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.
a-n’s events and activities programme is on the increase for 2005, providing even more opportunities for critical discussion and professional networking for artists and their collaborators. An underlying principle for us when generating external projects is to work in partnership […]
Thanks to a partnership with Arts Council England, we’ve extended the portfolio of material freely available on www.a-n.co.uk around artists’ fees and payments. Now included is in-depth research by University of Newcastle in artists’ fees and payments and the attitudes […]
a-n’s new year began with a fond farewell to our Editorial Production Manager, Grainne Sweeney. After working with a-n for three years she’s decided to focus more of her time on other activities: “I’ll be spending more time with my […]
Maintaining a critical context is a core ingredient in sustaining an artist’s practice, as asserted in Dominic Thomas’ article published this month. He regrets the current culture of “avoidance of the core subject” in which professional development programmes are seemingly […]
Five years ago I had no choice but to shake my inbred cynicism, learn social skills and become a hairy artisan.
Paul Glinkowski looks at the UK studio landscape, highlighting successful new studio models. He also offers advice to artists wanting to set-up their own group.
ROOM, Bristol
12 January – 13 February
Q Arts, Derby
15 January –26 February
Chris Brown of g39 and Louise Short of Station, devisors of Quo Vadis, reflect on the motives, intentions and themes of the event.
Triangle Gallery, SPACE Studios, London
15 January – 15 February
Published by Transition Editions
Edited by Paul Murphy
