Contents include: Government Spending Review announced, Ixia on public art and planning, and Crafts Council unveils new strategy. Artists’ professional development opportunities under the spotlight and live art showcased at ‘Vital 07’. Chisenhale Open and new book by Black Dog […]
Ceramic artists Elise Austrin, Karen Atherley, Jo Davies, Akiko Hirai and Joanna London are amongst exhibitors in ‘Handmade 07’, being held at Chelsea Old Town Hall 27-30 November.
Jeffery Byrd, Holy Ghost, performance, Boston, 2004. Photo: Bob Raymond
After a lengthy baited-breath waiting period, the government’s Comprehensive Spending Review that sets public funding levels for 2008-11 was announced.
Professional development opportunities are widely available, ranging from cash awards to advisory sessions and critical debate.
The focus generated this month by ‘Vital 07’ is the catalyst for exposing of some of the UK’s key promoters of live art today.
Gordon Dalton’s piece (Networking Artists’ Networks, a-n Magazine August 2007) showed that the silly season is not limited to the tabloid newspapers.
Bravo, Dave Grimbleby – and thanks for saying what many of us have thought for a long time.
This month’s visual arts appointments
Arts Council England’s announcement on 26 September of its new Chief Executive, Alan Davey, was met with mixed feelings in the arts world.
The Crafts Council, the national development agency for contemporary crafts in the UK, has gone through huge changes in the last five years.
Leeds-based artists Lucy Gibson and Yvonne Carmichael are curating a new gallery space in Leeds.
Herts open studios celebrated its seventeenth year in September.
MASA Artists – a group of visual arts practitioners with studios on Blackfriars Road, Salford – are celebrating the organisation’s 25th anniversary with a series of artistic initiatives over the forthcoming months.
Public art think tank ixia’s recent review of public art and planning in England revealed that, through the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG), the government is considering changes to the planning system.
