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.
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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.
