“Auntie Megan’s here, Auntie Megan’s here!”. My son comes running in excitedly, and then dashes out again with my daughter. A couple of minutes later, my old friend, and collaborator strolls in, my children bouncing around her feet like badly […]
Janie Nicoll brings together in one place a mixed assortment of surprising works deliberately sited within a domestic rather than a gallery setting.
Well my absence surely just shows how hard-working I am, how dedicated etc etc yawn. In recent news! I went for an interview at Leeds to do an Ma in History of Art and was offered a conditional place. So […]
continued from previous post (told you this was a subject liable to get me going) So – based on my track record up until 1997, and the small projects I'd done in the intervening 10 years, ACE were prepared to […]
I have been selected to work on 3 residencies over the next year in the UK, Poland and Finland. You've heard about Capitals of Culture? Cornwall wants to be a European Region of Culture. My first residency in Poland starts […]
In October 2010 Safle ceased trading following the withdrawal of funding from the Arts Council of Wales. Back in April 2009, Jane Watt spoke to Safle’s Project Managers and Executive Director about how they were supporting artists to develop and make work in the public realm. At the time Safle was one of the UK’s largest independent public art consultancies.
Pamela Wells and Alicja Rogalska report back from Supermarket – an artist-run international art fair in Stockholm. They talk about why their own artist association Laundry attended the event, meet representatives from a vibrant artist-run culture in Sweden and beyond, and offer a sample of some of the organisations who attended.
Kate Brundrett talks to Paul Rooney about his work, residencies and winning this year’s Northern Art Prize.
Audience development is core within galleries and arts organisations seeking diverse participation in programmes. Here, we examine how they create accessibility, inclusion and encourage learning and engagement with artists and artworks through activities including workshops, residencies and other projects.
The relationship between the collective Ganghut and Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW) began with a residency and subsequent events, and has now developed into construction of a semi-permanent project space.
Been a bit of while since my last post – I’ve been up to my ears in various applications, including a residency, a commission, a collaborative community project (which I did get, usefully). I’ve also been trying to document my […]
I have just been having a conversation over email with another artist about paying to enter things. I my head I have a very clear rule about this: I don't do it. On reflection I thought that there are some […]
Artist Aaron Williamson and Directors of Beaconsfield gallery David Crawforth and Naomi Siderfin discuss the 15mm Films collective.
So now I find myself within a new collaboration with Jenny, now called 'Hunt & Darton', with a performance that’s been through the mill, and is know finally finished. I'm still very much attached to Ben and reminisce our work […]
Feedback was good. I apparently have a gift for editing (not sure how get in and out as quick as you can without doing anything complicated counts). Still, the main issue with my work is raising the roduction standards, and […]
I have just had a read through the comments on this blog and it has given me a lot to think about. I also feel very glad not to be alone! One comment reminded me of something that used to […]
Selected reports on both current and upcoming residency programmes in the UK and beyond.
In a response to a request to consider issues around ‘rural arts practice’, Veronica Vickery writes in the light of the events, performances, installations and seminar that made up BOS-08 and a BOSarts research trip, funded by ALIAS to Grizedale and Allenheads Arts in August 2008.
London-based Artquest has launched a new free international networking and studio exchange site for visual artists. By joining Artelier, users anywhere can create and update a free profile, providing details about your studios across the Artelier network. The aim is […]
Darlington Arts Association A proposal to re-establish the Darlington Arts Association The shock decision by Darlington Council to knock down a third of the Arts Centre to make way for a huge expansion of the Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College […]
Working today on finalising the arrangements for my forthcoming trip to America for the opening of the show in Redhouse Arts Centre. It will be held in the Joan Lukas Rothenberg Gallery and is titled Inishlacken; the last parish. 23 […]
Group Process is the latest season of work to be staged by Radar, Loughborough University’s contemporary arts programme. Running into February; it involves new and adapted commissions produced by artists Lisa Cheung, Yvonne Droge Wendel, public works / myvillages.org, Parfyme and Yara El-Sherbini.
