Cuts in funding at Further Education and Higher Education institutions have had a huge impact recently, particularly within arts departments nationwide, but only cursorily covered in the general press. The government directive to increase student numbers in spite of this […]
See a-n at this year’s New Designers from 30 June to 3 July at London’s Business Design Centre in Islington. As the largest and most stimulating graduate design event in the UK, every year New Designers presents emerging design talent […]
In 1997, Lord Dearing chaired a review of HE that recommended the establishment of a research council for the arts and humanities, to sit alongside those in the sciences. After eight years, this has materialised as the Arts and Humanities […]
The Earth and Fire international festival of ceramics takes place at Rufford Craft Centre in Nottinghamshire at the end of June. The two-day event showing the work of over a 100 makers is one of the unsung successes of the […]
Contents include: Launch of Future forecast publications and events in Ipswich and Derby mark 25 years of a-n. New beginnings for recent graduates plus Acme Fire Station work/live residents announced. Non profit organisations network in Chicago; issues around city-wide art […]
Read the Future space interviews in full. These interviews formed the base material for the Future space publication.
Recent graduates on their first year as professional artists.
Eleven artists have been awarded residencies at Acme’s Fire Station work/live space, as part of this ongoing programme. Slade graduate and recent fellow at The British Library Ming Wong and Ben Cove, recent exhibitor at LMU Leeds and Castlefield Gallery […]
Janine Goldsworthy and Suzanne Hutton, both members of a-n’s Communications Projects Team, recently completed re:gen, a residencey and exhibiton project held in Sunniside, Sunderland. Featuring the work of six artists who all graduated within the past two years, the project […]
This new website, launched from www.a-n.co.uk, will go online from 1 May. As a critical showcase for graduate exhibitions and new writing the site aims to promote the work of new graduates to curators, commissioners and other arts professionals. In […]
Laura Hewitt on Hotel Mariakapel, an artists’ initiative where the ideas of intimacy, dialogue and collaboration are fundamental concerns.
This spring, as part of the Africa 05 arts festival, a number of artists from around the African continent are in London making new work for various cultural institutions. Paul Glinkowski introduces the work of five of them.
Trinity Technology College, Warwick
11-23 February
Rodney Court is a proposed conversion of a Manchester tower block into live/work space for artists.
Occupation Studios is a case study in cooperative survival in the urban regeneration landscape.
Kathryn Smith on Johannesburg and Virginia Mackenny on Cape Town. The second part in a series commissioned by Deborah Smith.
CRATE successfully accessed economic development and regeneration funds to buy a building.
Paul Glinkowski looks at the UK studio landscape, highlighting successful new studio models. He also offers advice to artists wanting to set-up their own group.
Penny Klepuszewska, a 2003 graduate from Nottingham Trent University and Chris Boyd, a Manchester Metropolitan University second-year interactive arts student were joint winners of the UK Art Prize 2004, that attracted over 40,000 entries and created ten finalists. They shared […]
The result of a year-long project by Ellie Harrison, ‘Gold Card Adventures’ is presented until 21 March at Piccadilly Circus underground station, London, courtesy of Platform for Art. Purchasing a Gold Card year’s travel pass and using her daily commute […]
Glasgow-based Market Gallery presents work by six 2004 graduates from Scotland’s art courses in ‘A nation turns its eyes to you’. Working directly onto the gallery walls, Miranda Blennerhassett uses the familiarity of pattern and motif from interior decoration to […]
Jane Watt speaks to Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie about their practice, the Bata-ville project and working with Commissions East.
Hosted by the Stanley Picker Gallery at the University of Kingston, the Stanley Picker Fellowships are awarded annually to a contemporary fine artist and a contemporary designer. The Fellows are offered a fee, production costs and access to the University’s […]
Colony, Birmingham
6-28 November
Feedback from last month’s North East England new graduates professional development and networking events. “The events gave me a better understanding of what is required when submitting proposals. It was useful to hear others talk about their experiences. I realised […]
