This week’s selection from a-n’s busy Events section, featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n members, includes selections from Bridport, Cardiff Bay, Corby, London and Presteigne.
In Brief: news briefing featuring national and international stories including: Portrait of Nigel Farage fails to attract a single bid at Royal Academy summer exhibition; British Council wins funding for youth-led heritage project; giant Sadiq Khan balloon to fly over London.
Four projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and including exhibitions and events in Birmingham, Canterbury, Derby and Spilsby.
A new partnership between Dash and Arnolfini, MAC Birmingham and Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art will offer residencies for curators who identify themselves as disabled.
With too many artists’ residencies excluding those who don’t have independent means of support or who have responsibilities at home, Alistair Gentry welcomes Wysing Art Centre’s new residency programme and calls for more of the same from building-based arts organisations.
Earlier this year the Leverhulme Trust decided to close its successful Artist in Residence Grant Scheme which has seen artists including Turner Prize winner Elizabeth Price and the Scottish artist Alec Finlay working alongside scientists and academics across the UK. Chris Fremantle talks to those lamenting its closure and calls for its return.
Eight artists including Catherine Yass and James Rigler are taking part in the White Noise residency at the soon to be demolished former Television Centre’s East Tower.
Selected from a-n’s busy Events section: reflected neo-gothic architecture in Scunthorpe, paintings in London and Salford, digital residencies, and Hindu alpono works in Bolton.
engage is seeking proposals for its journal reflecting on the shifting nature of artists’ residencies and the challenges faced when artists and organisations work together.
Four of Scotland’s leading environmental organisations are hosting seven artists’ residencies funded by Creative Scotland, as part of the Year of Natural Scotland.
In January, three UK makers began Watershed’s Craft + Technology Residencies, bringing together making and design with digital, networked technologies. Taking place in Bristol, Plymouth and Falmouth, we talk to the participants and discover how digital technology is influencing their practice.
Opportunity for visual arts curators living and working in England, Scotland or Wales to visit Northern Ireland.
Exhibitions featuring a-n members, including Turner Prize nominees Rory Pilgrim and Barbara Walker, plus biennials in Stoke-on-Trent and Lancashire
Exhibitions featuring a-n members, including Hull based artist Greg Bromley’s surreal paintings in Outside In’s national open exhibition in Glasgow, plus two brand new film commissions by Ayo Akingbade in Southampton.
A celebration of socially and politically engaged art in Rochdale, science-inspired drawing in Birmingham, and monochrome reflections in London.
A symposium co-hosted by a-n, the Artists’ Association of Finland and the International Association of Art (IAA) Europe.
Delivered as part of the Liverpool Biennial 2021: The Stomach and the Port, LB x a-n Artist Bursaries allowed artists to undertake a period of research in response to a new avenue of thinking. We take a look at the work of the artists who took part in the programme.
34 UK disabled artists and companies have received over £715K in funding from Unlimited to develop their work. We take a look at the work of five a-n members who have received awards as part of the 2021 programme.
Following the launch of the John Moores Painting Prize virtual exhibition last week, we look at the work of a-n members included in the online show.
Influential Director of Wysing Arts Centre, who was made an MBE in 2020, has died after living with lung cancer for the last two years.
Production Director of Alchemy Film & Arts explains how the organisation responded to the Covid-19 crisis by moving its festival online to make the best of a challenging situation.
We speak to Maria Hatling about what inspired her a-n at 40 logo design, her painting practice and what she’s been up during a tumultuous 2020.
Ying Kwok (Festival Director and independent curator, HK), Lindsay Taylor, (University of Salford Art Collection), and Sarah Fisher (Director of Open Eye Gallery) discuss how the Peer to Peer: UK/HK programme developed, the themes addressed by the artists involved, and the importance of digital platforms in the current climate.
Online festival, featuring work by Artists Council members Antonio Roberts and Hetain Patel, has announced its programme, which includes a panel event on international exchange between artists, chaired by a-n’s Programmes and Partnerships Manager Wing-Sie Chan.
Digital festival of cultural exchange and collaboration between the UK and Hong Kong to take place from 11-14 November, curated by independent curator Ying Kwok.
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