A collaboration between Aavaa, Live Art Development Agency and artists, Documenting Live! is a profile-raising initiative for black and Asian live art in the UK. By revisiting and documenting key works, it aims to capture the essence of performance-based work […]
Designers are being urged to take advantage of a Europe-wide design registration law that came into force on 1 April 2003. By registering their work, designers are not only given a monopoly right to make, sell, distribute and licence their […]
Artsadmin has recently awarded £32,500 worth of bursaries to fourteen UK artists, as part of an much-needed support programme for artists who work in live art, performance, time-based media, installation or other innovative areas. The bursaries give artists time to […]
Wimbledon School of Art has announced its newly-formed partnership with University of Gloucestershire and Jerwood Charitable Foundation in delivery of the Jerwood Drawing Prize. Wimbledon School of Art’s Centre for Drawing has now become the prize’s administrative centre. Anita Taylor, […]
Two artists in Scotland have been awarded Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Awards in a scheme that provides £300,000 annually to artists with a proven track record who would benefit from support. Jim Buckley and Ian Hamilton Finlay each received […]
The New Deal for Musicians is to become a permanent policy following a three-year national pilot scheme. Costing around £9 million to set up and run between August 1999 and November 2002, the pilot involved over 10,500 people who met […]
The Bombay Sapphire Foundation has recently called for entries to the 2003 £20,000 prize for glass design. The prize is open to designers, architects and artists who work with glass or use it as a key design medium, based on […]
Devolution in the UK has hit this year’s Venice Biennale, with England, Scotland and Wales each having an independent presence there. This year, the British Pavilion will be showing the work of Chris Ofili; Scotland will be represented by Jim […]
Arts Depot, the new visual and performing arts centre in London’s North Finchley is on course to open in May 2004. In the run-up, photographer Thomas Claxton was commissioned to document work in progress on creating the venue that will […]
Helen Parrott considers the possibilities offered and some of the questions raised by the recent changes to arts funding systems in England and impending changes in Scotland.
Jessica Loseby searches the net and discovers what’s what and who’s who on the internet art scene.
Introduction to our resources on self-employment.
Maria Wilson shares her experience of working at Maesgwyn Special School as part of Opt for Art, a project funded by the Arts Council of Wales.
Phyllida Shaw explores the role of grant making trusts, foundations and charities.
Last year artist Idit Nathan completed an eight-month residency at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. She spent her time in the department of medicine for the elderly, gathering material for an exhibition by talking to the patients and attending daily group sessions. […]
Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Helix Arts agency aims to bring artists working in all disciplines into direct contact with people, primarily those who have had little experience of or contact with the arts. Projects have taken place in a […]
D-cap (demystifying contemporary arts practice) is a pilot project, organised by East Street Arts in Leeds, aims to create a greater understanding of contemporary artists and their work through audience development, training and mentoring. Last year six artists were selected […]
Last year Simon Keenleyside, a Royal College of Art graduate, won the first BOC Emerging Artist Award. Organised by the agency Art for Offices, the award is worth a total of £20,000 and will be offered annually to a UK-based […]
“We may think we are going to [objects] for knowledge about the past, but it is the knowledge we bring to them that makes them historically significant, transforming a more or less chance residue into a precious icon.” Raphael Samuel, Theatres of Memory
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
31 January – 19 March
The Crafts Council, London
6 February – 23 March
As a new exhibition reveals, a box is so much more than six bits of wood. ‘Celebrating boxes’ is an artist-led project – the brainchild of boxmakers Peter Lloyd and Andrew Crawford – that launches at the Harley Gallery Worksop […]
A UK network of organisations that help arts and crafts practitioners with their professional development, Creative People is due to complete its pilot period in June. An initiative of the Arts Council of England, the establishment of Creative People in […]
German-born Gereon Krebber has won the £25,000 Jerwood Sculpture Prize for his proposal to create a one and a half metre tin can with an intriguingly slightly-open lid at the Jerwood Sculpture Park at Whitley Court in Worcestershire. He beat […]
February saw Glasgow’s Arches transformed as it hosted the annual National Review of Live Art. The longest running event of its kind in Europe, it presents the work of emerging artists alongside that of established practitioners. Over a five-day period, […]
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