I was just rereading Rob Turners wonderful post about rejection letters www.a-n.co.uk/p/570784 (see post no 28) I want to submit this one for the prize of ‘rejection letter most likely to be received with cheers’ ‘Thank you for your submission […]
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
20 March – 3 July 2010
Best Practice Seminar: with Alex Pearl 29th May 12.00PM-4.00PM @ AirSpace Gallery www.newgenerationspace.wordpress.com airspacegallery no4 Broad Street Hanley Stoke-on-Trent Staffordshire ST1 4HL In this session we will be looking at the fundamentals of what it means to be an artist […]
A guide for artists and arts organisers to creating a mutually-beneficial relationship.
Have been doing boring admin stuff. Created a pdf for the first time yesterday (to attach to emails to advertise for portraits). Having had absolutely no training in graphic design or computer graphics it hasn’t come easily to me… I […]
FIRST WORKSHOP APRIL 26th All the school and community workshops programmed for the next few weeks are “family” workshops, therefore parents and relatives have been invited to attend with their children. The first workshop was with the peerie class (peerie […]
Jayne Knight is Arts Development Manager at Suffolk County Council. She was the driving force behind Making Art Work, an ambitious and widely regarded professional development programme for Suffolk-based artists that ran from 1999 until 2006. She talks to Jane Watt about how the scheme developed, her work in a local authority and survival tips for rural-based artists.
Startling architectural interventions, large-scale touring exhibitions and ambitious commissions will transform the city of Norwich 7-22 May through Norfolk & Norwich Festival (NNF10) as it presents its first ever visual arts programme.
Francis Thorburn
Mobile Picnic Pavilion
At the beginning of March this year, the Arts Council of Wales hosted ‘Arts in Health and Well-being’, a conference about prevention, intervention and creative action in healthcare.
Clemens Kogler was born in Bayern in 1980 and is studying at The University of Arts, Linz. Starting out as a painter, he has also worked in advertising and television. His practice is now made up of being a graphic designer, animator, film maker, and illustrator among other roles. He is one of the artists based in Linz to be awarded a studio at the Salzamt for one year during 2009/2010. Kogler has exhibited and won awards at numerous film and animation festivals. sixpackfilm distribute some of his work and his commercial work is represented by Liberty Films in the UK.
I regularly engage in dialogue with myself about my work, like most artists I’m sure; dialogue with material, object, concept, place; and dialogue with audiences through showing work in exhibitions. I worked on a collaborative project in 2008 that was […]
Unfortunately, on this occasion. Dear Rob, Thank you for your interest in our commission but: I am sorry to write with disappointing news, but we received a large volume of very high standard submissions, Whilst we were impressed with your […]
As time moves on and my piece grows, the inevitable conversation comes up over and over – am I going to sell the individual portraits at the degree show? What a great idea I’ve had, I’ll make a killing, earn […]
Artist Kirsten Lavers and Andy O’Hanlon (Arts Development Officer for South Cambridgeshire District Council) talk about Kirsten’s appointment as community artist for Orchard Park, which led to the ambitious multi-layered collaborative project, Crop Marks.
Antony Gormley’s One and Other commission for the Fourth Plinth last year, and more recently Michael Landy’s Art Bin project at South London Gallery both suggest the emergence of a new form of artwork that has the capacity to engage mass audiences directly.
Artist Christine Wilcox-Baker recounts her residency at Tatton Park with Gardens Manager Sam Youd.
This month’s Bites.
January’s AIR Advisory Group meeting held in Newcastle provided the opportunity to invite Scottish Artists Union President Chris Biddlecombe to come along.
Aldo Rinaldi and Katherine Daley-Yates discuss northcabin, a programme of site-specific commissions in an unusual venue in Bristol from 2008-09.
