This year’s Venice + Scotland presentation at the 56th Biennale will see 28 students and recent graduates from seven art schools across Scotland taking part in a major learning programme.
An overview of the current Age Discrimination law in Great Britain under the Equality Act 2010, followed by a set of action points for arts employers, and guidance for individuals who might want to challenge a decision or a practice.
This toolkit is an introduction to the contractual process, enabling artists to assess contracts and to build their own.
ROCK Monday 2 February Lots of messing around today. Nothing solid. Yet I am reading Helene Cixous and she speaks of the nether realms, of digging down, to beware laziness and impatience. I will dig on my allotment, unearth, what […]
journal of two Residencies:
1 St. John’s Church, St. Leonards on Sea
2 Rock House (Art School) Hastings
As students we have all been part of the university environment for a couple of years at least. Have you ever asked yourself if you would like to work in one? If so have you thought about what kind of […]
I had been looking at artist residencies as a way to invest in my practice, to give me time and space with mentor support to develop my practice. But I am limited because I can’t drop everything and go live […]
Co-creators of the Tower of London ‘poppy’ installation, artist Paul Cummins and theatre designer Tom Piper, have been recognised in the 2015 New Year’s Honours list, alongside outgoing Arts Council England CEO Alan Davey and Metal founder Jude Kelly.
Last year for expedient reasons, mainly to make my day job more challenging, I developed an artist residency programme within a product design research centre Makers Using Technology.
The director of Hospitalfield Arts in Arbroath, Scotland – which will be curating the Scottish pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale, alongside its ongoing programme of artists’ residencies – reflects on a busy year of new partnerships and future possibilities.
My last post was about me starting to make work again after the blitz of creating a solo show, but that has been short lived as I’ve had to concentrate on fitting paid work in before Christmas and also working […]
24.10.14 Majestic Studios https://www.facebook.com/pages/Majestic-Studios/397402593701606 I went today to visit Majestic Studios who were having an open day for 3 days to promote their presence. I need to visit artist studios in the next few months as much as possible as […]
As Mr Jones begins the roller-coaster ride into the next election worrying about the ‘Mansion Tax’, I’ll try not to express contempt. As part of the large company of artists contemplating whether they can pay the next months rent for their studio, […]
Well I made it to China. I am pretty jetlagged but I am hoping it will sort itself out by tomorrow. I’ve done quite a bit since I arrived. May and Ineke have been really helpful. May met me at […]
I very pleased to be involved in an upcoming micro residency / group show Residual Projects at South Square in Bradford this December/January. There are 7 artists doing 6 week-long residencies looking at the residual layers of creative spaces and […]
Returning to work full time as an artist after 17 years out of the ‘scene’… this mid fifties man’s weekly thoughts and experiences of how tough it is to get ‘back in’
As this year’s Frieze Art Fair introduces ‘Live’ – a new strand of performance-based installations – Jennifer Picken assesses the state of play and provision for performance and live art in the UK.
I am thrilled to have been selected for a three month residency working with marble at the very prestigious Studio Sem in Pietrasanta, Italy. Here is whats happened..
Cardiff Contemporary festival continues for five weeks across the city, inviting visitors to explore and discover the Welsh capital through a series of installations and exhibitions. Rory Duckhouse reports from the opening weekend.
Cardiff Contemporary brings together a range of special commissions, exhibitions and residencies across the city for a five-week festival of the visual arts.
What are artists’ associate programmes and what do they offer within the broad landscape of artists’ professional development? What should artists consider before applying? Based on extensive research into sixty arts organisations across England, Scotland and Wales, this guide by Dany Louise offers artists help in thinking through the various options available to them.
Residencies are as diverse as the practitioners, organisations and environments that host them. From fee paying to sponsored, rural to urban and global to local. They provide a matrix for investigation, invention and exploration (at best) and at worst they […]