Contents include: Laura Ellen Bacon on building nests. Professional development round-up. Susannah Silver reports from visual arts conference in South Africa. Yuen Fong Ling on shifting identities in Hong Kong and Rob Olins on combining public art with landscape. Group […]
For over fifteen years the Chrisi Bailey Award has been given annually some of the most extraordinary educational work with children using photography, digital arts, video and animation. Aiming to reward work that demonstrates creativity and innovation, rather than just […]
The trains of thought that permeate through the writing we commission each month provide indicators for the future. Highlighting what is on the edge of becoming significant within artists’ practices, is a characteristic of a-n’s work, providing a very different […]
I am writing to thank you for informing me I have won a free one year subscription to a-n. [See ‘Survey winners announced’ on the letters page of last month’s a-n Magazine.] It was a great start to my day […]
Can recycling arts have a positive impact on attitudes to resources? Are there more qualities to recycling arts than quirky uses of materials? I am a recycling artist currently undertaking MA Integrative Arts at Derby University. The research title: ‘Creative […]
CCA Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), one of Scotland’s leading cultural venues, has been saved from closure and its day-to-day running taken over by the Scottish Arts Council (SAC), its main funder, after the “voluntary” resignation of the CCA […]
For the first time Nottingham is to host the ‘British Art Show’. Taking place every five years, the Hayward Gallery touring exhibition aims to showcase the best in contemporary art. With over one hundred and twenty works by fifty UK-based […]
Yuen Fong Ling on shifting Identities in Hong Kong
After close involvement in campaigning for the Artist’s Resale Right, painter Simon Black is warmly welcoming this new right.
Room, Bristol
2 February – 5 March
Nicholas Sharp on the Artist’s Resale Right Regulations 2006.
Bidoun is a quarterly magazine dedicated to the arts and culture of the Middle East and its diaspora. Launched in 2004, it provides a unique platform for fresh ideas and original work by contemporary artists, architects, designers and writers. Bidoun […]
Bureau is Manchester’s new, purpose-built, independent art gallery. Run by directors Sophia Crilly and Mark Kennard, both practising artists and curators, the gallery provides a platform for dynamic, exciting and experimental work by emerging and established national and international artists. […]
The Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW) launches its Project Space this month, the first phase of its development in the newly improved Haldon Forest Park near Exeter, which is also launched on the same day. CCANW […]
Professional development news from across the UK.
Back in 1980 I left Wolverhampton Poly with a BA in ceramics.
Aviva Leeman reports from Artquest’s recent conference.
The Art Gallery, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen
20 January – 19 February
Touchstones, Rochdale
28 January – 19 March
Nests and cocoon-like forms intrigue me because they are often built directly into existing structures, such as trees or architectural features.
S1 Artspace, Sheffield
26 January, 9 and 23 February
Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby
21 January – 5 March
Baltic Centre of Contemporary Art, Gateshead
21 January –26 March
