Kate Raggett and Mandy Fowler give their recollections of an ambitious one-day land art workshop in rural Herefordshire that involved nearly 200 participants, several bales of straw, and a Cessna aircraft.
Every year the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) runs a scholarship to Florence for students graduating from Scottish art schools. Richard Taylor catches up with Rebecca Cusworth, a recent graduate of Glasgow School of Art, as she prepares to leave for Italy.
On life: I’ve been in Leeds for a few days doing the Drawing Shed project at PSL. It was a lovely thing to do and although I haven’t really looked at the animation properly yet (I suspect it is slightly […]
MIT Press, Massachusetts
13 March 2010
FAFF Programme Friday 20th August 2010 Continued Sai Hua Kuan (SG/UK) Space Drawing No.5 Space Drawing No.5 was created in 2009 in Russia. Through the simplest yet most fundamental function of line – to divide, subtract, Space Drawing attempts to […]
How we Met I met Ruth and Pete on an AA2A residency at Nottingham Trent University which started in November 2009. I had graduated in 2008 but had to move back to a small market town with little artistic activity […]
i’ve tried doing some stuff today. it’s turned into a kind of self test about creativity. i’ve been looking through some old vhs tapes, after this morning’s walk and recording some things i saw. the tapes were recorded ten years […]
The benefits of Core Gallery to studio members is now about 5 pages long and I shall oublish excerpts onto here- it shall be a good guide for anyone who wants to know about setting up an artist led space […]
Just a quick post today… I’ll write a longer one soon and catch you up with the crazy month that July has been! BLOG: My blog’s 30 Days of Drawing project has gone really well. My blog traffic has increased […]
Richard Taylor finds out how three artist groups are re-vamping their structures as established organisations, to support new talent and promote a variety graduate activity.
hi richard, i’m delighted to read that you’ve put an image of mine on the a-n- students homepage. i read the comment on this blog at a point when a piece of good news/recognition for effort was really needed. you […]
ART HISTORY: Really great trip to the Harvard archive/storage facility in Somerville, near Boston. My meeting with Christina Rosenberger was excellent. Our research interests on Martin are so different, but we had a lot of questions in common and some […]
BLOGGING: 30 Days of Drawing has begun. I’m nervous and excited and I really hope lots of people are inspired to take part and to practice drawing. USA: I’m still pretty exhausted from my travels so far, but had a […]
LiangWest is a “new prototype of gallery for a new generation of artists whose artistic agendas are relevant to contemporary ideals”. For this month’s Collaborative relationships a-n Magazine Coordinator Chris Brown talks to proprietors Theresa Liang and William West and artist Prem Sahib. They discuss the importance of peer support, and describe how they negotiate their ongoing relationship and their forthcoming exhibition project ‘Boyfriend Material’
“It’s hard for all working mums (and dads) to find a work/life balance isn’t it – what’s so different for artists?” This was a question posed recently by a friend over dinner. I’d been banging on about APT – Artist Parents Talking – specifically about APT’s current search for funding, without stopping to think that she might not understand the basic premise of the network.
The forth and final Creative Scotland dialogue event was held at the impressively refurbished Briggait building on the banks of the River Clyde, Glasgow.
In last month’s issue we reported on the online commentaries ensuing from the DCMS’s announcement of the extent to which public subsidy for the arts will be cut. In a bid to grant a voice for practitioners and arts professionals, platforms have been initiated on social sites including Marcus Romer’s (Artistic Director of Pilot Theatre) Artsfunding ning network artsfunding.ning.com. Here we republish excerpts of postings on Artsfunding, plus other timely commentaries related to this line of discussion.
Footnotes: the emerging artist Finding Ones Place – How did I get here? I am wondering how did I get here? In some respects I feel like I haven’t had the time or space to think properly for a decade. […]
This is the start of my blog from the wonderfully named Flushing Avenue in Bushwick, NY where I am staying with Julie. Its technically about the residency I’m going to be doing at i-park, in Connecticut, but as I’ve been […]
Striving and surviving in the do it yourself art world; curating, managing members, self-publishing. Richard Taylor talks to three recently founded artists’ groups about doing it ‘DIY’, progress so far and what the future holds.
In reality, being represented by a gallery is not for the many. Hearing lots of curators/collectors talk at the symposium at A Foundation, which was part of The Economy of the Gift exhibition/art fair, was like being in a different […]
Back from hospital after my operation. Was lucky to have a room to myself and free TV. Don’t know what I did to deserve it but anyhow it meant I watched too much TV, although by the last day I’d […]
A Wandering Practice As my work is site and context specific I like to quickly engage with people and place by creating verbal and visual dialogues to start the process. To experience a place I simply move through a space […]
AIR member Rosalind Davis, mixed media painter and graduate from the RCA, discusses her thoughts on the new coalition government and how cuts to arts funding will affect her personally.
