AUDIOBLOG – Please click here The only other time I can remember having this much money in my bank account was after my father died. In fact, it was a very similar amount. Then, I remember thinking it was a […]
So today has been a bit of a mish mash and has, like the Presley song, “sent my temperature rising”, but not I feel, for the same reason as Presley. In fact I am so miffed that I decided to […]
Dear friends, My name is Liz Crow. I’m an artist-activist and director of Roaring Girl Productions, a small-scale, non-profit organisation that combines high quality art practice with practical activism. Our latest project, Figures, is a mass-sculptural performance that is setting […]
Help fund my first Solo Exhibition. Graduate Residency artist at Airspace Gallery in Stoke-On-Trent. Today I have launched my crowdfunding campaign on indiegogo to raise funds to support the production of work and cost of materials and advertising for my […]
There is a point I think, in most projects, trains of thought… whatever… when there is a wobble, if you’re lucky, only one, if it is a bigger project, possibly more. This is a bigger project, and I have just […]
I’ve already shared about this, but wanted to share the outcome of my query to the Chelsea funding department, asking them to reconsider the scholarship criteria as they’ve unintentionally penalised single parents who have duties of childcare and can’t work […]
Residencies are as diverse as the practitioners, organisations and environments that host them. From fee paying to sponsored, rural to urban and global to local. They provide a matrix for investigation, invention and exploration (at best) and at worst they […]
After a great weekend visit to Mai Rim for a party and a swim in a beautiful waterfall, I spent some time preparing to give a talk about my work, and host an English themed ‘Mad Hatter’s Tea Party’ – […]
It is now only 7 weeks to our R K Burt Gallery Exhibition show ‘Paperfields’ and I have used all my available time (5 hours a day, including last weekend) preparing our funding application to help us get there and […]
A joint application for funding for the Thai residency and project at the Museum of Bath at Work has come through from a GfA grant from Arts Council England. This is going to enable me to be more ambitious and […]
This is my first chance to post since handing in my online ACE application. After many discussions with artists and producers as part of my Re:view bursary I decided to apply for Grants for the Arts, Research and Development with […]
Now that we’ve had the headlines about the 2015-18 organisations joining Arts Council England’s portfolio of regularly funded, I’m quite interested in what the stats didn’t directly tell us. What organisations applied that weren’t successful? These could be organisations funded in […]
Fundamentally questions the Arts Council’s stewardship of the National Lottery funds, which are provided for different purposes and for far wider public benefit than ACE’s Treasury grant.
I’ve applied for the New Opportunities Award (NOA) from New Expressions – an initiative to develop contemporary art in museum settings. This kind of strategic use of contemporary art presents interesting boundaries for artists to potentially push against. I’ve negotiated […]
One of the perks of having a studio at Spike Island, Bristol, is that – along with funds that we raise running bars at our annual open studios event – 10 percent of our rent is kept aside to fund […]
I wrote this for axisweb: The South West Scene From the closure of established arts organisations to the freezing of Discretionary Business Rates Relief (DBRR), recent times have been challenging for the contemporary arts across the UK. And the South […]
Excited to have been given a place on the Surface Arts and Rumpueng Art Space Collaborative Residency programme in Chiang Mai for one month this August. This will be a great opportunity to focus on changes in my practice, and […]
The visual arts organisations the Arts Council selected for funding as National Portfolio Organisations 2011-15
Independently researched and evidence based report addressing the balance of arts funding between London and the rest of England.
Evaluation of the pilot year of The Space, a joint three year venture between Arts Council England and the BBC.
Early in March I was in Margate for the National Federation of Artists’ Studio Providers’ (NFASP) AGM and a series of events designed to bring artists and studio providers together to share experience, intelligence and generally bond.
a-n-commissioned research that presents information on the destination of visual arts funding across the four UK arts councils and the percentage rate of successful applications in years 2009-10 and 2008-09.
Six months on from the ‘Ladders for development’ report, Dany Louise revisits ladders organisations and reports on how they fared after the first round of coalition government cuts in 2011.
Jack Hutchinson reports from the awards ceremony of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards.
I have been reading some interesting comments recently in your magazine about the issue of artists when they leave education and enter employment. I feel I would like to comment on this issue. As an arts graduate I am now […]
