On 30 March, Arts Council England announced the winners and losers in the new National Portfolio Organisations (NPO) for funding 2012-15. Here’s a-n’s take on what’s happened, the likely impact on artists, independent arts professionals and the arts ecology as well as highlights from some of the many comments and discussions that are in train.
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
2 October 2010 – 6 March 2011
Tuesday is the Winter Solstice – the shortest day. This is one day I always look forward to, simply because it means the days start to get longer. Tough on vampires, I know. The last few miles of a journey […]
The Photograph 1. What we see Our gaze scans across a square, flat, modernist concrete building, the windows obscured by foliage. Above the house a bright blue sky shines in the spring sunshine. Our eye travels down to the wooden-fenced […]
Fiona Tan: Cloud Island My first experience of Fiona Tan was back in the 53rd Venice Biennale with her show Disorient in the Dutch pavilion. I recall that the work was simultaneously stunning, very beautiful and intensely warm and heartfelt. […]
It’s less than a week to go before the opening of the show, and there is hammering and drilling going on everywhere occasionally interrupted by some mellow jazz. It seems that the health and safety regs have gone out the […]
Thoughts from artists and arts professionals about how cuts in public spending will affect their future working pattern. Plus April Britski gives an account of how recent governmental decisions to cut arts funding have affected Canadian artists.
Chantal Powell, Siren, bird cage, metallic.
Site Gallery, Sheffield
11 June – 21 August 2010
Tactile Bosch, Cardiff
18 – 31 July 2010
Is the studio a space, or a state of mind? It was about this time last year, and in almost identical circumstances, that I was obsessively desperate to be back in my studio. I had work in the Venice Biennale […]
I’ve been wrestling a little with the question of the body and interactivity over the past few days. It seems that the classic case of interactivity in art practice using new technology encourages the viewer outside of their body to […]
24th of May Organised by friends of le Monde Diplomatique, At The Gallery, in Farringdon, London I went to a film event ‘Mundi Romani: the World of the Roma’ As a people and as a culture, the Roma have been […]
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
14 November 2009 – 24 January 2010
Regents Park , London
15 – 18 October 2009
Whitechapel Gallery, London
16 October 2009 – 3 January 2010
Regents Park , London
15 – 18 October 2009
Regents Park, London
15 – 18 October 2009
Artist Profiles Nikos Alexiou Nikos Alexiou, is a Greek artists and collector most known for his installation The End exhibited at Venice Biennale, Greek Pavilion in 2007. His most obvious signature is the use of fragile, lightweight materials (bamboo shoots […]
Cheese and whine I don’t like PVs much. Apart from when I was much younger and the objective of a party was to party, I never have relished certain social situations. Compound that with the effects of a life of […]
experiments with drawing I love drawing. Sometimes it is a means to an end, sometimes it is an end in itself, and sometimes drawing is about making the first few tentative steps towards a new place, like learning to walk. […]
A guide to career development and training opportunities as well as related services and resources that are designed to help artists take their practice to the next level.
