Contents include: Is UK arts policy damaging the arts? Culture Vultures publication reviewed. Why are artists poor? A conference summary. Artists occupy empty flats in Hastings with a remit to contribute to local community. In reviews Maurice Doherty in Glasgow and artists of Chinese heritage explore migration in Plymouth. PDF version [size: 9.4MB]. Requires a pdf reader.
Anthology of reflections by artists who have experienced NAN, edited by Jane Watt as part of her review of the NAN initiative. Includes specially commissioned article ‘Creative connections’ by Susannah Silver, alongside articles from the a-n archive illuminated by Vox […]
Declan Long on two new Dublin-based galleries, and the relationship between artist-led spaces in Ireland and the UK.
Jane Watt on the first of two publications that give an overview of NAN activity to date (2006).
Susannah Silver catches up with artists involved in one of the first NAN Scotland events at Cove Park, and finds out about networking in rural areas.
A series of Vox box style reflections by some of the artists who have experienced NAN.
Dan Miller reports from the NAN Scotland event in Stirling, January 2006
Writing about findings from her independent review of the NAN (Networking Artists’ Networks) initiative, Jane Watt highlights how ‘trust’ is a crucial factor in supporting artists’ critical and professional development. “This five-letter word,” she says “could be an evaluator’s (or […]
In November, some forty representatives of directors, visual artists and writers from thirteen European countries met in Amsterdam for a conference organised by EURO-MEI.
In January we asked a-n subscribers to tell us their thoughts about us and additional benefits and services they needed in a survey to selected UK regions and Wales and by request. All who returned their completed surveys by 31 […]
We are two African artists based in Nottingham and we felt the need to add our perspectives to the comments of the past two issues of a-n regarding EMACA visual arts. We feel that it is appropriate that artists who […]
I have recently completed an interdisciplinary visual project with the aid of an AHRC grant, within the Department of Cultural Geography at Royal Holloway College. As an artist currently in dialogue with an academic department I am interested in the […]
AV Festival 06, the UK’s newest, and largest, international festival of film, digital arts, music, games and new media will take place in various venues in NewcastleGateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough this month, with the theme of ‘Life’. Explains AV Festival […]
Plymouth Arts Centre and Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery
14 January – 25 February
Seventeen
2 February 2006 to 2 February 2006
The evolution of public art is an ongoing process and as an arts practitioner I contribute my share through work with Chrysalis Arts, which is currently celebrating twenty years of live and public art practice. As a co-founder and director I feel it is time for some reflection on the climate for creating artwork in public places and consider what the future holds.
Chicago Artists Resource (CAR) is an innovative new arts service website.
Following the recent questioning of the relationship between Arts Council England and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, in the light of the publication of the ACE Peer Review at the end of 2005 (see Comment in February a-n Magazine), challenges have been presented to the Scottish and Welsh arts councils that threaten to undermine their continued ‘arm’s length’ relationship with the Government.
‘Cultural Industries: The European Experience’ is a conference being run by EUCLID in association with the Tate Modern on 20 March.
Politicians today often claim that the arts are now not only good in themselves, but make a vital contribution to the economy, urban regeneration and social inclusion. But is there actually any evidence to support this?
Awards for artists from Scotland and Wales.
The thirteen nominees for this year’s £20,000 Beck’s Futures prize have been announced:
Cell and Spike Island developments.
A proposed cultural strategy for rural England. Written circa 2010, it discusses the major issues relating to rural arts provision and funding.
Assesses the scale of arts festival activity in Yorkshire in 2006, and development needs of the sector as indicated through analysis of case studies.
