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Big picture – 2008 May
This month: Alex Hetherington and Janie Nicoll
a-n Magazine 2008 May - a-n The Artists Information Company
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a-n Magazine May 2008
Contents include: Artists respond to call for commission proposal fees, open studio events previewed, digital art and new media artforms reviewed. New Collaborative relationships series on artists and collaborators – this issue curators give insights into their practice. Work by […]
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On the cover – 2008 May
Michael Brennand-Wood, Flower Head – Narcissistic Butterfly, 60x60x40cm, 2005.
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Editorial – 2008 May
Our guide to all the best degree shows, 2008 Degrees with this issue, features practice updates from last year’s student bloggers1 revealing learning curves, perseverance and collaborative ventures.
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Inside the studio
Open studio events are an insight into how artists make work, giving a very different perspective from seeing finished works in a gallery setting or a commissioned piece in a public space. Here we take a look at some of the studios opening their doors over the next few months.
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Collaborative relationships
To preface a new ongoing series exploring relationships between artists and their collaborators, we asked some of today’s most interesting curators for insights into their practices.
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Unpaid public art competitions
I would like to add these comments to the discussion on unpaid public art competitions (a-n Magazine, April).
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Unpaid public art competitions
I am writing to lend support to the ideas expressed in the letter How do other artists feel about unpaid public art competitions? (a-n Magazine, April).
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Creative processes of the everyday
I am currently undertaking a research project called ‘Situating everyday creativity in Liverpool 2008’.
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Breakdowns and breakthroughs
Joan Thompson on mental health services and further education.
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Quotes from the blogs
Highlights from Artists talking and beyond.
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Time out
For the past fourteen years, English Heritage and Arts Council England have been funding an important opportunity in the visual arts.
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Transforming waste
Exploration of the subtlety and ingenuity required to turn waste and found items into beautiful objects is highlighted in a new show at Devon Guild’s gallery.
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Access to advice
If you’re a small-scale voluntary organisation with an income of under £10,000 a year, you entitled to get free information from the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO).
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Tea on view
As a precursor to the Waterfront Public Art Strategy, Halton Borough Council commissioned artists’ residencies within the Widnes Waterfront Economic Development Zone in 2007.
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Shorts
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Creative ambition 2 and ixia.
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Room to breathe
Sixteen professional artists from across the arts disciplines received a Creative Wales Award from The Arts Council of Wales (ACW) in March.
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The Institute of Psychoplasmics
The Somafree Institute of Psychoplasmics first appeared in David Cronenberg’s 1979 film The Brood, yet despite once suggesting that if he failed as a filmmaker he could always set up a real life Institute, its 21st Century emergence is not his own doing.
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New space
Star and Dove contemporary artspace launches in May in Bristol in a former skittle alley, in one of Bristol’s more bohemian communities.
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Irish uplift
The Arts Council Northern Ireland has fulfilled its pledge to plough the hard-won uplift of £1.7m it secured straight back into the arts in Northern Ireland.
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Cultural consultation
The British Council’s proposed major restructure, much criticised by leading art world figures earlier in the year, has been redrafted.
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Centre for British art
The Yale Center for British Art, which houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of British art outside the UK, has received $415,000 from the Mellon Foundation to support research programmes in the history of British art and culture.
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Capital capital
According to London – A Cultural Audit, the first quantitative comparison of London’s cultural environment with major world cities New York, Paris, Tokyo and Shanghai, London is leading the way internationally.
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Art moves – 2008 May
This month’s movers in the art world.
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Art facts
Research in bite-sized pieces.