A contagious power
Artists Studio Company has launched a major new public gallery in Southwark.
Artists Studio Company has launched a major new public gallery in Southwark.
This month’s bites.
Two north west projects are creating links between artists, artist-led groups and creative communities.
A guide to career development and training opportunities as well as related services and resources that are designed to help artists and makers take their practice to the next level.
The annual Craft Curators Forum, a networking and discussion event from the Crafts Council, was held in London 23-24 September.
Contents include: Open studios, digital visions and arts funding features; In Debate, is sponsorship compromising the integrity of artists and organisations? Kate Raggett and Mandy Fowler on an ambitious one-day land art workshop in Collaborative relationships. PDF version [size 6 […]
Sideshow will take place between October and December for the second time around whilst the quinquennial British Art Show visits Nottingham.
12 Visual art representatives address the damage that will be inflicted by proposed spending cuts, in a letter to the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport.
Art of Digital London is an Arts Council England programme designed to help London Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs) develop strong strategies for connecting with audiences via technology.
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.
Exploring research options on offer to post-graduate students at a selection of UK-based universities and art schools.
Contents include: Post-graduate research options plus art fairs and open studios features; The new politics in Debate; Collaborative relationships features artist Volkhardt Müller and Spacex project coordinator Martha Crean discussing a participatory project in Exeter. PDF version [size 5 MB]. […]
Angelika Seik berates artists for “not having the sense to organise themselves into a union” (Letters, a-n Magazine, May 2010). Of course as visual artists north of the border are well aware the Scottish Artists Union formally constituted as a […]
Workspace developments, studio residency projects and open studio events happening around the UK.
Startling architectural interventions, large-scale touring exhibitions and ambitious commissions will transform the city of Norwich 7-22 May through Norfolk & Norwich Festival (NNF10) as it presents its first ever visual arts programme.
Cultural Leadership Programme’s Meeting the Challenge initiative, set up to support and nurture current and future leaders, offered an open submission inviting organisations to apply.
Glasgow’s museums, galleries, streets, bridges and hidden spaces will showcase the work of national and international artists when Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art returns in April 2010, building on the success of the 2008 Festival.
News from a-n’s archive.
Cable car by Suzanne Moxhay.
‘Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution’, an exhibition from Craftspace curated with maker Helen Carnac, tours from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in January to Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh.
Members of Bristol’s biggest artist-led collective Jamaica Street Artists (JSA) have teamed up with Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery for an exhibition and auction that they hope will raise substantial funds towards the purchase of their building.
Artists and curators relate methods of navigating a self-directed exhibiting career.
Profiling studios and facilities around the UK.
I think the issue with this government high street initiative is that it’s not part of a programme which attempts to actively deal with the underlying problems that have caused the recession in the first place.
Contents include: Digital developments, open studios, challenges to artistic innovation. Big picture features Roger Hiorns. Alice Bradshaw and Matthew Geraghty in Collaborative relationships. PDF version [size 6.9 MB]. Requires PDF reader.