This past week has been about listening and taking snapshots of residencies popping up on social media. A good listen was Susan Jones lecture about artists pay since the 90s up until today and it seems that back then it […]
For the past two weeks I have been letting myself indulge in online searching clicking on anything that relates to my interests in residencies, diversity, sharing, and research. I often have a sprawling approach to looking online although I am […]
As artists find themselves at the end of the cultural food chain, Susan Jones suggests a new activism to reaffirm their status The so-called golden age of arts funding has given way to debilitating austerity, particularly for artists who find […]
Among those working in the visual arts who have been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List are Maria Balshaw of Manchester’s Whitworth Gallery and Hepworth Wakefield director Simon Wallis.
Co-artistic director of British Ceramics Biennial and former senior visual arts officer for Arts Council England dies aged 66.
A one-day symposium organised by Crate Studio and Project Space in Margate and University for the Creative Arts Canterbury is to explore the different ways artists make a living at a time of austerity.
A symposium in Seoul this week will address the issues of artists’ fees in Korea and will include discussion of a-n/AIR’s Paying Artists campaign.
I have now spent just over two months here in Stoke-On-Trent as part of my Graduate Residency. And again my weeks have been filled with exciting activities along side my own developments in the studio. Here is what I have […]
Although I did send in a proposal for something recently ( which I don’t think I got as I haven’t heard anything back) I think I’m going to have to put a hold on applying for stuff for a bit, […]
The artist Yinka Shonibare MBE has issued a detailed and personal statement expressing his support for a-n and AIR’s Paying Artists campaign.
A new Collaborative Doctorate Award devised by Warwick University and a-n, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, has been awarded to Brighton-based artist Emilia Telese.
The Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller has pledged his support for a-n/AIR’s Paying Artists campaign in a statement that urges all publicly-funded galleries to pay fair fees to artists.
New a-n Executive Director Jeanie Scott talks about growing up around contemporary art and explains why an organisation with artists at its heart “feels like home”.
A new collaborative research study from Warwick University and a-n will explore the impact of artist-led initiatives on cultural value.
a-n/AIR’s Paying Artists campaign launches today with its own dedicated website at www.payingartists.org.uk
Canada’s representative bodies for artists, CARFAC and RAAV, have won their court battle with the National Gallery of Canada to set a binding minimum fee for artists.
a-n The Artists Information Company has appointed Jeanie Scott to be its new Executive Director.
The Northern Rock Foundation, a major funder of arts and community projects in the North East and Cumbria, has announced it is to close following the withdrawal of funding support from Virgin Money.
In the run up to the launch of the Paying Artists Campaign, a-n has published two new research reports covering international models for artists’ fees and the history of Exhibition Payment Right in the UK.
The latest round of a-n’s Go and see bursary scheme has awarded 10 artists’ initiatives nearly £5000, supporting the exchange of knowledge and fostering joint developments between artists.
This report – the sixth in the Paying Artists research portfolio – draws together examples of how artists’ fees for exhibiting are arrived at in Sweden, Norway, Canada and Poland; and the conditions and contexts that underpin their application.
Provides a historical context within the Paying Artists campaign of the Payment to Artists for Exhibition of Work scheme implemented by the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1979.
Scottish jeweller Kelly Munro has been announced as the Rising Stars 2014 winner at the opening of this year’s exhibition, which showcases the work of emerging craft makers and applied artists who have recently graduated from programmes across the UK.
From 23 applications, 11 artists have received funding in the second round of a-n’s Re:view bursary scheme, which supports artists to develop their practice through £500-£1,000 bursaries.
