a-n member Gemma Thompson discusses her 2022 highlights including receiving the Working Drawing Award in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, and balancing motherhood with artistic practice.
a-n member Onyeka Igwe reflects on a year that has included travel, receiving a FLAMIN award and writing her first screenplay.
a-n member Garth Gratrix reflects on the last 12 months, including the impact of the Clore Fellowship and ‘understanding pace versus priorities’.
a-n member Joanne Coates discusses her Jerwood/Photoworks Award and finding confidence in ‘doing things your own way’.
Jayne Knight steps down as Chair of the Board after 11 years of dedication to the role.
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a-n has successfully secured support from Arts Council England as part of its National Portfolio of funded organisations 2023-2026.
Jerome Ince-Mitchell, Board member of a-n, has joined the Executive Committee of the International Association of Art Europe.
The London born multi-media artist, poet and author, who was also Emeritus Professor at Oxford’s Ruskin School of Art, has died aged 74.
A symposium co-hosted by a-n, the Artists’ Association of Finland and the International Association of Art (IAA) Europe.
Fifteen ambitious a-n members come together to push forward fair and sustainable working conditions for artists.
Blackpool-based artist and founding director of Abingdon Studios Garth Gratrix is one of 25 Fellows from the UK and Ireland and four International Fellows who will embark on the Clore Fellowship programme this autumn in its eighteenth year.
The just-published 46-page guide includes ‘Class of 2022’, a celebration of the work of this year’s graduating artists, exploring the ideas, processes and ambitions of 18 students from across the UK, plus insight from both graduating students and lecturers.
Showcasing work by a-n members including Sonia Boyce’s Golden Lion-winning pavilion in Venice and Jen Southern’s river-like installation in Cheshire.
180 artists and freelancers working in the visual arts have been awarded a share of £246,882.
Artists Bursaries 2021: Time Space Money recipients announced.
“Like all cultural producers, I’ve been pushed to re-invent what I do.” Jasmina Cibic discusses the challenges and achievements of 2021.
Liverpool based artist Emily Speed‘s work explores the relationship between people and buildings and in particular the body and its relationship to architecture. She discusses what she has achieved over the last 12 months, including her first major solo exhibition […]
Alice Wilson is a London based artist exploring notions of home and shelter as a way of understanding relationships to space and place. Her practice has developed through engagement with participatory processes as well as negotiations of site. Her current […]
London based artist Karl Bielik‘s paintings have been in numerous high profile exhibitions, including John Moores Painting Prize, RA Summer Show, and The Marmite Prize. He is a member of Contemporary British Painting and is the Founder and Director of […]
2021 has been an exciting year for Bath based artist and a-n member Hannah Murgatroyd. The restrictions that lockdown imposed provided an opportunity to pause and reflect, leading to substantial changes in her approach to painting. She embraced a more […]
a-n Artists Council member Jasleen Kaur lives and works in London. Her practice involves working with sculpture, video and writing, and explores the malleability of culture and the layering of social histories within the material and immaterial things that surround […]
In the second in a series of conversations with the Shape Arts’ Transforming Leadership programme cohort of 2020-2022, Shape CEO David Hevey speaks with Poppy Nash about making radical textiles, embedding lived experience into her work, and the importance of craft-activism.
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Exhibitions and events from a-n members, plus other major shows, including Zarah Hussain’s solo show at Rugby Art Gallery.
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