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.
Editorial published in Artists Newsletter in June 1991.
Having visited my first Literature Festival, in Norway, I’ve been thinking more about value and the different ways in which it accrues in the art and poetry worlds. One thing that struck me was the importance of delivery in poetry. […]
It looks like there’s much to be said about Debut Contemporary. They’re not the only drain though on the emerging artists bank balance. I know that the open submission is well entrenched in contemporary art culture but I’m still uncomfortable […]
The Women’s Library Foyer, London
6 April – 28 May 2011
Alice interviews Bob AB: DIY in art practice means different things to different people. How do you define the term? BM: It is a label and I instinctively dislike labels. I think for some people it is a genuine calling, […]
Times they are a-changing. Excellent news from the Royal Standard studio group with several people (present and past) going away to study for postgrads in various brilliant places. Other artists I know in Liverpool are also looking to move away […]
In March, AIR – Artists Interaction and Representation – put its weight behind calls for art education to be accessible to all, following a survey in which 95% of its members gave hearty support to the view that art education should be accessible “irrespective of background and financial status”. Here we outline AIR’s campaign and the survey’s key findings to provide evidence for artists to use.
Report by Lucy Day setting out ways in which changes to CRB Disclosures application procedures may affect artists.
A-n’s Collaborative relationships series exposes the working relationships between artists and the wide range of professionals they choose to collaborate with. In this article, artists Yoke and Zoom and Susan Miles of ACORP give their accounts of a cultural regeneration project with a difference – converting a railway station’s disused toilets into an art gallery.
Anna-Marie Gray scrutinises unpaid internships and questions their impact on one’s career prospects.
After a difficult financial period and following many internal changes Westgate Studios ceased operating as a managed organisation in 2010. Following a thorough search for alternative premises in order to keep the core groups of people together, artists have begun […]
A&E Gallery, Brighton8 – 23 January 2011
New Yoik blog. I am back. It was incredibly snowy – they’ve had something like 50 inches this month. I really had the most amazing time and met some great people. Tha reason I was invited was to take part […]
For this video guide, Katy Beale and Charlotte Frost discuss micro-blogging with particular reference to Twitter and how it can be used for research, marketing and collaboration, plus a look at how artists are using Twitter in innovative ways that connect with their practice.
The screen print I’m working on has taken me into a new avenue within my work. The print (which can be seen in my previous entry) is a net shape of a pyramid or prism, which If cut out and […]
With the other two artists in residence here at CEAC I went to The Blind Massage Centre of Ming Ai Xiamen. I can’t honestly say whether it was a pleasant experience or not, I’m still digesting it. It began with […]
Jack Hutchinson profiles the Jerwood Drawing Prize in conversation with director and founder Anita Taylor, this year’s First Prize winner Virginia Verran, and Student Prize winner Warren Andrews.
In these times of austerity, a-n Magazine has compiled a catalogue of money-saving ideas for freelancers that have been tried and tested by our readers.
Liverpool Biennial-various venues, Liverpool
18 September 2010 to 28 November 2010
Alongside AIR’s campaigns and work looking at the issues affecting artists, a group of AIR activists (myself included) have volunteered to play a more active role; raising awareness of the value of artists. These are early days in what will hopefully prove to be long-term and ever-widening effort, but conversation has begun and some activists already have events planned.
