Inside the studio
In this months round-up we profile six open studio events.
In this months round-up we profile six open studio events.
Report first published in 2007 on www.forma.org.uk after an exciting year in which Forma achieved substantial growth in terms of programme, turnover and structure.
With reference to the production of inter-disciplinary visual arts, Charlotte Frost indicates the types of activities involved, art forms which respond well to this style of collaboration and some of the difficulties experienced by production agencies in working in this way.
Developing your practice and career beyond the UK
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.
The focus generated this month by Vital 07 is the catalyst for exposing of some of the UKs key promoters of live art today.
The Crafts Council, the national development agency for contemporary crafts in the UK, has gone through huge changes in the last five years.
After a far-reaching review and reshaping exercise, the Crafts Council has launched its new three-year plan. Describing itself as the national development agency for contemporary crafts in the UK, its key areas of work for the future are summarised as […]
The term synchronicity was first used by the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung to describe temporally coincident occurrences of casual events1.
Artists comment on the Arts Council’s Turning Point Strategy.
Jane Watt outlines the core strengths of NAN and looks to the future.
A Code of Practice takes commonly-agreed principles of good practice and demonstrates why and how they should be applied.
Artist David Macintosh takes a personal look at collaborative working.
Mike Stubbs examines some issues facing artists.
Aviva Leeman reports from Artquests recent conference.
A series of Vox box style reflections by some of the artists who have experienced NAN.
Leigh French, co-editor of Variant, reports on the context and outcomes of The Cultural Commission. Everything can be measured, and what can be measured can be managed. McKinseys consultants The very act of observing alters the reality being observed. Heisenberg […]
The rapid ongoing abrogation of boundaries and fusions in art, technology and society are the focal point for the 2005 Ars Electronica Festival. Held in Linz, Austria, 1-6 September, it comprises a fascinating mixture of events, conferences, symposia, exhibitions and […]
Rohini Malik Okon introduces her selection of articles for the first a-n Collections.
Bruce Haines profiles Johannes Phokelas ongoing partnership with Gasworks in London.
Finding the Common Threads is a two-year study being conducted by the Centre for Creative Communities with support from Arts Council England, London and Deutsche Bank. With London as its focus, the project is investigating some of the issues funders […]
Philip Babot on the cross-border and international achievements of artists’ organisations in South Wales.
Luiz Camillo Osorio on Rio de Janeiro and Ana Paula Cohen on S
The training-led development programmes that were the norm in artists’ professional development delivery some years ago are giving way to new projects that focus around contemporary practice and are driven by ‘real world’ situations. They recognise that being a visual […]
Giles Sutherland looks at the relationship between glass artist Keiko Mukaide and Edinburgh College of Art.