The Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries programme has announced its first round of placements, with the visual arts represented by The Common Guild in Glasgow and Eastside Projects in Birmingham. Richard Taylor reports.
Susan Jones, a-n’s director for 15 years, receives an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
A ramshackle and intuitive approach can often seem like the only way at times, when things are hectic and there’s not much time to prepare. That was my approach to Venice this year. It was part of a whirlwind of […]
Event and exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from our busy Events section and featuring events and exhibitions posted by a-n members.
Following a successful crowdfunding campaign and call for entries, Uliana Apatina has been annnounced as the recipient of the inaugural Kim Fielding Award for experimental arts.
As part of a broad range of research around artists’ fees, a-n commissioned arts writer and researcher Dany Louise to investigate sources of advice within and external to the visual arts that offer guidance on fees and payments to artists.
I’m currently enjoying some time off over Easter for a much needed break. I just wanted to drop in briefly between finalising a funding application for the LAN – which is now being set up as a social enterprise properly […]
A new exhibition and collaboration between artists Emilia Telese and Binita Walia providing commentaries and insight on how the role of women is shaped and constrained by social, economic and political contexts.
It should be relatively simple to set up some workshops, but there’s been unnecessary and frustrating delays. Mainly Out Of Office replies to emails – like revenge because I set my emails to OOO during half term, and the art […]
A major new arts initiative led by the BBC and What Next? launches this week with a series of events and debates across the UK.
As the debate rages about paying to enter open competitions and dwindling exhibition fees, Steve Messam argues that while the art should always come first, it’s time for artists to get more business-like and professional.
It’s been a while since I’ve been in here. Something feels less inviting these days; my a-n subscription is up for renewal, and I’m seriously considering why I pay for it. I’ve somehow got involved with a KTP project at […]
In the final instalment of our ten-part end-of-year series, a-n’s new director – who took over in September following a three-month handover period – looks back over the last 12 months and looks forward to doing more for artists in 2015.
another conversation with the office of the accountant today. further claification of the hobby senario. further thoughts about the ongoing status of the self employment. this morning i’ve seen mark carr’s blog for the first time. i’ve not […]
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan recently claimed at a science and technology event that “arts subjects limit career choices”. Poet Jo Bell takes issue with the minister’s assumptions and argues that, on the contrary, art is what makes our lives ‘possible and meaningful’.
I have now spent just over two months here in Stoke-On-Trent as part of my Graduate Residency. And again my weeks have been filled with exciting activities along side my own developments in the studio. Here is what I have […]
The congratulations still streaming in, I’m actually starting to believe it now. It is a weird process… or it was for me… Having given up my salary and my proper job, I was highly motivated to get this right. And […]
This year’s Arts Development UK conference in Cardiff took ‘arts for life’ as its theme and gave delegates an opportunity to ‘pick and mix’ from a variety of sessions. But, reports Julie McCalden, the event’s real highlights came from its lively keynote speakers.
This year’s engage International Conference takes place in Leeds in November, and is set to explore how innovation and risk taking in gallery education can often run parallel with a need to disrupt, subvert and ‘unsettle’. We speak to conference programmer Michael Prior to find out more.
Earlier last week, the Paying Artists campaign was at Metal in Peterborough. I didn’t go, because the gas bill was due that week, so I don’t have the spare cash to buy train tickets/subsistence and there was no offer of […]
From a Tory MP being devoured by birds of prey to an exploration of modern methods of communication and human intimacy, this week’s tour of recommended exhibitions includes shows in Glasgow, Sunderland, Nottingham and more.
As part of the Paying artists advocacy materials I am researching examples of openly-published exhibition policies on the websites for publicly-funded galleries. I have come across some – for example fabrica.org.uk/info-for-artists/exhibiting/ and www.g39.org/cgi-bin/website.cgi?place=infomation that provide some useful information. I thought […]
With galleries in Zurich, London and New York and a stable of international artists, many will be familiar with art dealers Hauser & Wirth. The power couple’s decision to base their latest venture in the picturesque town of Bruton, Somerset, however, might take some by surprise.
A new publication by US-based choreographer Andrew Simonet is a call to action for artists to harness their creative know-how to create an economically sustainable lifestyle.
As cuts continue to bite, arts organisations are plugging the funding gap by replacing paid staff – such as gallery invigilators – with unpaid volunteers. We look at three galleries in Liverpool and Bristol that have done just that, and assess what this growing trend could mean for both individual artists and the UK’s arts ecology.
