A partnership between homeless charity Crisis and Bow Arts, London’s largest artist studio provider, is providing a voice – and studio space – for the marginalised.
As a new art competition launches in Leeds, we speak to the project’s curator, its sponsor and one of the shortlisted artists about the city’s changing; and self-sustaining; art scene.
On Wednesday I finished looking at two ‘papers’ for the Artistic Research course. The first made very depressing reading and lead me to question the validity of an ideology that appears to be so desperate for institutional approval that it […]
Over the course of four years, artists, curators and writers were invited to select blogs from the a-n site. Their choices highlights the range and depth of practice discussed on a-n’s artists’ blogging platform at that time.
I have had so many meetings and discussions about this project recently that I feel like I have been having an out of body experience! I think this is because when I began this blog, it was very much in […]
I first initially began collecting my train tickets just as a habit throughout the summer as I was travelling backwards and forwards to work. I had no real plans to use these as work, however with the vast collection I […]
The Royal Standard, Liverpool’s renowned artist-led studios and gallery, is facing a brighter future after resolving – for now – the rates relief issue that threatened its existence.
Summit Gallery is a new artist-led gallery and project space overlooking the Olympic Park in Hackney Wick. We talk to Director Natalie Sanders and the project’s first artist-in-residence Riccardo Iacono.
Arts & Business Scotland has announced that its new Chief Executive will be David Watt, currently Director of Glasgow Sculpture Studios.
Arts Council England has announced details of the organisations that are to receive capital funding from both the large and small capital grants programme, including a number of visual arts projects.
The Cardiff-based contemporary art agency has announced that it will no longer be representing artists, citing the shrinking market for smaller, regional galleries as a factor.
A project that asks the public to spark up a conversation with Bristol’s street furniture has been awarded the inaugural Playable City Award.
MEASURING THE EXPERIENCE #20 When referring to the need to be more creative within urban planning, Landry and Bianchini[1] have talked about the need for those concerned to find “new ways of talking” in which normal routes and networks are […]
MEASURING THE EXPERIENCE #22 Amongst artists working internationally on similarly ecological themes are Lyn Hull and Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison whose work focuses on an examination of the impact of industrial and economic development on the world’s eco-system […]
Wondering what 2013 has in store in terms of conferences and events, art fairs and festivals? We take a look ahead to provide a snapshot of things we think are worth noting in your diary.
Multiplied Art Fair, Christie’s, London
12 – 15 October 2012
I am really pleased with how the Ljusfältet evening here at Wip:konsthall turned out – a good and fitting start to the New Year! The whole idea of doing something in early January is appealing; something to mark the arrival […]
In November we reported that a petition launched by artists was calling for Brighton & Hove City Council to protect artists’ and makers’ workspaces. Having exceeded the 1250 signatures necessary to ensure a full hearing, the campaign’s leader describes the next steps and how artists can make a difference.
Twelfth night’s been and gone, time for the decorations to be taken down and stored away for another year – a familiar activity for me, this packing up and storing away business. Just been catching up with other’s blogs and […]
