Notions of sharing knowledge and experiences – both good and bad – are inherent within those who seek continuous improvement and development in their artistic practices.
“It is vital to widen participation and support social inclusion towards ‘visual literacy’” must be easy for Susan Jones to write [Editorial, a-n Magazine January]. Hindsight often clarifies the morass between ‘us and them’, but try looking from my side. […]
Extracts from the Curated space online think-tank presentations and discussions.
“The big difference between working in Britain and Europe is that here, you are not really expected to debate ideas. Money and marketing are what matter most. We live in an events culture in the UK.” 1 This remark from […]
Flexible approaches and imaginative thinking were at the forefront of the debates.
What if every school had a studio where children, parents, carers and teachers had the opportunity to experience art and discuss ideas with artists on a daily basis? What if every regeneration programme included a team of artists from the […]
We’re grateful for support from the Northern Rock Foundation for development of the NAN initiative. Their funds will enable research into the feasibility for a UK-wide artists’ day – an opportunity to demonstrate the diversity of contemporary practice, raise the […]
It’s part of our role to take knowledge about artists and their practice into consultations and conferences that impact on future cultural planning. Within this, we’re currently contributing to the national advisory group created by Arts Council England to review […]
Exchange between public and private can be difficult – as politicians find when arguing for corporate investment into education, healthcare and transport. But what might first appear to be radically different viewpoints are perhaps less so when notions of sustainability […]
In May we conducted a sample survey of arts officers attending NALGAO’s annual conference in Cardiff, to find out more about how they worked with artists, what methods they used to recruit them for work, and to identify the additional […]
Over fifty subscribers attended the first 25-year networking event in Ipswich in April, joined by speakers David Mach, Liliane Lijn, Caroline Broadhead and Faisal Abdu’Allah from the preceding ‘No Boundaries’ conference, organised by Suffolk County Council’s Making Art Work programme. […]
23 April was also the date of our 25-year anniversary first celebratory event. a-n subscribers in the Suffolk area joined delegates of the No Boundaries Conference for a networking evening where Susan Jones outlined a-n’s plans for the year long […]
Out-and-about in recent weeks have been Susan Jones and Richard Padwick, participating in the 2005 N-Ten conference in Chicago of US non-profitmaking organisations through a presentation on the pros and cons of developing and publishing www.a-n.co.uk. The invitation came from […]
When invited in March to give evidence in person at the Culture, Media and Sport Committee’s Inquiry into the Market for Art, we used the opportunity to emphasise key areas for attention that would benefit many artists, taking into account […]
One of our very early issues laid bare the public arts funding routes. The feature took the form of a twisted neuronal-type structure, revealing Parliament’s funds to the Arts Council of Great Britain at the top and the precise money […]
Timandra Gustafson has been appointed Executive Director at Visual Associations. She brings a wealth of experience gained during her previous roles, including Head of Visual Arts for Northern Arts. “My role will be to build on what has already been […]
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 […]
Delegates at the National Association of Local Government Arts Officers (NALGAO) annual conference, held in Brighton in May, benefited from a special interest workshop on dialogue and exchange around working with artists. Code of Practice for the Visual Arts researcher […]
Peter Freeman’s new light sculpture flashes to the beat of the street. Sited in February in a colourful area of Rochdale – described by the police as being like the Wild West on a Friday night – Pulse will share […]
Presentations by consultant Lee Corner and a-n Director of Programmes Susan Jones on the Code of Practice for the Visual Arts were incorporated into Engage’s Making Connections series of seminars during March. Held at Queen’s Hall Hexham, Artsway New Forest […]
This month a-n will be out and about at Glasgow Art Fair. A Code of Practice seminar hosted by Susan Jones will take place Friday 16 April. The event is free to artists. See display advert on back page or […]
Identifying future patterns of living and working – within our sector and the world beyond – is a core function for national arts organisations like us. If we don’t know what people are thinking, and how their behaviour and relationships […]
Jane Watt looks into professional development initiatives available to artists working in the public domain, in the fourth of the six-part series ‘Navigating Places’.
Internet lurking and political subversion were two of the issues raised at a ‘blue skies’ workshop led by business and management consultant Jane Walker for a-n. The first of three planning meetings of a specially-convened UK artists’ advisory group, the […]
2003 Royal Academy graduate Renata Hegyi has won the £10,000 St James Group Fellowship. Taking the form of a bursary to assist a student from the Royal Academy Schools in their first year out of the college, it includes an […]
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