Photo credit Joel Chester Fildes Do you know how to use the terms neurodiverse and neurodivergent? What’s in a word? What are four letters between friends, you might well ask. I myself am no fan of getting hot under the […]
I’m going to try and give you a quick summary of the stuff we learned at Rabbits Road: Risograph’s are quite persnickety and have their idiosyncrasies. It’s a super quick method of creating thousands of copies of something. I view […]
When we decided to layout how we would work together and how we would attempt to achieve what we set out to investigate, the way that we had our coffee and a chat became the main focus. Why is it […]
How we work: Damien Robinson and Ruth Jones
‘Quadrats’ will be one of the three new bodies of works I am making for ‘Fool’s Gold’. The square structures will be formed from discarded ‘sticks’. From the the streets I have collected abandoned mop poles, rusty poles, brass poles, […]
A two-week interdisciplinary residency to focus on my practice at the arts organisation Hospitalfield in Arbroath, Scotland. During this time I will be focusing on developing new artwork for the ongoing project Bummock: Tennyson.
Manchester-based artist Jenny Steele explains how being awarded an a-n Artist Bursary in 2018 helped fund research trips to New York and Miami as preparation for her recent exhibition at Georges Dock Plaza, Liverpool.
Collaborative learning and development certainly reflects back to my own practice and experience. As a d/Deaf artist I’m usually excluded from networking and development opportunities – unless I expend considerable time and effort negotiating access (with no guarantee of success) […]
Amazingly people were actually there, at The Margate School, at 9am for the breakfast opening with coffee, tea, croissants, bagels and fruit being served. I can’t quite believe the fact that 5 pieces have already been sold…. I wanted to […]
Our regular selection of shows to see around the UK, including Hayley Newman’s watercolour paintings at Matt’s Gallery, London, plus an exhibition of work by artists who face barriers to the art world at Kings Place, London, and Martin Parr’s photography at the newly refurbished Aberdeen Art Gallery.
Over the last week I have been uncovering the commercial potential of Perfume as Practice. For while the essence of the project is artistic, that doesn’t mean I can’t dip my toe in the more consumer driven elements of the […]
a-n Blogs is a great place to share the process of your practice or the progress of a residency or project you’re working on. We’ve pulled together a few tips on blogging on www.a-n.co.uk to help you get started.
As an artist, or someone who is called an artist, there are many opportunities to apply for or you are offered. It is difficult to say when something stops being art and becomes something other, as in the boundary to what you are […]
Finished the set up today! As always it takes longer than one thinks. Fingers crossed for tomorrow’s breakfast PV. Croissants, tea, coffee and fruit on the menu. The Margate School, Former Woolworth’s Building, 33 Lower High Street, Margate CT19 2DX […]
The second part of my project is seeking to set my work in new contexts. This involved contacting programmers and curators, especially those engaged with sculpture, to talk about how my one-to-one practice might sit in a museum/gallery context. Producer […]
So, after a long hiatus (I am not the world’s most prolific blogger), an update. I’m currently finalising my notes from the three gatherings of artists, producers, researchers and programmers in Glasgow, Leeds and London. These have been a definite […]
London-based artist Liz Atkin creates work both in response to and as way of coping with compulsive skin picking. Alistair Gentry finds out more about her art practice, and the advocacy and education work she undertakes to help others understand and deal with this and other body-focused repetitive behaviour conditions.
Since the early 1970s, Bobby Baker has been producing art that documents and subverts her experiences of everyday life, drawing on motherhood, domestic labour, and mental illness and recovery. Speaking to Lydia Ashman, Baker reflects on the challenges she faced as a woman and an artist, her successes and why she’s ‘proudest of keeping going’.
Based on conversations with artists, Alistair Gentry reflects on the stigma that still exists around mental health, and discusses some of the coping strategies artists use in their work and careers when affected by mental health problems.
The Bethlem Gallery in Bromley provides a professional platform for artists who have experienced mental health difficulties. Alistair Gentry speaks to the gallery’s director Beth Elliot about the organisation and how it fosters a supportive artist-focussed environment.
