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Tanya Axford
Paul Moss profiles Tanya Axford and discusses the strategies she has employed to maintain her practice.
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Artists’ business
Brigid Howarth looks at how Sue Park, Amanda Doughty, Joe Magee and Kuljit Chuhan make a living thourgh selling their work or skills.
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Self-employed artist
Linda Ball explores how self-employed artists operate and how an artist-run business can work.
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Starter studios
Rebecca Farley profiles the Starter studios programme and looks at how six of the scheme’s previous artists were able to develop their careers.
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Next move
Heather Rigg profiles Next Move, a national professional development scheme which aims to launch the careers of applied artists.
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Artists’ product
Hilary Williams talks to four artists about how they have developed specific products. She learns about their initial motivation and inspiration, how they developed their ideas into production and what marketing strategies they employed for these particular products.
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Safe working practice
Whilst safe working practice is largely a matter of common sense, it is also a legal and professional issue. This guide by David Pope introduces the key legislation and offers practical advice on risk assessment.
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Marketing
Marice Cumber introduces key marketing concepts for artists and offers advice to help target your marketing effectively.
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Cultural condition
Illustrating the approach she brings to her new role at [a-n], Gillian Nicol highlights some of the challenges and opportunities for artists and their practice today, looking broadly at education and employment, status and lifestyle and the impact of widening access to technology.
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All that clusters…
Located in a ‘cultural industries’ area ourselves for the past three years, we can confirm that the advantages – creative networking and exchange, vibrant working environment, immediate access to like-minded cultural specialists, mutual support in development, etc – are there […]
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Barts art
A new commission from Julian Opie has launched redevelopment of the West Wing at Barts as a national Breast Care Centre of Excellence. Architects Greenhill Jenner’s proposal will create a contemporary, state-of-the-art medical facility with strong ‘patient appeal’ whilst celebrating […]
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Old spaces for new art
Penelope Curtis explores how ‘installation art’ has affected our readings of art, artists and curators.
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Paddy Hartley
Since completing an MA in ceramics in 1998, I’ve worked with and in response to a diverse range of people, environments and themes.
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Joe Magee
I studied at London College of Printing and spent the subsequent decade attempting to master print as a medium.
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Young curators rewarded
A gallery run by children is amongst recent recipients of a Scottish Arts Council lottery grant. Room 13, a group of primary school children who run an art studio and gallery at Caol Primary School near Fort William, was awarded […]
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Networked bodies
Networked Bodies is an ongoing research and development project for New Work Network. Through examination of alternative models of funding and commissioning, the aim is to establish a radical new model for commissioning live work. It is envisaged that this […]
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Times table
Ten years ago: The TWSA project which intended to create a new perception of possibilities for public art in four cities included work by Mona Hatoum. Vong Phaophanit, Richard Deacon, and Donald Rodney; The Spectator Painting Competition offered a £2,000 […]
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Pedro Cabrita Reis: A Place Like That
Baltic, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
26 October – 26 January
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Big business?
Brigid Howarth investigates the multifaceted business of buying and selling in the corporate art market.
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Commissioning culture
The Culture Company, an independent commissioning agency based in Huddersfield, aims to promote surprising and creative interventions in everyday places. Their remit combines the programming of events as diverse as exhibitions, festivals, conferences and commissions, working with both public and […]
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Made to order
A high percentage of Jennie Moncur’s work is commissioned. Since 1986, alongside undertaking a range of private commissions, she has built up a portfolio of public works including thirty tapestries; painted fabrics and rugs for Jardine Insurance Brokers; laser-cut linoleum […]
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Pay back
David Jeffreys looks at the issue of arts funding and considers whether there’s a catch to the expansion of public spending.
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Best western
Drifting south west to Cornwall, Alan Bleakley describes PALP, an artist-led group committed to experimental, collaborative and socially inclusive projects.
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Generating income
Last February Jennifer Vickers completed a two-year residency at Manchester Metropolitan University as part of North West Arts Board’s Setting up Scheme. “During the early stages of this placement I struggled to make any kind of profit from my practice, […]
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Fabrications: New art and urban memory in Manchester
Cube, Manchester 11 September – 2 November