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Perspective
Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
1 October – 27 November
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Carl von Weiler
Saltburn Artists Projects, Saltburn
26 September
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Samson Kambalu: Holyballism
The Art Exchange, Nottingham
8 October – 8 November
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Tripping Over A Varicoloured Tangle Of Wires
The Lowry, Salford Quays
25 September – 2 January
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Working practice
Fees and payments for artists
In 2004, a-n commissioned a team from University of Newcastle to undertake research into context, attitudes and approaches to paying artists for their skills and services.
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Intangible, inflatable, irreducible
Lucy Kimbell explores the value of artists’ work.
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East Street Arts
East Street Arts (ESA) is a model example of what the purchase and refit of studios involves.
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Research paper
Fees and payments for artists
Funded by Arts Council England, this research study in 2004 prefaced new resources from a-n to extend the Code of Practice and demonstrate good practice within artists’ fees and payments, for use by artists and public-sector employers and commissioners. For current sample rates go to Guidance on fees and day rates and for latest Paying artists research go to www.a-n.co.uk/tag/paying-artists
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Stroud Valleys Artspace
More than just a studios building, Stroud Valleys Artspace (SVA) represents a hub for artists in the area.
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Editorial – 2004 November
We’re publishing a raft of new content this month and, to emphasise that a-n is much more than a monthly magazine and entice readers to visit our website regularly, much of the new material will be exclusive to www.a-n.co.uk Freely […]
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Feedback
Visitors to the On The Wall art fair at London’s Olympia Grand Hall this October were able to meet the a-n team and catch up on our latest developments. Many artists took the opportunity to network in our comfy lounge […]
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New to team
We’re very pleased to announce that John Beagles is joining a-n’s Commissioning Editors team. Based in Glasgow, John has exhibited widely and internationally with collaborator Graham Ramsay. They’re currently showing in ‘Romantic detachment’ at PS1 in New York runs until […]
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Additional resources
Additional resources have been published since a-n launched its Code of Practice for the Visual Arts. Launched in June, The artist’s development toolkit provides self-reflective material for artists at all career stage and for art and design students, enabling them […]
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Code of practice for the visual arts
In publishing the Code of Practice for the Visual Arts in June 2003, we made a commitment to its wide distribution, by free access on www.a-n.co.uk and through a printed booklet. By June 2004, we had distributed 20,000 booklets. A […]
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Creative practice and global networks
Jeremy Theophilus considers the issues raised for practioners, organisers and funders by the Jetset conference, in the second of two articles inspired by it.
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Public art
Public art commissions comprise around twenty-eight per cent of the work offered through the weekly updated Opportunities on www a-n.co.uk. As previous commissions experience is generally required, these opportunities tend also to command the best rates of pay for artists […]
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Moving up
Eddie Berg, Chief Executive and founder of Liverpool-based FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), will depart in March 2005 to become Artistic Director of the National Centre for the Moving Image, London. FACT began in 1988, when Eddie Berg […]
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Rural developments
Search under ‘rural’ on www.a-n.co.uk and you’ll find a fascinating array of features and profiles of artists and organisations whose work context is rural. Artists including Roxane Permar in Shetland, PALP in Cornwall, Emma Baird Murray in Wales and Ian […]
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Interwoven motion
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 […]
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Drawing prize
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 […]
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Crafts site launched
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 […]
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a-n Magazine October 2004
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 […]
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Sarah Carne: I Love my Yugo
Liverpool Biennial, 18–26 September
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PACE Commissions
Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital, Aberdeen
Permanent commissions
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Arttextiles3
Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Bury St Edmunds
14 September – 30 October