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Artists’ work in 2013
Susan Jones’ analysis and commentary of Artists’ work in 2013 uses data drawn from a-n.co.uk/jobs to track current trends in artists’ employment.
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Getting Properly Started After All These Years
This is my very first blog, so here goes…. I have sold some artworks and had some commissions (including two large murals now installed in a hospital) but I’ve never seriously gone all out to promote and market my work. […]
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An artist-led adventure: memories, markers and a walk in the desert
Sovay Berriman’s latest, self-funded project will take her to Mongolia and Australia searching for ‘markers and boundaries of experience’ in desert landscapes, and researching the correlation between those landscapes and the narratives of the people that inhabit them. We spoke to the artist as she prepared for the first leg of her journey.
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New Beginnings
New Studio, New Blog, New Start
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New Beginnings
New Studio, New Blog, New Start
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Vaconsofia
Somewhere in the industrial town of Indentine an email notification pings on the smart phone of collaborative applicant No.3245. Sofia scanned the notification to applicants and noticed the word ‘successful’ preceded by the heart sinking ‘un.’ Dear Steffan and Sofia, Many […]
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WORKS|PROJECTS closes Bristol gallery
Bristol-based WORKS|PROJECTS has announced the closure of its current gallery space in order to pursue ‘new, expanded programme’ from the end of 2014.
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When the wind blows: a new spin on global weather
Yann Seznec’s Edinburgh Art Festival commission, Currents, uses recycled computer fans and digital technology to recreate global wind patterns in a former police box. Chris Sharratt finds out more.
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Latest update
There’s nothing like an enforced stoppage to halt the flow of creative writing and thus the onset of laziness with keeping one’s blog up to date! But I’m back finally and A-N has an updated, much-awaited sparkly new website to […]
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Sailing through the Hackney WickED Riviera
Hackney WickED returns for its sixth incarnation in seven years – this time with Arts Council England funding.
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Artist tour guides in Edinburgh: “We could end up getting lost”
Since 2012 the Edinburgh Art Festival has had ‘tourists-in-residence’, Edinburgh-based artists commissioned to create work around the theme of a tour. Richard Taylor talks to this year’s residents, who plan to be gagged and blindfolded for their first tour around the city.
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Arts Catalyst launches audience survey
London-based commissioning agency invites feedback on its programme of exhibitions, commissions, research, events and publications.
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I’m far too busy for this!!
But I do think it is important to write about what I’m doing and also to review where I am up to with all the things I am meant to be doing, so I’ll use this blog post to do […]
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The Jarman Award: 2014 shortlist announced
10 artists have been shortlisted for the seventh annual Film London Jarman Award, celebrating the legacy of Derek Jarman’s highly experimental and risk-taking approach to filmmaking.
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Lexington Hub
The aim of the Lexington Hub Forum is to challenge and provoke established thinking by presenting key Pointesian issues and linking these to the opportunities available to the remote based illustrators and designers based in Pointeso and Novia The Forum […]
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Manchester artists call for ‘consistent support’ from city’s public galleries
An open letter from artists in Manchester is calling on publicly-funded galleries to do more to support artists who live and work in the city.
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Shopping around: things to do with art in a supermarket
A new public realm project by Simon Faithfull will be hiding 500 copies of a limited edition artwork in the Tunbridge Wells branch of Morrisons’ supermarket. We talk to the artist and the curators who commissioned the work.
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Cultural commissioning: where we are, where next and how we get there
The recent AD:uk/NCVO conference, Public Services: The Value of Cultural Commissioning, asked important questions about public sector commissioning of artists and arts organisations. Chris Bailey reports from Doncaster and adds a few questions of his own.
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Matt’s Gallery to celebrate 35 years
Matt’s Gallery in London is celebrating its 35th anniversary with a fundraising party and tombola where even the event’s tickets are a limited edition artwork.
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NOW SHOWING #48: The week’s top exhibitions
This week is the final week of the Birmingham leg of Bill Drummond’s World Tour (2014-2025), London’s Foundling Museum celebrates the legacy of William Hogarth through the work of four contemporary artists, and Sheffield’s Site Gallery presents an exploration of the rave scene.
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Hackney WickED: artist bursaries announced
Artist-led festival Hackney WickED has announced it will provide a number of artist bursaries for its 2014 edition, following news that it has received Arts Council England funding for the first time.
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Whitstable Biennale: memorable, unusual and occasionally bonkers
The seventh Whitstable Biennale opened on Saturday with a variety of one-off performances and a series of new film commissions. Dany Louise reports from the small fishing town on the Kent coast.
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Paying Artists campaign: website launches as support grows
a-n/AIR’s Paying Artists campaign launches today with its own dedicated website at www.payingartists.org.uk
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HOUSE festival review: a big deal for visual arts in Brighton
The headline show at this year’s House festival in Brighton & Hove is Yinka Shonibare’s installation of 10,000 reclaimed books at Brighton Museum and Gallery. But as our reviewer discovers, there’s also a satisfying journey of discovery to be had around the festival’s more unconventional spaces.