The weeks and months after graduation can be a daunting time. After three years or more of support and guidance suddenly it’s time to go it alone. There are many different ways to pursue your career as a professional artist and no two people will follow the same path. Here, four recent art graduates describe their journeys: from joining a peer-led network to working as an artist’s assistant, they each have a different story to tell.
The embellishment of international study resounds with the affect of writing and the scripture of applied materials to define a multidisciplinary art practice: but how do you pull yourself away from the developed peer structure of art school?
Graphic design supplied an impetus, as skateboarding provided public space for experimentation. Soon to be in his final year at Birmingham City University, Ryan Hughes continues to transform public sites with the durable object alongside textual intervention.
Richard Taylor finds out how three artist groups are re-vamping their structures as established organisations, to support new talent and promote a variety graduate activity.
Sogol Mabadi, Belt (Unbelt), performance, 2010.
Striving and surviving in the do it yourself art world; curating, managing members, self-publishing. Richard Taylor talks to three recently founded artists’ groups about doing it ‘DIY’, progress so far and what the future holds.
Richard Taylor talks to Michelle Rowley about her career, practice and collaborative thirst for ideas.
Richard Taylor talks to Kim Walker, MFA student at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Richard Taylor in conversation with Bernice Wilson
Louise graduated from Glasgow School of Art with a Fine Art Degree in 2005. Whilst studying she was involved in the artists’ run exhibition space Park Circus with her peers and had been volunteering one day a week at doggerfisher […]
The Arts Council of Great Britain was established in 1946. After cutbacks under Conservative governments in the 1980s the organisation was devolved between England, Scotland and Wales in 1994. Following a confusing series of twists and turns over cultural policy […]
RSA Upper and Lower Galleries, Edinburgh
14-25 February
Launching September 2008, Creative Graduates – Creative Futures is the largest-ever study of the career patterns of graduates from UK courses in art, design, craft and media.
Andrew Bryant delves into the student blogs on Degrees unedited and provides insights and analysis into what they reveal.
“What happened to the people who said ‘we will represent something in the world’? When did artists start to say ‘we will change the world’?”
In December, Scottish Arts Council awarded major bursaries to four leading contemporary artists for the development of future work, and as an investment in their creative talent.
Art prizes are much valued by artists, not only because they provide some much-needed cash that can go towards new work but also for their profile-raising value that supports artists’ career development.
Charles Saatchi saw one of Jenny Saville’s paintings and commissioned a series, but she believes it’s hard work and dedication that sustain her.
The Art Gallery, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen
20 January – 19 February
I first visited Sweden when I was invited to participate in the Gothenburg Biennale in 2001.
The Creativity and the artist seminar will examine the argument by the Scottish Executive that “the creativity of Scots, from the classroom to the board room, is the edge we need in a competitive world” and goes on to charge […]
Jane Watt talks to Dalziel + Scullion about their collaborative practice, unusual studio set up and processes involved in their commission for Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital.
Winners of the 2004 Glenfiddich residencies are Christine Borland, Ross Sinclair and Louise Hopkins who will each be provided with accommodation, studio and gallery space to create and show new work. Marking the centenary of the Entente Cordiale, the 2004 […]
A recent Crafts Council report shows that female self-employed entrepreneurs have emerged for this growing sector, currently estimated to worth over £800 million. The report, the first on the crafts sector for ten years highlighted the importance of lifestyle satisfaction […]
Jane Watt looks into professional development initiatives available to artists working in the public domain, in the fourth of the six-part series ‘Navigating Places’.
