London based artist Karl Bielik‘s paintings have been in numerous high profile exhibitions, including John Moores Painting Prize, RA Summer Show, and The Marmite Prize. He is a member of Contemporary British Painting and is the Founder and Director of […]
In the second in a series of conversations with the Shape Arts’ Transforming Leadership programme cohort of 2020-2022, Shape CEO David Hevey speaks with Poppy Nash about making radical textiles, embedding lived experience into her work, and the importance of craft-activism.
I wanted to write about the mentoring which I’ve had during this process and what I’ve discovered. The two people I asked – Nicola Shipley, from Grain in Birmingham, and the artist Sian Bonnell – have different roles in their […]
I have long admired, and been more than a little envious of, artists who are able to gather their practice around a single word, phrase, or concept. Not only does this concise summary of a practice ease communication but in […]
Bulgaria has been famous for its rose fields, rose oil and rose oil products, yoghurt, red peppers, sea, and ski resorts… the list can go on and on. Let me tell you about Shumensko Spetsialno (Special) Beer type: Pilsner ABV: 5.2% Brand Origin: Shumensko […]
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Egidija Čiricaitė is an artist, poet and PhD candidate at the Slade School of Fine Art and UCL Linguistics, where she is researching Relevance Theory and metaphor. My conversation with Egidija took place at her home in South London, where […]
I knew learning Mathematics at school must be useful, *10 years later* knowledge applied at last. I————I Segments – the part of a line or of a length of something between two points (https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/segment) I would have never guessed my […]
Being asked to send a list of available works to Uppsala city’s public art department has reminded me that I need to re-think how I make things. Looking at my work I see that it functions as temporary installation – […]
My conversation with Amanda Couch took place at the Museum of English Rural Life in Reading, where Amanda is co-curator and contributing artist for The Commons: Re-Enchanting the World, a collaborative artistic response to the many ways in which the […]
Exhibitions and events from a-n members, plus other major shows, including Zarah Hussain’s solo show at Rugby Art Gallery.
It was always my plan to learn watercolour botanical illustration in addition to pen and ink illustration – as it has the advantage of conveying the living majesty and details of a plant – for example, it’s colours and small […]
Artist and a-n member Emma Talbot discusses her Max Mara Art Prize for Women residency in Italy. Interview by Laura Davidson.
One glaring great injustice for artists on low income is the ‘Call for Artists’ paid submission ‘scam’, where artists are invited to submit their work for inclusion in an exhibition but by also by offering prize money that exhibition submission becomes a gambling wager.
I think that I might be what you call ’an artist’s artist’. Other artists at the studio have really responded well to the two Rest (companion pieces), and not only artists but also a very well regarded known curator and […]
‘The British Invasion’ exhibition has just opened in Blackburn as part of this year’s British Textile Biennial. Anneka French spoke to the show’s curator Alex Zawadzki and two of the three exhibiting artists, Jamie Holman and Jasleen Kaur, all a-n members, ahead of the opening.
Project Art Works is one of five artist collectives shortlisted for this year’s Turner Prize. Sonia Boué speaks to artist and Project Art Works founder Kate Adams about the history of the collective and how relevant the Turner Prize nomination is to its artists.
Moving the two large work-tables from the studio in Enköping to the one in Uppsala last Friday felt definitive. Up until then I had been kind of camping out in the new studio. Having appropriate furniture and fittings may not […]
It feels as though I am caught in a bit of a vicious circle (or is that ’cycle’ – no matter). It is the start the of the funding application season here in Sweden: artists’ grants and awards as well […]
British Ceramics Biennial returns to Stoke-on-Trent with a vibrant five-week festival of new artist commissions, exhibitions and hands-on events. Here we take a look at five a-n members shortlisted for the £5,000 British Ceramics Biennial AWARD prize.
As part of our commitment to supporting artists, we are offering bursaries of between £500 to £1,500 for continued professional practice.
Where to start? There are some many threads (wisps) blowing around and I find it hard to weave them into any sort of order. Some things though are making themselves clear … and these things are the result of […]
