International fairs are a great opportunity for researching galleries and making contacts, here is a selection of just some of the 150 showing at this year’s Frieze Art Fair.
Paul Stone examines some of the issues arising from the a-n event in June.
Looking back over ten years of Braziers international artists’ workshops World in Motion it’s interesting to see how artists feel about the impact of the workshops on their practice in retrospect. Like Simon Faithfull, who can “track particular career developments […]
I have always been inquisitive about technology.
Culture secretary Tessa Jowell’s recent essay1 (see News) indicates the government’s rediscovery of the value of culture “for what it does in itself”. Although couched in terms of a “weapon in fighting poverty of aspiration”, this time the battle will […]
Iliyana Nedkova responds to the networking themes that arose at Amorphous combustion, part of a body of specially commissioned writing published now on www.a-n.co.uk
Los Angeles-based curator Julie Deamer talks to artist Chris Johanson and the gallerist Jack Hanley about their mutual admiration for each other.
Artist-led Leeds Sculpture Workshop has rented property in Leeds for over ten years. Now the studio has moved into a permanent home that will enable artists to rent studio facilities at affordable prices in a professional atmosphere. This is a […]
Edith-Marie Pasquier talks to inIVA Director Gilane Tawadros and artist Alia Syed about their experience of working together.
Jane Watt discusses contemporary approaches to the creation of public monuments.
Julie Brook gives a personal account of her involvement in the Comhla International Artists Workshop in North Uist.
Conversations in art and science
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Henna Asikainen reports from the Fifth International Conference on Environmental Aesthetics.
The Scottish Arts Council has recently published an audit of visual artists. Moira Jeffrey reports.
Brigid Howarth talks to Deutsch Bank curator Mary Findlay about the sourcing and buying of artworks for the largest corporate art collection in the world.
Brigid Howarth presents an insight into the mind of the art buyer, from private buyers to corporate and public collections.
Jane Watt profiles collaborations between artists and architects at two newly built schools, in the third of the six-part series ‘Navigating Places’.
Jen Southern and Jen Hamilton discuss their collaboration on the ‘Distance Made Good’ project.
Alison F Bell reports from the 12th International Surface Design Association Conference.
Jane Watt looks at artists and commissioners who are redefining what it means to work in the ‘public region’, in the second of the six-part series ‘Navigating Places’.
Graham Parker on the reasoning behind Manchester’s presence at this year’s biennale.
Roxane Permar describes setting up a new artists’ membership group in Shetland.
The first in a six-part series ‘Navigating places’, Jane Watt profiles the River Commissions project, a series of temporary works along the River Hull corridor.
Fairly fresh out of college I received a bursary through the Crafts Council’s Next Move scheme.
Gillian Nicol explores the gap between the expectations of artists and others of ‘alternative’ activity.
