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Displaying the video

The idea I have for displaying the video of my brother is to have it on a monitor with a set of headphones that the viewer can put on and sit and listen to it. I want the viewer to […]

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A boat of one’s own: women, art and the wide open canal

Launched on International Women’s Day, the idle women narrowboat will tour the waterways of Lancashire and West Yorkshire until 2017, connecting and initiating art by women throughout the region via a series of floating residencies. Sara Jaspan talks to the women behind the project and finds something to smile about in the midst of Lancashire’s biting council cuts.

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Pictures of… craft from an outsider’s perspective

Radical Craft: Alternative Ways of Making is a new touring exhibition that presents works by renowned outsider artists alongside those of self-taught artists who face barriers to the art world because of health, disability, social circumstance or isolation.

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NOW SHOWING #136: The week’s top exhibitions

This week’s selection includes a harrowing installation at the Whitworth in Manchester, influential abstraction in Sheffield, and a group exhibition of works about socialism across venues in Newcastle and Gateshead.

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Margate drawing (work in progress)

Here’s a picture of a couple of recent drawings.  They are done in metalpoint and they are about the size of small postcards.  They’re part of an ongoing project to do with postcards that have something to do with Margate. […]

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Our post-war public art: questions of taste, time and commissioning

Out There: Our Post-War Public Art focuses on the period 1945-85 including 1972’s City Sculpture Project, which saw artworks temporarily sited in eight cities across the UK. After attending an event featuring Sculpture Project artists Garth Evans and Liliane Lijn, a-n Writer Development Programme participant James Steventon considers the notion of ‘shelf life’ in public art.

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Rachel Maclean: “There are certain things without which an artist can’t sustain themselves”

What does it mean to be an artist and how does the romantic idea of the creative individual pursuing their passion impact on the reality of an artistic practice? At Creative Scotland’s recent Visual Arts Sector Review event in Edinburgh, Glasgow-based artist Rachel Maclean talked about this and more. Here we republish an edited extract of her provocation.

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Events #55: The week ahead from a-n’s members

Five events posted by a-n’s members on our popular Events listings section. This week’s selection includes meditations on immortality, ceramics exploring the language of nature, and light installations that provide a portal to fantasy destinations.

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Untitled blog post from "Keeping It Going"

The Shape Open 2016 exhibition which opened on the evening of Thursday February 4th at the Guest Projects space in Hackney, was a memorable night for me. ‘Bad Head Day‘ – the piece of work I searched high and low […]

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Events #54: The week ahead from a-n’s members

This week’s selection, chosen from listings posted by a-n members on our Events section include a festival of light in Cambridge, a symposium on the future of the high street in Cheltenham and three exhibitions exploring painting and photography.

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