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Mark Hutchinson talks to John Russell about his theory and practice PhD at Kingston University.

Colliding geological and personal timescales.
Serendipitous encounters.

Chapter one. Into the woods.

Last year I did a residency at the IAAB, an international artists exchange programme in Basel, Switzerland.

This month’s artist’s story took the unusual form of a comic strip.

We set out to work with other artists and curators as well as those people with whom we collaborate on the site of our projects.

My cousin introduced me to Iron Maiden when I was eight and I failed my art A level when I was eighteen.

“Two hundred years ago a tragedy was enacted in Scotland, the memory whereof has been in great measure lost or obscured by the deep tragedies which followed it.”

I first visited Sweden when I was invited to participate in the Gothenburg Biennale in 2001.

Art Gene combines a residency programme with links with education and plays an active part in local regeneration.

A small collective workspace in a converted barn in rural Lancashire.

Rodney Court is a proposed conversion of a Manchester tower block into live/work space for artists.

TactileBOSCH is a studio group committed to experimentation, presentation and collaboration.

Valley Artists is a mix of established practitioners, recent graduates and current students.

Occupation Studios is a case study in cooperative survival in the urban regeneration landscape.

Out of the Blue has thrived through establishing a diversity of activities and income streams.

DAW adapted a successful model of an open studios event for a rural location.

Temporary studios can be a useful option for creating project-specific work.

How a partnership with their local university helped FusionARTS secure studio premises.

I arrived in Osaka, Japan with a certain amount of excitement and trepidation.

Gasworks is part of an international network of independent studios around the globe.

Nottingham Studios Consortium is an example of the ‘strength in numbers’ approach in making the case for studio provision.

How education work has contributed to this studio’s success.

CRATE successfully accessed economic development and regeneration funds to buy a building.

Five years ago I had no choice but to shake my inbred cynicism, learn social skills and become a hairy artisan.