I’m designing a book that’s an extension of my practice. The title is Organic Matter and Decay because the feedback from the self-directed crit the other day was that the drawings referred to reclaimed and found things which says to […]
Influential Director of Wysing Arts Centre, who was made an MBE in 2020, has died after living with lung cancer for the last two years.
I filmed Clean my sheets (video here), which is a documentation of washing up liquid being dripped onto the sheets of steel. From my previous post, I wrote about the neat being in contradiction to the disorganised, but I noticed […]
A question I have been asking myself this weekend is where does my recent work sit with the idea of the uncanny? The uncanny came about in Freud’s essay, which stems from the word unheimlich, and he writes that it’s […]
This is initially the artists I choose (at the moment) in my proposed proposal for the models and methods of curatorial practice module. Chris Huen Sin-kan Peter Friedl Cheikh Ndiaye Damian Massey What connects these artists’ work together is how […]
Rosemary Shirley explores new approaches to curating in rural contexts including New Geographies, a project developed by a consortium of nine arts organisations based in the East of England, and Ian Giles work as part of the project, Open Ramble East, which looks at queering rural places through rambling walks.
Jo Hodges and Robbie Coleman’s collaborative and multi-disciplinary practice questions our relationships with environment and landscape. Sally Davies talks to the Dumfries and Galloway-based artists about working in, and interpreting, rural contexts.
Peak is an arts organisation based in the Black Mountains in Wales that works with artists and communities to respond to the rural environment. Peak’s Creative Director Rebecca Spooner speaks to Rosemary Shirley about the organisation’s contemporary arts remit for making and showing art in rural places.
A nomadic space in the real and virtual worlds acting as a for location for curated activities which explore the relationship between climate change and wellbeing.
Exploring the external physical weather and our internal psycho-emotional weather as as a metaphor
Venues 4, 5 & 6 Huggeormen P. Hiort-Lorenzens Vej 19, DK-8000 Aarhus C Introduction by Kirstine Schiess Højmose, AaBKC Director All of the info on their website is in Danish however there is also a facebook page here. They are […]
Naoko Mabon, who works under the name Wagon, is an Aberdeen-based freelance curator. This profile includes a video interview recorded at Assembly Aberdeen in which Mabon introduces her work and offers advice to artists thinking about setting up their own initiative.
This week’s selection includes exhibitions in Isleworth, London, Stratford-upon-Avon and Birmingham – all taken from our busy Events section featuring shows and events posted by a-n members.
Since I last posted in July I’ve had a chunk of time ‘off’ with my son (whilst my Urban Rural Exchange with Karen Wood continued on Instagram), and have also been involved in a number of events, coming together with […]
Announcing the recipients of this year’s a-n Artist Bursaries, which offer awards of £500-£1,500 to a-n Artist members wishing to undertake self-determined professional development over the coming year.
We started our trip through Caucasus with a visit to Armenia. We only had four days there and it was Easter Holiday so some galleries and museums were closed, also lots of people we wanted to meet were to busy […]
A recent event at MAC in Birmingham brought practitioners and curators together to interrogate ‘the (in)visibility of disabled artists’. Anneka French reports on a productively critical discussion.
Image credit: Andy Ford Over a year in planning and development, Jamboree is finally here – and we are so excited to welcome 150 artists and curators to sunny Dartington! I’ll be reporting on site each day, and full reports […]
A new contemporary art space in Liverpool run by The White Pube co-founder Gabrielle de la Puente is bucking the art world trend for internationalism by only exhibiting work from artists and other creatives living in or from the Merseyside region. Laura Robertson reports.
