Networked Bodies is an ongoing research and development project for New Work Network. Through examination of alternative models of funding and commissioning, the aim is to establish a radical new model for commissioning live work. It is envisaged that this […]
Ten years ago: The TWSA project which intended to create a new perception of possibilities for public art in four cities included work by Mona Hatoum. Vong Phaophanit, Richard Deacon, and Donald Rodney; The Spectator Painting Competition offered a £2,000 […]
Baltic, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
26 October – 26 January
Brigid Howarth investigates the multifaceted business of buying and selling in the corporate art market.
The Culture Company, an independent commissioning agency based in Huddersfield, aims to promote surprising and creative interventions in everyday places. Their remit combines the programming of events as diverse as exhibitions, festivals, conferences and commissions, working with both public and […]
A high percentage of Jennie Moncur’s work is commissioned. Since 1986, alongside undertaking a range of private commissions, she has built up a portfolio of public works including thirty tapestries; painted fabrics and rugs for Jardine Insurance Brokers; laser-cut linoleum […]
David Jeffreys looks at the issue of arts funding and considers whether there’s a catch to the expansion of public spending.
Drifting south west to Cornwall, Alan Bleakley describes PALP, an artist-led group committed to experimental, collaborative and socially inclusive projects.
Last February Jennifer Vickers completed a two-year residency at Manchester Metropolitan University as part of North West Arts Board’s Setting up Scheme. “During the early stages of this placement I struggled to make any kind of profit from my practice, […]
Cube, Manchester 11 September – 2 November
Valerie Coffin Price reports from Est-Nord-Est, an artist-led centre in Quebec, Canada.
In January 2002 Adrain Hart won Artsway’s ‘Animal’ open exhibition. His prize was a solo show to be held at Artsway that following June. He says: “Using lens-based media and elements of live art I continued my research into notions […]
This year’s Big Draw, running 16-23 October, brings together one thousand venues of all types and sizes. Included are the major national museums, shopping centres, stately homes, Roman palaces, folk museums, steam pumping stations, church halls, gardens, stations and even […]
In the first of a six-part series ‘Inhabited spaces’, Alice Angus presents artists’ perspectives on language and its relationship to place.
Louise Clements and Jonathan Willett describe Spectrum 2002, a light-infused programme of exhibitions and outreach work at Nottingham’s artist-run Lightsource.
Tim Birch samples some of the websites selling art online.
Paulette Terry Brien reports from Ex-Teresa Arte Actual in Mexico City.
The first York Open Studios was held over one weekend last March and included the work of nineteen different artists over nine separate sites in York. The work featured was largely a mix of painting, printmaking and ceramics with many […]
Artists’ story: Michael Dan Archer
The Land and the Samling programme reached a climax in July when sixty young people from schools and colleges in north east England worked alongside professional artists at Kielder Forest, Northumberland. The result of a creative partnership between the Samling […]
After 22 years in education, and with a first class degree in Graphic Arts from Liverpool University under her belt, Pip Stanley was feeling “well and truly institutionalised and very unsure of what to expect in the world of illustration”. […]
The Crossley Gallery, Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax 13 April – 30 June
Over the past twenty-three years working with glass I have come to love the material even more than when I started.
Brendan Fletcher takes a look at how artist-led initiatives, and the Manchester galleries’ willingness to listen have helped shape the current changes in the Manchester art scene.
With a long history of working with artists, Habitat’s art programme provides the opportunity of prime viewing space that acts as a springboard for young artists.
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