HTML version of Community engagement in which Catherine Wilson explores the myriad ways artists can engage with specific communities via residencies, collaborations, cross-cultural projects and research.
Kathy Rae Huffan describes Central Asian Project, a programme of residencies and cultural exchange between artists from the UK and Kazakhstan that took place between 2006-08.
Kai-Oi Jay Yung speaks to Guyan Porter about his residency at Chandrasevana Creation Centre in Sri Lanka.
Paul Stone talks to Kit Kingsbury about her three-week residency at the Hungarian Multicultural Center in Hungary.
Paul Stone talks to Sheena Macrae about her three-month residency at Gertrude in Melbourne, Australia and its huge impact on her practice.
Paul Stone talks to John Walter about his time at the British School at Rome.
Publicly-funded arts organisations are exhorted to extend participation in the arts by getting more people actively engaged in off-site and public realm programmes. Alongside, those in the business world are increasingly aware of the advantages of bringing artists’ ideas into development and regeneration projects. Here we highlight selected projects happening over the summer within the wider public domain.
Opinions on arts council investments, attitutes towards artists, and studio politics.
Kate Stoddart profiles jeweller Cynthia Cousens, looking specifically at awards, exhibitions and research projects.
Frances Lord pulls together themes and strands that emerge from sixteen newly-commissioned interviews, which reflect the sheer diversity of working practice within the applied arts.
FIRST PROJECT SPACE BOOKED Spent a lot of time this week thinking about dates and spaces. Booked our first Project Space at the Phoenix in Brighton for first week in July with draft dates for the Open Afternoon and the […]
I am just as busy with studio business as I was a year ago and barely have time to write a blog. A meeting to sort out studio politics on Sunday seems to have resloved a few issues in relation […]
Penny Jones talks to Deirdre Nelson about her textile-based work, often made in response to museum collections or site histories and informed by local communities, and residencies in the Scottish Highlands and Australia.
Had a couple of great days in the studio last week. I spent about 13 hours there on Thursday – I haven’t spent so long in a studio since I was on my MA. I didn’t plan to be there […]
WE DID ANOTHER TALK TODAY We did another talk (or two talks) today at the University of Brighton Printmaking Department. This was part of our Residency. In addition to using the screenprinting facilities we have given student tutorials and this […]
Kate Stoddart profiles Andrea Walsh, discussing the development of her practice in ceramics and glass, work/life balance and the outcomes of a residency at Cove Park.
Open studio events are an insight into how artists make work, giving a very different perspective from seeing finished works in a gallery setting or a commissioned piece in a public space. Here we take a look at some of the studios opening their doors over the next few months.
The beginning… I arrived in my humble and beautiful new abode only a matter of days ago, on the 31st of March. My journey across the sea was easy but made difficult by the weight of all of my luggage. […]
As a precursor to the Waterfront Public Art Strategy, Halton Borough Council commissioned artists’ residencies within the Widnes Waterfront Economic Development Zone in 2007.
Deveron Arts, Huntly
March
