Contents include: In news a mobile memorial for executed campaigner Saro-Wiwa. A Michael Pinsky installation monitors local weather and Sciart awards announced. NAN networking event report summarizes arts resources in Glasgow. Reviews includes interventions in Sheffield and a question of appropriation or sampling in Manchester. PDF version. Requires a pdf reader.
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Flexible approaches and imaginative thinking were at the forefront of the debates.
A word of caution to all those who are considering the many commissions on offer in the NHS – a lot of money is available, but it brings its own unique risks. Having successfully tendered for a major commission at […]
As part of my research study, I am trying to track down a number of artists who have been given support by the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation at some time or other to interview. I would be grateful if the following […]
Anna Gray and Polly Verity, two artists who attended last month’s Networking Artists Network event in Glasgow, report on the day’s activities.
Lee-Anne Hampson is the UK-based winner of the 2005 Commonwealth Arts and Crafts Awards.
Tarze Edwards, Chair of EMACA, speaks out about Arts Council England’s decision to ‘transfer funds from an unknown and failing project’.
David Lammy MP, Minister of Culture, on the challenges facing visual artists.
Next year, employer organisation Creative and Cultural Skills will produce a comprehensive skills strategy, as the first stage of a new programme of support delivering new creative apprenticeships, better careers support for newcomers and a new management and leadership programme.
The Celeste Painting Prize, a new £15,000 prize for painting, has been launched in the UK.
The Bombay Sapphire Prize 2005 – at £20,000, the world’s largest annual award for artists, designers and architects working with glass – has been presented to glassmakers Anne Brodie, Ruth Dupré and Louise Gilbert Scott.
Michael Pinsky is the latest artist commissioned as part of COAST, a four-year arts project to raise the cultural and aesthetic profile of Essex’s coastal area.
Fourteen projects have been announced as recipients of the Sciart Awards 2005.
The recommendations of the Scottish Cultural Commission, published in June, have been roundly rejected in a debate in the Scottish Parliament.
Gunpowder Park, the new ninety-hectare country park at the top of Greater London, has launched Bright Sparks, a major new award scheme for creative practitioners who want to work with the “physical and social aspects of open space”.
Following on from Remember Saro-Wiwa, Five proposals for London-based public art project The Living Memorial are short-listed.
Beaconsfield, London
14 September – 20 November
London, Winchester, Poole, St Malo, Nantes, Dijon, Strasbourg, Karlsruhe, Frankfurt.
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Launch 6 October
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
10 October – 31 December
87.7 FM, Cardiff
22-29 October
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National Museum and Gallery Cardiff
6 December – 15 January
36 Frederick Street, Birmingham
30 September – 29 October
