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 […]
According to the psychoanalYSL collective “Criticality’ (which is a word that doesn’t even really make grammatical sense) has become the necessary smokescreen for art’s absorption into capital” (‘The High Weiwei To Hell’ 2011) Concluding that; “Whilst the cult of Ai […]
That’s some shameful shit Despite a couple of weeks in which I have come across new and revisited old collaborations that have been: · Difficult-but-rewarding (Carol Yinghua Lu discussing her work with Liu Ding at the Chinese Arts Centre, “There […]
The 54th Venice Biennale 2011, Venice
4 June – 27 November 2011
It was like that film Blown Away. I had two choices yesterday red or yellow. I chose yellow, and today i found out it was the wrong choice. The result was that all of the work for an idea I […]
So much has happened since my last blog. I hardly know where to start. I was very lucky to win one of the first student awards at U.C.F. along with three performing arts students. It was a lovely evening with […]
Some of the MA group are off to Venice so next week our class has been postponed – our results will be emailed to us on Monday. At the studio I have completed my the first phase of the process […]
New evidence exposing, quantifying and discussing the likely impact on the visual arts of Arts Council England’s decisions on fifteen previously Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs) visual arts organisations unsuccessful in their NPO application. It shows that a disproportionate number of artists’ membership and development agencies and practice-based organisations lost core funding, despite ACE’s aim of creating a balanced national portfolio and makes recommendations for sustaining their work as part of a strengthened arts ecology.
Here we have unveiled our list of the top ten Artists talking blogs.
Funding for the arts has never been an easy sell – not with governments or the public. April Britski, Executive Director of CARFAC reports from Canada.
Profiling new courses and developments in postgraduate teaching across the UK.
On 30 March, Arts Council England announced the winners and losers in the new National Portfolio Organisations (NPO) for funding 2012-15. Here’s a-n’s take on what’s happened, the likely impact on artists, independent arts professionals and the arts ecology as well as highlights from some of the many comments and discussions that are in train.
Terry Smith discusses the Experimental Art School.
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
2 October 2010 – 6 March 2011
10th January, 2011. Well I had a tutorial with Joe, Gutted!! I totally got the wrong end of the stick, I misheard what He wanted me to focus on. I thought when I was focusing on a dialogue, that it […]
Tuesday is the Winter Solstice – the shortest day. This is one day I always look forward to, simply because it means the days start to get longer. Tough on vampires, I know. The last few miles of a journey […]
The Photograph 1. What we see Our gaze scans across a square, flat, modernist concrete building, the windows obscured by foliage. Above the house a bright blue sky shines in the spring sunshine. Our eye travels down to the wooden-fenced […]
Fiona Tan: Cloud Island My first experience of Fiona Tan was back in the 53rd Venice Biennale with her show Disorient in the Dutch pavilion. I recall that the work was simultaneously stunning, very beautiful and intensely warm and heartfelt. […]
Carnival Clowns 20th September I have for the last three months or so been working on a painting called carnival clowns. The idea was the basis for my mask idea. I am calling the painting carnival clowns for now, until […]
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
18 September 2010 to 28 November 2010
17th September, 2010. I have this idea, about masks and how they hide your identity. How your true self is hidden! Everyone wears a mask in how they interact with different people, be it family or friends or in a […]
It’s less than a week to go before the opening of the show, and there is hammering and drilling going on everywhere occasionally interrupted by some mellow jazz. It seems that the health and safety regs have gone out the […]
For those of you who haven’t seen this already (and it has done the rounds, so you may well have) it isa minimum fee schedule from CARFAC. http://www.carcc.ca/documents/PDFeng.pdf Director, April Britski is working with a-n at the moment on secondment […]
Thoughts from artists and arts professionals about how cuts in public spending will affect their future working pattern. Plus April Britski gives an account of how recent governmental decisions to cut arts funding have affected Canadian artists.
