Contents include: Should artists’ put life on hold to take up residencies abroad? Low stipends and paying the rent discussed. Advice on preparing grant applications and using The artists’ contracts toolkit online. Reviews from Jerwood Space and Elastic in London, […]
“The process of social change is in desperate need of creativity and imagination, and the aesthetic process in urgent need of social engagement”
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Projects unedited blog by Judith Alder & Roz Cran
Advice from artists on assessing opportunities
I understand a-n is researching the minefield of public liability insurance for visual artists.
A collaboration between Central Asia and UK, this project is dedicated to forging new links between art communities in these regions through artist’ residencies, cultural exchanges and exhibitions.
One of the main tendencies in public space has been to minimise risk – providing mini-cities in which risk has been all but removed.
Over 4,300 practising artists are already benefiting from AIR
Financial difficulties for Bergen’s United Sardine Factory (USF) led to its conversion to a 12,000 square meter arts centre in the 1980s.
Based in a former potato warehouse in Hull’s Fruitmarket area, Hull Art Lab (HAL) staged many challenging and disciplinary art events over the past two years.
Arts Council England and the British Council have launched Artist Links, a joint initiative to establish international partnerships between artists and art organisations, that will run in Brazil from Spring 2007.
Bathing Beauties is a project conceived by Manchester-based public artist Michael Trainor.
Contents include: Littoral helps save Schwitters’ Merzbarn for the nation, Michael Cousin introduces International residencies focus and Steve Dutton examines curatorial internationalism. ‘No place like home’ at Beacon and the damage caused by media controversy – while a new site-specific […]
This month’s Opportunities focus on international residencies, will sit permanently on www.a-n.co.uk1 as a signpost to regular international residencies that have regular deadlines. Artist Michael Cousin2 has researched this focus alongside his busy practice as an artist, and offers some […]
Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness
18 August – 19 September
As a former teacher now working for the past five years as a gallery educator and also a freelance artist I have been interested to follow the a-n proposals on artists’ fees.
Aimed at public sector arts employers, commissioners, consultants and arts trainers, addresses the context for fees and payments for artists’ residencies, workshops and community commissions. Download pdf [Size 497KB]
The unfairness of age restrictions on art competitions and opportunities for artists has been aired in the pages of a-n Magazine over many years.
Unique sites along Nottingham’s River Trent are a focus of a series of site-specific performances, installations and artworks.
Chinese Arts Centre is hosting Vital 06, an international festival of live art in Manchester to raise awareness of the diverse, exciting and challenging work being made by artists of Chinese descent from across the world.
Coed Hills Rural Artspace, Vale of Glamorgan
2 July – 1 October
Wysing Arts, Cambridge
7 July 2006 to 8 August 2007
Emilia Telese describes Icelandic solutions to artists’ interaction.
The Lightbox, the new gallery and museum currently under construction in Woking, Surrey, is pioneering an innovative mental health and art project that aligns the history of this sensitive and often misrepresented area with current day attitudes. Artist Rachel Gadsden, […]
