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Visitors to the On The Wall art fair at London’s Olympia Grand Hall this October were able to meet the a-n team and catch up on our latest developments. Many artists took the opportunity to network in our comfy lounge […]

While commercial representation is far from the ‘be all and end all’ of a successful visual arts practice, the glossy veneer of events like Frieze Art Fair can make it feel like it is. Two new events in London this […]

Just wanted to warn your readers about an apparent money laundering fraud targeting artists. I was emailed through my website by someone calling himself Barry Anthony using an email address at outgun.com. He had selected three paintings from my website […]

A new Demos report (See ‘Right to Art’ in News) argues that “the contribution of visual artists to the economy is underestimated and misunderstood” and is vital reading for artists who need to keep up–to–date with the political developments that […]

Perhaps the letter in your August 2004 edition entitled ‘Girls, girls, girls’ was so named by the editorial staff to further provoke readers to respond to what was overall a misplaced and simplistic letter? Certainly to call grown women ‘girls’ […]

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 […]

In the last year, I have been to a number of lectures and conferences on contemporary art, where the speakers have been women, and top women, with books or an established record to their name. But at every lecture, these […]

Thank you for putting in the excellent information about Aune Head Arts in the networks section of the June edition. We’ve had some good responses and it has definitely helped raise the profile of our networking activities.Nancy Sinclair AHA For […]

I was very pleased to see Veer North featured in June’s Networks. Unfortunately the group has been misrepresented. Amateur artists can join as associate members and receive news about events and shows but, before they become full members they must […]

Culture secretary Tessa Jowell’s recent essay1 (see News) indicates the government’s rediscovery of the value of culture “for what it does in itself”. Although couched in terms of a “weapon in fighting poverty of aspiration”, this time the battle will […]

This month’s magazine raises various issues about the nature of support for artists. In ‘Mission men’ we hear of the supportive environment in San Francisco that contributed to Chris Johanson’s development from a strong local presence to “artist of international […]

Simon Webb’s review of the exhibition ‘Blow Up’ at St Paul’s Gallery in Birmingham (May issue) was unjustly dismissive towards Clive Head. Head’s paintings were described as “Constablesque (if very accurate) depictions of the landscape”, but I challenge Simon Webb […]

Paul Glinkowski’s article painted The Laboratory at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in a very favourable light, and was much appreciated in these parts. However, I should like to mention that The Laboratory would not have developed […]

You are no doubt aware of John Prescott’s plans to build 350,000 new dwellings in the south Midlands and that Milton Keynes is to take over 90,000 of these. There is considerable concern here at the lack of a master […]

Looking beyond our own locality and specialisms is vital in maintaining a fresh and innovative outlook and we know artists appreciate the value and challenges in making links beyond what and who they already know. Over the past eighteen months […]

At the recent a-n event at Cove Park, artists came together to discuss issues around practice in rural locations. Presentations from Alison Bell, Marcus Coates and Su Grierson – artists with diverse contemporary practices – provided stimulus for thought and […]

A recent symposium at Portsmouth’s Aspex Gallery explored the roles of public and commercial galleries, opens and prizes, in the development of an artist’s career. As Roy Exley discusses in Emergency this month, concerns were raised such as, “how do […]

Remote relatives I found the recent APD event in Liverpool very thought provoking. It was certainly an eye-opener to hear what it’s like on the other side of the proverbial fence. To have four very different views presented served to […]

Identifying future patterns of living and working – within our sector and the world beyond – is a core function for national arts organisations like us. If we don’t know what people are thinking, and how their behaviour and relationships […]

Following a public demonstration at the National Portrait Gallery’s 2003 BP Portrait Award, we are writing to voice our concerns about the issue. We believe climate change is the greatest weapon of mass destruction that we face. It is mostly […]

I have often thought some of the pictures you choose for your front cover to be rather odd. The November image (John Goto’s Pasturelands) was no exception. The image raises no particular question other than why choose it? I think […]

It was refreshing to read Jane Watt’s account of the two successful collaborations between architects and artists in November’s a-n Magazine (Back to school). All too often it seems that artists have been roped in at the last minute to […]