On returning home: My first week has been largely occupied by language studies and settling in. The downside to residencies in unfamiliar places is the time spent lost, seeking that which would be easily to hand at home. The upside […]
Cultural diversity is a term that has pervaded our language and thinking across all sectors of life and institutions, and its latest manifestation of citizenship is perhaps the most coercive strategy being employed by government.
Bloody hell!… What has happened to me? I used to be so good with deadlines. I would get set the work and then would get it done asap usually within that week. But now…now when it actually counts.. bloody writers […]
Finnish artist Tea Mäkipää’s work confronts her viewpoint of impending ecological catastrophe through interventions and installations positing an alternative vision of existence. By Manick Govinda.
“The process of social change is in desperate need of creativity and imagination, and the aesthetic process in urgent need of social engagement”
Started on some new work today which I have been planning for a while but have just not had the opportunity to actually put into practice. It was wonderful to make a start. When I am planning work I think […]
I took time off work last week and spent it in the studio – I'm not sure if I've ever had three consecutive days there before, which is quite an admission. Although I think of myself an artist I realise […]
THE TOUCH THIS PRESS I suppose, in order to understand what I am working towards with my degree show, I should explain what I am doing. I am wondering whether it is a good idea to publish my intentions online […]
Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
20 January – 19 March
One of the main tendencies in public space has been to minimise risk – providing mini-cities in which risk has been all but removed.
International Project Space, Birmingham
16 November – 16 December
Debra Savage’s case study-based research into the realities of professional artistic practice.
Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
2-5 November
Every age rewrites its history in its own image. Each age produces art that reflects that image, whether consciously or not.
The Biennial age is the age of the illusion of free flowing global movement of thought and capital, when the success of an artist could be measured in airmiles.
Volunteer opportunities are the norm across the visual arts, often perceived as the only route for newcomers to the profession to gain the CV experience that will get them noticed and their foot on the career ladder.
Edith Marie Pasquier introduces her selection of Artists’ profiles.
This month’s a-n Collections: Artists’ profiles presents Edith Marie Pasquier’s selection from over 150 profiles on www.a-n.co.uk.
Artists comment on the Arts Council’s Turning Point Strategy.
Ask yourself these questions. What makes you an artist? And what do you have in common with other artists?
The Old Truman Brewery
6 June 2006 to 7 July 2006
Caroine Wright on the exchange programme between Norwich School of Art and Design and Asagaya School of Art and Design, Tokyo.
Jane Watt examines NAN’s characteristics and its relationship to the current networking climate.
Jane Watt outlines the core strengths of NAN and looks to the future.
With a government spending review impending, the value of culture has had high scale profiling recently.
