Creative Britain: new talents for the new economy
Important at-the-time DCMS document explaining its developing thinking about the creative industries environment and policy.
Important at-the-time DCMS document explaining its developing thinking about the creative industries environment and policy.
Paper contributing to the debate about what quality and values in children and young
peopleâs cultural production actually means. Written with Creative Partnerships Newcastle as a research partner.
Samuel Dowd and Hayley Skipper of SpRoUt respond to Import/Export.
A UK network of organisations that help arts and crafts practitioners with their professional development, Creative People is due to complete its pilot period in June. An initiative of the Arts Council of England, the establishment of Creative People in […]
Clive Gillman, currently the lead artist for FACT explains how the organisation works to support and promote artists using new and emerging media tools.
Outer space investigates the interface between artists’ practice and the socio-political domain. Devised and edited by Esther Salamon, contributors include Chris Batt MLA, Paul Collard Creative Partnerships, Jonathan Davis CABE, David Lammy MP Minister for Culture, Graham Leicester International Futures Forum and Tom Shakespeare.
Explores impact of artists working in educational settings through arts-based interventions organised in what were education action zones of Bristol and Corby, pre Creative Partnerships.
This profile looks at the activities of Littoral, an arts trust promoting new creative partnerships, critical art practices and cultural strategies in response to issues about social, environmental and economic change.
Read the third set of conversations in our 40 Years 40 Artists series of interviews with artists who feature in a-n’s archive.
So its 5;44 am and I can’t sleep! like many of you I am navigating the unfolding news and impact on the self employed and all those in the creative sector. It’s worrying times for all with so much uncertainty. […]
a-n Research editor Dany Louise highlights content that focuses on education in schools and universities in our growing, free-to-view index of visual arts cultural policy and strategy documents.
Woods to Where Else is a research project initiated by Stour Valley Creative Partnership to explore the ecological tension between nature and cultivation and to examine and question the identity of the woods as a purely natural and harmonious environment.
This blog documents the journey we undertook, into the creation of a new feature length film exploring the genesis of LOTUSLAND, its past work, and looking towards its future, while gaining a deeper understanding and appreciation through the project’s astrological traits.
Very excited to be one of the artists working on the Woods to Where else project in Kings Wood with Stour Valley Creative Partnerships. This is a research and development project with a mini residency, working with Mavernie Cunningham, to […]
It was Tues 26th April 2016 (previously I had mistakenly remembered it to be May) and I met up with the lovely Morag Ballantyne in my studio at NN Contemporary Art. I have known Morag since 2009 (or was it 2008?), […]
Kate Pahl, Professor of Literacies in Education at University of Sheffield, discusses what artists bring to academic research projects, and identifies some of the challenges artists and academics face when working together. Based on an interview by artist Steve Pool.
Collaborate! is a compact and energised survey show that explores the range of collaborative practice in contemporary art. With its focus on the social relations of production across a broad spread of media and approaches, the exhibition is inevitably diverse […]
Antony Gormley, Susan Philipsz, Jonathan Harvey and David Panton are amongst the artists and arts professionals recognised in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List 2014.
The Spa, Scarborough
23 November – 23 December 2013
This month’s AD:uk national conference in Birmingham is offering up ‘recipes for change in the arts’ through its World Café forum slot, specially developed for the event by artists in residence SSoCiaL. We find out more from artists Sophie Cullinan and Sally Lemsford.
Dame Liz Forgan’s farewell speech has been widely reported on for its attack on Michael Gove and the EBacc. Here, arts strategist and Thinking Practice founder Mark Robinson welcomes her forthright approach while finding plenty to take issue with.
Week 17: 7th – 13th JanuaryIt’s the first full week back at uni and term has started with a vengeance. I thought I had a relatively quiet week to start the year, but when I looked at my diary, I […]
Here, we profile a selection of courses offering postgraduate level study for artists seeking to develop their practice further within creative, supportive and critically challenging environments.