A few years ago I began meditating regularly. It started with a visit to the London Buddhist Centre, and then a mindfulness course, and then retreats at Gaia House and Vajrasana. And then between 2014-15 I did formal training as […]
Darren Henley uses speech in Sunderland to discuss what the EU referendum result might mean for artists and arts organisations in the north of England and across the UK.
With a long and close relationship between the UK and Poland stretching back over generations, and an estimated 800,000 people born in Poland currently resident in the UK, what is the Polish view on Brexit and its implications for the visual arts? Emma Sumner talks to Polish artists, curators and visual arts professionals to find out.
Following the result of the EU referendum in June, a-n’s member survey was a chance to get a sense of how Brexit might affect visual artists. Dany Louise highlights some of the survey findings including examples of how the decision to leave the EU is already affecting members who regularly work, exhibit or apply for opportunities in Europe.
Creative Industries Federation chief executive John Kampfner and Art Fund director Stephen Deuchar on the arts post-Brexit.
As the UK votes to leave the EU, artists and those working in the visual arts have been responding on social media.
Artists and the wider visual arts community ask questions and share their views on Twitter in the Great British Artists’ EU Referendum Debate.
We invite artists from all over the world to submit their work for consideration in our upcoming Beep Painting Biennial Exhibition. This exhibition aims to celebrate the diverse and vibrant world of painting, showcasing the creativity and talent of artists across the globe.
I have a booking for artwork hire at an Irish festival what are the new Brexit rules and regs anybody at A N put a user friendly info pack together or anyone done it or are doing it please share […]
Exhibition highlights from across the UK featuring a-n members, including Walker & Bromwich in Perth and sculpture in Chichester Cathedral.
I have an exhibition in Switzerland in April/May 2022. In the old pre Brexit days I would throw all my artwork (woodcarvings) and my chisels, chainsaw etc ( I will be running woodcarving workshops) into the car without any documentation […]
Humanising…
Bringing together a group of refugees and asylum seekers showing their their vulnerable side within an exhibition.
Cycling to the gym this morning for the year’s last workout I reflected on the year and surprised myself with how much I have achieved: sold three works; my first ever sales! Two pieces were purchased for local authority collections […]
The effects the combination of COVID-19 and Brexit has on self-representing international artists planning to exhibit in London.
British Ceramics Biennial returns to Stoke-on-Trent with a vibrant five-week festival of new artist commissions, exhibitions and hands-on events. Here we take a look at five a-n members shortlisted for the £5,000 British Ceramics Biennial AWARD prize.
Rachel Maclean discusses her Venice Biennale work Spite Your Face in this Q&A from May 2017.
Introducing the fourth and final set of conversations in our 40 Years 40 Artists series of artist interviews.
Rachel Maclean considers national identity and how “artists can help establish a more critical vantage point on how we read and consume images”.
One of Britain’s most trenchant social historian artists emerges from a lifetime of ‘self-imposed isolation’ to share his extraordinary exposés of modern life and death
