Striving and surviving in the do it yourself art world; curating, managing members, self-publishing. Richard Taylor talks to three recently founded artists’ groups about doing it ‘DIY’, progress so far and what the future holds.
AIR member Rosalind Davis, mixed media painter and graduate from the RCA, discusses her thoughts on the new coalition government and how cuts to arts funding will affect her personally.
Been a bit awol haven’t I? This last couple of weeks has been fairly manic! Several things have happened that I should have written about, but because there is some time lost, they have lost their immediacy. It’s hard to […]
Response from AIR: Artists Interaction and Representation.
Pots of Liquid Flesh It was a Friday evening. Mike and Bill were playing chess and I was surfing the internet searching for images of Lucian Freud’s paintings. Suddenly I stumbled across a painting by Jenny Saville, and the hairs […]
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.
New Display Strategies: ‘What’s in it for me?’ 17 February – 27 March Seventeen, London 5 February – 28 March Gasworks, London
As an artist, curator and writer Rachel Marsden considers the importance placed on the written word in conveying artworks to visitors.
I’m coming round to the idea that I won’t be in Sweden this summer. I’m making it okay by telling myself that I’ll be here lots of other summers. Today I uploaded my application for a (the!) practice-based PhD that […]
Airspace Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
13 February – 27 March 2010
RESEARCH IMAGES OF WORKERS IN BOOKS & ARCHIVES – PART 2 Collective portraits I was particularly struck by the formal portraits of teams of workers – looking at their expressions, and the order of who stands where – does this […]
Hetain Patel presents a split-screen film entitled ‘To Dance Like Your Dad’. One thing that is evident from this piece is the artist’s attention to detail and the precise nature in which he undergoes his work. The film consists of […]
54 days into 2010 already…. That is what I woke up feeling with acute gravity as I tried to emancipate myself from a brain fogged with illness this morning… …..that and suddenly through the fog…. it’s time to regroup (and […]
Linda Ball is project leader of Creative Graduates Creative Futures the largest research study to date about the career paths of art and design graduates. She talks to Jane Watt about the research, her own experience of a portfolio career and the importance of having creativity at the core of professional practice.
Sweet Home In a junk shop in Observatory I find a painting which proclaims “Home Sweet Home”. I purchase it and take it back to furnish my room. I am starting to feel at home here, and its got me […]
The issue of free labour in the arts received much-needed publicity in November, when a Reading Employment Tribunal ruled expenses-only pay was illegal.
Every year I get an xmas card from this man and his wife and inside it is a photocopy of a hand written letter which he must send to all his friends and relations, explaining all the things he’s done […]
Graduate Diploma in Creative Business Development The only graduate creative business programme in the UK that focuses on the creative individual as the centre of the business practice. During this one-year programme, students investigate and develop their own understanding of […]
Last year’s National Endowment study revealed the importance of artists in America’s cultural vitality and economic prosperity.
Global, Global
8 November 2009
Responding to the gap in intelligence about artists and their practice, AIR: Artists’ Interaction and Representation has been conducting a series of research projects with the aim of informing cultural advocacy and policy-making.
The quality of art education offered in UK universities has been regularly under the spotlight in recent times. In this month’s Debate, an MA graduate gives an account of the critical situation, and proposes an alternative system to offer education for artists.
Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn, Cambridge
5 September – 1 November
wip:sthlm International Artist Residency Another full day in the studio. After two months here I feel as though I’m getting into my stride. Although I’ve been here since the beginning of August this is actually only my 23rd day in […]
