Art at the Centre is an award scheme from Arts Council England, South East that seeks to involve artists from the outset of regeneration projects across the region. As part of this scheme, Maidstone Borough Council looked to develop an Artists’ Quarter in the heart of the town to promote the area’s wealth of creative talent. Here video-media artist Margherita Gramegna and consultants FrancisKnight talk about their involvement in this process and the resulting work, Artists Don’t Bite.
Ten areas around the country are to pilot the Government’s
With half the UK’s population residing outwith urban conurbations, and regional and arts and cultural policies prioritising local engagement, locations often regarded as countrified are strategically raising their art world profile through imaginative programmes and project.
Jane Watt delves into the process of commissioning and looks at the organisations and bodies offering opportunities to artists at all stages of their careers. Fully updated for 2008.
Jerwood Space
30 July – 31 August
In this month’s round-up we profile six open studio events.
A companion listing to Indexing intelligence publication.
Charlotte Frost on the various support systems run by Artsadmin, including information about its head of operations: Toynbee Studios, and examples of several projects it has produced with the likes of: Graeme Miller, Station House Opera and Gary Stevens.
Report first published in 2007 on www.forma.org.uk after an exciting year in which Forma achieved substantial growth in terms of programme, turnover and structure.
With reference to the production of inter-disciplinary visual arts, Charlotte Frost indicates the types of activities involved, art forms which respond well to this style of collaboration and some of the difficulties experienced by production agencies in working in this way.
Developing your practice and career beyond the UK
Exploring the roles and reasons of selected organisations dedicated to widening access to the visual arts through commissioning temporary and permanent interventions in non-gallery spaces in the first of a two-part feature.
The focus generated this month by ‘Vital 07’ is the catalyst for exposing of some of the UK’s key promoters of live art today.
The Crafts Council, the national development agency for contemporary crafts in the UK, has gone through huge changes in the last five years.
After a far-reaching review and reshaping exercise, the Crafts Council has launched its new three-year plan. Describing itself as the national development agency for contemporary crafts in the UK, its key areas of work for the future are summarised as […]
Lee Simmons talks to Emily Druiff about her curatorial practice, partnership working and her shift from artist to curator.
“Spirit in community will die unless there’s someone calling the meeting.”
The term synchronicity was first used by the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung to describe “temporally coincident occurrences of casual events”1.
Artists comment on the Arts Council’s Turning Point Strategy.
Jane Watt outlines the core strengths of NAN and looks to the future.
A Code of Practice takes commonly-agreed principles of good practice and demonstrates why and how they should be applied.
Paul Stone on east London based organisation Cell Project Space that across three sites encompasses gallery, studios and internship programme.
Artist David Macintosh takes a personal look at collaborative working.
Mike Stubbs examines some issues facing artists.
