Contents include: Healing words and Open doors features; artist, curator and writer Rachel Marsden considers the importance placed on the written word in conveying artworks to visitors in Debate; Big Picture is Mobile Picnic Pavilion by Francis Thorburn; Victoria Clare […]
Startling architectural interventions, large-scale touring exhibitions and ambitious commissions will transform the city of Norwich 7-22 May through Norfolk & Norwich Festival (NNF10) as it presents its first ever visual arts programme.
During 2009, the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), based at the Scottish Marine Institute in Oban, western Scotland hosted an artist in residence.
At the beginning of March this year, the Arts Council of Wales hosted ‘Arts in Health and Well-being’, a conference about prevention, intervention and creative action in healthcare.
Workspace developments, studio residency projects and open studio events happening around the UK.
This month’s blog selection.
Launched in 2006,Turning Point is a national ten-year strategy for the visual arts. A network of regional Turning Point groups has since been emerging, each charged with “strengthening the visual arts infrastructure”.
In a new Research paper commissioned for www.a-n.co.uk, Emily Speed looks at the complex nature of making a living as an artist.
The core of the Stiwdio Safle programme is the ongoing professional development and practise of the artist and the public realm context they inhabit and respond to.
Francis Thorburn
Mobile Picnic Pavilion
In Time, a collection of case studies recently published by Live Art UK represents some of the innovative and pioneering ways in which live art has both posed and responded to exciting cultural challenges of our times.
An announcement from Islington Mill, a studio and gallery space (amongst other things) in Salford caught my eye recently.
Rules designed to prevent illegal immigration have denied entry to the UK by international artists and performers, a Manifesto Club report says.
Manchester-based Cornerhouse in collaboration with FutureEverything, is hosting an artist in residence on 12-15 May.
New research from innovative think-tank Mission Models Money (MMM), developed through a partnership with the Cultural Leadership Programme, is exploring and developing a body of theory and practice about the competencies, qualities and attributes that will equip people working in the cultural sector to thrive in the fast changing, complex, uncertain and unpredictable operating environment.
This month, a-n’s Newcastle offices have seen the hanging of our first purchase of artists’ work.
Managed by Art Projects and Solutions, Forming Ideas is a curatorial development programme that aims to broaden and stimulate debate around contemporary craft practice for curators working across England in art galleries, museums and independently.
Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston upon Thames
9 February – 27 March
11 February – 9 April
Belfast Exposed, Belfast
20 February – 2 April Gallery No 1 and New Court Gallery, Repton
New Display Strategies: ‘What’s in it for me?’ 17 February – 27 March Seventeen, London 5 February – 28 March Gasworks, London
Simon Morse, Little Bastards, dial, LED, switch, vinyl, acrylic and transfers on aluminium unit, 26x16x9cm, 2009.
As an artist, curator and writer Rachel Marsden considers the importance placed on the written word in conveying artworks to visitors.
A response to the recent Debate pieces: Weakening the Foundations and Why are Artists Poor?
A response to the recent Debate piece: Why are artists poor?
