Thanks to lottery funds through the Scottish Arts Council, the first artists’ residencies for Scotland’s celebration of Highland culture in 2007 were awarded in October.
Situation Leeds, the contemporary visual artists and the public realm festival launched in 2006, is to run again this year.
This month’s Opportunities focus on international residencies, will sit permanently on www.a-n.co.uk1 as a signpost to regular international residencies that have regular deadlines. Artist Michael Cousin2 has researched this focus alongside his busy practice as an artist, and offers some […]
Ivan Smith comments.
John Plowman and Nicola Streeten comment.
Residencies of any kind are a large undertaking for an artist to commit to both financially and emotionally. The time spent experimenting and finding a fresh perspective or continuing a train of thought uninterrupted must be weighed against the monetary […]
Hatton Gallery
9 September 2006 to 11 November 2006
The Biennial age is the age of the illusion of free flowing global movement of thought and capital, when the success of an artist could be measured in airmiles.
The Crafts Council launched a major new selling event for contemporary craft in October.
October saw the formal opening of Elements, the transformed garden and corridor areas at Park House, North Manchester General Hospital. Under the leadership of artists Stella Corrall and Adam Reynolds, service users and staff at Park House have been brought […]
Two major themes emerged during a recent Littoral conference, and both of them had to do with community self-reliance.
In October, after a six-month review period, Arts Council England issued news of the new structure that is designed to create “a more focused, streamlined and effective organisation that is better able to provide national leadership and planning, build new partnerships and make a stronger case for the art”.
Evaluation of Scottish Arts Council’s interest free loan scheme Own Art has revealed that Scotland’s contemporary arts market is thriving.
The Secretary of State called a Public Inquiry on 17/18th October at Hackney Town Hall to determine the future of Richmond House, Richmond Road.
A seven-year campaign led by Littoral’s Ian Hunter and Celia Larner has saved Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbarn, in Elterwater Village, Cumbria for the nation.
Volunteer opportunities are the norm across the visual arts, often perceived as the only route for newcomers to the profession to gain the CV experience that will get them noticed and their foot on the career ladder.
Richard Deacon, Merlin James and Heather & Ivan Morison have been selected to represent Wales at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007.
An exploration of professional development support needs for makers in the West Midlands has identified that as makers’ working patterns are characterised as “multi-tasking portfolio workers”.
Hotbath Gallery, Bath
5-25 September
De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea
22 July – 17 September
Beacon, Lincolnshire
9 September – 10 October
Tricycle Gallery, London
12 September – 7 October
Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness
18 August – 19 September
Asia House, London
31 August – 11 November
“The UK’s leading information and advocacy organisation for artists and their collaborators”, a-n, a newsletter and ‘artists information company’, has become so grossly over laden with the argot of management consultancy.
