
Susan Collis
Im drawn towards work that offers two opposing features or truths.
Im drawn towards work that offers two opposing features or truths.
International fairs are a great opportunity for researching galleries and making contacts, here is a selection of just some of the 150 showing at this year’s Frieze Art Fair.
Gini Coates won the London Printworks Trusts Bursary at New Designers Part 1 at the Business Design Centre, London in July. Selected from over 1,000 graduates showing there, she attracted the attention of a judging panel that included leading textile […]
Rod McIntosh gives a rundown on this new art fair and talks to the winners of the Signpost competition star prize.
The third Liverpool biennial launches on 18 September as a UK and international festival of contemporary art. Delivered through a partnership between Tate Liverpool, National Museums Liverpool, Bluecoat Art Centre and FACT, it also encompasses exhibitions and offsite projects across […]
Look out for details in the next issue of forthcoming Fast forward: professional development and networking events especially for new graduates to be held in North East England in October and Glasgow (in partnership with Cultural Enterprise Office) in December. […]
As part of the quarterly meetings schedule, the Board of a-n will be meeting in Bristol on 6 December. Wed love to hear from artists projects and networks who will have work on show at that time, for inclusion in […]
The training-led development programmes that were the norm in artists’ professional development delivery some years ago are giving way to new projects that focus around contemporary practice and are driven by ‘real world’ situations. They recognise that being a visual […]
This month we say a fond farewell to Helen Barwick who is upping sticks to head for a new post at the Institute for Learning in London, a new body concentrating on promoting and supporting the professional standing and development […]
Thank you for putting in the excellent information about Aune Head Arts in the networks section of the June edition. We’ve had some good responses and it has definitely helped raise the profile of our networking activities.Nancy Sinclair AHA For […]
Sally O’Reilly talks to Penny Johnson, Director of the Government Art Collection, in the sixth and final article in the ‘Crossing Over’ series.
Designers Shin and Tomoko Azumi featured in our online Signpost: new graduates’ guide to being an artist on www.a-n.co.uk are amongst the shortlisted artists for the tenth Jerwood Applied Arts Prize. Talking in 2002 about their approach, they […]
We’ve had a great response already to our Signpost competition for 2004 art and design graduates. Min Hye Kim was one of the first artists to return her entry form. Here, she discusses her practice; I started to paint sexually […]
Compass: directions for art and design graduates, a new free publication containing tools for professional practice teaching was pubished in May and will be available to subscribers and partners in the HE sector, and in the Artists Professional Development network […]
A prize pot of £65,000 was distributed to artists in April in the 2004 Beck’s Futures awards. Designed to identify and present the “most promising contemporary artists working in Britain today”, the shortlist of ten was seleced by curators Klaus […]
A recent Crafts Council report shows that female self-employed entrepreneurs have emerged for this growing sector, currently estimated to worth over £800 million. The report, the first on the crafts sector for ten years highlighted the importance of lifestyle satisfaction […]
An artist’s dream of transforming a derelict building into an artists’ resource has been realised with the launch of Treruffe Art Studios. Located in Redruth, Cornwall, the project has been championed over a seven-year development period by artist Christine Spencer-Green […]
Michelle Cotton reviews Sue Tompkins’ performance and considers its relation to the themes of the day.
Paul Glinkowski’s article painted The Laboratory at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in a very favourable light, and was much appreciated in these parts. However, I should like to mention that The Laboratory would not have developed […]
Two lucky winners in our new competition for 2004 graduating art and design will be able to launch their careers at On the Wall, a brand new art fair to be held at London’s Olympia 29 September 3 October. […]
Winners of the decibel visual arts awards, aimed at black and Asian artists, and curators, were announced in March.
Calling universities a-n has been inviting proactive universities across the UK to sign up and participate in a new competition aimed at 2004 art and design graduates. Along with some star prizes, the competition will provide hundreds of emerging artists […]
Giles Sutherland looks at the relationship between glass artist Keiko Mukaide and Edinburgh College of Art.
Roy Exley reports on the ‘Emergency’ exhibition and symposium in Portsmouth.
Mark Gubb visits Thanet in Kent to meet artists and hear about the cultural revival underway.