Issues around alternatives and independence raised in the pilot issue of The Internationaler – published in Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield – are pertinent to debates around ‘British Art Show 6’ that launched in Newcastle-Gateshead in September. Becky Shaw and Mark […]
Rob Wilson’s contribution to ten two zero zero five, a-n Collections.
Something Haptic, Glasgow
Spectacle Gallery, Birmingham
10-24 July
Read the Social space interviews in full along with Becky Shaw’s Introduction and Matters arising.
The first meeting of an Advisory group to steer Arts Council England's major review of the Presentation of Contemporary Visual Arts took place in April. The review intends to make the case for increasing funds for visual arts in the […]
Profiles of international models researched for Future space.
Future space addresses the future roles and functions of artists’ workspace. It introduces current strategies and concerns and places them in the context of artists’ developing practice and critical frameworks using as a prompt recent interviews with artists and other professionals. What will artists’ practice and resources be like in 2015?
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HAL is a new artist-run organisation that aims to facilitate the development of contemporary art through a programme of exhibitions, events, residencies, seminars and screenings designed to: “Excite, surprise, challenge, question, provoke, inspire and entertain.” The launch on 31 March […]
Trinity Technology College, Warwick
11-23 February
Art Gene combines a residency programme with links with education and plays an active part in local regeneration.
S1 Artspace provides studios for artists whose work is both contemporary and critically engaged.
Arts Council England is to undertake a review of the presentation of contemporary visual arts to inform the development of a national strategy that will help create closer links and collaboration across heritage and contemporary visual arts and commercial sectors. […]
Paul Glinkowski looks at the experiences of John Keane and Frauke Eigen, artists who have worked in war-torn locations outside of official state sponsored programmes, and talks to Dominic Nutt of Christian Aid who worked with Keane in Israel and Palestine.
International fairs are a great opportunity for researching galleries and making contacts, here is a selection of just some of the 150 showing at this year’s Frieze Art Fair.
New Art Gallery Walsall 30 July
Five artists from Poland and five from northern England performed in a programme of events in Tullie House gallery and on the streets of Carlisle in July as part of the artist–developed Cumbria Poland exchange. Artists went on to spend […]
Iliyana Nedkova responds to the networking themes that arose at Amorphous combustion, part of a body of specially commissioned writing published now on www.a-n.co.uk
John Beagles considers the cult-like behaviour of the art world.
Michelle Cotton reviews Sue Tompkins’ performance and considers its relation to the themes of the day.
Luke Fowler responds to Dennis Tourish’s paper on Cults in Politics: The Psychological dynamics of Influence.
Kaavous Clayton reports from the InFest: International Artist-Run Culture conference in Vancouver, Canada.
Winners of the decibel visual arts awards, aimed at black and Asian artists, and curators, were announced in March.
Published by Sheffield Hallam University
Eight emerging artists gathered at Allenheads Contemporary Arts (ACA) in Tynedale in October, for a weeklong residency, brainstorming and researching with peers and other contemporary art practitioners. The intensive and varied schedule of the Microresidencies allowed artists to engage with […]
Lee Corner introduces the Code of Practice for the Visual Arts.
