Our open space for critical writing about exhibitions, projects and publications is online now. Anyone can read the reviews or say something pertinent about a contemporary visual arts project. The site will grow as you contribute to it.
Hayes Lane Market
11 November 2005 to 11 November 2005
Surface Gallery
10 October 2005 to 10 October 2005
Mark Hutchinson talks to John Russell about his theory and practice PhD at Kingston University.
Curated space looks at strategies and interventions within artist-curator space. Devised and conducted by Manick Govinda, contributors include Gavin Wade, Erika Tan, Jeremy Deller and David A. Bailey.
Curated space artists’ interviews in full.
With Arts Council England’s Grants for the arts scheme back after a summer break, a-n engaged a team of experienced prospectors to share their top tips on making successful funding applications. Rosemary Shirley reports.
Site Gallery and Sylvester Works, Sheffield
30 July – 8 October
Encouraging a consistent attitude to quantifying the value of artists across the exhibition and gallery world.
A letter in the July issue of a-n Magazine talked of there being a “fine line between voluntary work and blatant exploitation”. There are an increasing number of volunteer placements and internships on offer nowadays. One recently-listed volunteer offer stated […]
We’ve had an excellent quality of response to ‘2005degrees unedited’, our critical showcase of graduate exhibitions and new writing. Christine Durrant reviewed Swindon College’s Drawing for Fine Art Practice including Deborah Edwardes’s “gentle narratives [that] conjure up a quiet surreal […]
I was fascinated to read your letters page in the July issue of a-n Magazine. Perhaps a new, refreshed debate should commence regarding the value and recompense for all forms of teaching the arts. I have always valued teaching not […]
Cuts in funding at Further Education and Higher Education institutions have had a huge impact recently, particularly within arts departments nationwide, but only cursorily covered in the general press. The government directive to increase student numbers in spite of this […]
See a-n at this year’s New Designers from 30 June to 3 July at London’s Business Design Centre in Islington. As the largest and most stimulating graduate design event in the UK, every year New Designers presents emerging design talent […]
In 1997, Lord Dearing chaired a review of HE that recommended the establishment of a research council for the arts and humanities, to sit alongside those in the sciences. After eight years, this has materialised as the Arts and Humanities […]
The Earth and Fire international festival of ceramics takes place at Rufford Craft Centre in Nottinghamshire at the end of June. The two-day event showing the work of over a 100 makers is one of the unsung successes of the […]
Contents include: Launch of Future forecast publications and events in Ipswich and Derby mark 25 years of a-n. New beginnings for recent graduates plus Acme Fire Station work/live residents announced. Non profit organisations network in Chicago; issues around city-wide art […]
Read the Future space interviews in full. These interviews formed the base material for the Future space publication.
Recent graduates on their first year as professional artists.
Eleven artists have been awarded residencies at Acme’s Fire Station work/live space, as part of this ongoing programme. Slade graduate and recent fellow at The British Library Ming Wong and Ben Cove, recent exhibitor at LMU Leeds and Castlefield Gallery […]
Janine Goldsworthy and Suzanne Hutton, both members of a-n’s Communications Projects Team, recently completed re:gen, a residencey and exhibiton project held in Sunniside, Sunderland. Featuring the work of six artists who all graduated within the past two years, the project […]
This new website, launched from www.a-n.co.uk, will go online from 1 May. As a critical showcase for graduate exhibitions and new writing the site aims to promote the work of new graduates to curators, commissioners and other arts professionals. In […]
Laura Hewitt on Hotel Mariakapel, an artists’ initiative where the ideas of intimacy, dialogue and collaboration are fundamental concerns.
This spring, as part of the Africa 05 arts festival, a number of artists from around the African continent are in London making new work for various cultural institutions. Paul Glinkowski introduces the work of five of them.
Trinity Technology College, Warwick
11-23 February
Rodney Court is a proposed conversion of a Manchester tower block into live/work space for artists.
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