I went to a great talk at Portsmouth University yesterday afternoon, given by Dominique Ghesquiere, the artist on the Art Space Portsmouth International Residency 2011. I had previously only seen a few examples of her work on the blog, so […]
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 […]
Well, I think we have made a decision to go through a visa service for our visa. This will last another 30 days, and then we will have to do it again in Chongqing. However, they are apparently less stringent […]
Andrew Bryant discusses a new series of events that take Artists talking ‘out of the virtual and into the actual’.
If there is any single shared idea about art, it’s that it can be transformative. Aliceson Carter came to art late, and her ‘story’ and her work, bear out the deconstructive and reconstructive potential of creativity. Here she talks to Andrew Bryant about Goldsmiths, blogging and being on the outside.
Black Dog Publishing, London
2 May – 14 October 2011
The MA is all over, but I wanted to make a few posts to round off this blog before starting a new one, whilst I am in this ‘inbetween’ phase that I have found myself in. During the MA show, […]
I rocked up to the private view of the ICA’s Freeze offering last night to check out what I would call a ‘mixed’ bag of work. Both the painterly and sculptural pieces on offer (by Jacob Kassay and Franz West) […]
Critically engaged practice based research is not occurring today. What felt yesterday like a clear concept, process and outcome feels quite insignificant today. Perhaps that means that it is occurring? Whatever it is, it doesn’t feel good so I may […]
Thank you for your comments Richard, David and Sam. Yes, space = time! It was felt last year by tutors that 60% of the studio had been underused. This year Fine Art has lost some space to the Foundation course […]
October is always a good month for me. Don’t ask me why, even thinking about it might jinx it but somehow things seem to come together for me in October. I’m happy in the studio. I have built work up […]
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.
Jeffrey Silverthorne Interview Series Part 1 – “I am speaking through hundreds of tongues”6th September 2011 Live interview with Jeffrey Silverthorne at Daniel Blau LondonDuring exhibition Haunting the Chapel – Photography and Dissolution Introduction by Brad Feuerhelm, Gallery Director Excerpt: […]
I visited LabCraft: Digital Adventures in Contemporary Craft at Leamington Spa Museum and Art Gallery yesterday and was really impressed. The Temporary exhibition space has, over the last year, had some shows which have been really intresting in relation to […]
It’s an exciting time in the cultural life in the North West at present. Abandon Normal Devices Festival kicked off in Liverpool last night and tonight, Manchester celebrates the opening events of Asian Triennial 2011. I planned to be The […]
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.
Monday, our first full day back at the college, saw my appointment as the Student Rep. I happened to be in the library at the moment when everyone was gathered around the table in the cafe, declaring their refusals; I […]
Is there enough funding going to individual artists and are the application processes user-friendly? These were questions a-n set out to answer in the fourth issue of what was then Artists Newsletter in 1980. Now, thirty one years later, we asked Dany Louise to do this research again, examining the current state of play for grants to individual artists as offered by Arts Council England, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Arts Council of Wales and Creative Scotland – including comparators of volumes of artists applying and success rates – and to ascertain whether a “fair share” has been getting into the hands of artists to develop their practice.
Warehouse – N1 7SL, London
30 August – 23 October 2011
The Project Arts Centre, Dublin
8 July – 20 August
There are two key things Nicholas Leverington mentions that I want to zone into.
Alex Murdin asks what is Localism and what effect it is likely to have on art practice in regional areas.
A selection of projects, residencies and exhibitions taking place outside the big cities this autumn.
Online editor Richard Taylor interviews artists Maria Bojanowska, Sarah Rowles, Alice Ladenburg and Andrew Maclean about their approach to professional development in the early stages of a career in the arts.
Everything seems to be happening at the moment potential job offers and a possible re-location. Exciting and nerve racking stuff. I have been feeling a little jaded with making work and the art scene. I genuinely thought after my MA […]
