Research & development
Felicity Shilingford discusses collaboration and networking within her practice.
Felicity Shilingford discusses collaboration and networking within her practice.
In November, a public liability insurance scheme aimed especially at practising visual and applied artists will be launched through a-n. Here we set out the context for the new scheme and highlight the research by Platform 3 that has informed it.
Artists Insights Coordinator Simon Zimmerman reports on a new development.
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Yuen Fong Ling on shifting Identities in Hong Kong
A-n’s commissioned research into rates of pay.
a-ns research in 2004 defined a good practice framework on fees and payments to artists, that is supported by Arts Council England. The following annual and day rates are suggested from 1 September 2006. Experience level Annual £ excluding overheads […]
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 […]
Artists and supporters of art are being rallied to support final implementation of an important Right for artists, their families and beneficiaries.
Editorial published in Artists Newsletter in June 1991.
In March, AIR – Artists Interaction and Representation – put its weight behind calls for art education to be accessible to all, following a survey in which 95% of its members gave hearty support to the view that art education should be accessible “irrespective of background and financial status”. Here we outline AIR’s campaign and the survey’s key findings to provide evidence for artists to use.
Report by Lucy Day setting out ways in which changes to CRB Disclosures application procedures may affect artists.
“The artist has always occupied a privileged but fragile position in the public eye. For centuries, we have looked to artists across all disciplines to inspire and entertain us, to help us explore the limits of human nature and human possibilities, [and] at times to lead debate and forment revolution.”
Commentary arising from research into local authority arts organisers’ needs, aspirations and modus operandi, revealing how they value and engage with artists and the approaches they take to their own professional development and to supporting the environment for contemporary visual arts.
Launched in 2006,Turning Point is a national ten-year strategy for the visual arts. A network of regional Turning Point groups has since been emerging, each charged with “strengthening the visual arts infrastructure”.
A selection of articles and other content dealing with artists’ income:
Consideration for the environment along with building community engagement feature within some recent projects organised in Yorkshire, Scotland, Wales Northumberland and Derbyshire.
Lauren Healey discusses Gallery Glues relationship to NAN.
The continual shaving of UK arts budgets, cuts in mainstream grants programmes linked with escalating overheads and news of an ever-deepening economic downturn arent good news for visual artists who depend largely on winning freelance contracts and getting good responses to their project proposals.
Established in 1986 in Manchester, Chinese Arts Centre celebrates its twenty-first birthday this year.
Advice from artists on assessing opportunities
With inflation about to hit a ten-year high1, to what extent can the practices of artists nowadays resist the pressures of the real world?
This month’s Opportunities focus on international residencies, will sit permanently on www.a-n.co.uk1 as a signpost to regular international residencies that have regular deadlines. Artist Michael Cousin2 has researched this focus alongside his busy practice as an artist, and offers some […]
As a former teacher now working for the past five years as a gallery educator and also a freelance artist I have been interested to follow the a-n proposals on artists fees.
Paul Matosics letter (June issue) raises important issues for all artists for whom operating professionally is vital.