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Approaching galleries

by Jennie Syson

Jennie Syson offers some advice on approaching galleries, through setting out the different research routes and methods you might use.

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01/11/19

by Alice Bradshaw

Making Dialogue Effective, published by The Dialogue Society, London, 2013 Skills in Dialogue: Cultivating Listening and Empathy Part 2 “Facilitators also need the skills to manage the process through a series of balancing acts. Facilitators need to balance safety and […]

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Botanical Blends

by Michael Borkowsky

Over the last week I have been uncovering the commercial potential of Perfume as Practice. For while the essence of the project is artistic, that doesn’t mean I can’t dip my toe in the more consumer driven elements of the […]

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Quick guide to using a-n Blogs

by a-n Resources

a-n Blogs is a great place to share the process of your practice or the progress of a residency or project you’re working on. We’ve pulled together a few tips on blogging on www.a-n.co.uk to help you get started.

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Artists and mental health: The Bethlem Gallery

by Alistair Gentry

The Bethlem Gallery in Bromley provides a professional platform for artists who have experienced mental health difficulties. Alistair Gentry speaks to the gallery’s director Beth Elliot about the organisation and how it fosters a supportive artist-focussed environment.

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Artists on boards: a guide to becoming a trustee or board member

by Nicola Naismith

Joining a board can provide artists with a voice in the decision-making room and a way to steer the arts agenda. Nicola Naismith explores what’s involved, and hears from artists and their fellow board members about the important contribution artists can make and why being a trustee matters.

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Artists’ manifestos: making change happen

by Dan Thompson

Writing a manifesto was one of Dan Thompson’s first acts as an artist and he has since written several more including one about using empty shops, and The Paying Artists Manifesto for Artist-Led Work that showed how artists working with their own ecology, economy and excitement ‘make the world around them better’. He explores the history of artists’ manifestos and shares advice and tips on how to write your own.

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Experimenting with cyanotype

by Emma Brown

When choosing materials to take to Collemacchia I was limited by a number of factors; transportation, additional equipment, and practicality. I ended up with a selection of drawing materials (pencils, ink, pens, brushes, pastels), lino, block printing ink, and cyanotype. […]

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a-n Artist Bursaries 2020: open for applications from a-n members

by a-n News

The 2020 a-n Artist Bursaries are now open for applications, with awards of between £500-£1,500 available to a-n Artist and Joint (Artist and Arts Organiser) members wishing to undertake self-directed professional development. PLEASE NOTE: THE APPLICATION DEADLINE HAS NOW PASSED.

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a-n Artist Bursaries 2020

by a-n Bursaries

As part of our commitment to supporting artists, we are offering 50+ bursaries of between £500 – £1,500 for self-directed professional development. APPLICATION DEADLINE HAS NOW PASSED.

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Turner Prize Preview

by Sonia Boué

I made a flying visit to Margate to attend the Turner Prize Preview for A-N on Friday, a not insubstantial journey from Oxford! Arriving early to preview ‘Quartet’, an exhibition at the Lombard Gallery featuring two A-N artist members (and […]

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towards a city

by Stuart Mayes

An evening in Uppsala and an afternoon in Örebro have convinced me (not that I really needed convincing) that my future is in a city. At some point over the summer I started wondering if I should keep an eye […]

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Hortus Botanicus

by Walter Van Rijn

Hortus is a project which involves research into early practices of collecting and cataloguing as exemplified by the sixteenth century botanic gardens and libraries of Padua (IT) and Leiden (NL).

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Artists On Board

by Dan Thompson

A call for an artist on the board of every arts organisation.

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BUSY ON THE BOSPHORUS

by Judith Alder

It’s not every week that you get to travel with a bunch of great, friendly, broad-thinking artists to see some fantastic international contemporary art in an extraordinary city, but that’s what happened to me last week when I visited the […]

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Carer’s UK AGM and Carer’s Summit

by Helen Dearnley

I’ve been battling the evil of Universal Credit for the past six months. My son left college in February, and has had no income for six months. See this blog This is before I even contemplate how Universal Credit is […]

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‘Resilience is Futile…’

by Jessie Davies

It’s been over a month since the fruit factory trip to Sheffield, and in the intervening weeks I’ve had time to reflect on many aspects of resilience in my own life and arts practice, not to mention assimilate the learning […]

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