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.
Zarah Hussain discusses the impact on her practice of technological change and social media, and reflects on events of 2020.
Ryan Gander considers the changes to the “value system” of the arts over the last two decades.
Rachel Maclean considers national identity and how “artists can help establish a more critical vantage point on how we read and consume images”.
Led by Garth Gratrix from Abingdon Studios
Assembly Blackpool took place online via Zoom on Tuesday 28 September, 10am – 4.30pm & Wednesday 29 September, 10am – 4.30am
The event was free, as part of a-n membership.
Garth Gratrix, artist and Founding Director of Abingdon Studios, will be logging in from Blackpool to host a-n’s first digital Assembly of 2021. The Coast Is Queer is a two-day event inviting artists, artist-led spaces, organisations and institutions who are located on the edges of the UK, to open a discussion on coastal practice and queerness.
The event aims to address curiosity around the clandestine ways in which LGBTQIA+ artists live, work and cruise materials and spaces alone, apart and together. Contributors to the event will raise questions; How do we work to define or refine a future arts sector that considers ‘queerness’ as a better starting point to ‘new-normal’? How might we collaborate with the coast, as a space for solidarity, new systems of support and respite?
Assembly Blackpool will create space to share lived experiences of being LGBTQIA+ and promenade our future queer potential. Contributions include a breakout session with Dr Susan Jones, former Director of a-n, a new sound and film commission and an open call opportunity to LGBTQIA+ artists living on the coast.
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Abingdon Studios is a member of the Guild 2019-2023 cohort. a-n Assembly 2021 is developed in partnership with Guild, East Street Arts’ sector support programme supporting and empowering artists to help them create more resilient and sustainable work via artists’ spaces.
Virtual Artist Residency with Louisa Chambers (UK), Julia Wenz-Delaminsky (DE), Tamara Dubnyckyj (UK), Traci Kelly (UK/DE), Danica Maier (USA/UK), Clare Mitten (UK)
Artist filmmaker and a-n member Jennifer Martin discusses her work with Joanna Byrne.
a-n member Hannah Wallis discusses her DASH Curatorial Commission residency at Wysing Arts Centre, and the resulting exhibition by Ain Bailey. Interview by Orla Foster.
Exhibitions and events from a-n members, plus other major shows.
This Blog is about undertaking a large private commission within it’s deadline, with an incurable illness, during the Covid Pandemic.
A ‘conversation’ between the late Georgian painter Natela Iankoshvili and the contemporary British artist, poet and critic Alexander Adams.
Exhibitions and events from a-n members, plus other major shows.
Collaborative duo Forest + Found discuss their role as artists in “thinking and engaging with our natural resources and the environment.”
Jasleen Kaur discusses her shift from craft into visual art and her deep investment “in art as a means of speaking or coming into voice.”
We take a look at the works of a-n members included in the Glasgow International festival of contemporary visual art, which continues until 27 June 2021.
Exhibitions and events from a-n members, plus other major shows.
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New international digital platform Art et al., showcasing curated work by neurodiverse artists from across the UK and Australia, launched on April 14
The website features new commissions and conversations between artists from supported studios, peers and arts professionals
