a-n Magazine 2007 February - a-n The Artists Information Company

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Prize withdrawn

The Jerwood Photography Award worth £2,000 presented in December 2006 to Paul Plews has now been withdrawn following a complaint. The photographer’s submitted works, one of which was featured on the December issue of a-n Magazine, were taken from a […]

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Sustainable studios

A £3m investment to Scottish studio development organisation Wasps is designed to make them self-supporting in five years, and no longer dependent on arts revenue funding. A new partnership with the Scottish Arts Council will transform Wasps into one of […]

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I can't hear you
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a-n Magazine February 2007

Contents include: Artists find "a public space for experimentation" at Site Gallery and David Sherry makes Raymond Watson laugh. Ben Kelly wins the Football Art Prize and Paul Lewthwaite recalls a residency in a former sardine factory in Norway. Middlesbrough’s […]

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Editorial – 2007 February

With inflation about to hit a ten-year high1, to what extent can the practices of artists nowadays resist the pressures of the real world?

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Disability equality duty

In December 2006, the UK government passed the Disability Discrimination Act. This requires all public bodies, including local authorities, educational institutions and others, to take proactive and mature approaches to meeting the social needs of disabled people, moving beyond a […]

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Artist’s fees

I’ve been asked to coordinate a public event that will rely on artists’ coming forward to develop their own projects.

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Artists' Rights (The Twilight Years 2006)
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Corporate theft

As a photographer, I am alarmed at the increasing frequency of organisations holding ‘competitions’.

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New ACE launched

It is great that a-n is asking artists and organisations what they think of the recent structural changes at Arts Council England.

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Matt’s appeal

London-based Matt’s Gallery is making an appeal to raise £40,000 towards continuation of its programme of exhibitions, publications and education.

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Image from Stories of Steps
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Steps stories

The personal stories of members of the community living near Liverpool’s Herculaneum Steps were highlighted and documented during 2006 through the energies of artist Janette Porter and the Living at the Edge project.

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Art Wall
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Art wall

Installed last autumn, Mamily Sheibani’s Art Wall extends the external face of a Park Lane Early Learning Centre.

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CCS on the road

Creative & Cultural Skills is hosting events around the UK in February and March.

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The Final Whistle - Botafogo 4 - Pontepreta 2
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Football art prize

Ben Kelly from Macclesfield won One Love: The Football Art Prize with his work The Final Whistle – Botofogo 4 – Pontepreta 2.

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Self-Portrait as Switch
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International residency

Financial difficulties for Bergen’s United Sardine Factory (USF) led to its conversion to a 12,000 square meter arts centre in the 1980s.

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Cat Monkey
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Bursaries awarded

In December, Scottish Arts Council awarded major bursaries to four leading contemporary artists for the development of future work, and as an investment in their creative talent.

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Dartington College under threat

The closure of renowned Dartington College of Art, Devon is threatened due to rising costs that estate owners Dartington Trust are unwilling to meet.

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Mima
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Mima opens

Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (Mima) has opend its doors to the public after a major lottery-supported refit.

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New studios

In response to the lack of affordable “wet & dirty” spaces in the area, artist Jackie Berridge has purchased the ground and first floor of a Victorian lace mill in Long Eaton, Nottingham, for conversion into studios.

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Strategic developments

As part of implementing the restructuring of Arts Council England’s national office, Augustus (Gus) Casely-Hayford has been appointed as Executive Director, Arts Strategy.

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Future arts funding in Wales

The Arts Council of Wales has welcomed the proposed creation of a Strategy Board under the Chairmanship of the Minister.

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