Research & development
Felicity Shilingford discusses collaboration and networking within her practice.
Felicity Shilingford discusses collaboration and networking within her practice.
Artists talking hosts blogs from artists engaged in a wide range of practices and at all stages of their careers.
In this months round-up we profile six open studio events.
Naori Priestly who graduated from the Royal College of Art last year with a MA Constructed Textiles is one of 300 makers selected to show in Origin 2008.
Highlighting digital and new media commissions, exhibitions, research and resource developments.
Over 160 artists are showcasing work in Wirksworth Festivals Art and Architecture Trail.
Publicly-funded arts organisations are exhorted to extend participation in the arts by getting more people actively engaged in off-site and public realm programmes. Alongside, those in the business world are increasingly aware of the advantages of bringing artists ideas into development and regeneration projects. Here we highlight selected projects happening over the summer within the wider public domain.
Andrew Bryant delves into the student blogs on Degrees unedited and provides insights and analysis into what they reveal.
Artist Sally Sheinman and curator Sanna Moore talk about working together in the latest in our collaborative relationships series.
Opinions on arts council investments, attitutes towards artists, and studio politics.
Sarah Craske & Stacy Keeler, The Womens Land Army, found materials, plant and performance. Commissioned by Margate Rocks 08.
In the second part of our focus on open studio events we profile four organisations providing space as well as the opportunity to exhibit and sell.
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’.
Open studio events are an insight into how artists make work, giving a very different perspective from seeing finished works in a gallery setting or a commissioned piece in a public space. Here we take a look at some of the studios opening their doors over the next few months.
Joan Thompson on mental health services and further education.
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Creative ambition 2 and ixia.
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.
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.
Gillian Nicol introduces this months a-n Collection and considers the implication of the ACE Turning point recommendations on RFOs.
Plans for a major new centre for the contemporary arts, the first of its kind in the North of Scotland, were approved in February by the Scottish Government.
Are you thinking of applying for a grant or award? Over £2.3m was openly offered in these categories through a-ns Jobs and opportunities last year. As its a highly competitive activity, weve compiled this guide to making applications, including some top tips from a range of experienced artists, curators, and arts professionals…
To celebrate the launch of Artists talking, Jane Watt explores the development of Projects unedited, a-ns open space for artists blogs.
Critical attitudes on how art practice is dividing or uniting local, international and global practices has been alluded to since the beginnings of modernism; in 2008 these issues remain at the forefront of response to post-modern visual culture.
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.
Further to a letter published in error in the December issue of a-n Magazine and our apology to Creative Foundation in the January issue, here Creative Foundation exercises its Right to Reply: