Nina and I both started work today. After piecing together a satalite view of the local area the day before, from google maps, Nina set out to find the places suggested to her by Sarah Sanders. Sarah visited Chongqing about […]
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Many artists have contacted us at St George’s arts to ask for an application form for our ‘Early Career Residency’ for 2011. This year we haven’t posted a call out as we have been restructuring our art programming. […]
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Many artists have contacted us at St George’s arts to ask for an application form for our ‘Early Career Residency’ for 2011. This year we haven’t posted a call out as we have been restructuring our art programming. […]
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.
Profiling studio and workshop facilities around the country, plus ambitious exhibition projects that are engaging with local communities.
Artists Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson and curator Emma Underhill discuss their collaboration on a project to create a sculptural ‘habitat’ that will contribute to the life cycle of birds in two urban garden locations.
Chinese Arts Centre Residency On Friday I met Phil Davenport before our meeting at the Chinese Arts Centre to chat about our ideas, which just seem to be naturally flowing. It’s really nice when you have that creative spark with […]
Helen Scalway’s concluding exhibition at St George’s Arts, ‘Pattern and Place’ opened yesterday evening with a well attended private view that became something rather more than that. Helen had asked early music soprano, Sophia Brumfitt to ‘sing the drawings’ (this […]
A guide to career development and training opportunities as well as related services and resources that are designed to help artists and makers take their practice to the next level.
Featuring a selection of the UK’s arts organisations that are providing vivid cultural life to rural areas.
Alongside AIR’s campaigns and work looking at the issues affecting artists, a group of AIR activists (myself included) have volunteered to play a more active role; raising awareness of the value of artists. These are early days in what will hopefully prove to be long-term and ever-widening effort, but conversation has begun and some activists already have events planned.
For twenty-five years Manchester’s Chinese Arts Centre has focused on exchange of creative practice from one culture to another.
I graduated from Wimbledon in 2006 I was lucky enough to have been selected, almost immediately as eligible for a live work studio in the east end of London. The south edge of the Olympic park is around a five […]
Selected round-up of forthcoming events, training courses and professional development opportunities from the world of new media arts and imaging.
Kate Raggett and Mandy Fowler give their recollections of an ambitious one-day land art workshop in rural Herefordshire that involved nearly 200 participants, several bales of straw, and a Cessna aircraft.
Setting up an artist-led space: the ‘Why’ factor… Rosalind recently asked me a pertinent, and challenging, question. It’s had me shaking in my boots – well, sandals, actually, we’re having a heatwave here in Philly – and thinking hard. So, […]
A recent awardee of Arts Council England’s Grants For The Arts program, I am participating in a 2 month residency investigating post-colonialism and the uncanny body in Saint Louis, Senegal. With additional support from WAAW Centre for Art, this blog […]
Fragmented reports from the field Bags so heavy I was forced to beg for a lift to the station. The train will be one minute late. I anticipate it should take just twenty minutes to cross London with this load. […]
“It’s hard for all working mums (and dads) to find a work/life balance isn’t it – what’s so different for artists?” This was a question posed recently by a friend over dinner. I’d been banging on about APT – Artist Parents Talking – specifically about APT’s current search for funding, without stopping to think that she might not understand the basic premise of the network.
Public art projects, residencies and commissions in non-gallery spaces.
ok, wow time has flown that seems to happen when summer hits, it’s all go go go.. so what’s happened- well the opening evening of the schools exhibition went really well we had a presentation session looking at the progress […]
After a sweaty, muggy commute dragging wheelie suitcase, backpack, handbag and massive sketch-book first to BH photo store (the battery was a dud) and then up to East Harlem to meet the other artists, followed by a 2 hour drive […]
