Alongside AIR’s campaigns and work looking at the issues affecting artists, a group of AIR activists (myself included) have volunteered to play a more active role; raising awareness of the value of artists. These are early days in what will hopefully prove to be long-term and ever-widening effort, but conversation has begun and some activists already have events planned.
For twenty-five years Manchester’s Chinese Arts Centre has focused on exchange of creative practice from one culture to another.
Selected round-up of forthcoming events, training courses and professional development opportunities from the world of new media arts and imaging.
Kate Raggett and Mandy Fowler give their recollections of an ambitious one-day land art workshop in rural Herefordshire that involved nearly 200 participants, several bales of straw, and a Cessna aircraft.
Public art projects, residencies and commissions in non-gallery spaces.
“It’s hard for all working mums (and dads) to find a work/life balance isn’t it – what’s so different for artists?” This was a question posed recently by a friend over dinner. I’d been banging on about APT – Artist Parents Talking – specifically about APT’s current search for funding, without stopping to think that she might not understand the basic premise of the network.
In spring 2010 Spacex invited three UK-based artists to develop new work in response to Exeter’s West Quarter, where the gallery is located. The artists facilitated collaborative encounters and conversations with local residents. Amy Feneck interviewed people about the notion of ‘independent spirit’ in order to develop a script for a new film, Epilogue. Operating from her mobile portraiture studio, Lady Lucy documented encounters in her paintings ‘The Court Portraits’. Volkhardt Müller worked with people to create a series of performed actions on video. Majorette Rehearsing centered around the idea of the majorette as a West Quarter archetype; a paradoxical figure of individual aspiration, community celebration and carnival. For this feature, Volkhardt Müller reflects on his project with Spacex Project Coordinator, Martha Crean.
Artquest’s international practice seminar held in March at A Foundation London coincided with the ‘Journeys with No Return’ exhibition. Speakers included: artist and exhibitor Kiran Kaur Brar, whose residency in Istanbul was part of this three-city project; project curator Alice […]
A UK-wide scheme that enables artists and makers to work alongside students in universities and colleges for mutual benefit is launching a digital portfolio of stories from artists who’ve taken part in these ‘mini residencies’.
Workspace developments, studio residency projects and open studio events happening around the UK.
At the beginning of March this year, the Arts Council of Wales hosted ‘Arts in Health and Well-being’, a conference about prevention, intervention and creative action in healthcare.
Exploring new initiatives within galleries, education and commissioning.
Being a first time buyer of your magazine I read your letters page with amazement. Is this really the first time that issues about the pretentiousness of the art world have been raised in such depth?
Contents include: Residencies and communities feature; the future of foundation courses in Debate; Big picture is Conflict by Kerry Jameson; Christine Wilcox-Baker recounts her residency at Tatton park in Collaborative relationships. PDF version [size 5 MB]. Requires PDF reader. a-n […]
Artist Ania Bas and Exhibitions Officer Helen Jones reflect on an innovative approach to being an artist-in-residence at The New Art Gallery Walsall.
Artists and curators relate methods of navigating a self-directed exhibiting career.
Profiling studios and facilities around the UK.
“There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall” Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise, 1938
A guide to career development and training opportunities as well as related services and resources that are designed to help artists take their practice to the next level.
Featuring a selection of UK’s most interesting rurally-based organisations and artists’ projects.
Overview of recent residency related awards.
A unique project for artists, creative thinkers and cultural practitioners, Arts Reverie is located in the heart of a traditional pol (neighbourhood) in the historic city of Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
AA2A has secured a further two years’ funding from Arts Council England through the Grants for the Arts lottery fund.
Nick Slater and Kathrin Böhm relate the project by public works and myvillages.org, commissioned as part of Radar’s ‘Group Process’ programme.
Janie Nicoll brings together in one place a mixed assortment of surprising works deliberately sited within a domestic rather than a gallery setting.
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