Are you thinking of applying for a grant or award? Over £2.3m was openly offered in these categories through a-n’s Jobs and opportunities last year. As it’s a highly competitive activity, we’ve compiled this guide to making applications, including some ‘top tips’ from a range of experienced artists, curators, and arts professionals…
The UK boasts literally hundreds of visual arts competitions annually. Here, we look at some of the most significant opens and prizes on offer this year.
The focus generated this month by ‘Vital 07’ is the catalyst for exposing of some of the UK’s key promoters of live art today.
S Mark Gubb profiles R O O M and learns about its journey from artist-led venue in Bristol to a commercial space in London.
Emilia Telese’s opening essay offers analysis of the markets for art in the UK highlighting the ‘contradictions and idiosyncrasies’ of the relationship between artists and money,
Yvette Mutumba on Shaheen Merali – artist, curator, researcher, writer, observer and globetrotter.
Film London and BBC Radio 4 are collaborating on The City Speaks, a project bringing together twelve of the capital’s artist film-makers and writers to create a series of films for radio.
It’s the drive and imagination of artists that is leading major exposures on contemporary visual arts in Leeds and Stroud in May and June that both focus on location.
Sara Raza on Grace Ndiritu, a young London based artist who is enjoying an upwards ascent with an impressive portfolio of national and international exhibitions, that present a fresh style of politics and performativity.
“The process of social change is in desperate need of creativity and imagination, and the aesthetic process in urgent need of social engagement”
“Spirit in community will die unless there’s someone calling the meeting.”
Artist as Leader is a programme that aims to understand the ways artists lead through their practice with a view to informing and developing a critical understanding of the role of creativity in culture.
Gillian Nicol explores the nature of collaborative and creative processes involved in making artwork in the public realm.
Debra Savage’s case study-based research into the realities of professional artistic practice.
In September, the A Foundation launches Greenland Street, a major new contemporary art centre in Liverpool.
Various locations, Whitstable, Kent
3-18 June
Jane Watt outlines the core strengths of NAN and looks to the future.
At a recent symposium on the British Art Show1 the discussion took a somewhat unexpected turn.
A Code of Practice takes commonly-agreed principles of good practice and demonstrates why and how they should be applied.
A Code of Practice takes commonly-agreed principles of good practice and demonstrates why and how they should be applied.
Paul Stone on east London based organisation Cell Project Space that across three sites encompasses gallery, studios and internship programme.
Tom Burtonwood introduces his selection of articles from a-n’s archives for Perspectives on practice, illustrating the impact a-n has had on foregrounding developments in artists’ practice and strategies.
Artist’s motivations when working in the public realm.
David Butler discusses artists and urban regeneration.
Outer space investigates the interface between artists’ practice and the socio-political domain. Devised and edited by Esther Salamon, contributors include Chris Batt MLA, Paul Collard Creative Partnerships, Jonathan Davis CABE, David Lammy MP Minister for Culture, Graham Leicester International Futures Forum and Tom Shakespeare.
