A new free newspaper produced by a group of artists, writers and graphic designers aims to highlight Liverpool’s independent and artist-led art scene.
The winner of the inaugural award named after the Acme Studios co-founder will receive a rent-free shared studio and bursary as well as mentoring and studio visits.
Thanks for the memories! l-r Sara Lerota, Rebecca Ilett and Robert Good in Mostar Our travel grant trip is over and although only we have only been back a few weeks it already seems a lifetime ago as we plunge […]
Highlights for the week ahead selected from our busy Events section and featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n’s members.
Liverpool’s largest artist-led gallery and studios The Royal Standard is celebrating ten years in the city with a major exhibition featuring 23 artists. Artist, curator and former TRS director Kevin Hunt explains the important role the organisation has for artists in Liverpool and its context in the wider artist-led scene.
A selected group of international artists researching both onsite and remotely beginning with themes of insulation and growth, attending talks, workshops, events, walks, skills sharing, followed by exhibition at the Ruskin Gallery 30 July 2016
Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section, take us to Abergavenny, London, the Isle of Wight and West Yorkshire.
I got ‘Just Kids’ by Patti Smith for my birthday and I started to read it on the train this week. I also used my birthday book tokens to get a big fat coffee table monster called ‘Sanctuary: British artists […]
This past week we have been installing our contribution to Platform 2016 at Edinburgh Art Festival alongside The Brownlee Brothers, Jack Saunders and Dorian Jose Braun. Monday was spent transporting Paloma’s ceramic work from her RCA studios in London to […]
Four projects, festivals and exhibitions from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and taking place in London this week.
The London-based artist Gillian Best Powell, founder of Cor Blimey Arts and Core Gallery in Deptford, has died aged 60.
Taking time away from her very busy schedule including Open Studios, teaching drawing at the Haute école des arts du Rhin (HEAR) Mulhouse, applying for an artist in residency in Iceland and her beautiful and bountiful allotment, artist and friend […]
The outspoken artist and performer Liv Wynter is undertaking a residency at the artist-run Royal Standard titled HOW MUCH ARE THEY PAYING YOU? to coincide with this year’s Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Liverpool Biennial. Laura Robertson speaks to her about activism, artists getting paid, and remembering Ana Mendieta.
So last Friday I opened the doors to a showing of process works from the project – my promise to the Arts Council. The purpose, to enable me to raise my game via peer comment. Based at my studios in […]
For the second Postures of Making Focus Group at the National Centre for Craft and Design in Sleaford a group of 6 makers came armed with enthusiasm and sets of intriguing tools from their workshops and studios. Working in a […]
It’s been an emotional few days. My ACE funded project about British artist Felicia Browne has never felt so relevant. Brexit casts a pall over everything I do. I’m best when fully absorbed and setting up a showing of process […]
I’m giving an artist lecture tomorrow. Today I woke up and decided I’m not going to talk about E anymore after this post. Users use everything, including people. I have to let go of what I thought it was, because […]
Creative Industries Federation chief executive John Kampfner and Art Fund director Stephen Deuchar on the arts post-Brexit.
Five projects and programmes from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and taking us to Bracknell, Eastbourne, Edinburgh, Great Yarmouth and Halesworth.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: predicting the Brexit effect, turbulence for art education in California and Sweden, a restored house boat eco-experiment in Long Island, new acquisition fund for UK regional museums.
As the UK votes to leave the EU, artists and those working in the visual arts have been responding on social media.
The representative body for visual artists in Ireland is proposing that a tourist bed tax should be introduced in the country, with funds raised going to the arts and cultural sector.
More degree show views from a-n’s Instagram as Sheyda Porter visits the show at Northumbria University and discovers artistic collaborations and a focus on the everyday, Chris Sharratt enjoys a perfect pint at Glasgow School of Art BA show and Richard Taylor uncovers a number of site-specific works at the MFA.
