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a-n offers bursaries to attend Art Party Conference
a-n launches bursaries for artist-led initiatives to go to November’s Art Party in Scarborough.
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Untitled blog post from "All From Brazil"
With Hindsight I presumed that after 3 years of University studying Fine Art, I would be excited to be out on my own. However, nearly two months after finishing I feel no drive to carry on creating art. One of […]
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a positive……. “I am delighted to accept your proposal for performing at Impossible Lecture this year!” ……unfortunately I work weekends and usually I would have been able to book the weekend off no problem however the company I work for […]
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The artist and exhibitions
How do artists fare when they show work in publicly-funded galleries in the UK? A one-page infographic shows statistical information about artists’ income from exhibiting and the support they receive. Research led by AIR as the first stage in the Paying Artists campaign.
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Untitled blog post from "Simulacra And Simulations"
The effort to go to London seems to have sucked all energy out of me since then. I’ve been working steadily on my graphic novel, and I can’t seem to update my website, so instead I found myself spending too […]
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Publish and Be Damned: ICA hosts fair
The annual Publish and Be Damned self-publishers fair returns for the second year at ICA, London, on Saturday.
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Untitled blog post from "Project Me"
Another week has passed incredibly quickly. I have not really had time to think about everything (anything?) that happened, this and a conversation with a friend has made me realised that I am someone who needs time – something which […]
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“It’s driven me mad – I’d recommend every artist gets involved.”
In November we reported that a petition launched by artists was calling for Brighton & Hove City Council to protect artists’ and makers’ workspaces. Having exceeded the 1250 signatures necessary to ensure a full hearing, the campaign’s leader describes the next steps and how artists can make a difference.
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Untitled blog post from "Project Me"
It is amazing that my degree course seems to have disappeared without a trace. The authority that converts (‘translates’?) foreign qualifications to ones that Swedish institutions (and employers) recognises is having a hard time with my Art & Social Context […]
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Untitled blog post from "meeting points and disconnects: the cultural nuances of emotional expression."
I am shocked that my asialink residency in China has come to an end. Its been an amazing time, where I have felt like I have lived here, and its strange to think about leaving and to think about life […]
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Career profile: Oliver Braid
After his show for New Work Scotland Programme at Collective Gallery, Edinburgh and before his solo show at Liverpool’s Royal Standard, Oliver Braid shares some thoughts on his career as an artist so far, including ideas on how to make a self-made residency and how to organise your own ‘graduate diary’.
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Becky Hunter
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.
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Calls to arms
Artists and supporters of art are being rallied to support final implementation of an important Right for artists, their families and beneficiaries.
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Untitled blog post from "‘MEGA MODERN’ Residency at 501 Contemporary Art Centre, Huang Je Ping, Chongqing"
I’m defiantly not going to be lonely or stuck for people to talk to, there are always people coming in and out of my studio. So far it’s a real rag-tag bunch of miss fits (rich man, journalist, oil baron, […]
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Ladders for development: Impact of Arts Council England funding cuts on practice-led organisations
New evidence exposing, quantifying and discussing the likely impact on the visual arts of Arts Council England’s decisions on fifteen previously Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs) visual arts organisations unsuccessful in their NPO application. It shows that a disproportionate number of artists’ membership and development agencies and practice-based organisations lost core funding, despite ACE’s aim of creating a balanced national portfolio and makes recommendations for sustaining their work as part of a strengthened arts ecology.
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Payment for exhibiting
Editorial published in Artists Newsletter in June 1991.
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Untitled blog post from "Getting paid"
Times they are a-changing. Excellent news from the Royal Standard studio group with several people (present and past) going away to study for postgrads in various brilliant places. Other artists I know in Liverpool are also looking to move away […]
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Future art and design under threat
In March, AIR – Artists Interaction and Representation – put its weight behind calls for art education to be accessible to all, following a survey in which 95% of its members gave hearty support to the view that art education should be accessible “irrespective of background and financial status”. Here we outline AIR’s campaign and the survey’s key findings to provide evidence for artists to use.
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Changes in CRB
Report by Lucy Day setting out ways in which changes to CRB Disclosures application procedures may affect artists.
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That was the year that was
“The artist has always occupied a privileged but fragile position in the public eye. For centuries, we have looked to artists across all disciplines to inspire and entertain us, to help us explore the limits of human nature and human possibilities, [and] at times to lead debate and forment revolution.”
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Social media: Twitter
For this video guide, Katy Beale and Charlotte Frost discuss micro-blogging with particular reference to Twitter and how it can be used for research, marketing and collaboration, plus a look at how artists are using Twitter in innovative ways that connect with their practice.
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Jerwood Drawing Prize
Jack Hutchinson profiles the Jerwood Drawing Prize in conversation with director and founder Anita Taylor, this year’s First Prize winner Virginia Verran, and Student Prize winner Warren Andrews.
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Emily Speed
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Partners in arts
Commentary arising from research into local authority arts organisers’ needs, aspirations and modus operandi, revealing how they value and engage with artists and the approaches they take to their own professional development and to supporting the environment for contemporary visual arts.
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How to negotiate an exhibition
A guide for artists and arts organisers to creating a mutually-beneficial relationship.