Across two days of talks, workshops and get-togethers, Assembly Margate explored both the specifics of living and working as an artist in a town with a small population where art can be a contentious subject, and the broader picture of how artists deal with issues such as regeneration, gentrification and working with communities.
Cardiff-born 2014 Turner Prize nominee unveils sound installation, video and photographic works at the 57th Venice Biennale.
This year’s Venice Biennale features 85 national pavilions including four countries exhibiting for the first time. As the three-day preview begins prior to the biennale’s public opening on Saturday, Pippa Koszerek highlights 10 national pavilions that you really shouldn’t miss.
Spite Your Face, Scottish artist Rachel Maclean’s new commission for Scotland + Venice, is presented in a deconsecrated church and takes on post-truth politics.
The British artist’s commission for this year’s British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale is bold, colourful and engulfs the entire site of the pavilion in Venice’s Giardini.
This week’s selection from a-n’s Events section, featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n members, takes us to Newcastle, Manchester, London and Hull.
For Assembly Bristol, one of the five a-n Assembly events that took place across the UK during May and June 2017, a-n devised a programme of events with Bristol-based artist Julie McCalden. The Assembly, which took barriers to practice as […]
Sevenoaks Visual Arts Forum (SVAF) have submitted a successful bid to run the Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery as an artist-led space. This blog will chart the progress of its first year.
At 11.30am today (Tuesday 18th April 2017) Theresa May announced a snap election. This was exactly 15 hours after our first a-n Artist-led Group Bursary ‘Artists as Political Activists’ meeting, the timing could not be more perfect. We as a […]
For the second of the a-n Assembly events that took place during May and June 2017, a-n visited Liverpool for an ‘Artist-Led Assembly’. Working together with a-n, Liverpool-based artist Kevin Hunt devised a programme of events hosted primarily at The […]
Exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and this week featuring exhibitions in Swansea, Eastleigh, Walthamstow, Portsmouth and London.
For the second in our monthly series of reports on art scenes across the UK, Swansea-based artist Erin Rickard takes a look at her home city and highlights current and forthcoming activity.
Artists Alex Hartley and Tom James have created a geodesic dome constructed from reclaimed materials and situated it in the Capability Brown-designed gardens of Compton Verney, a Georgian mansion and gallery in rural Warwickshire. Anneka French finds out about their plans for the future.
The recent ReROOTed Festival in Hull celebrated the legacy of Hull Time Based Arts and its ROOT festival with a weekend of performance, discussion and debate. Pippa Koszerek reports.
a-n’s touring programme of workshops, talks and get-togethers begins in early May with Assembly Margate, devised in collaboration with Margate-based social artist Dan Thompson. Stephen Palmer reports.
Assembly Margate was the first of the a-n Assembly events to take place during May and June, 2017. Hosted across a number of arts spaces in the town, a-n devised a programme of events with Margate-based social artist Dan Thompson. […]
43 a-n Artist members have been awarded bursaries to support self-devised professional development projects, while 24 artists receive awards to travel and develop networks and opportunities outside the UK.
In May and June 2017, the a-n team was out and about at five UK locations – Margate, Liverpool, Bristol, Newcastle upon Tyne and Leeds – bringing together artists for a mixture of workshops, talks, get-togethers and much more. The […]
