Making connections
News and updates on AIR’s strategies and activities designed to support professional artists within their practice and working lives.
News and updates on AIR’s strategies and activities designed to support professional artists within their practice and working lives.
Konrad Wyrebek, Olivia Palermo and her boyfriend Johannes Huebl, oil and acrylic on canvas, 120x90cm, 2011.
As part of its ongoing mission to support contemporary visual arts practice, this month a-n publishes two reports in the feature ‘Artists, arts policy and funding’.
Auto Italia South East, London
25 – 28 August
Alex Murdin asks what is Localism and what effect it is likely to have on art practice in regional areas.
Now in its fourteenth year, Deptford X is counting down a programme of events that will build towards the Olympic and Paralympic games in 2012.
Online editor Richard Taylor interviews artists Maria Bojanowska, Sarah Rowles, Alice Ladenburg and Andrew Maclean about their approach to professional development in the early stages of a career in the arts.
Current professional development support schemes for visual artists in the UK.
A selection of post-graduate study routes on offer across the UK.
A tour around some of the UK’s open studios and artists’ open house events taking place this autumn.
Artists talking Online editor Andrew Bryant talks to Nicola Dale about collaboration, blogging and a dislike of loose ends.
What will the future arts environment look like? Artist / curator / gallery manager Lee Cavaliere offers his visions for the future – we invite your own manifestos in response.
Becky Shaw explores the dangers of the concept of ‘continuous practice’ and gives thought to the key factors that enable longevity if artists choose it.
Evidence-based recommendations on: Identifying the ‘new practices’ model, Valuing peer networks, Redefining public accountability, Supporting location and community and New ‘brand image’ for artists.
Ed Whiting, founder of WeDidThis, discusses the opportunities that crowd-funding provides for both arts organisations and artists.
Approached by Modern Art Oxford to deliver art sessions at a Sure Start children’s centre in the Rose Hill area of Oxford, artist Jon Lockhart began a four-year residency at the centre as part of MAO’s ambitious Paul Hamlyn Foundation funded offsite programme.
Project Space Leeds
28 April – 6 August
Artists and arts organisations had the opportunity to debate current and future professional development needs and aspirations in June as part of strategic planning by Turning Point West Midlands.
Report from the recent conference held in London.
A new report reveals that a disproportionate number of artists’ membership and development agencies and practice-based organisations lost core funding, despite ACE’s aim of creating a “balanced portfolio”.
Blogger Ann Shaw talks to Andrew Bryant about working in the virtual realm, her career development from journalist to artist, and current concerns.
New evidence exposing, quantifying and discussing the likely impact on the visual arts of Arts Council England’s decisions on fifteen previously Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs) visual arts organisations unsuccessful in their NPO application. It shows that a disproportionate number of artists’ membership and development agencies and practice-based organisations lost core funding, despite ACE’s aim of creating a balanced national portfolio and makes recommendations for sustaining their work as part of a strengthened arts ecology.
In the recent ACE funding review, a shocking number of organisations working at the leading edge of digital and new media arts were cut.
An overview of some of the most exciting open studio events across the UK this summer.
Daniel Fawcett argues that artists’ use of film holds the key to its future.