As Troy Town Art Pottery moves from its first home at Open School East down the road to an outbuilding on Hoxton Street, founder and artist Aaron Angell speaks to Pippa Koszerek about his motivations and future plans for the London-based pottery.
The London-based artist Ben Cove, whose work explored art and design history with particular reference to modernism, has died unexpectedly after a short illness. Artist Emily Speed pays tribute to her friend and his work, while also collecting the thoughts of other artists and curators.
Launched on International Women’s Day, the idle women narrowboat will tour the waterways of Lancashire and West Yorkshire until 2017, connecting and initiating art by women throughout the region via a series of floating residencies. Sara Jaspan talks to the women behind the project and finds something to smile about in the midst of Lancashire’s biting council cuts.
AirSpace Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent is celebrating 10 years of artist-led activity amidst the shifting environment of the city’s post-industrial regeneration. a-n Writer Development Programme participant Anneka French talks to its directors and takes a look at the gallery’s ten-strong birthday show.
Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s Events section, including three exhibitions, an artists’ crit session and a talk on overcoming barriers to artists’ residencies.
The Islington Mill Art Academy in Salford has been providing a free alternative to mainstream art education since 2007. Sara Jaspan speaks to its co-founder, Maurice Carlin, and gets the views of artists who’ve taken part in the Academy’s ever-evolving investigation of what art education can be.
The Syllabus is a nomadic artist development programme billed as an alternative to formal art education. At its half-way stage, Anneka French speaks to the project’s organisers, artist Andy Holden and Wysing Arts Centre, and to two of the ten participating artists.
Five exhibitions and public works from a-n members on display during the holiday season, selected from a-n’s Events section.
Kitty Scott announced as co-curator of 2018 edition, while Julie Lomax becomes director of development of the leading art festival.
Five events posted by a-n’s members on our popular Events listings section, from neon art in Walthamstow to steel manufacturing in Middlesbrough.
There have been some fantastic artists’ books published this year and Sarah Bodman at UWE Bristol’s Centre for Fine Print Research has read most of them. Here she picks ten of her favourites.
Artist and poet Nancy Campbell explores the disappearing languages and environments of the Arctic in her latest limited edition work, which launches later this week at a book fair in London. Sarah Bodman tells the story behind Proviso.
Event and exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from our busy Events section and featuring events and exhibitions posted by a-n members.
Sam Thorne, currently artistic director of Tate St Ives, takes over position from Alex Farquharson who is leaving to become new head of Tate Britain.
The London-based studio provider enables 16 art college graduates to take up studios at its Warton House premises in Stratford from October 2016.
British Art Show 8 opens in Leeds on Friday 9 October and the city – currently bidding to be European Capital of Culture 2023 – is responding with a raft of additional activity. Leeds-based writers and artists Amelia Crouch and Lara Eggleton report on what the city’s homegrown and artist-led organisations are up to as Leeds City Council throws its support behind a showcase of the city’s buoyant visual arts scene.
The inaugural North festival in Warrington has brought pavilions from city’s including Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool – as well as art that responds to Ikea – to the streets and galleries of the town. Laura Robertson reports.
The studio, residency and gallery space in south London reopens with increased exhibition space, more studios, and with the freehold of the building now secured.
The inaugural Plymouth Art Weekender presents work across the city by over 400 local, national and international artists. Artist and AIR Council member Steven Paige welcomes this audacious new festival and looks at how the city’s visual art ecology has developed in the five years since British Art Show 7.
Member-run organisation Making Art Work has organised Art Market, a day of artists’ stalls, performances and a charity art auction taking place in Maidstone, Kent.
Following its successful crowdfunding campaign earlier this year, Spacex have selected Trevor Pitt of Pod Projects as the gallery’s first socially-engaged artist in residence.
Talbot Rice Gallery’s TRG3 programme provides space for artists to realise new bodies of work in response to Edinburgh University’s collections, architecture, and academic expertise. Richard Taylor talks to the gallery’s curator and two of the artists he’s been working with.
Events for the 2015 AND festival in Grizedale Forest include exhibitions, online projects, residencies, public realm interventions, treks, trails and performances.
ISIS Arts in Newcastle upon Tyne has launched Corners Live, a new digital platform for networked engagement with contemporary art. Richard Taylor unpicks how it plans to grow and make artworks thrive.
Artist-led space TOPOS to host a series of week-long exhibitions and discussions, beginning with TS Eliot-nominated poet Sean Borodale.
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