
We’re calling for Government investment in the visual arts
A major new report supported by a-n calls for Government action to protect artists’ livelihoods by investing in the country’s visual arts sector.
A major new report supported by a-n calls for Government action to protect artists’ livelihoods by investing in the country’s visual arts sector.
London based artist Emma Douglas works with a wide range of media, including drawing, printing, painting, photography, sculpture and film. Here she reflects on a successful year that included winning the Working Drawing Award at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize.
Sarah Cole & Annis Joslin: this blog details how we are using our A-N Artist’s Bursary and how this has led to developing a new project funded by Arts Council England NLPG, with additional funding by CSM Lenses.
yes – i feel lost at the moment. music on and back into the post. i have to admit that since completing the museum project i’ve been catching up with the whole pandemic effect thing. i miss contact with […]
Gary Hume reflects on his successes during the 1990s and on being “prepared to risk my career for being an artist.”
Thanks to everyone who has supported this podcast so far – it has now reached 1000 plays! To celebrate this milestone there is now a special bonus episode online featuring a conversation with artist William Furlong, founder of the Audio Arts project […]
This week’s selection features exhibitions, talks and projects presented via online viewing rooms, social media and other online platforms, plus newly reopened physical spaces, including: Phyllida Barlow leads the reopening of Firstsite gallery, a-n member Kerry Baldry curates an online moving image exhibition of work made within the duration of one minute by artists at varying stages of their careers, plus The Crafts Council’s bi-monthly lunchtime talks designed to support makers in their business development.
As the marquees go up in the park, we take a look at some of the fairs, events and curated projects taking place this week in London and beyond, including a new Art on the Underground commission by Denzil Forrester, House of Voltaire’s latest pop-up space and the second iteration of the Coventry Biennial.
The perfect blend between materials and concept
“ We owe the invention of the arts to deranged imaginations” wrote the essayist Saint Evermond in the seventeenth century” Breakfast at Sotheby’s -Phillip Hook 2018 Do you have to be deranged to be an Artist? I don’t think so […]
Wow, It has been such an amazing three weeks since I last blogged. I went down to London and spoke at the Emerging Artists discussion at the Tate Exchange. (I got a charcuterie plate and ate it looking at St […]
Hi, my name is Letty McHugh, I’m an artist and a writer and one of the recipients of the Emergence Bursary. I wanted to write an introduction post to my practice and the project I’m working on for the bursary, […]
More news in brief: Carl Freedman set to open new space in Margate as gallery relocates from London; curator Klaus Littmann to plant 299 trees in Austrian football stadium in statement against climate change; plus Saatchi Gallery covers up artworks following complaints by Muslim visitors.
What does 2019 have in store in terms of exhibitions, art fairs, festivals, conferences and other events? We take a month-by-month look at what the year ahead has to offer.
Five recommended shows from across the UK, including: a group show exploring socio-political turmoil at Bo-Lee Gallery, London, Siobhán Hapaska’s sculpture at John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, and Lucy Orta’s collaborative banners at Medicine in Birmingham.
A selection of international exhibitions at museums and art galleries that either allow free or discounted entry with an IAA card, now available to a-n members. This month we visit Denmark, Norway, Germany, Hungary, Turkey and France.
Watching the Imagine programme on Tracey Emin this week… love or hate her work… there’s no denying the power and importance of it, of her. She has been, and still is, brave and brazen, outspoken and outrageous. I find her […]
Artists talk about their lives and careers in the art world