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Over the course of four years, artists, curators and writers were invited to select blogs from the a-n site. Their choices highlights the range and depth of practice discussed on a-n’s artists’ blogging platform at that time.

Here, we profile a selection of courses offering postgraduate level study for artists seeking to develop their practice further within creative, supportive and critically challenging environments.

A-n Magazine May 1998: Increasingly, interdisciplinary or collaborative working processes are being used by artists, both as a means of extending their knowledge and personal experience and to create partnerships in which artists move beyond the close confines of the art world and can more readily address social, political and environmental concerns, we asked six artists, for whom collaborative working is a driving force, to describe their approaches and concerns and to provide some analysis of the issues an questions which have arisen.

In April 2010 six young people from North Glasgow were given the unique opportunity to explore life in a completely different way and to interpret what they saw using photography within contemporary art.

Melinda Gibson, Photomontage XVI, (taken from pages 133,169,196), mixed media, 74.5x91mm, 2009-11.

In an extension of our monthly online feature, Artists talking Editor Andrew Bryant invites art world figures to spotlight a current Projects unedited blog. This month, Rebecca Heald chooses Clare Maynard’s ‘Random places’.

Exhibition, residency and bursary opportunities for artists across the UK and beyond.

Tereza Buskova, The King Of Lincolnshire.

Artists and designers embracing digital learning, production and distribution.

This month sees the culmination of a two-year project at Siobhan Davies Dance, one of the country’s most distinctive dance companies. Choreographer Davies has paired dance artists with visual and applied artists to bring their creative practices together and create new works ranging from performance to film and installation. The commissioned dance artists are Henry Montes, Sarah Warsop, Gill Clarke and Deborah Saxon who are partnered respectively with Marcus Coates, Tracey Rowledge and Lucy Skaer. Henry Montes and Deborah Saxon have also made a piece together with Bruce Sharp. Here, three of the visual artists relate their experiences.

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.

A selection of projects, residencies and exhibitions taking place outside the big cities this autumn.

Elizabeth Wewiora looks at allotment-based practice among contemporary artists.

In 2010 artist Jo Berry embarked on a period of research within the School of Biomedical Sciences at Nottingham University Medical School, alongside Tim Self and Dr Nicholas Holliday. Here they recount the experience of an artist working in a ‘live’ scientific research environment, and the ways that the two disciplines of art and science can benefit each other to a wider audience.

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.

A look at current projects and commissions taking place in unconventional settings.

Profiling new courses and developments in postgraduate teaching across the UK.

An overview of some of the most exciting open studio events across the UK this summer.

Launched in March, Creative Scotland’s first corporate plan presented an ambitious vision for the nation’s arts, culture and creative industries. This is backed by core Treasury financing of £35.5m with £14.5m of Scottish Government funds for specific initiatives, unspent reserves from the interim between Scottish Arts Council/Scottish Screen and Creative Scotland, some lottery funding back after diversion to the Olympics and reduced overheads due the merger that included a 30% staff cut.

News of current public realm and gallery commissioning projects.

A selection of forthcoming open exhibition competitions, bursaries and prizes for artists.

In June 2010, Darlington-based photography collective Wideyed was granted a NAN Go and See bursary to travel to Belgrade for research and development. Emilia Telese talks to Lucy Carolan of Wideyed about the bursary and its impact on the group.

Profiling studio and workshop facilities around the country, plus ambitious exhibition projects that are engaging with local communities.