StudioBook is an 8-month artist mentoring programme by Mark Devereux Projects. I have been selected as one of the twelve participating artists and will be documenting the experience via this a-n blog.
Arts Council England’s National Portfolio for 2018-22 includes an overall increase in the number of visual arts organisations receiving funding from 121 to 149. We highlight six organisations who will be joining the portfolio and find out what their new status will mean to them.
For the latest in our Scene Report series, artist and curator Matt Bray reports from Medway in south east England on a scene with a close-knit and independently-minded community spirit.
A selection of exhibition highlights for the week ahead including Howard Hodgkin in Wakefield, art inspired by Joy Division/New Order in Manchester, and Joseph Beuys in London.
Lunch is a good time for meetings. I had been introduced to Melle Smets http://www.mellesmets.nl (he rents one the apartments in the building from SidM) at the Neverland Cinema so over lunch I chatted to him to find out more about his work. […]
The second edition of the artist-led Manifest Arts Festival takes place from 5-9 July at over 30 venues throughout Greater Manchester.
A selection of exhibition highlights for the week ahead including avant-garde abstraction in London, an artist-run festival in Edinburgh, and a space age tapestry in Oxford.
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3 Moon Day CC rings Daniel to ask if he would like lunch (CC has looked up falafel options – Louisenstrabe). He doesn’t but when we meet in Marche at Dresden train station, face to face, he apologises. We can […]
4 45, Mercury Karl-Marx Stadt – Chemnitz Chimney, like a tall can of OK energy drink. We find food first; both places we’ve looked up are open and nearly next door neighbours. Dhal or falafel, dhal or falafel. Syria wins […]
5 Jupiter Left instead of right. Zwickau, 30 minutes away. I get to the “small streets” but the tourist info is elusive. Second circle around I find it. They’re unaware of any artist’s studios and google it (I’ve tried that […]
8 Mercury Meeting Paul Elsner at GEH8 (Gehstraber). I know where to go because Daniel gave me directions from the S train stop. Local knowledge. I go to STORE on Pulsnitzer but unfortunately it’s closed. CC would’ve rung ahead but […]
Following Tuesday’s NPO announcement by Arts Council England, we’ve been looking at the figures to get a clearer picture of who’s gained and lost the most, which organisations receive the most funding, and which artist-led organisations have joined the portfolio.
A charity postcard auction will raise funds for work in deprived Margate community.
National Portfolio announcement includes an additional £170million outside London between 2018 and 2022.
For Helfa Gelf 2017, I am delighted to be Writer in Residence at Plas Tan y Bwlch, and look forward to continuing my exploration of the rich heritage of this great house and the land that surrounds it, building on research and experiences gathered during my 2016 Residency.
We went back to Prague the day before our flight because we wanted to make sure we were not in a rush getting to the airport and we fancied seeing more of the city. We also wanted to see […]
Highlights for the week ahead, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and this week featuring projects in Birmingham, Carshalton, Clerkenwell, Powys and Scunthorpe.
I thought I would use my time in Klaster to pursue some of the themes that interest me in a more experimental way than I would do back at home. When I am making work at in Liverpool I feel […]
I’ve been printing in the garden. I brought basic printing stuff for mono printing and a bit of block printing using some polystyrene sheets. I think printing can be quite sociable. Jayne has had a go and also Barry’s husband […]
We have arrived in Nepomuk. We took a train from Prague to Pilsen and from Pilsen to Nepomuk. We were a bit confused getting of the train in Nepomuk because there wasn’t a platform on either side of the train, […]
