April saw the launch of Scotland’s first purpose-built artists’ studios complex in Glasgow, enabled through an initiative from WASPS. The building at 77 Hanson Street is capable of housing 200 artists and makers, alongside residential accommodation for visiting international artists […]
Susan MacWilliam reports on her residency at Caribbean Contemporary Arts (CCA), Trinidad.
Jacqueline Moon reports on how she developed her interest in the architecture of cities through travelling from her home town of Glasgow, to Barcelona.
In the summer Edinburgh-based artist Julie Read attended IMPACT, the Second International Printmaking Conference in Helsinki. She also took the chance to check out the local artscene.
Artspace Portsmouth has mounted an exhibition that celebrates twenty-one years as an arts organisation. ‘Key Works’, showing at the City Museum and Records Office in Portsmouth, until 2 September, investigates perceptions of museum artefacts. Exhibiting artists had access to the […]
“Imagine an ecological city, where communities are based on voluntary cooperation not competition, mutual aid not private profit, cultural diversity not globalised monoculture, permaculture not consumer culture”.1
Neil Zakiewicz plots the progress of The Trade Apartment’s ‘alternative’ activities.
Networking through the internet
Ten years ago: The TWSA project which intended to create a new perception of possibilities for public art in four cities included work by Mona Hatoum. Vong Phaophanit, Richard Deacon, and Donald Rodney; The Spectator Painting Competition offered a £2,000 […]
The starting point of my work begins with a place/site, both in practical and technical terms. The next step would be to make something which explores/exploits that place. This has meant, within the gallery context creating a new place co-existing […]
Jes Fernie reveals the process of enquiry that challenges collaborations between artists and architects.
Glass artist Jonathan Andersson discusses the benefits of breaking into the American art and craft fair circuit.
Artists’ studio and workshop complexes come about as much from private endeavour as from public funding. In Newcastle, the Biscuit Factory studios were launched in November, the result of an initiative by local businessmen Ramy Zack and Andy Balman. After […]
Plans to build a major arts and media facility in the centre of Derby have been boosted by a £87,000 award from the Arts Council of England. This will allow the consortium of organisations behind the project to develop a […]
David Butler reports on the current crop of ground-breaking collaborations between art and science that are giving artists the time to undertake sustained, open-ended research without the expectation of a specific outcome.
American artist Kurt Perschke reports with an account of his self-organised large inflatables ‘RedBall Project’ in Barcelona.
The £15,000 first prize in the Singer and Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour competition has gone to Paul Emsley for his painting Rhinoceros. The Young Artist Award, worth £5,000 to the most impressive watercolour by an artist under twenty-five, went to Nicholas […]
Valerie Coffin Price reports from Est-Nord-Est, an artist-led centre in Quebec, Canada.
Based at Toynbee studios in east London, Artsadmin runs a range of programmes designed to support artists working in live art, performance, time-based media and interdisciplinary arts. A free information service provides advice about sources of funding and appropriate curators […]
An artist’s recipe book
Pete Clarke looks back at how the 1999 Biennial in Liverpool, flaws and all, raised some interesting questions that resulted in a new direction for the 2002 event and the shape of things to come.
Neil Zakiewicz profiles the Triangle Arts Trust, celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year.
Louise Short explains the international networks behind the participation of UK artists in this month’s Melbourne Festival.
Somerset Art Week, now in its eighth year, provides an opportunity for artists and makers to show work and open up their studios to an appreciative public. Artists too have benefited from enhanced networking and the sharing of information and […]
Every summer the spotlight falls on Norwich and ‘East international’. Arguably the most prestigious open submission exhibition in the UK, curators, dealers and others visit from far and wide and many of today’s well-known artists launched their careers as a result of participation in ‘East’. But what of the artists for whom the city is home? Paul Stone visited Norwich to find out more.
