Thanks to a partnership with Arts Council England, we’ve extended the portfolio of material freely available on www.a-n.co.uk around artists’ fees and payments. Now included is in-depth research by University of Newcastle in artists’ fees and payments and the attitudes […]
Philip Babot on the cross-border and international achievements of artists’ organisations in South Wales.
Or: Where do you go? Who goes there? Who are we anyway? Carolyn Black enquires.
Luiz Camillo Osorio on Rio de Janeiro and Ana Paula Cohen on S
Stephen Snoddy left in November as Director of the Baltic after less than nine months there. Baltic is also seeking a replacement for Chair architect-developer Alan J Smith whose term of office has expired and advertised the post of Curator […]
Projects and collaborations rarely spring into existence fully formed. Hilary Williams examines a short project that developed into a major programme, led to the setting up of a new arts business, and to jeweller Mah Rana uncovering new tracts of material and experience.
A-n Director of Programmes Susan Jones reviews artists’ jobs and opportunities over the years.
In November, we swelled the number of artists and arts professionals working with a-n through appointments to two project teams. A special Communications Projects Team has been created, to spend the next six months talking and listening to customers, helping […]
Sarah Woodfine’s Wyoming, 2003 won the £5,000 first prize in the 2004 Jerwood Drawing Prize, announced in September. A collaboration between the Jerwood Foundation, Wimbledon School of Art and the University of Gloucestershire, the prize attracted over 2,000 entries from […]
The shortlist for the Pearl Awards – the UK’s first ever awards created to recognise and celebrate the achievements of the Chinese community in Britain – was announced in July, with winners due to be named on 22 September. A […]
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 […]
Rosemary Shirley investigates the impact over ten years of the Braziers’ international residency workshop, set up by artists for artists.
The a-n team was at New Designers 2004 at Business Design Centre, London in July to launch the Artists’ toolkits – a brand new series of professional practice tools on www.a-n.co.uk that are of value to visual and applied artists […]
Looking back over ten years of Braziers international artists’ workshops World in Motion it’s interesting to see how artists feel about the impact of the workshops on their practice in retrospect. Like Simon Faithfull, who can “track particular career developments […]
Nina Madden investigates the Acme Fire Station Residency and Bursary Scheme.
Len Horsey profiles his residency at Kulturhuset USF and the thriving art scene in Bergen.
Matthew Blackman is currently on a six-month placement with Forma, contributing his experience of marketing and customer relationship management at a-n to the development of this new organisation. Forma is an arts organisation, based in Newcastle, involved in cutting-edge projects […]
Winners of the decibel visual arts awards, aimed at black and Asian artists, and curators, were announced in March.
Fabrication started in February on the first of ten major artists’ commissions for the new Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. The commissions are part of Leading the Way, a three-year arts programme to enhance the new Gloucestershire Royal Hospital through integrated public […]
Jane Watt discusses contemporary approaches to the creation of public monuments.
Julie Brook gives a personal account of her involvement in the Comhla International Artists Workshop in North Uist.
Libby Anson talks to Juan delGado and the Wellcome Trust about his residency.
Eight emerging artists gathered at Allenheads Contemporary Arts (ACA) in Tynedale in October, for a weeklong residency, brainstorming and researching with peers and other contemporary art practitioners. The intensive and varied schedule of the Microresidencies allowed artists to engage with […]
Ben Woodeson profiles the intensive international summer residency at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, USA.
Carolyn Black profiles the intensive ideas laboratory run by PVA MediaLab.
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