We catch up with a 2011 graduate, one year on from her degree show, to unveil alternative means of productivity with Scotland and Venice, well placed volunteering and research through internship.
It has been a month since I came back from Venice. During last four weeks I have been listening to 30 GB of sound material and backing it up on my cloud storage. It sounds so ephemeral but it gives, […]
Glasgow Green, Glasgow
20 April – 7 May 2012
Unique New Forest gallery forced to close following loss of Arts Council funding.
Newtown-based gallery Oriel Davies announced the winners of its Open 2012 Awards at a ceremony on 28 April.
Venice It is a strange feeling to be in Venice when the Biennale is not on, all my previous visits were in conjunction with my visits to the oldest established art festival La Biennale di Venzia. I have thought April […]
Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester
3 – 31 March 2012
Today I have started the field recording in Brno, Czech Republic for “Kraków to Venice in 12 hours” project. The project is based on the structure of a 12-hour clock, with time as a connecting element between several locations. 12 […]
Spike Island, Bristol
21 January – 25 March 2012
Six months on from completing her degree in Dundee, we catch up with Hannah Imlach in Edinburgh, a month before she embarks on an artist residency.
Jennifer Picken has been working with a-n since her MFA studies at Newcastle University, and continues her role in the Communications and Partnerships team working remotely from Amsterdam – where she has a studio. Here she maps her alternative working routes through undergraduate study, from volunteering to mentoring and beyond.
This is our next curator talk on the 16th of February. We met with Caroline a couple of weeks ago to talk through her ideas for this presentation and to chat about her journey from the medical world to curating […]
An abridged version of Dany Louise’s follow-up report on small visual arts organisations cut by Arts Council England, six months after her ‘Ladders for development’ enquiry. She asks: how have these organisations fared and what do their futures hold? Read the full version of this report with updates on all surveyed organisations: www.a-n.co.uk/realising_the_value
‘Ladders for development’ argues that the visual arts sector should pull together and support small visual arts organisations cut by Arts Council England because they “punch above their weight” and provide vital development of future artists. Six months on, Dany Louise interviews these arts organisations again, to find out how they’ve fared and what their futures hold.
Various venues in Lincoln, Lincoln
21 – 29 October 2011
My efforts at trying to have some kind of break for half term have been disrupted by accidentally getting involved in Frequency Festival events. This has been quite challenging considering Orange have completely cut off my mobile phone service, so […]
This month sees the culmination of a two-year project at Siobhan Davies Dance, one of the country’s most distinctive dance companies. Choreographer Davies has paired dance artists with visual and applied artists to bring their creative practices together and create new works ranging from performance to film and installation. The commissioned dance artists are Henry Montes, Sarah Warsop, Gill Clarke and Deborah Saxon who are partnered respectively with Marcus Coates, Tracey Rowledge and Lucy Skaer. Henry Montes and Deborah Saxon have also made a piece together with Bruce Sharp. Here, three of the visual artists relate their experiences.
Thursday Thursday saw me complete my first painting, a (nearly) sacrilegious painting over of Leonardo’s Virgin at the Rocks, I hope that something new is visible in the master’s painting by my additions. Only time can tell. I also met […]
The key finding of this study reveals that shockingly few individual artists apply for funding in their own right, and even fewer are successful. What this means is that there is little direct funding being given to artists to pursue and develop their own projects, under their own control – under 20% of available funding for the visual arts in England, 14% for Northern Ireland and around 18% for Scotland and Wales in 2009-2010.
Current professional development support schemes for visual artists in the UK.
Tate Britain, London
27 January – 16 May 2010
PROUD TO BE A LONDON GIRL IN CHONGQING I’ve been doing some thinking about the discussions around cultural exchange with China and the position of activism. Many UK organisations such as The British Museum and the V&A have been criticised […]
