UAG have spent their first 2-3 months looking into the fundamentals of being an art group. Instead of looking for similarities in our work we have taken our initial bonding ‘thing’ to be that we have differences. We have an […]
I’ve just heard about a series of critical discussions about residencies with East Street Arts in Leeds; ‘Weds@105 – residencies’ I’ve had email contact and will definitely be making sure I represent the voice of artist-parents at these discussions. Let […]
I went to a meeting last night which was organised by someone from firstsite (visual arts organisation). The aim of the meeting was to keep artists up-to-date with their plans for developing their artists’ support programme, and to invite comments […]
In spring 2010 Spacex invited three UK-based artists to develop new work in response to Exeter’s West Quarter, where the gallery is located. The artists facilitated collaborative encounters and conversations with local residents. Amy Feneck interviewed people about the notion of ‘independent spirit’ in order to develop a script for a new film, Epilogue. Operating from her mobile portraiture studio, Lady Lucy documented encounters in her paintings ‘The Court Portraits’. Volkhardt Müller worked with people to create a series of performed actions on video. Majorette Rehearsing centered around the idea of the majorette as a West Quarter archetype; a paradoxical figure of individual aspiration, community celebration and carnival. For this feature, Volkhardt Müller reflects on his project with Spacex Project Coordinator, Martha Crean.
Best Practice Seminar: with Alex Pearl 29th May 12.00PM-4.00PM @ AirSpace Gallery www.newgenerationspace.wordpress.com airspacegallery no4 Broad Street Hanley Stoke-on-Trent Staffordshire ST1 4HL In this session we will be looking at the fundamentals of what it means to be an artist […]
Artquest’s international practice seminar held in March at A Foundation London coincided with the ‘Journeys with No Return’ exhibition. Speakers included: artist and exhibitor Kiran Kaur Brar, whose residency in Istanbul was part of this three-city project; project curator Alice […]
A UK-wide scheme that enables artists and makers to work alongside students in universities and colleges for mutual benefit is launching a digital portfolio of stories from artists who’ve taken part in these ‘mini residencies’.
Engineering workshop and bridge talk I started to document Derek’s / the engineering workshop last week where there are mills and lathes – some old some very new. We discussed the transition from traditional towards computer operated processes and the […]
Conference at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
9 – 11 March 2010
A guide for artists and arts organisers to creating a mutually-beneficial relationship.
Richard Taylor talks to an artist with added arts professional experience about the role of the studio in research-led practice and the importance of cultural discourse.
Workspace developments, studio residency projects and open studio events happening around the UK.
At the beginning of March this year, the Arts Council of Wales hosted ‘Arts in Health and Well-being’, a conference about prevention, intervention and creative action in healthcare.
Jens Sundheim is a visual artist working principally in photography. Born in Dortmund in 1970, he studied photography at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Dortmund from 1994 – 2002 with a period of study at the University of Plymouth in 1997. He is currently based in a live/work studio space at Künstlerhaus Dortmund (KHD) and has been resident there since 2007. Sundheim’s work has been exhibited internationally in exhibitions and festivals, most recently in ‘space shuttle 2.0’ at Fotogalerie, Vienna. He has had his work featured in various magazines and publications and has been awarded numerous prizes including a recommendation at the Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
Emily Speed looks at the complex nature of making a living as an artist with reference to profiles of four artists, all based in Austria and Germany, whom she worked alongside at the Salzamt, Linz.
Richard Taylor converses with a third year student James Clarkson at Sheffield Hallam University on not always having something to say but having plenty to show instead.
Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston upon Thames
9 February – 27 March
8th April 2010 Its not two months since the fire and it seems we may have found a long term replacement building – a mill just outside Kendal. Its been so busy these last couple of weeks – meetings and […]
I regularly engage in dialogue with myself about my work, like most artists I’m sure; dialogue with material, object, concept, place; and dialogue with audiences through showing work in exhibitions. I worked on a collaborative project in 2008 that was […]
Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston upon Thames
9 February
Exploring new initiatives within galleries, education and commissioning.
Mentoring with Bob Levene Sheffield 29.01.10 I had posted the DVDs of the ‘Cans’ re-shoot and of ‘One-Minute Birdwatching’ as the focus for this session. I wasn’t convinced with them as objects in themselves, so I was eager to get […]
Being a first time buyer of your magazine I read your letters page with amazement. Is this really the first time that issues about the pretentiousness of the art world have been raised in such depth?
Helen Scalway is an artist who works using drawing to investigate pattern and place. She has just completed a residency project with the V&A and Royal Holloway, London University. In 2007 and 2008 she held residencies at The Drawing Centre, […]
