With a breadth of approaches to finding the perfect workspace, Brigid Howarth talks to artists about their different needs and experiences and explores a variety of studio set-ups.
The rise of independent artist-run spaces across the UK, and a seemingly impenetrable gallery circuit in London, appear poles apart. Gordon Dalton in Edinburgh and Tim Birch in Manchester visit two young, ‘commercially-minded’ spaces that have picked up on this, and are encouraging an art market in exciting and challenging contemporary work outside London.
Advice for photographic and digital image-makers on promoting your work in an expanding environment.
Wendy Murray gives the lowdown on support structures and organisations for artists in the Netherlands.
My third day spent scouring the electrical shops of Budapest for a fan had proved fruitless. I’d been having trouble sleeping – the heat and humidity even at night was intense. I’d paced the streets, taken long cold baths, even […]
Cape Town is enjoying a resurgence of activity in contemporary visual culture. In artworld terms, Johannesburg was always South Africa’s little New York, but many institutions now face closure and/or radical restructuring. Cape Town’s reputation as an anachronistic colonial stronghold […]
The second article on artists living and working in different cities across the world focuses on an enterprising development in Germany. With a base in Berlin, Kathrin Böhm and Stefan Saffer are developing projects that look at new collaborations between art and business. Working with leading companies such as Vodafone and Siemens, they are exploring the potential for building practical relationships based on common concerns.
My current projects are very diverse, allowing me to operate within dramatically different scales, concepts, sites and media. My career has involved solo shows at home and abroad, and commissions from art foundations, museums and corporate bodies to create installations […]
My interest in funerals began when I was asked to make a coffin for a newborn child who had died and was to be cremated. Prior to this, carrying a coffin, lowering it into the earth and the scattering of […]
Two years ago I applied for, and was offered, a public sculpture commission by the national environmental regeneration charity, Groundwork. The brief was to create one piece of art to be reproduced in twenty-one locations, as part of the organisation’s […]
I love the rich ambiguity that arises in written language and this enjoyment extends into the visual language of my photographic artwork. My current touring exhibition, ‘Translucent Exposures’, consists entirely of photograms. The fascination of these images for me is […]
A Year of the Artist residency gave me the opportunity to work in Gateshead Civic Centre for 1.5 days per week over a period of a year. During the last few months I have been involved in a range of […]
In the March 2000 issue of [a-n] MAGAZINE, Lee Valley Regional Park Authority advertised for a digital artist, working in sound and image, to participate in the development of a new park on the old Royal Ordnance Site in Essex. Simon Honey, an artist in east London, was one of over 100 applicants.
The Applied Arts Agency, London 8 February – 5 May
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham 20 January – 10 March
Brighton ongoing from 1 January
Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery, Leeds 16 February – 31 March
The Roundhouse, London 26 February – 25 March
Ukraine artist Boris Mikhailov is this year’s winner of the Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize. Worth £15,000 and organised by The Photographers’ Gallery, the prize aims to annually acknowledge a photographer who is judged to have made the most significant […]
The 96 proposal for a European Parliament and Council Directive on resale right (or droite de suite) will allow artists to receive royalties for their work and aims to harmonise disparity in the European art market. Artists will have the […]
Hoxton Distillery, an independent non-for-profit contemporary art space, located above the Macbeth pub in Hoxton Distillery opened its programme of exhibitions and events in March with Valerie Tevere’s ‘When I say’ This was one site for a three-location collaboration with […]
A major new glass and water feature has recently been unveiled at Cardiff’s Bute Square. The work by David Pearl and Amber Hiscott uses the most advanced of the new generation of glass enamels and a highly engineered lightweight stainless […]
Film and Video Umbrella (FVU) is a curatorial agency based in London.
The organisation was established in 1989 to promote and develop artists’ single-screen works in film and video, and is now one of the principal touring agencies for artists’ film, video and digital media in the UK.
Kira O’Reilly is the latest in a long line of female practitioners to investigate issues surrounding representation of the body and gender via that most direct tool of the artist’s palette: performance art. Below she writes about the principle concerns of her practice, whilst also assessing suitable contexts for the mediation of such work.
Neil Purcell explains the background to this artists’ group and its first project.
