Last month Cambridge saw the launch of a significant new artist-run space, Aid & Abet. Artists Sarah Evans, David Kefford and CJ Mahony discuss how the project has developed and how their relationship has graduated from being fellow studio holders to a collaborative working group.
Launched in March, Creative Scotland’s first corporate plan presented an ambitious vision for the nation’s arts, culture and creative industries. This is backed by core Treasury financing of £35.5m with £14.5m of Scottish Government funds for specific initiatives, unspent reserves from the interim between Scottish Arts Council/Scottish Screen and Creative Scotland, some lottery funding back after diversion to the Olympics and reduced overheads due the merger that included a 30% staff cut.
On 30 March, Arts Council England announced the winners and losers in the new National Portfolio Organisations (NPO) for funding 2012-15. Here’s a-n’s take on what’s happened, the likely impact on artists, independent arts professionals and the arts ecology as well as highlights from some of the many comments and discussions that are in train.
In March, AIR – Artists Interaction and Representation – put its weight behind calls for art education to be accessible to all, following a survey in which 95% of its members gave hearty support to the view that art education should be accessible “irrespective of background and financial status”. Here we outline AIR’s campaign and the survey’s key findings to provide evidence for artists to use.
The end of the art and design academic year is often the time for travel and other ways of broadening horizons. Here’s a few of the many options around and about.
Ellie Harrison’s latest project ‘Work-a-thon for the Self-Employed’ will take place at Toynbee Studios, London on 13 June as part of the Two Degrees festival.
The weeks and months after graduation can be a daunting time. After three years or more of support and guidance suddenly it’s time to go it alone. There are many different ways to pursue your career as a professional artist and no two people will follow the same path. Here, four recent art graduates describe their journeys: from joining a peer-led network to working as an artist’s assistant, they each have a different story to tell.
A busy few weeks here at Spike Island, leading up to Open Studios – which open on Friday 29th April for the whole bank holiday weekend:- http://www.spike-island.org.uk/events/openstudios2… Over the last month, Sam West has presented our research project both to […]
This week I managed to quell a steadily growing sense of guilt by making time to meet with Cherry Tenneson (long term collaborator, “Tenneson and Dale”). It was the best kind of meeting – short, but productive. Within 45 minutes, […]
Turner Contemporary, Margate
16 – 25 April 2011
EASTBOURNE FESTIVAL The fourth Eastbourne Festival started this weekend, the beginning of 3 weeks of music, arts and literature events in the town. Many Eastbourne artists, including Blue Monkey Studio, open their houses and studios for the festival and it […]
Just heard today that Glasgow Art Fair has been cancelled. It is being replaced by something called Vault in the autumn which it is claimed will reflect more accurately contemporary art being produced in the city compared to the traditional […]
Weeks in WCA studios 2011. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTqRHQcgdSE
BA FINE ART. A studio based programme that encourages a high level of critical engagement with contemporary art practice, enabling students to explore a variety of media disciplines while developing conceptual and practical skills. Our studios are located at the […]
This week: Our Artist of the Week is Nick Stamp. So what have we been up to…? Well Komedia is up and running! All bands have been confirmed and we are receiving artwork! Posters look great thanks to a Lloyd […]
Last week was the final week of term, and also Events Week. There were some worshops and we had some alumni working in the project space on a short project about being visitors. One of the highlights was a meeting […]
One of things I really appreciate about spending time here (in London) and there (in Stockholm) is how it insulates me from distraction. It is my nature to get involved in things and sometimes this is detrimental to my own […]
I knew this would happen, without the facility to blog from my phone I would leave it too long and be faced with writing a novel to get up to date. I spend a great deal of my time on […]
THIS WEEK Artist of the week Louise Grant. http://louisegrantart.blogspot.com/ Panic has seriously kicked in! With just one week before Easter the workshops are packed and the studios are heaving with all sorts of fellow art wanderers. We have had a […]
This post was actually meant to go into this project blog, rather than “After Art School”, but perhaps I will consolodate both blogs together into one… # 6 [11 April 2011] “Saw some more studios the other day. The average […]
As 2011 BYAM SHAW alumna Eliza Self’s totebag boldly states: “CSM FUCKED MY ART SCHOOL (NOT IN A GOOD WAY)” Last year, Byam Shaw celebrated its Centinary. It was an independent art school until 2003, when it was subsumed by […]
FAFF2011 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Wednesday 27th July 2011Westgate Studios, Wakefield (UK)FREE ENTRY http://fundadaartistsfilmfestival.blogspot.com/ OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS WHAT: Open call for single-channel screen-based art; film, video, animation (no thematic criteria) WHO: Anyone can submit to FAFF2011; all nationalities, all career […]
The Home Stretch (or grasping at something) The MFA Thesis show installation begins in 9 days. Suddenly the studios are a hive of activity. Across the way my neighbour Ivan is putting the finishing touches to his sculptural works and […]
