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Michaela Zimmer
My performances are not shown in public. I build objects that are not sculptures and I use photography for documentation without a second thought.
a-n Magazine 2001 May - a-n The Artists Information Company
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Raked gravel and bamboo groves
At the end of 99 I was awarded the Friends of the Royal Scottish Academy Artist’s Bursary that enabled me to undertake a month-long research visit to Japan. Japanese art has always fascinated me, and it has influenced my painting […]
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Nomad
As a textile artist working with felt, I have had invitations to give workshops in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Denmark, Norway and France, and my research of ethnographic felt has found me in extraordinary nomadic places, such as the Caucus […]
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Artists endorsed
Good news for arts practitioners in England. On 19 March, the DCMC (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) launched its consultation document Culture and Creativity: the next ten years, outlining a raft of significant proposals affecting individual arts practitioners, arts […]
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Bubble a trouble
The time it can take to turn lively conference proceedings enjoyed by a limited number into a publication available to many more is exemplified by Out of the Bubble, recently launched. Based on an event of the same name held […]
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Part of the union
The notion of a Scottish Artists’ Union may have seemed a distant prospect when debated in May last year, but now it is well on the way to achieving success. With the central concern to operate as a truly ‘national’ […]
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Coombe
My interest in funerals began when I was asked to make a coffin for a newborn child who had died and was to be cremated. Prior to this, carrying a coffin, lowering it into the earth and the scattering of […]
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Time
My current projects are very diverse, allowing me to operate within dramatically different scales, concepts, sites and media. My career has involved solo shows at home and abroad, and commissions from art foundations, museums and corporate bodies to create installations […]
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Breaking the Mould
Two years ago I applied for, and was offered, a public sculpture commission by the national environmental regeneration charity, Groundwork. The brief was to create one piece of art to be reproduced in twenty-one locations, as part of the organisation’s […]
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Translucent exposures
I love the rich ambiguity that arises in written language and this enjoyment extends into the visual language of my photographic artwork. My current touring exhibition, ‘Translucent Exposures’, consists entirely of photograms. The fascination of these images for me is […]
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Action plan
A Year of the Artist residency gave me the opportunity to work in Gateshead Civic Centre for 1.5 days per week over a period of a year. During the last few months I have been involved in a range of […]
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Back to business
The second article on artists living and working in different cities across the world focuses on an enterprising development in Germany. With a base in Berlin, Kathrin Böhm and Stefan Saffer are developing projects that look at new collaborations between art and business. Working with leading companies such as Vodafone and Siemens, they are exploring the potential for building practical relationships based on common concerns.
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Juncture
Cape Town is enjoying a resurgence of activity in contemporary visual culture. In artworld terms, Johannesburg was always South Africa’s little New York, but many institutions now face closure and/or radical restructuring. Cape Town’s reputation as an anachronistic colonial stronghold […]
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Past and present
In the March 2000 issue of [a-n] MAGAZINE, Lee Valley Regional Park Authority advertised for a digital artist, working in sound and image, to participate in the development of a new park on the old Royal Ordnance Site in Essex. Simon Honey, an artist in east London, was one of over 100 applicants.
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Trading places
The rise of independent artist-run spaces across the UK, and a seemingly impenetrable gallery circuit in London, appear poles apart. Gordon Dalton in Edinburgh and Tim Birch in Manchester visit two young, ‘commercially-minded’ spaces that have picked up on this, and are encouraging an art market in exciting and challenging contemporary work outside London.
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EMARE: Budapest
My third day spent scouring the electrical shops of Budapest for a fan had proved fruitless. I’d been having trouble sleeping – the heat and humidity even at night was intense. I’d paced the streets, taken long cold baths, even […]
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Not so flat in Holland
Wendy Murray gives the lowdown on support structures and organisations for artists in the Netherlands.
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Now you see it…
Advice for photographic and digital image-makers on promoting your work in an expanding environment.
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Beverley Hood
My work explores representations of physicality and the relationship between physical and virtual space.
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Suitable space
With a breadth of approaches to finding the perfect workspace, Brigid Howarth talks to artists about their different needs and experiences and explores a variety of studio set-ups.
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Arts funding to change
The fall-out from the Arts Council of England’s shock announcement in March to radically adjust the structure of the arts funding system is just now beginning to be felt. Regional arts boards and artists are amongst a gathering throng of […]
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Dot com artists
This month sees the launch of 20firstcenturyart.com, an artist-run fine art website, born out of the frustration of the commercial art world “where talent is often superseded by commercialism”. Its founder Caroline Jackman’s aim is to “take a proactive role […]
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The two of us
If you were at Battersea Power Station on 25 March you may have stumbled into Ann-Marie LeQuesne’s 4th Annual Group Photograph. Friends, strangers, and colleagues invited to the location were encouraged to pose for the camera. Tying in nicely, the […]
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Future functions
The outcomes of the Edward Marshall Trust and Earth Centre’s challenge to furniture makers – to design pieces that communicate sustainability and environment issues to the public in persuasive and striking ways – are visible at London’s Commonwealth Galleries in […]
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Painting prize shortlisted
The winner of this year’s £30,000 Jerwood Painting Prize will be announced on 22 May. The 540 applicants from an open submission were whittled down to a short list of Peter Archer, Ian Davenport, Katie Pratt, Basil Beattie, Marta Marce […]