Our guide to all the best degree shows, 2008 Degrees with this issue, features practice updates from last year’s student bloggers1 revealing learning curves, perseverance and collaborative ventures.
Dana Hargrove, a graduate who featured in a-n’s Degree show supplement 98 publication, discusses her current practice including a recent residency in South Africa.
To preface a new ongoing series exploring relationships between artists and their collaborators, we asked some of today’s most interesting curators for insights into their practices.
Joan Thompson on mental health services and further education.
Now this was a roller coaster of a fortnight! Interviews for postgraduate programs at both the Royal College and at Goldsmiths, art worries, stage fright in relation to the invitation to make work for St. Luke's / Bombed out church […]
Manick Govinda’s profile of Paul Hamlyn Foundation, one of the most respected and innovative grant-giving trusts in the UK
i am about to open a gallery in the canal basin, coventry. it will be primarily a space for me to work as an artist and also exhibit my work. I also wish to showcase new, established artists and also […]
Just been discussing next years graduate residency with the ADO from Erewash Council. The pot which funded Polly's space has diminished, but apparently this doesn't mean the money can't come from another purse. Also there are a few hoops to […]
The Art and Design Index to Theses.
2007 update What a difference a year makes. Around this time in 2006 my degree show was taking shape: a difficult time, full of tension, apprehension and misgivings – emotions common to all final year students. In short, life was […]
2007 update After 6 years at Cleveland College of Art and Design (CCAD) studying part-time, 2006-07 was earmarked as time to redress the toll of neglect suffered by home and family. I had never intended becoming a professional artist but […]
2007 update “This is all fruit and sex.” Scrawling page one of my degree show comments book, these letters evoke strange detachment from an intensive three years exploring fine art at Dundee. Eleven months post-graduation have hazily disappeared in new […]
Nina Madden gives an overview of some of the visual art prizes selected from open submission competitions.
Are you thinking of applying for a grant or award? Over £2.3m was openly offered in these categories through a-n’s Jobs and opportunities last year. As it’s a highly competitive activity, we’ve compiled this guide to making applications, including some ‘top tips’ from a range of experienced artists, curators, and arts professionals…
Jennifer Taylor, Untitled Installation, exhibited at Flowers East in the exhibition ‘Says the Junk in the Yard’, 2007. Courtesy: the Artist and David Roberts.
A response to the McMaster Review from the AIR Artists’ Advisory Group.
Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
16 January – 16 February
and other shows in Ireland
Site Gallery and Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
19 October 2007 – 13 January 2008
