Aire Place Studio (APS), a disabled and queer artist-led community interest company, faces the threat of losing our studio space and gallery due to the building being sold to developers. We now seek your support to raise funds to secure […]
We are pleased to announce the first ever Print Fair in the Forest of Dean to be held at The Wesley community and arts centre in Cinderford, GL14 2AA on Friday 15th & Saturday 16th September 2023.
The impact of UK City of Culture 2021 from the perspective of Grassroots creative organisations in Coventry. Some learning about why it didn’t work for them, and how it needs to change.
200 Artists, 3 Weeks, 1 Unmissable Fair. Free Entry
After requesting the Football Art Prize make their prize more accessible to artists on a low income – I’ve had a response – but it’s still woefully short of my expectations for a publicly ACE funded exhibition venue.
a residency made possible by the work of eaststreet arts in a meanwhile space in derby with a taylored programme of artist support.
Virtual Artist Residency with Louisa Chambers (UK), Edy Fung (IE/SE), Tracy Mackenna (SCO/IT) & Edwin Janssen (NL), Danica Maier (USA/UK), Michelle McKeown (IE/UK), Stefanos Pavlakis (GR/DE)
BA-LF: How to apply the Doughnut Economics Thinking & Teal Paradigm to an Artists Network and Beyond.
Sevenoaks Visual Arts Forum (SVAF) have submitted a successful bid to run the Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery as an artist-led space. This blog will chart the progress of its first year.
This is the transcript for a Lecture & Masterclass to be held at Frankfurt University Hospital.With the COVID-19 crisis, I reframed my talk to the criticality for scientists to work with creative & neurodiverse allies. I invited all to join a new Network. We’re stronger together.
The Other Art Fair, presented by Saatchi Art, returns to the Old Truman Brewery in March for the 19th London edition of the vibrant artist-led fair.
Looking back on my residency in Portugal and the changes it made to my work as a painter.
This piece will be a record or trace of my travels around the UK, as I visit a number of the UK-based artists involved with the Revolve:R project, in their home-cities including Bristol, Liverpool, London, and Glasgow.
Research trip to investigate artist-led activity in New York City.
I recently had the opportunity to visit Delhi and Rajasthan, and started looking at making new work investigating the activities of street dogs (The Cynics of Rajasthan). I was able to take portraits of over 200 street/village dogs and plan now to create new film/performance work
A blog documenting new work by Beth Emily Richards and Owen G Parry, funded by an a-n artist bursary 2018.
Once upon a time, artists who wanted to pursue a full-time art career had limited options. Self-taught artists and recent art graduates could get a job, a very small percentage could be signed by a gallery right away, or they could […]
Research informing long-term projects on the relationship between voice, improvisation and architecture, looking at notions of community. Supporting the development of the Artist Working Group, a London-based group who meet in houses and galleries around shared meals.
Perception, connection and inclination: an article discussing the artist duo’s Walk & Talk for Jamboree 2018 – Artist’s Jamboree
The March of the Artists will see three artists; a theatre maker, Eve Robertson, a photographer, John-Paul Brown, and me, Lauren Sagar, a visual artist, walking the 250 miles from Manchester to London over 26 days, starting on 29th July […]
A blog giving a behind the scenes look at Jamboree 2018, an artist-led gathering of 150 artists and curators
During May I shall be traveling to New York as part of a Professional Development Bursary to attend: Open Engagement 2018, Queens Museum. Keynotes: Lucy Lippard and Mel Chin
A month-long residency in Johnson Vermont with 50+ writers and visual artists
Following an artist-led community engagement intervention on the Trees Estate, Preston
A two-week research trip to L.A, supported by a 2017 Travel Bursary.