In Brief: news briefing featuring national and international stories including: Portrait of Nigel Farage fails to attract a single bid at Royal Academy summer exhibition; British Council wins funding for youth-led heritage project; giant Sadiq Khan balloon to fly over London.
Four projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and including exhibitions and events in Birmingham, Canterbury, Derby and Spilsby.
A new partnership between Dash and Arnolfini, MAC Birmingham and Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art will offer residencies for curators who identify themselves as disabled.
With too many artists’ residencies excluding those who don’t have independent means of support or who have responsibilities at home, Alistair Gentry welcomes Wysing Art Centre’s new residency programme and calls for more of the same from building-based arts organisations.
Earlier this year the Leverhulme Trust decided to close its successful Artist in Residence Grant Scheme which has seen artists including Turner Prize winner Elizabeth Price and the Scottish artist Alec Finlay working alongside scientists and academics across the UK. Chris Fremantle talks to those lamenting its closure and calls for its return.
Collected blogs and resources on the a-n site on artists’ residencies. See also my commissioned essay Residencies: practices and paradoxes
I have taken time out from blogging as it has been impossible to keep it up with all of my time taken up with project managing the residencies, planning a school project, developing a new performance and finalising the closing […]
Eight artists including Catherine Yass and James Rigler are taking part in the White Noise residency at the soon to be demolished former Television Centre’s East Tower.
Selected from a-n’s busy Events section: reflected neo-gothic architecture in Scunthorpe, paintings in London and Salford, digital residencies, and Hindu alpono works in Bolton.
One of my aims for this research trip has been to explore the kinds of residency models available here in LA, and to look at what opportunities there may be for UK based artists to come and spend some time […]
You are all invited to the second We Are Resident event at the University of Salford. Booking is essential to reserve your FREE place. We look forward to seeing you there… https://weareresident.eventbrite.co.uk
We had our studio meeting last night so that Brigitte (who owns the space) could update us with the outcome of the Arts Council funding application. Of course, we already knew the outcome (we were successful) but we needed to […]
This is a very short blog post, but I’m quite excited about it and therefore felt the need to share it. On Monday, we heard the news that the arts council bid to run International residencies in our studio space, has been successful. […]
Selected resources and blogs from the a-n website that collectively suggest good practices and provide practical insight to artists seeking to work through residencies, and organisers and hosts offering residencies.
engage is seeking proposals for its journal reflecting on the shifting nature of artists’ residencies and the challenges faced when artists and organisations work together.
Four of Scotland’s leading environmental organisations are hosting seven artists’ residencies funded by Creative Scotland, as part of the Year of Natural Scotland.
In January, three UK makers began Watershed’s Craft + Technology Residencies, bringing together making and design with digital, networked technologies. Taking place in Bristol, Plymouth and Falmouth, we talk to the participants and discover how digital technology is influencing their practice.
