Winners of the 2004 Glenfiddich residencies are Christine Borland, Ross Sinclair and Louise Hopkins who will each be provided with accommodation, studio and gallery space to create and show new work. Marking the centenary of the Entente Cordiale, the 2004 […]
Young Artist of the Year, worth £5,000 in this year’s Hunting Art Prizes, went to Falmouth College of Art final-year fine art student, Marco Amura, whilst 1999 Falmouth fine art graduate Alisdair Lindsay scooped second prize worth £4,000. Their work […]
Welcome to Philip Marsden, appointed in November. An BA fine art graduate from University of Newcastle, he joins the Communications and Sales team. Congratulations to Louise Wirz, Director of Development, who gave birth in October to baby Nina. a-n Magazine […]
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.
We catch up with Telford-based painter Shannon Ward after a whirlwind year in which she was featured in a-n’s Degree Shows Guide 2024, graduated from Wolverhampton School of Art in June and went on to win the Freelands Painting Prize.
Cornwall based artist and plumber Sovay Berriman reflects on a successful 2024, including being the Clore Visual Art Fellow 2023/24, supported by a-n.
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
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 […]
