Graduate interview: Claudia de la Pena
We catch up with a 2011 graduate, one year on from her degree show, to unveil alternative means of productivity with Scotland and Venice, well placed volunteering and research through internship.
We catch up with a 2011 graduate, one year on from her degree show, to unveil alternative means of productivity with Scotland and Venice, well placed volunteering and research through internship.
A selection of artists’ projects taking place through the summer.
The mechanism formulated to explore my online image archive is largely beyond my control. Commissioned participants define my direction and create new frameworks for reorganizing the original archive. Recognition of two themes in my own archive – images involving shadows […]
We finally have a title for the show: Context An apposition A placing side by side Artefacts brought together in a group exhibition A collection of objects in an antechamber to a collection of artworks in a show A collection […]
Bureau Gallery, Manchester
30 March – 12 May 2012
A new professional development programme from a-n The Artists Information Company.
Early in March I was in Margate for the National Federation of Artists’ Studio Providers’ (NFASP) AGM and a series of events designed to bring artists and studio providers together to share experience, intelligence and generally bond.
Peter Martin, Sheffield-based artist, and curator of the graduate show ‘Repercussions’ at The Old Market Gallery in Rotherham, talks to Richard Taylor about pulling together exhibitors from across the UK and producing a show representative of both physical and virtual research into 2011 degree shows.
Towner, Eastbourne
22 October 2011 – 22 April 2012
Access to professional development is vital to artists’ careers, so here’s something we think will help.
Rollo Contemporary Art, London
20 January – 2 March 2012
Sometimes you just need to go home. And I have. Today I read Jane Boyer’s a-n blog a second time. Reversed the order and read from post #1. I feel better now. You can read about Jane’s current practice and […]
The fact that I’m writing this blog should indicate I’m relatively happy with text, in fact I’ve spent most of my time at UWE trying to integrate text into my practice or actually making the text the work (as in […]
N.B. I thought I had published this before Christmas….but evidently not. (Written 19th Dec 2011) Today was my last day in the studio before Christmas. I’ve been trying various things out this term so I don’t yet have a new […]
Becky Hunter is a freelance art writer whose blogs demistify, with honesty and intelligence, the processes of making art, writing about art, and finding a place in the wider world of art. Here she talks to Andrew Bryant about criticality and affect, the prickly subject of money, and why we need idealists.
Busy week ! Annabel and I have settled on a name. ZeitgeistArtsProjects. . ZAP for short, to express our energy , electricity (of a passionate collabrative relationship) and direct approach. It has integrity ….. It was inspired by the ALISN […]
Busy week ! Annabel and I have settled on a name. ZeitgeistArtsProjects. . ZAP for short, to express our energy , electricity (of a passionate collabrative relationship) and direct approach. It has integrity ….. It was inspired by the ALISN […]
A survey of commissioning projects and public art consultancies around the UK.
MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
30 September – 27 November 2011
Art critic pair launches Rebecca – a comprehensive writing service for artists, artist-led groups, galleries, and arts organizations – with a free, Twitter advice session on 9 November at 6pm GMT / 1pm EST. Art professionals Becky Hunter and Jane […]
Andrew Bryant discusses a new series of events that take Artists talking ‘out of the virtual and into the actual’.
Over the past five years, the words Turning Point have been read, heard, written and spoken with increasing frequency by people in the visual arts in England, but for many individual arts practitioners, in particular, the origins and activities of Turning Point remain a bit opaque. This briefing paper is for them and for anyone interested in understanding more about what Turning Point is and does.