Vermont Studio Centre Residency
A month-long residency in Johnson Vermont with 50+ writers and visual artists
A month-long residency in Johnson Vermont with 50+ writers and visual artists
As degree show season starts to get busy, we highlight 11 final-year undergraduate and postgraduate shows opening during the week commencing 14 May 2018. The a-n Degree Shows Guide 2018 and online interactive map at www.a-n.co.uk/degree-shows provide listings for degree shows […]
This week’s selection from a-n’s busy Events section, featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n members, includes selections from Ashburton, Brighton, Derby, Liverpool and London.
Research informing long-term projects on the relationship between voice, improvisation and architecture, looking at notions of community. Supporting the development of the Artist Working Group, a London-based group who meet in houses and galleries around shared meals.
For the next couple of months we’ll be presenting a weekly pick of degree shows across the UK as they open to the public, selected from the a-n Degree Shows Guide 2018 listings. We start this week with final-year shows from University of Chichester, Coventry University, Oxford Brookes, Teesside University and Writtle School of Design.
Final-year shows opening for the week commencing 7 May 2018 including University of Chichester, Coventry University, Oxford Brookes University, Teesside University and Writtle School of Design. The conceptual artist Ryan Gander sums up his degree show thus: “My strongest memory […]
For the latest in our ongoing Scene Report series, Preston-based artist Martin Hamblen provides a tour of the city’s visual arts activity and asks whether the much vaunted ‘Preston Model’ of inward investment stretches to investing in the artists living and working in the area.
With ongoing demands for greater equality in the arts, the need to reimagine a more inclusive visual arts sector is increasingly urgent. On the eve of the European Outsider Art Association Conference at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, Lydia Ashman makes the case for a new approach to ‘outsider’ artists and their art.
London and Suffolk-based artist Ryan Gander makes artworks that materialise in many different forms from sculpture to film, writing, graphic design, installation, performance and more. Here he discusses ‘welcoming’ visitors to his degree show at Manchester Metropolitan University in the late 1990s, and how ‘what you make’ is more important than which college you attended.
In Brief: News briefing with national and international stories, including: protesters occupy Brooklyn Museum to highlight issue of gentrification and decolonisation; French museum discovers most of its collection are counterfeit works; Grimsby-based artist Annabel McCourt to present site specific performance at Dakar Biennale.
London-based artist Rehana Zaman reflects on her BA degree show at Goldsmiths in the early 2000s, and the importance of making sure people from less privileged communities, working class and ethnic backgrounds still have access to art education.
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In. After eight months of looking, looking, looking some more, finding, losing, getting, losing again, will they won’t they? Yesses, Nos, Maybes… …We have just… TODAY… moved into the studios. Exhausted but relieved… it’s like someone opened the window in […]
I’ve been scratching my head trying to think what to write about this month. When I review the art I have been working on it all seems rather paltry, although I know I have been busy. This has led me […]
With the recent announcement by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland that both QSS and Paragon Studios in Belfast have lost all their annual funding, Damian Magee addresses the impact of the decision on the city’s artist community and argues that it is indicative of a general lack of support for artists living and working in Northern Ireland.
In Brief: News briefing with national and international stories, including: Roger Hiorns secretly buries plane near Ipswich; Sophia Al-Maria wins first major US award for contemporary Middle Eastern art; selectors announced for Jerwood Makers Open 2019.
Sinead (2018), acrylics on canvas Time: 11.17 am Location: Temple St. Studios, Wolverhampton Mood: Trudging On.. Listening To: Just the sound of my heater! As it’s a bit cold in here this morning.. So it’s been a good few weeks […]
1 week to go before putting up my degree show! I don’t graduate until July, but I feel like my time as a student will be finished next week. It’s such a strange feeling. I don’t know how I feel […]
I’ll close this blog with a short reflection and shuffle off. Overall, the key themes for me were independence but also a willingness and ability to adapt to a changing landscape, and the importance of group activity in facilitating discussions […]
One thing after another! Just back from Florence; Delivered my first Art workshop; made a mad dash to Bury st. Edmunds to deliver 3 paintings for the Suffolk Open Studios exhibition; Welsh Residency; first week of term for my Thursday […]
Four projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and including exhibitions and events in Birmingham, Cheltenham, Eastbourne and Thurrock.