A week last Sunday I took a trip to Cambridge to see some new work exhibited at Aid and Abet artist run space in the new development right next to the station. My attention was drawn by the title Expanded […]
Paying Artists Regional Advocates have been busy over the bank holiday weekend, with a hustings event in Glasgow, a relay race in Bristol, plus more activity in Liverpool, Birmingham and Cardiff.
Meeting Elena was like catching up with an old friend! And we have carried on chatting away via email this week too. She is as every bit passionate, humorous, insightful, and intelligent in person as she is on-line. Over a […]
There is a scene in Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), where, after the eponymous aliens’ discovery by the authorities, the protagonist Elliott’s house is hermetically sealed, covered in plastic and invaded by government agents in boiler suits, quaranting the inhabitants. A […]
Event and exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from our busy Events section and featuring events and exhibitions posted by a-n members.
I haven’t been on here in a while AGAIN! Been busy juggling my course at Chelsea and childcare, and also helping organise this amazing month of events at Guest Projects/Shonibare Studios with AltMFA: Our month residency at Guest Projects […]
The organisers of the annual Hackney WickED Festival in East London have announced that the event will not be going ahead this year due to spiralling costs – but that the community interest company will continue to work with artists in London and beyond.
Questions I began by explaining that after Christmas my colleague at the studios would be coming in, and that we should come up with some questions to ask him. Hands went up straight away, which I was pleased about […]
Setup This week setup was short and sweet as there wasn’t much that needed doing, I had brought with me some worksheets I’d created to fill the gap of the logbooks for the time being, as I felt last […]
Acme reveal the winner of award open to current studio residents.
Paying Artists Regional Advocates are planning a host of activities in Glasgow, Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff and Liverpool in the lead up to, and immediately following, the general election.
The Glasgow based artist, writer and curator explains why she is one of 11 Paying Artists Regional Advocates who are making sure artists’ voices are heard in the lead up to the general election.
British Art Show 8 curators Anna Colin and Lydia Yee have selected the artists for this year’s exhibition, which opens in Leeds in October.
Our selection of what’s on highlights for the next week, drawn from postings by a-n’s members on the site’s Events listings section.
Tomorrow I am going to meet two fellow a-n bloggers! Elena Thomas and Wendy Williams are here with their group show. It will be the first time that I have met them, and my first experience of meeting people who […]
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art director Godfrey Worsdale is to leave the organisation in July to join The Henry Moore Foundation as its new head.
One of my favorite studios was in a former Bally shoe factory in Norwich. The self contained room was a former white collar space complete with a deep pile cream carpet. It used to cause much amusement with visiting artists […]
This is effectively the end of the project (although I am going to keep on printing for a few more weeks), having successfully printed a number of gigantic wood relief images in neon colour. I really didn’t expect the project […]
