With a nod to the Noughties, Guest Editor Shy Bairns explores collectives and how artists work together to build their own art worlds.
Jasleen Kaur discusses her shift from craft into visual art and her deep investment “in art as a means of speaking or coming into voice.”
With a nod to the Noughties, Guest Editor Shy Bairns explores collectives and how artists work together to build their own art worlds.
We take a look at the works of a-n members included in the Glasgow International festival of contemporary visual art, which continues until 27 June 2021.
Bobby Baker discusses her work and life in the 1990s, the “most productive, intense, crazy period of my career.”
2020 graduate Jody Mulvey discusses founding SADGRADS and her hopes for the future.
Production Director of Alchemy Film & Arts explains how the organisation responded to the Covid-19 crisis by moving its festival online to make the best of a challenging situation.
The Glasgow-born curator, who was appointed the new Artistic Director and CEO of ATLAS Arts last year, discusses her experience of the past 12 months, including finding new ways to reach out to communities over the lockdown period and how working together with her colleagues to adapt to the unpredictable scenario of the COVID pandemic has taught her the value of collaboration, resilience and taking things slow.
Nine artists selected to take part in UP Projects and Flat Time House’s free programme exploring socio-political issues, community-oriented practice and/or public contexts to develop their practice whilst collaborating with others.
The just-published 32-page guide includes an expanded ‘Class of 2020’ section featuring images and insight from both graduating students and lecturers, plus there’s an extensive interview with collaborative duo Jane and Louise Wilson, and collectives from around the UK discuss why ‘putting heads together to collaborate is an artistic no brainer’
Laura Yuile is a London-based artist whose practice is concerned with issues around domestic and urban space and how changes in the built environment and technology affect our everyday lives. This profile includes a video recorded at a-n’s Assembly Thamesmead event in October 2019.
In 2017, New Contemporaries, an annual exhibition of emerging artists from UK art schools, opened up its application to include artists from alternative learning programmes. Director Kirsty Ogg discusses this decision, the changing climate for emerging artists in the UK, and what artists really need to develop and challenge their practice. Interview by Michaela Nettell.
As the marquees go up in the park, we take a look at some of the fairs, events and curated projects taking place this week in London and beyond, including a new Art on the Underground commission by Denzil Forrester, House of Voltaire’s latest pop-up space and the second iteration of the Coventry Biennial.
Colin Hambrook provides an introduction to the history of, and current practices in the field of disability arts, including an overview of key organisations that support disabled visual artists.
Dundee-based project Dain’ Hings was initiated by Duncan of Jordanstone fine art students Jek McAllister and Saskia Singer as a way to invite fellow artists to ‘just dae hings’ This profile includes a video interview, recorded at Assembly Aberdeen, in which they explain how they got started using readily-available resources, including their local pub.
The annual award, which offers a first prize of £10,000 towards studio costs, was created in 2013 by restaurateur Mark Hix.
The residency, which is presented in partnership with the Contemporary Art Society and Orkney’s Pier Arts Centre, sees the 2017 Turner Prize nominee based at the National Gallery’s on-site artist’s studio for a year.
The annual festival’s Commissions Programme includes works that reflect a mood of uncertainty currently engulfing UK politics while this year’s Platform: 2019 exhibition of early career artists based in Scotland explores ideas of embellishment, identity, sustainability and fandom.
For our first a-n Instagram take over this week, a-n’s Narbi Price was on hand to post from the Fine Art Degree Show at Newcastle University, where he is currently a PhD candidate. As Price explained in his first post […]
We look back at the latest a-n Instagram degree shows posts including Narbi Price’s reflections on the show at Newcastle University, FK McLoone’s visit to Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, and Jenny Steele’s coverage of the show at Manchester School of Art.
Selected by artists Rana Begum, Sonia Boyce and Ben Rivers, the open submission exhibition will launch at Leeds Art Gallery in September before moving to South London Gallery.
Formed in 2016 in the run up to the EU referendum, Keep It Complex: Make it Clear is a loose collective of London-based artists and cultural workers. Its members aim to challenge apathy and fear by providing people with ‘tools and ideas to get involved with everyday politics’. Lydia Ashman reflects on the ways in which the group use their skills and networks as artists to facilitate conversation in a divided world.
Visual Arts in Rural Communities hosts residencies in the remote hill-farming area of Tarset in Northumberland. In August 2018, the organisation piloted its first residency for a disabled artist. Lydia Ashman speaks to Project Director Janet Ross and artist, curator and disability advocate Aidan Moesby about the development of the pilot and its impact on the organisation’s programme.
