EQUATA, the Disability Arts Development Agency for South West England, has announced the first ever Devon Disabled Artists Consultation Day, to be held on 31 March from 3 pm – 7 pm at the Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street, Exeter. The […]
a-n’s Director of Programmes Susan Jones introduces Good practice in paying artists.
Artists in Australia have the National Association for the Visual Arts to thank for an improvement of their tax status with the tax office. Tamara Winikoff, NAVA’s Executive Director confirmed the Australian Tax Office’s new stance, saying: “Finally, after eight […]
Twenty-three of Scotland’s leading writers, visual artists, poets, musicians, dance artists and crafts professionals have been shortlisted for this year’s Scottish Arts Council National Lottery Creative Scotland Awards. The £300,000 awards scheme is for projects that are inspiring and highly […]
An ambitious new media public art project for Perth opening in September includes a number of artworks commissioned by Iliyana Nedkova, New Media Creative Director of Horsecross, the organisation behind the project. The half million pound project is being developed […]
Finding the Common Threads is a two-year study being conducted by the Centre for Creative Communities with support from Arts Council England, London and Deutsche Bank. With London as its focus, the project is investigating some of the issues funders […]
Gateshead Council launched a new-look Town Hall Square in January with the unveiling of John Creed’s public sculpture Acceleration. Commissioned by Gateshead Council and funded by One NorthEast under the Single Regeneration Budget, the artist was selected as part of […]
Arts Council England is to undertake a review of the presentation of contemporary visual arts to inform the development of a national strategy that will help create closer links and collaboration across heritage and contemporary visual arts and commercial sectors. […]
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee instigated an inquiry into the sponsorship, by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, of the UK art market. A particular focus is ways of supporting and encouraging living artists and the production of […]
Arts organisations in Derby, Leicester and Nottingham have been encouraged to collaborate in new creative work through a commissioning fund offered as part of the Three Cities Cultural Consortium initiative, funded by Arts Council England and the Millennium Commission. Grants […]
The Creativity and the artist seminar will examine the argument by the Scottish Executive that “the creativity of Scots, from the classroom to the board room, is the edge we need in a competitive world” and goes on to charge […]
APD (Artists Professional Development) network has received a £10,000 grant from Arts Council England to identify mechanisms to secure its future as the visual arts professional development umbrella. The offer arose after APD commissioned an independent strategic review from arts […]
National artists’ organisation The Art House, will be building new artists’ studios in Wakefield following Wakefield Council’s decision to grant land for the project. The Art House is an inclusive organisation for visual artists, that particularly addresses the problems facing […]
Occupation Studios is a case study in cooperative survival in the urban regeneration landscape.
Out of the Blue has thrived through establishing a diversity of activities and income streams.
DAW adapted a successful model of an open studios event for a rural location.
Temporary studios can be a useful option for creating project-specific work.
Hilary Thorn on a discussion event held at Static Gallery, as part of the NAN Artists’ research trip to Liverpool Biennial, which looked at the verbal languages through which art is explored.
How a partnership with their local university helped FusionARTS secure studio premises.
I arrived in Osaka, Japan with a certain amount of excitement and trepidation.
Gasworks is part of an international network of independent studios around the globe.
Nottingham Studios Consortium is an example of the ‘strength in numbers’ approach in making the case for studio provision.
Kathryn Smith on Johannesburg and Virginia Mackenny on Cape Town. The second part in a series commissioned by Deborah Smith.
How education work has contributed to this studio’s success.
CRATE successfully accessed economic development and regeneration funds to buy a building.
