Last year Simon Keenleyside, a Royal College of Art graduate, won the first BOC Emerging Artist Award. Organised by the agency Art for Offices, the award is worth a total of £20,000 and will be offered annually to a UK-based […]
Heralded as the north of England’s answer to the Turner Prize, the Comme ça Art Prize North aims to raise the profile of artists living and working beyond London. Worth £10,000 (against the Turner Prize of £20,000), the prize will […]
William Welch’s adaptable cutlery, designed for people with poor grip and restricted movement, won him £16,000 in this year’s Oxo Peugeot Design Awards. Welch was selected from ten finalists covering the five award categories of applied metal design, ceramics/glass/polymers, furniture, […]
Government enthusiasm for involving young people in arts activities has focused the attention of many galleries. Kate Tregaskis reports from Scotland on recent debates around programmes abroad and raises some questions about good practice.
The UK’s seen a noticeable increase in professional development schemes for artists, encompassing training, mentoring, networking and information services. There is an obvious cross-reference to the government’s endorsement of ‘lifelong learning’ as a principle, encouraged through the offer of individual learning accounts for all. These moves increase opportunities for the kinds of artistic development that incorporates developing and honing skills, accessing facilities and ultimately furthering career strategies. The results are more than just CV embellishment. By providing points of crossover between artists, such schemes contribute to peer support systems and help to address the potential isolation of artists. Here, three individuals involved in artists’ professional development matters describe some of the resources around, and discuss how artists are making the most of them.
The Studio Fellowship programme offers artists funding for a year, a personal studio within the setting of one of the partner universities, and dedicated time and support to develop individual artistic practice.
Three month fellowship at the Royal Drawing School in London for one international artist.
Shows by a-n members across the UK, including a solo exhibition in Edinburgh by Holly Davey, outdoor sculpture in Yorkshire by Matthew Darbyshire, plus group shows featuring works by artists Rae-Yen Song, Zoe Anker and Małgorzata Dawidek
Solo shows from a-n members Naomi Frears, Adham Faramawy and Sonia Boyce, plus a major craft fair and outdoor sculpture exhibition in London
The RA Schools have been a key part of the Royal Academy since its founding in 1769. We offer a full-time, three-year programme with no fees.
today i been feeling the multi layers of the word isolation, from the obvious to an abstraction of that. it strikes me that there is potential for me to explore image making – something i rejected as an undergraduate because […]
aspect of discovering what was discovered many years ago – peruvian weaving lines. wanting to do research my way – not being guided to do it the way in which the dominate neurotypical past methods have been done. a neurodivergent […]
Marcus began his TV Puppeering Career by successfully auditioning for Jim Henson’s Puppeteering for Television Workshop. In this series of videos Marcus uses Burt and CindyGal to return to the Puppet character into camera sketch format and see what 30 years later might evolve.
