A project by filmmaker Sam Firth is causing a stir following reports in The Telegraph and Scottish editions of The Daily Mail and The Sun that the artist is being paid £160 an hour of public funding for standing still next to a loch.
I am shocked that my asialink residency in China has come to an end. Its been an amazing time, where I have felt like I have lived here, and its strange to think about leaving and to think about life […]
After his show for New Work Scotland Programme at Collective Gallery, Edinburgh and before his solo show at Liverpool’s Royal Standard, Oliver Braid shares some thoughts on his career as an artist so far, including ideas on how to make a self-made residency and how to organise your own ‘graduate diary’.
Becky Hunter is a freelance art writer whose blogs demistify, with honesty and intelligence, the processes of making art, writing about art, and finding a place in the wider world of art. Here she talks to Andrew Bryant about criticality and affect, the prickly subject of money, and why we need idealists.
Looking back on a year of Studio 75 It’s nearly a year since we started up Studio75. It was last Christmas time that were in there stripping, painting and repairing the place to make it fit for purpose. In January […]
Have you been watching the You tube video’s by Mark McGowan? I think you should. http://www.youtube.com/user/chunkymark?feature=wat… Despite all the terrible things going on i believe there is enough goodness to change things for the better. We’ve all been living lives […]
Time is running out fast. We lost electricity again, so our electricity box was beeping, so the neighbours came out again to see what is going on. They must think we are idiots – this is the third time this […]
Busy week ! Annabel and I have settled on a name. ZeitgeistArtsProjects. . ZAP for short, to express our energy , electricity (of a passionate collabrative relationship) and direct approach. It has integrity ….. It was inspired by the ALISN […]
Busy week ! Annabel and I have settled on a name. ZeitgeistArtsProjects. . ZAP for short, to express our energy , electricity (of a passionate collabrative relationship) and direct approach. It has integrity ….. It was inspired by the ALISN […]
The continued economic doldrums and uncertainty in public funding make it more important than ever for artists to find ways to make and save money. So here are some tips – old and new – from the a-n community.
What’s the Point they’ll all be dead. I have failed to get to the gallery today. I had intended to be really organised having written a long list of to dos. Of that list I have achieved: paying a cheque […]
On Tuesday I’m going to see one of the Stockholm City’s artists’ studios. The city has a number of studios that periodically come up for rent. It’s highly unlikely that I will have a chance of getting this studio as […]
Went to drinks at Brian Wallace’s apartment on Sunday night. Laurens Tan and Feabe came by with their driver to pick us up – we then met up with doug lewis and Jean Klimack (currenlty exhibiting at Where Where Space). […]
Emblem – Deconstructed And Destroyed :A Homage To John Latham Christina Mitrentse 30 September – 2 November 2011 Thursday- Sunday 1-6pm. Launch Evening: Friday 30 September 2011, 7 – 11 p.m Performance by Aoife Van Linden Tol At: Trinity ∴ […]
It is now nearly september and I know I have been avoiding this blog for ages.I have ,however , religiously fed into my other blog, the one that speaks about events and avdertises dates to meet at the shed. This […]
Myself and Peter the sound engineer for the project have met and discussed what is going to be possible to create inside the vacant shop unit that we have secured, paying close attention to the budget that we have available. […]
With a-n + AIR’s recent Big Artists Survey revealing that a third of both mid-career and established artists expect their incomes to go down this year when compared to a year ago, Artquest’s new development will strike a chord with many artists as they navigate the increasingly harsh economic environment for their practice in the months ahead.
As promised, here’s a little more on rates of pay in the art writing world – as well as some notes on why I decided to start this blog. Honest About Freelancing was inspired by a frank email exchange I […]
Forth Valley Open Studios – the future? http://forthvalleyopenstudios.com/ How do we progress Forth Valley Open Studios into a more formal structure? How do we ensure that if we run out of steam, inevitable after the first wave of enthusiasm for […]
Reading Emily Speed’s last couple of blog posts made me think about why freelance writers are often as broke (and bad with money) as artists. I agree it’s about all of those 5 points that Emily mentions – ignoring money, […]
I’m defiantly not going to be lonely or stuck for people to talk to, there are always people coming in and out of my studio. So far it’s a real rag-tag bunch of miss fits (rich man, journalist, oil baron, […]
Becky Shaw explores the dangers of the concept of ‘continuous practice’ and gives thought to the key factors that enable longevity if artists choose it.
Serial collaborators and Artists talking bloggers Alice Bradshaw and Bob Milner co-curate the Project Space at Westgate Studios, Wakefield. Here in the first of two interviews, Alice interviews Bob about DIY practice, collaboration and public funding. Next month, Bob interviews Alice.
Blogger Ann Shaw talks to Andrew Bryant about working in the virtual realm, her career development from journalist to artist, and current concerns.
New evidence exposing, quantifying and discussing the likely impact on the visual arts of Arts Council England’s decisions on fifteen previously Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs) visual arts organisations unsuccessful in their NPO application. It shows that a disproportionate number of artists’ membership and development agencies and practice-based organisations lost core funding, despite ACE’s aim of creating a balanced national portfolio and makes recommendations for sustaining their work as part of a strengthened arts ecology.
