Early in March I was in Margate for the National Federation of Artists’ Studio Providers’ (NFASP) AGM and a series of events designed to bring artists and studio providers together to share experience, intelligence and generally bond.
Peter Martin, Sheffield-based artist, and curator of the graduate show ‘Repercussions’ at The Old Market Gallery in Rotherham, talks to Richard Taylor about pulling together exhibitors from across the UK and producing a show representative of both physical and virtual research into 2011 degree shows.
Towner, Eastbourne
22 October 2011 – 22 April 2012
Access to professional development is vital to artists’ careers, so here’s something we think will help.
Rollo Contemporary Art, London
20 January – 2 March 2012
Sometimes you just need to go home. And I have. Today I read Jane Boyer’s a-n blog a second time. Reversed the order and read from post #1. I feel better now. You can read about Jane’s current practice and […]
The fact that I’m writing this blog should indicate I’m relatively happy with text, in fact I’ve spent most of my time at UWE trying to integrate text into my practice or actually making the text the work (as in […]
N.B. I thought I had published this before Christmas….but evidently not. (Written 19th Dec 2011) Today was my last day in the studio before Christmas. I’ve been trying various things out this term so I don’t yet have a new […]
Becky Hunter is a freelance art writer whose blogs demistify, with honesty and intelligence, the processes of making art, writing about art, and finding a place in the wider world of art. Here she talks to Andrew Bryant about criticality and affect, the prickly subject of money, and why we need idealists.
Busy week ! Annabel and I have settled on a name. ZeitgeistArtsProjects. . ZAP for short, to express our energy , electricity (of a passionate collabrative relationship) and direct approach. It has integrity ….. It was inspired by the ALISN […]
Busy week ! Annabel and I have settled on a name. ZeitgeistArtsProjects. . ZAP for short, to express our energy , electricity (of a passionate collabrative relationship) and direct approach. It has integrity ….. It was inspired by the ALISN […]
A survey of commissioning projects and public art consultancies around the UK.
MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
30 September – 27 November 2011
Art critic pair launches Rebecca – a comprehensive writing service for artists, artist-led groups, galleries, and arts organizations – with a free, Twitter advice session on 9 November at 6pm GMT / 1pm EST. Art professionals Becky Hunter and Jane […]
Andrew Bryant discusses a new series of events that take Artists talking ‘out of the virtual and into the actual’.
Over the past five years, the words Turning Point have been read, heard, written and spoken with increasing frequency by people in the visual arts in England, but for many individual arts practitioners, in particular, the origins and activities of Turning Point remain a bit opaque. This briefing paper is for them and for anyone interested in understanding more about what Turning Point is and does.
The key finding of this study reveals that shockingly few individual artists apply for funding in their own right, and even fewer are successful. What this means is that there is little direct funding being given to artists to pursue and develop their own projects, under their own control – under 20% of available funding for the visual arts in England, 14% for Northern Ireland and around 18% for Scotland and Wales in 2009-2010.
The Project Arts Centre, Dublin
8 July – 20 August
Current professional development support schemes for visual artists in the UK.
Quad, Derby
28 May – 31 July 2011
17th September – 4th December, various venues, Plymouth UK VIA presents a nomadic model of working as a curatorial framework. The project questions how artist-led practice can thrive in ‘in-between’ spaces, and subsist/grow alongside existing structures created by institution or […]
I’m very very busy at the moment; a busy-ness that seems to primarily consist of impotent, stress-driven flailing & stasis. On Saturday afternoon I took some time off & went to see some art. I feel like I’ve really neglected […]
Janey Muir graduated from her MFA at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in September 2010. A year on, Richard Taylor steps in to conversation at a pivotal moment in her work’s development, through a new Project blog on Artists talking.
Grand Union, Birmingham
28 May – 30 July
