Richard Billingham took time out from preparations for the Turner Prize to discuss how he moved from an aspiring cash-strapped artist living in the heart of the Black Country to a celebrated artist of international acclaim.
This ambitious artist-led project has involved seventy-five artists and resulted in over 100 artworks. Cassie Thompson visits the exhibition and talks to the project organisers.
Combining new computer drawings with composed soundtracks, my recent installation at domoBaal in London reflected my interest in the cinematic use of music. ‘Cabins and Other Difficulties’ took us into a landscape where isolated dwellings evoked Thoreaus Walden, and made […]
Continuing our series on the career development of well-established artists, writer Roy Exley meets Sonia Boyce to discuss how she has steered her career from British Home Stores shop assistant to celebrated artist.
My practice is concerned with social and political issues; the visual language I use resides within a traditional aesthetic of truth and beauty.
As an artist-photographer my work is broad and covers many genres of photographic imagery.
The UK’s seen a noticeable increase in professional development schemes for artists, encompassing training, mentoring, networking and information services. There is an obvious cross-reference to the government’s endorsement of ‘lifelong learning’ as a principle, encouraged through the offer of individual learning accounts for all. These moves increase opportunities for the kinds of artistic development that incorporates developing and honing skills, accessing facilities and ultimately furthering career strategies. The results are more than just CV embellishment. By providing points of crossover between artists, such schemes contribute to peer support systems and help to address the potential isolation of artists. Here, three individuals involved in artists’ professional development matters describe some of the resources around, and discuss how artists are making the most of them.
Louise Coysh visited ‘Fresh Art’ at the Business Design Centre, London to find out how the fair met with the exhibiting artists’ expectations.
A groundbreaking new partnership between Meteor, Axis, Foundation for Community Dance, NAWE, Sound Sense and Writernet has secured £360,000 from the New Opportunities Fund to create ‘Arts Explorer’. Funding and collaboration between partners will enable some 10,000 pages of text, […]
Three artists report on their residency experiences in different countries.
I am working as artist team-leader on Artlink’s FUSION project that has been taking place in hospitals throughout Edinburgh and the Lothians. In my time on this programme, I have explored new ways of working through creative collaborations with patients, […]
My practice is in lens-based arts.
Since graduating from Glasgow School of Art in 1992, I have pursued a parallel career as a practising artist producing work for exhibition and as a tutor. I am currently a part-time tutor at the Visual Arts Studio @ Tramway, […]
ArtSway, Sway, Hampshire 17 March – 29 April
The rise of independent artist-run spaces across the UK, and a seemingly impenetrable gallery circuit in London, appear poles apart. Gordon Dalton in Edinburgh and Tim Birch in Manchester visit two young, ‘commercially-minded’ spaces that have picked up on this, and are encouraging an art market in exciting and challenging contemporary work outside London.
Advice for photographic and digital image-makers on promoting your work in an expanding environment.
Ukraine artist Boris Mikhailov is this year’s winner of the Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize. Worth £15,000 and organised by The Photographers’ Gallery, the prize aims to annually acknowledge a photographer who is judged to have made the most significant […]
‘Perceiving the Invisible’ is a series of interactive works that result from my six-month Year of the Artist residency in the physics department of University of Cambridge. The Cavendish Laboratory has been host to cutting-edge discoveries since 1874, including the […]
‘Home (Between 8 and 10pm)’ was an exhibition curated by MASS, that began by looking at aspects of taste and home-ownership. However, this was not about unfathomable DIY assembly packs from Sweden, nor Sir Terrance Conran’s call for cool austerity […]
Two and a half years ago, Newcastle upon Tyne’s Side Gallery decided to reactivate its programme of documentary photography commissions. Side always flourished on the interaction between its exhibitions and the active documentation of northern lives and landscapes, but, since […]
Window Sills is neither public art nor community art. It uses collaborative strategies that draw on and sit between a number of artistic practices taking its lead from ‘New Genre Public Art’ – a term used by American artist Suzanne Lacy – which incorporates activist arts, site-specific art, performance art and happenings. The project is also aligned to ideas about art and context developed in universities in the UK.
Turning our heads to view something that has caught our attention is a subconscious reflex. When doing so, we tend not to get the full picture and leave it up to our imagination to fill in any missing elements. Our […]
In the September 2000 issue of [a-n] MAGAZINE Tyne and Wear Museums Service advertised for an Assistant Art Exhibitions Officer at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne. The post, working on exhibition and outreach projects with community groups, artists and art groups, received ninety applications. The successful candidate was Dominic Smith – an artist based in Newcastle.
My work centres on physical and cultural colonisation on a personal and political level.
Ffotogallery, Cardiff 11 November – 23 December
