Training is critical to success and developing new areas of practice. In response to this need we have created a new heading in opportunities entitled ‘Professional development’. This section will cover training courses, business planning and professional advice events, mentoring schemes and more, all specifically designed to help artists develop their careers. To introduce this new section, artist Neil Robinson writes about his experiences on a postgraduate course for budding professional artists.
Coming from Macedonia, a country where sixty to seventy percent of the land is forest, the immediacy of nature is a significant element of my working practice.
In the July 2001 issue of [a-n] MAGAZINE Cleveland Arts advertised for an artist to work on a residency, collaborating with Mental Health Service users in Stockton-on-Tees. Sarah Nicholson was chosen to lead the residency and a support role was given to recent graduate Kate Allan, who talks here about confronting mental health stereotypes.
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
29 September – 25 November
Cyprus College of Art – whose courses and opportunities for UK artists have been promoted through [a-n] MAGAZINE for many years – are drawing up plans to abandon the British model of art education. This constitutes a major break for […]
Abigail Branagan discusses the development of this innovative platform for contemporary design and explores its value to exhibitors.
Continuing our series on the career development of well-established artists, writer Roy Exley meets Sonia Boyce to discuss how she has steered her career from British Home Stores shop assistant to celebrated artist.
Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool 2 August – 15 September
In the second of a series of articles focusing on the career development of well-established artists, Lucy Wilson meets Yinka Shonibare.
This year has been a good one for me. In January I was awarded the Centre of Attention Painting Prize 2001, my work was selected for the BP Portrait Award 2001, and was commended in the Royal West of England […]
My art practice is focused on the process of making, and with my involvement in that process.
A substantial study by Metier, the national training organisation for arts and entertainment, reveals the sector to be a large and complex one that encompasses some of the most profitable parts of the economy in the recording industry and commercial […]
Graham Parker discusses his approach to his role as Visual Arts Officer at Salford University.
In his opening speech at the International Ceramics Festival in Aberystwyth, Garth Clark, owner of the Garth Clark Gallery in New York, remarked on the way potters tend to “herd together” not, he emphasised, like distracted lemmings, but like caribou, moving with a purpose towards their goal.
Art has always had the ability for convergence and understanding amongst people, irrespective of language barriers. Internationalism in art is that space that transcends fixed geographies, identities and positions to create a new coherence from diverse dialogues. As an artist […]
‘Imagination in the public realm: art people and place’, a conference organised by Art Transpennine and University of Manchester exploring the “contextualisation of art outside the gallery” takes place in Manchester 7-9 September. Speakers including Richard Wentworth, James Lingwood, Barbara […]
There has always been a quirky side to my work. I love anything that is eccentric, especially costume that is ridiculous and impractical. Performance costume and fashion have always influenced my work. I aspire to the drama and glamour built […]
Brigid Howarth investigates the world of arts funding and reveals a network of funding routes available to emerging artists.
Richard Noyce gives an overview of the thriving artscene in one of the Baltic states, and looks at some of the obstacles faced by artists there as they move towards integration within the European Union.
The fourth article in this series pays a visit to Copenhagen in Denmark, where Henrik Plenge Jakobsen is immersed in some big issues. “When I think of Western culture I get a mental image of exclusion, particularly in relation to the individual versus society. The concept of ‘liberty’ is hard to transgress. Because of this it becomes easier to limit yourself and your attitudes toward life in general.”
I was commissioned to design a light sculpture for West Street in central Brighton as part of the ‘Per Cent for Art’ project. The project aims to improve the environment of the city’s urban spaces and is being run by […]
Throughout my work, I have used a range of materials, whilst trying to maintain their unique peculiarities and characteristics. In the last few years I have become increasingly interested in casting, and have experimented by pouring concrete into moulds, excavated […]
There is no doubt that glass changes the space that surrounds us every day.
The winner of this year’s £30,000 Jerwood Painting Prize will be announced on 22 May. The 540 applicants from an open submission were whittled down to a short list of Peter Archer, Ian Davenport, Katie Pratt, Basil Beattie, Marta Marce […]
With a breadth of approaches to finding the perfect workspace, Brigid Howarth talks to artists about their different needs and experiences and explores a variety of studio set-ups.
