a-n’s Newcastle offices were the venue in November for an installation and projection by Amsterdam-based artist Hermelinde Hergenhahn, as part of ‘Space Between Us’, a Vane exhibition curated by Una Henry and Thomas Peutz of SMART Project Space, Amsterdam. Also […]
Welcome to Philip Marsden, appointed in November. An BA fine art graduate from University of Newcastle, he joins the Communications and Sales team. Congratulations to Louise Wirz, Director of Development, who gave birth in October to baby Nina. a-n Magazine […]
Deborah Smith unpicks the notion of collaborative practice in the work of the artist, writer and curator David A Bailey, the third article in the ‘Crossing over’ series.
Brigid Howarth discovers what makes art buyers tick.
Yorkshire-based Chrysalis Arts was commissioned earlier this year to create temporary art installations in Skipton High Street as part of a Renaissance-planning weekend. This street has remained unchanged for over a 100 years and, as well as being a traffic […]
Frieze Art Fair, London’s first international contemporary art fair held in October has announced the 2004 dates as 15-18 October. With over 27,700 national and international visitors – including collectors, gallerists and curators, students, artists and celebrities – this new […]
The Hub in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, was launched in October as Britain’s largest crafts display centre. The inaugural exhibition ‘What is Craft? was designed to open a debate amongst a wide spectrum of people on what the word ‘crafts’ constitutes. In […]
Eight emerging artists gathered at Allenheads Contemporary Arts (ACA) in Tynedale in October, for a weeklong residency, brainstorming and researching with peers and other contemporary art practitioners. The intensive and varied schedule of the Microresidencies allowed artists to engage with […]
With new elements of the Disability Discrimination Act due to become law in October 2004, artists and arts organisations need to be considering in earnest the changes they will need to effect in their practices and communications. The act sets […]
Chinese Arts Centre opened in Manchester last month, as a new national British flagship exhibition centre for Chinese contemporary art. The new centre is a result of a £2.2 million award from the lottery through Arts Council England. Located in […]
Tom Woolford’s Landmark is now in situ on the cliffs below Tynemouth Priory, North East England. Four illuminated individual letters, which stand 4m tall and have an overall width of around 18m, spell out ‘LAND’. Tom Woolford has lived and […]
Commissions in the Environment (CITE) in collaboration with Lancashire County Council and Rossendale Borough Council have commissioned Katayoun Pashban Dowlatshahi to create a permanent artwork that celebrates and reveals the River Irwell. In a truly collaborative process, she is working […]
The Brighton Photo Biennale 2003, the new major event in the photography calendar, kicked off in October. Combining exhibitions, commissions and events, the biennale permeates across traditional gallery spaces as well as appropriating Brighton Parish Church as a site for […]
The Scottish Arts Council has recently published an audit of visual artists. Moira Jeffrey reports.
The figure in motion is central to my practice.
The success of the recent Frieze Art Fair, the ongoing interest in all things ‘lifestyle’, and rumours that a new art purchase plan is soon to be launched, all point towards a rising interest in the buying of art. Habitat’s […]
Brigid Howarth talks to an art buyer who has been collecting since the age of nineteen.
TheSpace@inIVA, London
16 October – 22 November
Pentagon Business Centre, Glasgow
29 September – 31 October
Various locations, Manchester
10-18 October
Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts
Centre, Coventry
27 September – 5 December
Rufford Craft Centre Gallery, Newark
23 September – 2 November
Working with live performance, video, text and object, my practice is an investigation of liveness, mediation, desire and duration.
Brigid Howarth profiles The Shipley Art Gallery, which holds a public collection of contemporary craft.
Brigid Howarth gives a rare insight into one art buyer’s collection and discovers the favorite haunts for snapping up the next big thing.
