape and urban […]
Speaking about Liverpool’s success in being selected to host City of Culture in 2008, Chair of the judges Sir Jeremy Isaacs commented that this city’s proposal had won because it “scored more goals” than the people’s choice bidder, Newcastle and […]
Gillian Nicol explores the gap between the expectations of artists and others of ‘alternative’ activity.
Su Jones explores Anna Best’s 2001 National Media residency for Year of the Artist here at a-n The Artists’ Information Company.
Between October and December last year, Shape ran a unique training programme for eight disabled artists entitled In the Picture. The course aimed to raise awareness about professional development, enabling artists to learn practical skills, develop opportunities to sell and […]
“Artists work in the interface between the real and the imagined. They coax us out of the numbness of the everyday and into a heightened space where we can inhabit other lives and find ourselves in other circumstances. The mind […]
Malcolm Dickson highlights the issues around the future needs of artists’ organisations in Scotland.
‘Imagination in the public realm: art people and place’, a conference organised by Art Transpennine and University of Manchester exploring the “contextualisation of art outside the gallery” takes place in Manchester 7-9 September. Speakers including Richard Wentworth, James Lingwood, Barbara […]