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Aperture
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Public Posting

John Newling discusses the collaboration, negotiation and patience involved in realising a major public art work for Birmingham’s Royal Mail building.

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Cold Comfort
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Industrious liaisons

Ceramicist Taslim Martin describes his experiences of working with industry to realise two projects.

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Ceiling light
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Clay 2000: Ceramic Architectural Detail

Gareth Mason reports on a two-day event organised by Taslim Martin within his residency at South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell that explored how the skills of studio practice can be applied to public-sited work.

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Hearth
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Switchspace

A recurring issue for artists is the constant search for a suitable space in which to work and exhibit. Artists have increasingly addressed this through improvisation and adaptability, to the point where spaces run by artist collectives have become almost synonymous with formerly disused (or unwanted) spaces. As Malcolm Dickson noted in his comment on artist-run spaces (October issue) – “The motivation now is more pragmatic by necessity, in that you just have to do it in order to get work shown (whether your own or other artists)”.

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Turning on or My tomb is cool oasis in the city's heat
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Digital Assets

After a year of on-line communication and collaboration, in September six Manchester artists arrived in Bulgaria to work with four Bulgarian artists on ‘Urban Cycles’. Initiated by Interspace Media Centre in Sofia, the project will also be presented at IDEA in Manchester next April. Here, project curator Galia Dimitrova and participating artist Jen Southern discuss this cultural exchange.

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London Print Studio Window (detail)
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LPS Commission

I was commissioned by the London Print Studio last August to design and print imagery onto sixteen glass panels, as part of the glass window facade of their new gallery space. The former London Print Workshop was successful in 1998 […]

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Life boat
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Inside The Box, Outside the Box

Situated one hour west of Glasgow, Outside The Box is a new residential centre for artists of all disciplines. The curious name refers to the fact that resident artists should feel free of their everyday obligations, and be able to […]

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Duologue
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Duologue

Duologue was a collaboration between myself (sculptor-in-residence at the Farnham Maltings) and Leonie Flowerday (disabled dancer from StopGAP Dance Company). It was a project funded by South East Arts Disability Pairing Scheme which brought together an able-bodied and non-able bodied […]

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Product Recall
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Public service announcement – Product recall

Whilst artist-in-residence at Grizedale Forest, Cumbria last summer I produced a multiple called Magic Car. A cardboard cutout car packaged in plastic with a fold-over label (bearing an uncanny resemblance to the cardboard trees hanging off the mirrors of a […]

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Grey fringe shawl
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Sculptural shawl

I specialise in printed textiles, and over the duration of my degree I have taken an interest in three-dimensional fabric manipulation, which is mainly used in fashion design. Before I came to England, I studied and worked as a weaving […]

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painted skip
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Landfill

A short residency on a landfill site near Bentley in Suffolk gave local artist Ruth Richmond and myself an opportunity to make some work in response to our experiences there. Ruth chose to work with the skips that collect and […]

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Happy as Mick and Larry
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Advertorial

In the July 2000 issue of [a-n] MAGAZINE, Lewisham College advertised a post for the Visiting Artist Scheme, and received 143 applications in response.
The successful applicant was Eric Martin – an artist who specialises in printmaking. In this new feature looking at the success stories, Martin describes how his job compliments his artistic practice.

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Creation dub
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Sean Fairman

I wanted to create a painting that resonated the sense of an echo, a rolling rhythm, a song without words, a version of creation.

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Bigg Market
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Jim Medway

My drawings are based on the observations, or are extrapolations from objects such as ice pop wrappers, empty boxes of bangers, and pledges of love scrawled on bus seats.

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blessed
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Anya Gallaccio

Anya Gallaccio was at the forefront of the 90s generation of contemporary visual artists – exhibiting in galleries and museums around the world.

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Art Textiles 2

‘Art Textiles 2’ is a sequel to ‘Art Textiles 1’, initiated by Barbara Taylor at Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery in 1996. One of the exhibitors in 1996, Polly Binns, was this time one of four selectors, with Yinka Shonibare, […]

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Perspective 2000

Selected from open submission by Lynne Cooke, senior curator at Dia Center for the Arts, New York, twenty-nine artists took part in the third annual ‘Perspective’ exhibition at Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast. This year’s £6000 prize was split between two […]

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It's Never Too Late to Have a Happy Childhood
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Protest & Survive

In today’s climate of political apathy, it sometimes appears that people have become wary of expressing an opinion without irony. Not so the artists showing in ‘Protest and Survive’. I can’t remember having walked around whole roomfuls of contemporary art […]

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Eylem Binboga
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Eylem Binboga

We have sustained relationships with the objects in our homes, but seldom consider their effects on our emotional or intellectual lives. Domestic objects have always carried less intellectual weight than their counterparts in galleries, with whom we spend significantly less […]

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Miranda
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Site sensitive

Mark Beasley explores the common fabric between today’s permanent and temporary public art commissons.

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Studio moves

The crisis in London studios for artists continues, with Cable Street the latest to announce it may close unless funds are found to buy the building. Housing some 180 artists and with 350 more on the waiting list, loss of […]

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Professional development Prioritised

Artists and arts managers will benefit from a new plan at the Arts Council to England (ACE) to establish a network of one-stop-shops delivering continuous professional development opportunities. £1 million will be invested by ACE between 2000 and 2002 in […]

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Glutton
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Part of the Process

Roy Exley charts the purpose of paint in the work of four artists.

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Wall stack
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Moving off

Painter Deirdre King reveals her strategy for getting started as a professional artist.

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