Video installation artist Chris Meigh-Andrews completed work in September on a prototype ‘self-powered’ outdoor video installation in Grizedale Forest, Cumbria. Working with systems engineer Dr John Calderbank, the work was funded by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the […]
Sarah Woodfine’s Wyoming, 2003 won the £5,000 first prize in the 2004 Jerwood Drawing Prize, announced in September. A collaboration between the Jerwood Foundation, Wimbledon School of Art and the University of Gloucestershire, the prize attracted over 2,000 entries from […]
www.craftscotland.org – a major new national and international showcase promoting the best of Scottish craft was launched in September in Aberdeen at Challenging Craft, an international conference for leading craft professionals. Initiated and funded by the Scottish Arts Council, the […]
Contents include: Zarah Hussain finds unity in pattern. Bill Drummond twins towns through kettle exchange. Paul Glinkowski looks at art born out of conflict with work by John Keane and Frauke Eigen. Focus on Frieze Art Fair and satellite events […]
Liverpool Biennial, 18–26 September
Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital, Aberdeen
Permanent commissions
Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Bury St Edmunds
14 September – 30 October
East Street Arts, Leeds
9 September – 7 October
Hales Gallery, London
8 September – 10 October
Studio-based artists have been made vulnerable by the recent property boom as run-down former industrial buildings attract developers with an eye for a lucrative conversion. Some studio providers though, have managed to stay put and in some cases have moved on to better premises. Paul Glinkowski offers this progress report on artist-led studios projects in Leeds and in Stroud.
In October, we’re saying farewell to Ilana Mitchell, who has until now been juggling her work as a member of the Communications and Sales team with furthering her career as an artist, and coordinating Platform00000004. Whilst we’re sad to lose […]
Esther.s (aka Esther Salamon, Chair of a-n’s Board) has created a work for presentation at Platform 0000004, taking place 21 October at The Cluny, in Newcastle. Road Map _ One Way involves a composer/musician and three performers in an intimate […]
In collaboration with Proboscis, a creative studio that researches, develops and facilitates innovation, Deborah Smith’s latest curatorial project ‘Navigating History’ presents a series of research archives in libraries in Sussex and Kent. Each of the commissions focuses on rich and […]
Visitors to this month’s On The Wall art fair at London’s Olympia Grand Hall can catch up with a-n staff and get a free demonstration of the new Artist’s Toolkits. Our comfy-sofa-space is located at stand A99 opposite those of […]
We’ll also be setting out our wares later this month at the Frieze Art Fair in Regents Park, London. Visit our stand to catch up with the latest developments from the NAN initiative and to learn more about how a-n […]
Paul Glinkowski looks at the experiences of John Keane and Frauke Eigen, artists who have worked in war-torn locations outside of official state sponsored programmes, and talks to Dominic Nutt of Christian Aid who worked with Keane in Israel and Palestine.
Artist Bill Drummond is twinning Kensington in Liverpool with Kensington in London – through kettles.
I’m drawn towards work that offers two opposing features or truths.
As the international art world’s attention turns to London, Eliza Patten previews Frieze Art Fair and some of the events taking place alongside it.
International fairs are a great opportunity for researching galleries and making contacts, here is a selection of just some of the 150 showing at this year’s Frieze Art Fair.
While commercial representation is far from the ‘be all and end all’ of a successful visual arts practice, the glossy veneer of events like Frieze Art Fair can make it feel like it is. Two new events in London this […]
Just wanted to warn your readers about an apparent money laundering fraud targeting artists. I was emailed through my website by someone calling himself Barry Anthony using an email address at outgun.com. He had selected three paintings from my website […]
Gini Coates won the London Printworks Trust’s Bursary at New Designers Part 1 at the Business Design Centre, London in July. Selected from over 1,000 graduates showing there, she attracted the attention of a judging panel that included leading textile […]
Belfast Exposed, Belfast
13 August – 24 September
Increased speculation and worry is mounting in the arts in Wales that more cultural quangos will be brought under the direct control of the Welsh Assembly following the announcement that three of the biggest are to be scrapped. First Minister […]
