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.
An Introduction WHAT AND WHY started this? WHAT- QANTAS Foundation Encouragement of Contemporary Australian Art Award gives me travel and cash to kick start career and provide amazing international experiences. HOW – After winning the QANTAS award I started plans […]
Ceangal is a collaborative project between Lynn Bennett-Mackenzie (Scotland) & Somu Desai (india) to use social networking to create a series of residencies which will bring national & international artists to the Highlands of Scotland where they will create original […]
As an increasing number of publicly-funded arts organisations seek out new models and initiatives for support, Artsway is providing a valuable platform to debate and explore what already exists, raising the issue of how longer-term support of artists can be maintained and increased in a period of arts austerity.
Supporting the international activities of artists and arts organisations is a key function for many national arts funding agencies. In order to investigate this area of arts policy and identify key issues affecting the programs and priorities of such agencies, the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) conducted a worldwide survey in English, French and Spanish, the results of which have been analysed and supplemented by other research and presented in a report.
Ben Ashton, At Home with the Ashtons (detail), oil on board, wooden structural installation and mirror, 2011.
Before continuing our journey, we should stop to point out the multiple talents of our host John W. Fail, who in spite of being named John Will Fail, is currently: Director of Ptarmigan, founder of Cenotaph Records Cenotaph Records and […]
The first video piece combines digital imagining with light reflections and manipulated sound to create a haunting experience of the past inhabitants reawakening and escaping. This was created working with live doves. The second piece shows the images of live […]
The first video piece combines digital imagining with light reflections and manipulated sound to create a haunting experience of the past inhabitants reawakening and escaping. This was created working with live doves. The second piece shows the images of live […]
Friday 13th May Private-view at Oksasenkatu11 Gallery This evening we visited the Private view of Silent Wishes at Oksasenkatu 11, an Art exhibition and silent auction in aid of disaster relief fundraising for Japan. Oksasenkatu 11 are an artists run […]
For recent art school graduates determined to travel past the shackles of debt, a residency is the way to meet fresh faces, exchange ideas and practice with artists from other countries. Fiona Flynn, from Chelsea College of Art, fills us in on Nida Art Colony in Lithuania and its residency programme.
Lauren Healey interviews the artists shortlisted for the Liverpool Art Prize about making work, support structures for their practice, and their reasons for basing themselves in the North West.
Explores the affect of the economic recession on the livelihoods of artists in terms of access to employment and career opportunities and raises concerns about how artists’ practice is likely to fare in this period of arts austerity. [HTML format]
Last month Cambridge saw the launch of a significant new artist-run space, Aid & Abet. Artists Sarah Evans, David Kefford and CJ Mahony discuss how the project has developed and how their relationship has graduated from being fellow studio holders to a collaborative working group.
Launched in March, Creative Scotland’s first corporate plan presented an ambitious vision for the nation’s arts, culture and creative industries. This is backed by core Treasury financing of £35.5m with £14.5m of Scottish Government funds for specific initiatives, unspent reserves from the interim between Scottish Arts Council/Scottish Screen and Creative Scotland, some lottery funding back after diversion to the Olympics and reduced overheads due the merger that included a 30% staff cut.
The weeks and months after graduation can be a daunting time. After three years or more of support and guidance suddenly it’s time to go it alone. There are many different ways to pursue your career as a professional artist and no two people will follow the same path. Here, four recent art graduates describe their journeys: from joining a peer-led network to working as an artist’s assistant, they each have a different story to tell.
Simon Liddiment – An exhibition of work as part of Standpoint Futures Residency Program 2011 27 April 2011 12-8pm; artist’s talk and drinks at 6.30pm, 28 April 2011 12-6pm Simon Liddiment’s practice is located somewhere in the transforming relationship between […]
Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn
2-17 April
It’s all a bit strange in work today… We had an hour long meeting in which we were told about the forthcoming changes to the staff structure…then given an hour and half to digest everything that we were told. 90 […]
I listened to a man this week. He told me a story of stories. He said, if he had a book, an autobiography and he asked the writer the story of that book, they would tell him a story of […]
At the start of the month I went to visit a very old, very dear friend in another city. He’s a little younger than I, just about to graduate from art school and step out into the world for the […]
Education and community projects engaging artists and audiences across the UK and Europe.
Really great to see AIR taking part in the protests on Saturday – really loved the long banner! I was disappointed to miss the march, I had though I would be abroad, but even being in the UK, I am […]
Sonya Dyer reports from ‘Hospitality’ the third event in the Artists and curators talking series, held at East Street Arts: Union 105 in Leeds, and asks ‘What is the relationship between hospitality and intimacy?’.
Information for upcomng show – Leo Fitzmaurice An exhibition of work as part of Standpoint Futures Residency Program 2011 24 March 2011 12-8pm; artist’s talk and drinks at 6.30pm25 March 2011 12-6pm Otherwise known for his bold installations and sculptures […]
