Well, this really is a constantly moving feast – one step forward, two steps back as we come across aspects we hadn’t thought of but inch by inch we are getting there, and it is certainly exciting as the realisation […]
During his final year of Fine Art at Coleg Menai, Maurice Lock fills us in on the sublime, its theatrical placing in his practice, and the use of materials as variants in finding and staging the artist’s answer.
I saw this today and wanted to share it: http://graduatefog.co.uk/2011/1815/cozette-mccreery-sister-by-sibling-fashion-internship/ It’s a funny/deadly serious response to an interview that appeared in Vogue relating to internships. What struck me most was that the designer – who uses interns – defends the […]
Morning! This year I got shortlisted for a commission and a residency that ended up being awarded to 1) a social enterprise and b) a design agency. They were small/medium to large things – between 2 – 12k, so substantial […]
Studio X Mumbai, Mumbai
25 November – 8 December 2011
Last week I went to Nottingham to attend the AIRInsights event at Surface gallery, hosted by Rosalind Davies and Helen Jones from Walsall, who curated my degree show back in 2008. Lots of insights into approaching curators, and developing relationships […]
Pippa Koszerek, a Campaigns Researcher at a-n, lets us in to her early career developments with Hull Time Based Arts.
A survey of commissioning projects and public art consultancies around the UK.
This is the third letter in the same vein I have sent to a-n since subscribing a year ago. At the risk of sounding like a stuck record, I want to pick up on a few items from recent issues.
Jack Hutchinson speaks to volunteers at Surface Gallery, an independent, artist-led gallery and studio complex in Nottingham. Its expansive programme involves exhibitions, talks and residencies.
Degree’s unedited asked me to write a blog, so here I am! Thanks for the invite because I was thinking about writing one and it’s nice to be involved on an. I’m doing an MAFA at Chelsea at the moment. […]
Three years after graduating from Glasgow School of Art photographer Elizabeth Wewiora discusses her career path so far and takes us along for the ride.
Ten years on The other day I received an email from Glasgow School of Art asking alumni who had graduated ten years ago what they were doing now. It stopped me in my tracks. Was it really ten years since […]
Some things have been happening. I have a solo show opening @ ARTicle Gallery in Birmingham opening 30/11/2011 and running until 16/12/2011. I’m going to be showing We’ve been Re-Distributed. I will also be giving a talk around my practice […]
Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Nottingham
8 October 2011 – 29 January 2012
Artists and designers embracing digital learning, production and distribution.
Down Stairs Gallery, Herefordshire
10 September – 30 December
Richard Taylor, online editor of a-n’s Students community and Degrees unedited, maps his journey over four years and shares insights from one invigilator’s chair to the next.
Since graduating from Leeds University in 2007 Joe Simpson has developed his craft as a painter blending his practice with commissions and more personal projects. With his show ‘Musician Portraits’ open in London, and his portait of Maxi Jazz in the BP Portrait Award 2011, he takes time out to fill us in on his career so far.
So my intention to write a blog about my move to Manchester, has not quite been sustained as anticipated, but there is plenty of time and room for improvement in the coming months. That old conundrum that when you have […]
Tramping round Sheffield searching for the two separate venues of Bloomberg New Contemporaries. But this show is of course always worth the trek. A good cross section of the best of new graduates work, and as usual, I found the […]
Rasmus Nilausen, The Florentine, oil on linen, 65x54cm, 2011.
