Feature - Page 23 of 32 - a-n The Artists Information Company

Dany Louise reports on the Urban Ecologies seminar in Liverpool, and highlights recent projects which have successfully engaged with urban issues whilst balancing artistic aims and community involvement.

Dion Ellis gives an overview of SCAN (Southern Collaborative Arts Network), an evolving consortium of ten independent arts organisations that aims to promote emergent, collaborative and experimental practice based around new media.

Jeni Walwin, investigates Blast Theory an innovative, yet pragmatic artist-led company that’s proving to be inspiration for many artists working in performance and new media.

John Cornall profiles the international art college.

Miles Henderson Smith describes the activity of Then, a group of international artists.

Ruth Claxton reports on her participation in a British Council funded workshop in Khartoum in October last year.

Alicia Miller considers the relationship between artist and curator in collaborative projects.

Jessica Loseby searches the net and discovers what’s what and who’s who on the internet art scene.

Sarah Bodman explores a selection of recent limited edition works that show a fluid crossover between artists’ books and multiples.

Recent developments at the APT studios and gallery at Creekside in Deptford are establishing it as one of the most exciting artists’ workspaces in London. And artist-run Temple Arts Group in Bethnal Green is establishing links between the London art community and residents in the East End.

Artist-run Temple Arts Group (TAG) is based in Bethnal Green, east London. The six members – James Dean, Samantha Denny, Helena Koumbouzis, Rebecca Odgers, Kate Williams and myself – are all practising artists from a variety of disciplines including sculpture, […]

Aikaterini Gegisian examines the art scene of south east Europe.

New York is arguably the world’s art capital. In a special four-page focus Jessica Crombie looks into internships and Karen Guthrie investigates activity beyond the commercial gallery scene.

Down town Regardless of your artistic persuasion the New York art scene is probably the most seductive in the world, with the possibility of wealth and influence promised by the American art dream. As someone whose artistic and curatorial interests […]

Simon Webb talks to artists from across the UK about drawing and its place within their practice

Lars Bang Larsen’s discussion of visual art extends beyond new sites and contexts to ask questions of how art meets the idealogical spaces of politics and mass media – and how behaviour has become aesthetic.

Now in its third year, Art At The Centre enlists artists to work within city-centre developments, Rosemary Shirley investigates.

Illustrating the approach she brings to her new role at [a-n], Gillian Nicol highlights some of the challenges and opportunities for artists and their practice today, looking broadly at education and employment, status and lifestyle and the impact of widening access to technology.

Carolyn Black’s first time working away from her home and studio was a UNESCO funded residency in Java, Indonesia.

Lucy Harrison gives an account of a collaborative project in Tallinn, Estonia.

Becky Shaw describes how she negotiated the difference between the expectations of her work and the reality of her practice when she received a prestigious international art prize.