Guyan Porter talks about the socio-economic dynamics of art markets and deconstructs notions of the art market in the UK.
Leeds Met Gallery
6 June 2007 to 6 June 2007
Zoo Art Fair has announced its list of exhibitors for the 2007 event, running 12-15 October.
Artists and artists’ support agencies have benefited from recent Arts Council England funding rounds.
In response to artists’ own needs for greater engagement with arts interested audiences – whether for selling or conversational purposes – many artists cluster together to create open studio events.
By popular request Pensions for artists is running more seminars this autumn.
With just over twenty-four hours in Lille, the apd ‘Sojourn’ was a whistle-stop tour, but one that attempted to broach the prospect of greater exchange between French and British artists and arts organisations by understanding equivalent professional development provision.
Various venues and online
Throughout June, July and August
Outpost, Norwich
2 July – 21 August
The recent NAN Roadshow event at Oriel Davies in Newtown highlighted some pertinent issues.
Various venues and online
Throughout June, July and August
Sonya Dyer’s publication questions assumptions about non-white artists, curators and administrators that shape the current diversity landscape, and suggests alternative ways forward.
From discarded household detritus and prosthetic limbs to the exploration of themes of religious intolerance and myths of urban history, Norwich is the location this summer for Contemporary Art Norwich 2007, a multi-venue biennial that celebrates the depth and breadth of Norwich’s expanding cultural scene.
Radical changes in funding arrangements are due at the Scottish Arts Council (SAC) following last year’s strategic review.
Rick Schofield, photograph from the Peer series, 2007.
Originally from Barbados, Alberta Whittle graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2002 with a Tapestry degree.
Since November 2006, Arts Council England has been asking all across the land to add their views on the public value of the arts.
News on Airspace Gallery, Midlands Textile Forum and Exeter Studio Project.
Various locations, Birmingham
31 March – 15 April
It’s the drive and imagination of artists that is leading major exposures on contemporary visual arts in Leeds and Stroud in May and June that both focus on location.
Based in a former potato warehouse in Hull’s Fruitmarket area, Hull Art Lab (HAL) staged many challenging and disciplinary art events over the past two years.
Debra Savage’s case study-based research into the realities of professional artistic practice.
Every age rewrites its history in its own image. Each age produces art that reflects that image, whether consciously or not.
Various venues, Edinburgh
28 July – 3 September
Artists comment on the Arts Council’s Turning Point Strategy.
