Marketing
Marice Cumber introduces key marketing concepts for artists and offers advice to help target your marketing effectively.
Marice Cumber introduces key marketing concepts for artists and offers advice to help target your marketing effectively.
Illustrating the approach she brings to her new role at [a-n], Gillian Nicol highlights some of the challenges and opportunities for artists and their practice today, looking broadly at education and employment, status and lifestyle and the impact of widening access to technology.
The UK/German company Uninvited Guests has almost completed its tour with Offline, a unique brand of performance and multimedia work combining hi- and low-tech, the visceral and the virtual. Material for Offline was gathered by wandering the web as electronic […]
Located in a ‘cultural industries’ area ourselves for the past three years, we can confirm that the advantages – creative networking and exchange, vibrant working environment, immediate access to like-minded cultural specialists, mutual support in development, etc – are there […]
Carolyn Black’s first time working away from her home and studio was a UNESCO funded residency in Java, Indonesia.
Annie Cattrell is concerned with the hidden structures and systems of life. Her work evolves by isolating and fragmenting these systems in three dimensions, allowing the viewer to access the physical boundaries between the interior world of the body-mind and […]
Artist Kelly Atkins, of carpet recycling company Carpet Burns, has been awarded the Sherrards Excellence in Arts Award. Sponsored by Barclays Bank, these £250 cash awards now in their third year are aimed at small businesses. Currently artist-in-residence at University […]
Heather Rigg reports on a professional development scheme in Suffolk that provides a package of support for artists in that region.
Since completing an MA in ceramics in 1998, I’ve worked with and in response to a diverse range of people, environments and themes.
London’s east end has attracted a large number of commercial galleries in recent years, following a burgeoning of artist-led activity in the area. With a high concentration of art spaces, it’s surprising that it has taken so long for a […]
A gallery run by children is amongst recent recipients of a Scottish Arts Council lottery grant. Room 13, a group of primary school children who run an art studio and gallery at Caol Primary School near Fort William, was awarded […]
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 […]
Initiated by London-based Live Art Development Agency, Focus Live Art was an unprecedented set of meetings across England that brought together artists, promoters and funders to consolidate the strengths and achievements of the live art sector, to address issues of […]
Glasgow-based artists Ben Woodeson and John Beagles give accounts of two very different recent events in Berlin: the artist-run BBQ Project and Art Forum Berlin, the city’s annual art fair.
Art.tm’s Director Gordon Rogers explains the organisation’s role in facilitating and promoting the work of visual artists in the heart of the most dispersed population in Europe.
Artists and galleries have been prominent in expressing concern at proposals for restructuring the Arts Council of Wales (ACW). Following withering criticism of ACW’s lack of vision and poor performance, consultant Anthony Everitt was appointed to recommend a new structure […]
Artspace Portsmouth has mounted an exhibition that celebrates twenty-one years as an arts organisation. ‘Key Works’, showing at the City Museum and Records Office in Portsmouth, until 2 September, investigates perceptions of museum artefacts. Exhibiting artists had access to the […]
Susannah Silver considers the impact of the Year of the Artist and it’s legacy.
Hilary Williams takes a look at an inclusive project initiated by the Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne that reaches out to the local community.
North Yorkshire-based Chrysalis Arts recently got a boost to its development programme from the Development Fund for Rural Renewal. A £219,500 grant will enable this public art and training organisation to expand its activities, including enhancement of its role as […]
Simon Morrissey cuts to the chase with Cornelia Parker and finds out how she has fought commercial pressures to follow her own artistic agenda.
Good news for arts practitioners in England. On 19 March, the DCMC (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) launched its consultation document Culture and Creativity: the next ten years, outlining a raft of significant proposals affecting individual arts practitioners, arts […]
Two key factors come up in all surveys of artists’ studios the need for security of tenure and for affordable rents. You don’t have to own your studio building to achieve these but it’s one way of securing them. […]
Glasgow-based artist Ben Woodeson profiles the Canadian artist’s initiative, Contemporary Art Forum, Kitchener (CAFKA).
Geffrye Museum, London
26 September – 19 January