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Highlighting just some of the festivals, events and exhibitions taking place across the North of England this season.

This month sees the culmination of a two-year project at Siobhan Davies Dance, one of the country’s most distinctive dance companies. Choreographer Davies has paired dance artists with visual and applied artists to bring their creative practices together and create new works ranging from performance to film and installation. The commissioned dance artists are Henry Montes, Sarah Warsop, Gill Clarke and Deborah Saxon who are partnered respectively with Marcus Coates, Tracey Rowledge and Lucy Skaer. Henry Montes and Deborah Saxon have also made a piece together with Bruce Sharp. Here, three of the visual artists relate their experiences.

Andrew Bryant discusses a new series of events that take Artists talking ‘out of the virtual and into the actual’.

Jo Fairfax, 180° of Light, 2011

Is there enough funding going to individual artists and are the application processes user-friendly? These were questions a-n set out to answer in the fourth issue of what was then Artists Newsletter in 1980. Now, thirty one years later, we asked Dany Louise to do this research again, examining the current state of play for grants to individual artists as offered by Arts Council England, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Arts Council of Wales and Creative Scotland – including comparators of volumes of artists applying and success rates – and to ascertain whether a “fair share” has been getting into the hands of artists to develop their practice.

In her report on Turning Point, Phyllida Shaw unwraps the ‘what’s what and who’s who’ of this major strategy for England, to support discussions on greater participation by, and development for, artists within it.

James Rigler, Chatsworth Table, ceramic, marble, wood, steel, gold leaf, rope, 2011. Courtesy: Chatsworth House

News and updates on AIR’s strategies and activities designed to support professional artists within their practice and working lives.

Konrad Wyrebek, Olivia Palermo and her boyfriend Johannes Huebl, oil and acrylic on canvas, 120x90cm, 2011.