KEEPING UP Just about keeping on top of Network work while our Queen of Admin (i.e. Cat Ingrams) is away. No volunteer bloggers yet, but very grateful to photographer Mike Goss who has volunteered to photograph our next event which […]
For the latest part of his Artist as leader research, Joshua Sofaer meets Masato Nakamura. The founder-director of 3331 Arts Chiyoda arts centre in Japan discusses leadership as a collaboration and his efforts to both challenge and collaborate with existing art world structures.
Evaluating TRADING STATION POST’s plan with TRADING STATION was to make it’s outcomes transparent to help others learn from our experiences, so over the next few weeks I’m going to publish some excerpts from our evaluation that was submitted to […]
The Royal West of England Academy – Bristol’s first art gallery – has announced Alison Bevan from Penlee House Gallery, Penzance, as its new Director.
Our 2013 selected artist-in-residence Amelia Crouch has been regularly conversing with Hugh Aldersey-Williams in preparation for their talk on 24th May. Here is the mail-out about for it: HUGH ALDERSEY-WILLIAMS in conversation with AMELIA CROUCH FRIDAY 24TH MAY 5.00 – […]
While the measles outbreak has been getting all the headlines, Swansea’s Art Across The City has been brightening up the place with a series of works in the public realm. We sent Cardiff-based artist Kathryn Ashill back to her hometown for a guided tour.
A good point to start would be the interim show/assessment we had last week. It is generally the case that for our past assessments, tutorials and group critiques we set up the work in either our cleared-out studio spaces or […]
London’s leading artist-led fair springs into step.
A new publication from g39 in Cardiff looks back at the artist-run organisation’s first 13 years and includes new artworks and specially commissioned text. Cardiff-based artist Kathryn Ashill talks to g39 co-founder Chris Brown.
The sixth edition of the Liverpool Art Prize opens on Thursday in the city’s historic Albert Dock. We talk to Kevin Hunt, one of the shortlisted artists, and Robyn Woolston, winner of the 2012 Prize and one of this year’s judges, about the significance of the new venue.
Before Easter I felt largely undermined and belittled. Opportunities that I hoped would lead to permanent employment or a commission seem to be withdrawn, as if no one really wants me to ever earn a living. And one of those […]
Bookmaking and self-publishing are becoming increasingly prominent forms of artistic practice. Catherine Roche considers the rise in popularity of artists’ books and what it means to ‘publish’ in a post-digital age.
A longer introduction . . . Blogging I return to a-n blogging after a gap of quite a few years having drifted away onto Blogspot for sharing my creative project information with others. Now, on reflection, there is something critical […]
As an exhibition of works on paper opens in Southwark Park to celebrate three decades of the Bermondsey Artists’ Group, we talk to two members about the organisation’s thirty year commitment to art, community and learning.
“Strongest programme yet” for EAF’s tenth anniversary features Gabriel Orozco, Lawrence Weiner, Christine Borland and Jeremy Deller.
Lauren Healey talks to Northern Art Prize 2011 winner Leo Fitzmaurice about objectness, appropriation and his time-intensive research process.
Sited on a working railway platform in London’s East End, Banner Repeater is an artist-led space with a difference. We talk to founder Ami Clarke as the organisation launches its first peer membership scheme and a vital fundraiser.
A blog detailing my experiences during a 5 week research residency in Beijing based at artist-led space HomeShop. I am hoping that the research residency will develop my knowledge of early print and publishing forms within the context of contemporary […]
I’m writing this first blog post from Beijing where I’ve just begun a 5 week residency at artist-led space HomeShop, supported by Arts Council England’s Artist international development fund. I am hoping that the research residency will develop my knowledge […]
Edinburgh’s Collective Gallery is moving to new premises on Calton Hill in the summer. Prior to that, though, there’s work to be done and funds to be raised with an auction of artists’ work. We talk to Director Kate Gray about new departures and exciting possibilities.
In Joshua Sofaer’s latest Artist as leader interview for a-n, artist Richard Layzell and businessman Richard Hicks discuss Layzell’s seven-year tenure as ‘Visionaire’ at AIT software company. Here, Layzell writes about what came next and the continued relevance of his experience in industry a decade on.
The annual Publish and Be Damned self-publishers fair returns for the second year at ICA, London, on Saturday.
I am starting to get that ‘itchy’ feeling that I get when it has been too long without getting my hands dirty with the actual making of art. I thought that this week, being half term at my language school, […]
A week in reciprocity, part one: 1. “Slavery never ended in the nineteenth century, it was merely re-branded and marketed to us in a different packet. The monetary economy doesn’t serve us, we serve it” Mark Boyle, The Moneyless Manifesto”.I […]
Prizewinners announced during one-night event at Leeds’ Ellington House.
