Peer review
Emilia Telese explores peer review funding for the arts within a holistic art and social environment.
Emilia Telese explores peer review funding for the arts within a holistic art and social environment.
In early April 2008, fifteen artists from around the UK took part in a research visit to Lille, France, entitled ‘The Artist as Social Entrepreneur’.
This article by Furtherfield.org founders and Directors Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett was originally published in Coding Cultures: A Handbook, commissioned by Francesca da Rimini and d/lux/MediaArts in 2007. Catlow and Garrett discuss the origin and mission of Furtherfield.org and how its participatory platforms are art production tools.
The UK boasts literally hundreds of visual arts competitions annually. Here, we look at some of the most significant opens and prizes on offer this year.
In this the second feature exploring strategies and approaches to commissioning art in the public realm, the focus is on regeneration and renewal and the role of agencies and consultancies.
Exploring the roles and reasons of selected organisations dedicated to widening access to the visual arts through commissioning temporary and permanent interventions in non-gallery spaces in the first of a two-part feature.
Many artists aspire to permanent studio space, whether self-initiated or rented through a specialist organisation. Here, we explore some current options for artists and makers with the focus not only on developments in London but also elsewhere in England, Wales and Ireland.
Professional development opportunities are widely available, ranging from cash awards to advisory sessions and critical debate.
Exploring selected arts organisation with significant facilities and programmes for digital and new media practices.
Patricia Fleming discusses the relationship with the art market for artists and curators in Wales and Scotland.
Emilia Teleses opening essay offers analysis of the markets for art in the UK highlighting the contradictions and idiosyncrasies of the relationship between artists and money,
Elizabeth Masterton, Therell Always Be An England, installation, 2007. Photo: Paul Ridout
Charlie Foxs critical response to the different positions taken up by dealers and curators vs non-object based artists within the art market.
Guyan Porter talks about the socio-economic dynamics of art markets and deconstructs notions of the art market in the UK.
Rick Schofield, photograph from the Peer series, 2007.
Charlie Fox on what networking means to artists.
Jane Watt outlines the core strengths of NAN and looks to the future.
Susan Jones introduces Perspectives on practice, an a-n Collection selected by Tom Burtonwood from a-n’s ‘back archive’ of publishing from the 1990s.
Artists motivations when working in the public realm.
Yuen Fong Ling on shifting Identities in Hong Kong
Jane Watt on the first of two publications that give an overview of NAN activity to date (2006).
A series of Vox box style reflections by some of the artists who have experienced NAN.
Index of organisations visited or mentioned during the event.
Biographies of Import/Export speakers.
Gillian McIver on international networking.