Sluice__ ‘go and see’ bursary: Research trip around the UK – leg one
Bloc, FBI, S1, &model, East St Arts, Basement Arts Project, Mexico, Sheffield and Leeds
16 – 17 May 2014
Bloc, FBI, S1, &model, East St Arts, Basement Arts Project, Mexico, Sheffield and Leeds
16 – 17 May 2014
This weekend saw the inaugural Bristol Art Weekender take place across the city. Initiated by Situations, the project was the result of an Open Space event that asked ‘what future do we want for the visual arts in Bristol?’ It […]
A little update…. It’s been 18 months since the last post and life has settled down after a bumpy ride. The good news is the cost of the service charge has been reduced and it is finally being administered in […]
An international survey looking at the working and living conditions of socially-engaged, participatory and community artists launches today.
This May Day bank holiday weekend sees the launch of the Bristol Art Weekender, a four-day event that brings together 16 of the city’s visual arts venues, producers and artist-run initiatives for the first time. We talk to some of those involved and investigate the wider context for the upsurge in cultural activity in the city.
Various, Glasgow
12 – 16 April 2014
John Wood and Paul Harrison exhibition launches 18th edition of Stroud’s contemporary arts festival.
Major development project will restore former Rubber Company HQ to create specialist arts centre for the city.
The sixth edition of Glasgow International, the biennial festival of contemporary art in Scotland’s biggest city, is the first with new director Sarah McCrory at the helm. On the eve of its public launch, she explains why both laughter and tears are important in art.
Fundamentally questions the Arts Council’s stewardship of the National Lottery funds, which are provided for different purposes and for far wider public benefit than ACE’s Treasury grant.
The latest round of a-n’s Go and see bursary scheme has awarded 10 artists’ initiatives nearly £5000, supporting the exchange of knowledge and fostering joint developments between artists.
As part of its New Art Spaces project, Manchester’s Castlefield Gallery has opened its biggest space yet, across a six-storey, 80,000 square feet building in the centre of the city. We pay it a visit and find out what makes it more than just another artists’ studio complex.
OSR Projects, West Coker, Somerset
24 January – 9 February 2014
Isa Genzken, Wim Delvoye, Susan Hiller, Amar Kanwar, Shilpa Gupta and Tris Vonna-Michell are among the artists announced to take part in the 2014 Edinburgh Art Festival programme.
A new arts documentary film festival produced in partnership with the BBC is to take place in April as part of the Glasgow International festival.
Attending two quite different explosion workshops this week (as part of the ‘Normalcy Cluster’ activities – not that I really understand what that means) has led me to wonder if I am spreading myself too thin. This wondering concerns the […]
A new report urges those working with arts and culture to rethink their contribution to a vision of sustainable development that benefits the whole of society. Report co-author, Mark Robinson, introduces the provocation and identifies three vital ‘practices’ that can only be achieved by collaboration between artists, institutions and an intelligent funding ecology.
It’s Sunday. I’ve been thinking all week about some creative adventures I can have with my theme. On Thursday, my gallery had an opening event for the next exhibition staged by the artist-led group I am a part of – […]
LOCWS International announces its next programme of temporary public art commissions, with 13 new works from artists including Jeremy Deller, Bob and Roberta Smith and Ross Sinclair.
a-n’s popular professional development programme, designed to give artists and visual arts freelancers the confidence and know-how to move their practice and projects forward, continues into 2014 with a series of seminars and workshops in Manchester, Stoke-on-Trent and Leicestershire.
A new, historically sensitive space at Edinburgh’s former City Observatory on Calton Hill expands Collective’s programme of Scottish and international work.
Hotel Elephant’s recent move from the Heygate Estate to Newington Causeway in South London sees the launch of its first shop and café, along with studios, a gallery and projection room within 15,000 square feet of warehouse space.
Arts Council England has set out its agenda for arts investment for 2015-18, and alongside an announcement that the National Portfolio Organisation budget will combine Lottery funding with government grant-in-aid for the first time, ACE also says it is expecting NPOs to pay artists fairly.