Artist as leader: “First Draft understands what artists need”
The latest interview in Joshua Sofaer’s Artist as leader series for a-n features Sydney-based artist-run initiative First Draft.
The latest interview in Joshua Sofaer’s Artist as leader series for a-n features Sydney-based artist-run initiative First Draft.
Over the course of four years, artists, curators and writers were invited to select blogs from the a-n site. Their choices highlights the range and depth of practice discussed on a-n’s artists’ blogging platform at that time.
Manchester’s Castlefield Gallery is encouraging ‘user-generated’ content via its CG Associates scheme, which includes the Launch Pad series of short exhibitions. We find out more from artist Maurice Carlin and the gallery’s Deputy Director Clarissa Corfe.
With its new home in the old Tetley brewery and a recent six figure grant from ACE, these are exciting times for Project Space Leeds. We pay a site visit and speak to co-directors Pippa Hale and Kerry Harker about their plans for a new contemporary arts hub.
The Royal Standard, Liverpool’s renowned artist-led studios and gallery, is facing a brighter future after resolving – for now – the rates relief issue that threatened its existence.
Summit Gallery is a new artist-led gallery and project space overlooking the Olympic Park in Hackney Wick. We talk to Director Natalie Sanders and the project’s first artist-in-residence Riccardo Iacono.
A week after announcing the closure of Cardiff-based contemporary art agency Mermaid & Monster, its Director takes a close look at the art ecology of Wales and finds plenty to be concerned about.
In the light of Arts Council England’s recent capital grants announcement, Alistair Gentry asks when investment in the work of new, financially strapped artists will be given the same priority.
The Cardiff-based contemporary art agency has announced that it will no longer be representing artists, citing the shrinking market for smaller, regional galleries as a factor.
Besides the desktop drudgery, I have been having fun up at the London Art Fair with Joanna Jones where DAD has a presence, by invitation, as part of ALISN’s SUBLET project http://www.alisn.org/SUBLET-London-Art-Fair. We had fantastic footfall and almost non-stop enjoyable […]
MEASURING THE EXPERIENCE #20 When referring to the need to be more creative within urban planning, Landry and Bianchini[1] have talked about the need for those concerned to find “new ways of talking” in which normal routes and networks are […]
MEASURING THE EXPERIENCE #21 This [audiences approach] suggests that neighbours and people from the community who already knew the artists may have used the opportunity to develop their relationship with local artists further.[1] The case studies also show that the […]
Museums Sheffield, the charitable Trust responsible for three of the city’s museums and galleries, is facing a £200,000 reduction to its annual grant as the City Council is tasked to find £50m in savings.
Wondering what 2013 has in store in terms of conferences and events, art fairs and festivals? We take a look ahead to provide a snapshot of things we think are worth noting in your diary.
a-n Director Susan Jones visited DIY Art School in Manchester where the focus is on collaboration and research.
Various locations, Stoke-on-Trent
2 November – 22 December 2012
The venerable London Art Fair is playing host to some interesting interventions in its Art Projects strand, enabling unrepresented artists to get a piece of the art fair action. We look at some of the methodologies being employed and test the temperature of the art market in 2013.
MEASURING THE EXPERIENCE #18 A ‘life-style’ philosophy is apparent in the aspirations of many of the artists’ groups which have been studied: “to provide opportunities for the public to become involved in the arts by meeting artists in their studios, […]
MEASURING THE EXPERIENCE #19 Because they are not primarily concerned with business values or running their organisations in ways which mirror the way mainstream institutions operate, artist-led organisations may not show a willingness to fulfil the range of expectations and […]
A random selection of resolutions, predictions and plans for 2013, from the impact of arts cuts in Newcastle to an artist’s intention to ‘do less’. Now, what are yours?
Studio75’s final project Several Skeletons from the Same Closet It is now the beginning of 2013 and it is time to look back on the last two years of Studio75. We started the studio in January 2011. We wanted to […]
For a-n Director Susan Jones, 2012 has been a year of research and development, as the organisation looks to the future for artists and their practice.
An internal report gives Arts Council England a clean bill of health in relation to Artists Taking the Lead in Yorkshire.
In the third instalment of our Christmas series offering alternatives to high street shopping, we profile festive fairs and selling shows taking place this week in Glasgow, Gateshead, Oxford, Northampton, London and Plymouth.