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On the cover – 2006 December
Paul Plews & Marieta Tsenova, Beauty, photograph, 2005.
a-n Magazine 2006 December - a-n The Artists Information Company
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a-n Magazine December 2006
Contents include: Round up of awards news with Jerwood Applied Arts short-list and Paul Hamlyn award winners. Slavka Sverakova on Dark Noise including work by Allan Hughes and Susan MacWilliam. Jem Finer, winner of PRS Foundation New Music Award also […]
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Projects unedited
Artists’ projects in progress
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Paul Hamlyn award winners
The five winners of this year’s Paul Hamlyn Awards for Visual Arts were announced last month.
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Jem Finer: Score for a hole in the ground
King’s Wood, Ashford
Launch 15 September
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Editorial – 2006 December
Are artists part of the problem when it comes to global warming?
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Sleeping beauties – awards round-up
Bathing Beauties is a project conceived by Manchester-based public artist Michael Trainor.
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Jewellery prize short-listed
Six jewellers are competing for the UK’s most prestigious prize in the applied arts, the
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Artists fiddled while the planet burned: Can art save the planet?
Every age rewrites its history in its own image. Each age produces art that reflects that image, whether consciously or not.
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Inspiring learning in galleries
Engage, the association that promotes the understanding and enjoyment of the visual arts, launched the enquire report, Inspiring Learning in Galleries on the 6 November at Tate Modern, London.
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UK’s largest art agency created
A merger between Cywaith Cymru/Artworks Wales and CBAT The Arts & Regeneration Agency, Wales in October has created the largest public art company in the UK.
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Richard Gagola
A writer for a-n Magazine 1997-98, Richard Gagola, who died suddenly in October, will be remembered by friends and arts colleagues for his wit, infectious humour, and commitment to the visual arts.
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Record resale royalties for artists
Artists are getting record resale royalties as DACS made the fourth set of royalty payments in October.
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Photo awards
Short-listed for the 2006 Jerwood Photography Awards are Zoe Hatziyannaki, Peter Oetzmann, Paul Plews, Indre Serpytyte and Paul Winch-Furness, whose work is on show at the Jerwood Space, London until 9 December prior to a national tour.
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Northern prize heralded
Northern Art Prize, a new prize for contemporary artists, launched in November.
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New places
South Central is a not-for-profit contemporary art space that started in July and is based in the Southgate Centre shopping mall, Bath, an area due for redevelopment.
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Arts, health and well-being debated
The Arts Council of is hosting a conference on Arts, Health and Well-being in Wales on 5 December with the overall aim of presenting and discussing a Draft Strategy for Arts, Health and Well-being.
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Aspex relaunches
Aspex, Portsmouth’s contemporary visual art gallery, opens in its new premises in the heart of Portsmouth’s regenerated Gunwharf Quays in December.
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Arts salaries poor
Arts Professional’s recent survey shows that arts organisers across all art forms are badly paid, with over half earning less than £25K annually.
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ANTI Contemporary Art Festival
Now in its fifth year, ANTI continues to alter its physical character through a programme that occupies changing sites in this Finnish Lakeland town.
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Underground
Greenwich Foot Tunnel, London
14 October – 25 November
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Fees and payment debate
Avigail Ochert is correct in her observation that for the purposes of considering salaries “artists’ pay scales should not be compared or equated with teachers’’”.
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Annuale review critiqued
I am writing about the article in October’s a-n Magazine reviewing The Edinburgh Annuale, ‘Annuale III’ by Guyan Porter.
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Good practice – a two way process?
I read with interest your latest Good Practice publication, Negotiating your practice.
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Artists, tax, and self-employed status
The recent coverage in a-n publications on good practice and rates of pay for artists is very useful, but I think that an important issue has not been covered.