A quick note for Mike before I start. Yes, I do know what you mean. My Welsh connections aside, I think West Wales and Cardigan Bay are some of the most beautiful places anywhere on earth. I gave up a […]
Declan Long on two new Dublin-based galleries, and the relationship between artist-led spaces in Ireland and the UK.
Extracts from the Curated space online think-tank presentations and discussions.
Curated space looks at strategies and interventions within artist-curator space. Devised and conducted by Manick Govinda, contributors include Gavin Wade, Erika Tan, Jeremy Deller and David A. Bailey.
Curated space artists’ interviews in full.
ArtSway at the Venice Biennale, Palazzo Zenobio, 8-12 June
Commissioned by Creative Partnerships London East and curated by Manick Govinda, Artsadmin, Art for Whose Sake? looked at ways in which contemporary art, performance and live art practices engage young people, within and outside formal systems of learning. Invited speakers […]
Paul Glinkowski talks to Mark Beasley at the start of his Fellowship at Kingston University.
Gordon Dalton reports on the Curating Now symposium at the Irish Museum of Modern Art hoping to find the future of curating in museums.
Paul Glinkowski looks at the experiences of John Keane and Frauke Eigen, artists who have worked in war-torn locations outside of official state sponsored programmes, and talks to Dominic Nutt of Christian Aid who worked with Keane in Israel and Palestine.
Alicia Miller considers the relationship between artist and curator in collaborative projects.
Diana Yeh discusses some of the issues raised by Erika Tan in her keynote speech at the Connecting Flights conference.
At the end of August, curator Sophie Hope was offered a place on the Oreste 3 residency programme in Italy. An opportunity to meet and work with artists from all over Europe seemed too good an opportunity to miss.
Curator call for Contour Biennale 11
I am someone who needs to be active … some friends worry that I never seem to relax, and to be honest I find it hard both do that and to understand the concept of ’doing nothing’. There is always […]
Highlights from a-n members across the UK, including solo exhibitions by Susan Hughes in Derry~Londonderry and Freya Dooley in Sheffield.
There is a long list of things that require attention … and plenty of material that I want to play with … yet I find the need to write something here and now most urgent … most pressing … most […]
Exhibition highlights featuring a-n members, including a major ceramics survey in London, trans narratives in Leeds, plus Manchester Contemporary.
Led by Hannah Wallis, co-founder of Dyad Creative
Friday 25 & Saturday 26 November 2022
12 – 4pm daily
Online via Zoom
Free for a-n members
Taking place online, Assembly Leicester: Access, will focus on disability rights, DIY activism and working in the arts. This two day event, led by Hannah Wallis of Dyad Creative and hosted by Two Queens Gallery, Leicester, aims to discuss and make visible the activist work of artists in relation to disability justice and access rights.
This event is for a-n members. Please log in to register for this event. Not yet a member? Find out more and join a-n today
Sarah Cole & Annis Joslin: this blog details how we are using our A-N Artist’s Bursary and how this has led to developing a new project funded by Arts Council England NLPG, with additional funding by CSM Lenses.
A symposium co-hosted by a-n, the Artists’ Association of Finland and the International Association of Art (IAA) Europe.
Artists Council is an advisory group to the Board and Executive of a-n. Over a three-year term, Council members will play a key role in driving the direction of a-n’s advocacy, research and programme activities, with a focus on the leadership development of artists. Artists Council meets four times a year to voice the concerns of artists in their networks and communities, and to take part in a Leadership Development programme developed by a-n in partnership with Clore Leadership.
