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.
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Cordaelia Craine, who moulds soft leather to produce fashion showpieces, has won a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship worth £3,750. This will enable her to go to Spain and Italy to study the ancient leather moulding techniques still in use today. Queen […]
Jane Watt looks into professional development initiatives available to artists working in the public domain, in the fourth of the six-part series ‘Navigating Places’.
Libby Anson talks to Juan delGado and the Wellcome Trust about his residency.
Our ongoing programme of presentations and seminars to promote application of our new Code of Practice for the Visual Arts was launched at Fruitmarket Gallery’s ‘Scotland Now’ event, aimed at new graduates and professional artists, on 1 November. This was […]
The Scottish Arts Council has recently published an audit of visual artists. Moira Jeffrey reports.
The figure in motion is central to my practice.
Brigid Howarth gives a rare insight into one art buyer’s collection and discovers the favorite haunts for snapping up the next big thing.
It was interesting to read about Rob Kesseler’s fellowship in the October issue of a-n Magazine. I am aware that there are different kinds and his sounds very demanding but what about the average college fellowship? I hope the following […]
The Jerwood Foundation was confirmed as the UK’s most prolific art prize-giver when it handed over £25,500 to six visual artists in September. The £15,000 applied arts prize for glass went to Helen Maurer, selected from a shortlist of eight. […]
Chris Hammonds looks into an evolving gallery that has become a first step for many young and emerging artists to show in London.
Rosemary Shirley visits Reading-based gallery and studio complex Open Hand Open Space and discovers what makes the organisation tick.
Sorcha Dallas’ piece (School’s out, September a-n Magazine) covering undergraduate degree shows in Scotland was – needless to say – the usual bog-standard fare of description over analysis, but I was more dismayed by seeing there was no mention, even […]
School’s out Chris Brown wrote an excellent article about the recent graduates from Welsh colleges of art and design (‘School’s out’, September a-n Magazine). At the risk of being accused of being unnecessarily sensitive to a perceived north-south divide, I […]
