Open submission competitions have been generating plenty of comment and debate on a-n of late. What does the biennial Marmite Prize bring to the discussion? We speak to one of its founders.
Annabel Tilley and I have been running DIY Educate with the help of Elizabeth Murton, Charlie Norwood and our DIY Educate Ambassador Graham Crowley for the last two years. Central to the programme is an ethos of generosity and sharing […]
My AXIS application was once more declined. This time I defied their statement that they won’t provide feedback, and emailed them with a plea for some kind of meaningful response. I was flattered to a receive a reply at all […]
‘The Annuale’, a festival of independent and grassroots artistic activity coordinated by Embassy gallery, opens in Edinburgh this week.
Critical commentary and contextualisation of contemporary art exhibitions and events across the UK and beyond. Read, comment and post your own reviews at www.a-n.co.uk/interface. This month Kevin Hunt goes to Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art (GI) and selects reviews from Interface and beyond, giving a taster of the great things going on in the city and across Scotland.
Special issue: the last a-n Magazine. Then & Now features on Professional practice, Collaboration and Artist-led activity highlight a-n’s enduring concerns and wealth of intelligence in our archive; interview with Mag coordinator Chris Brown; Kevin Hunt selects reviews from Glasgow […]
Artist S Mark Gubb talks to Magazine Coordinator Chris Brown as he prepares the last ever issue of a-n Magazine.
“AN will be an open line communication shared by all interested parties. It has not the resources nor the wish to be a one-way information service. It will be a clearing house for practical information and a means of raising issues significant to visual artists. The format is not fixed and will adapt and change according to the response and opinions of artists.” So wrote founder Richard Padwick in the first ever issue, published in September 1980, price 35p.
Woolgather are Leeds-based artists John Slemensek Annie Nelson and Chris Woodward. They founded the Woolgather Art Prize in 2011 ‘from a need to explore the artist’s role in society and to celebrate the creative lifestyle’.
With arts organisations, particularly artist-led ones, facing a tricky financial future we are delighted to be given a £5,000 Awards for All Lottery funding to help raise cultural awareness and promote the arts in central Scotland. This afternoon sees the […]
“The success of artist-led initiatives…demonstrates perhaps that our institutions could learn a great deal from the way that artists organise themselves. Their outlook is often different, non-linear, more democratic and less structured than traditional visual arts bureaucracies, They are frequently […]
I often ponder: “What is it about my practice that separates it from the conceptual mainstream?”. I keep coming back to this point: my work is not “about” ritual and the sacred. It is ritual and sacred. My work is […]
After a jubilant opening weekend, an influx of visiting European curators and a string of parties, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2012 (GI) settles into its stride. Here, Richard Taylor highlights a few of the events and exhibitions slightly off the beaten track but not to be missed.
Reyahn King explores the role of galleries within professional development for visual artists. In the current climate, how can professional development for visual artists be continued and improved? This paper suggests that one answer lies in the relationship between publicly-funded regional galleries and visual artists becoming wider, deeper, and more strongly valued.
CAVE will take place in Liverpool during the opening weekend of the 7th Liverpool Biennial this autumn.
Former Waygood Gallery and Studios relaunches as Baltic outpost.
Its been a productive week! Untitled (network of artist-led activity) is being shown at Papergirl BHM, in the 48 Sheet Project Space in Birmingham’s Mailbox. It also continues to be shown in Driftstation’s Bookstore. I continue adding to the script […]
Work on the cardall collection residency continues! I’ve started work on the second edition of the publicaton that was released @ the start of the residency. It is an evolved version of this first edition with extra pages and outdated […]
March 11 Invited by a new Japanese friend, I went to a rememberance service in a english-speaking church today to commerate one year since a 9.0 scale earthquake triggered a massive tsunami and near nuclear meltdown. Over 15,000 people lost […]
Living with Fukushima Walking through the station plaza in Shibuya I stopped to watch this gentleman. In public places the Japanese are very quiet normally, very respectful and rarely even make eye contact. The contrast with this gentleman was obvious […]
News As promised here’s a brief outline of the first section of the new website to be developed – News. As a new feature it allows us to experiment a little bit with the basic structure, design and user interface […]
Pippa Koszerek and Eleonora Schinella consider relationships between artists, activism and social justice following the 2011 Triangle Network conference in London.
From subsidised studio and accommodation to one-on-one mentoring sessions, here we spotlight a selection of residencies that provide support to artists across the UK and beyond.
