Through the surface
Lesley Millar, Project Director of ‘Through the Surface’, profiles the process and outcomes of this major collaboration between artists from the UK and Japan.
Lesley Millar, Project Director of ‘Through the Surface’, profiles the process and outcomes of this major collaboration between artists from the UK and Japan.
Mark Gubb visits Thanet in Kent to meet artists and hear about the cultural revival underway.
The Scottish Arts Council has recently published an audit of visual artists. Moira Jeffrey reports.
The first in a six-part series ‘Navigating places’, Jane Watt profiles the River Commissions project, a series of temporary works along the River Hull corridor.
Artist Chloe Steele reports on her research trip to China, a country powering itself into the next generation as a major economic player. With a changing political make-up and growing middle class, China is establishing itself as a key player in the international art world.
Yorkshire ArtSpace in Sheffield is hosting a national conference on 22 July on artists’ workspaces. Aimed at artists’ studio managers and others who work with studio groups, the intention is to expose good practice and demonstrate policies that are helping […]
Jeni Walwin, investigates Blast Theory an innovative, yet pragmatic artist-led company that’s proving to be inspiration for many artists working in performance and new media.
Artsadmin has recently awarded £32,500 worth of bursaries to fourteen UK artists, as part of an much-needed support programme for artists who work in live art, performance, time-based media, installation or other innovative areas. The bursaries give artists time to […]
Now in its third year, Art At The Centre enlists artists to work within city-centre developments, Rosemary Shirley investigates.
Heather Rigg reports on a professional development scheme in Suffolk that provides a package of support for artists in that region.
North Yorkshire-based Chrysalis Arts recently got a boost to its development programme from the Development Fund for Rural Renewal. A £219,500 grant will enable this public art and training organisation to expand its activities, including enhancement of its role as […]
“Imagine an ecological city, where communities are based on voluntary cooperation not competition, mutual aid not private profit, cultural diversity not globalised monoculture, permaculture not consumer culture”.1
Amongst the winners of this year’s Arts and Business Awards was a partnership between Ercol Furniture and Sustrans who won the Arts, Business and Community category. Moving to a new factory in Princes Riseborough meant that furniture manufacturers Ercol became […]
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 […]
Brigid Howarth investigates ways in which artists are making work and collaborating with industry.
Malcolm Dickson highlights the issues around the future needs of artists’ organisations in Scotland.
Angharad Pearce Jones, an artist currently working with Cywaith Cymru.Artworks Wales explains how the organisation works to promote art in the public realm.
Brigid Howarth takes a look at artists’ communities in the USA.
I am working as artist team-leader on Artlink’s FUSION project that has been taking place in hospitals throughout Edinburgh and the Lothians. In my time on this programme, I have explored new ways of working through creative collaborations with patients, […]
Advice for photographic and digital image-makers on promoting your work in an expanding environment.
Window Sills is neither public art nor community art. It uses collaborative strategies that draw on and sit between a number of artistic practices taking its lead from ‘New Genre Public Art’ – a term used by American artist Suzanne Lacy – which incorporates activist arts, site-specific art, performance art and happenings. The project is also aligned to ideas about art and context developed in universities in the UK.
Artist/writer Emma Safe examines the role of community arts in urban regeneration and in creating social cohesion.
Studio organisation Acme is behind a major project to investigate the socio-historical impact of the artist community in East London. A feasibility study now underway by design historian Sue Wilson aims to map the research process and establish the working […]
Gareth Mason reports on a two-day event organised by Taslim Martin within his residency at South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell that explored how the skills of studio practice can be applied to public-sited work.