The Visual Arts Department of the Scottish Arts Council is commissioning a new audit of artists in Scotland, to inform future policies and schemes. Due to be completed by the summer, the study will provide up-to-date statistics and information on […]
When Lesley Davy’s commission to create an artwork for the Economist Plaza faced a technical problem in its realisation, sponsorship from graphics company Halo Digital came to the rescue. For Urban Scan, which involved using the architecture of the Economist […]
Moira Jeffrey visits the Scottish Highlands and Islands to see how a bid for European Capital of Culture is affecting artists and art organisations.
Joanne Lee discusses the evolution of communication and collaboration strategies with Flasch – a group of artists working across northern European countries.
Rosemary Shirley explores ways artists are working in or with remote locations and how new technologies are being employed.
Sunil Gupta, curator with OVA, explains how the organisation promotes cultural diversity in contemporary art.
In the summer of 2001 Philip Kennedy travelled to Tuscany as a recipient of a Juliet Gomperts Memorial Trust award.
The Kamiyama artist in residence programme (KAIR) was established in 1998 by local businessmen, and is supported by schools and cultural institutions, to bring creative energy to a rural community with few cultural resources. Robin Dance gives an account of his participation in the programme in 2000.
Graham Ramsay reports on the artscene in Canada’s largest city.
London-based artist Michal Ohana-Cole applied to an Artlink advert in the January 2001 issue of [a-n] MAGAZINE and was selected for the 2002 show themed ‘the way we see ourselves’. “One of my exhibited works – Secret Delights – is […]
Kate Baden Fuller was one of thirteen artists selected to make work for the new extension to the Mater Hospital in Belfast. Commissioned to design and make a back-lit stained glass panel for the entrance hall and café area, she […]
K Hare is currently studying an artist in residence BTEC in Professional Development at Kensington and Chelsea College. Her oil paintings are abstract but contain subject related to the landscape and make frequent reference to the horse. Hare works intuitively […]
Lewisham College advertised the post of Visiting Artist in Drawing in the July 2001 issue of [a-n] MAGAZINE. Nicky Hodge, a painter with Danielle Arnaud gallery in London, was the successful applicant. Here she describes her first term at the college.
Originally I was obsessed with painting from my imagination using the figure as the dominant subject.
My practice combines studio-based and commissioned work with teaching at Chelsea College of Art & Design.
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow 26 October – 23 December
Mid Pennine Gallery, Burnley 3 November – 22 December
The Craft Centre & Design Gallery, City Art Gallery, Leeds 3 November – 12 January
Museum of Classical Archaeology, University of Cambridge 3 November – 19 December
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Hastings 15 September – 2 January
Liverpool – which claims to be the only UK city to host a biennial of contemporary art – mapped out its 2002 event in November. To be held 14 September – 24 November, Biennial Director Lewis Biggs plans “an explosion […]
‘Now is This Essential Melancholia 3’, the latest exhibition by Martin Grover, features paintings that depict slightly picaresque scenes of mundane but not wholly unimportant Brixton Road junctions. These busy scenes include partially imagined portraits of obscure soul singers, who […]
With an extensive arts consultation process in train, the Arts Council of Wales has continued to make direct awards to artists whilst alternative delivery strategies are explored. The recent announcement of over £50,000 to individual artists and makers for bursaries, […]
Gordon Dalton visits ‘Highlife’, an exhibition of artist-designed bird boxes commissioned by Bristol City Council, working with lead artists FAT, as part of Bristol Legible City.
Lucy Kimbell explores some of the ways that artists are immersing themselves in business culture.
