Contents include: Dominic Thomas on why artists need a critical context for their practice; Alice Maude-Roxby on why they need toget out more. Ellie Harrison visits as many places as possible and Salford artists dig the allotment. Carnival and crisis […]
Maintaining a critical context is a core ingredient in sustaining an artist’s practice, as asserted in Dominic Thomas’ article published this month. He regrets the current culture of “avoidance of the core subject” in which professional development programmes are seemingly […]
a-n’s new year began with a fond farewell to our Editorial Production Manager, Grainne Sweeney. After working with a-n for three years she’s decided to focus more of her time on other activities: “I’ll be spending more time with my […]
Thanks to a partnership with Arts Council England, we’ve extended the portfolio of material freely available on www.a-n.co.uk around artists’ fees and payments. Now included is in-depth research by University of Newcastle in artists’ fees and payments and the attitudes […]
a-n’s events and activities programme is on the increase for 2005, providing even more opportunities for critical discussion and professional networking for artists and their collaborators. An underlying principle for us when generating external projects is to work in partnership […]
Contemporary Art and Ideas in and Era of Globalisation
Published by inIVA
Dominic Thomas on the importance of a critical context for artists’ practice. One of a specially commissioned set of articles resulting from Quo Vadis available now on www.a-n.co.uk.
Christmas came early for thousands of UK fine artists and visual creators, with over £2.25 million being paid out to them in December through Payback 2004.The Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS) negotiates a share of revenue from collective licensing […]
Glasgow-based Market Gallery presents work by six 2004 graduates from Scotland’s art courses in ‘A nation turns its eyes to you’. Working directly onto the gallery walls, Miranda Blennerhassett uses the familiarity of pattern and motif from interior decoration to […]
The result of a year-long project by Ellie Harrison, ‘Gold Card Adventures’ is presented until 21 March at Piccadilly Circus underground station, London, courtesy of Platform for Art. Purchasing a Gold Card year’s travel pass and using her daily commute […]
An allotment site in Lower Kersal within the Irwell Sculpture Trail, Salford was the location for a socially-engaged residency involving artists Debbie Akam Power, Rick Faulkner and Peter Hatton. Following negotiations with the allotment association, a project evolved that was […]
Abstracts of papers on the theme of Ethics into Aesthetics are invited by 1 May for possible inclusion in an international conference held 12/13 August to accompany EAST 05, the annual open exhibition held at the Norwich Gallery. This year’s […]
One-to-one encounters feature in a series of performance salons organised by London-based Home. Designed to bring audience and performer closer than ever in the venue’s domestic context, these events create a space in which to explore the contemporary desire for […]
A report published in November shows multiple approaches by organisations in the creative sector in Yorkshire and the Humber to addressing cultural diversity. Arts Council England, Yorkshire, Yorkshire Forward (the regional development agency) and University of Leeds have invested in […]
Penny Klepuszewska, a 2003 graduate from Nottingham Trent University and Chris Boyd, a Manchester Metropolitan University second-year interactive arts student were joint winners of the UK Art Prize 2004, that attracted over 40,000 entries and created ten finalists. They shared […]
Work by the late Alexandra Reinhardt is on show (until 25 February) at the Menier Chocolate Factory Gallery, Southwark, now the home of charity Paintings in Hospitals (PiH). This is the first of an annual programme of exhibitions and events […]
Luiz Camillo Osorio on Rio de Janeiro and Ana Paula Cohen on S
Alice Maude-Roxby on photographing Michael Stevenson’s Rakit.
Edith Marie Pasquier interviews Ali Zaidi of motiroti.
Mission Gallery, Swansea
13 November – 15 January
MAC Gallery, Birmingham
13 November – 2 January
My work is mostly about perception: the way we look at the world, building up an image of the whole from different fragments.
Spital Square, London
3 December – 30 January
Piccadilly Circus Underground Station
11 October – 17 January
Outpost, Norwich
1-2, 7-8 December
