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Galleries keen to nurture artists
Two recent reports highlight the need for leading galleries and museums to better support contemporary artists and their practice.
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Militant Training Camp
Arcadia Missa, Peckham
4 March 2012 to 11 March 2012
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I had no idea it had been so long. Fifteen days. Far too little work is getting done round here. I am up to my ears in admin. for things and facilitating everyone else as usual. If I could only […]
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Artist in residence
From subsidised studio and accommodation to one-on-one mentoring sessions, here we spotlight a selection of residencies that provide support to artists across the UK and beyond.
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Untitled blog post from "Putting into Practice"
It has been a ludicrously long time since my last blog post. There are a multitude of reasons for this but I won’t go into details. Instead I want to quickly update on what has been happening on my course […]
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Jennifer Picken: A juggler in the game
Jennifer Picken has been working with a-n since her MFA studies at Newcastle University, and continues her role in the Communications and Partnerships team working remotely from Amsterdam – where she has a studio. Here she maps her alternative working routes through undergraduate study, from volunteering to mentoring and beyond.
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It’s Burns Night and my thoughts are turning again to Robbie Burn’s poem, ‘To A Mouse.’ It’s one of my favourites and I’ve quoted it here before because of its uncanny relevance to what’s been happening in my life. The […]
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Another week of sorting. The studio is starting to feel like somewhere that I can work – though I have to move a couple of things so that I can set up ‘an idea’ I have had. It is interesting […]
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Leo Asemota: The Ens Project’s First Principles
New Art Exchange, Nottingham
16 September – 26 November 2011
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Becky Hunter
Becky Hunter is a freelance art writer whose blogs demistify, with honesty and intelligence, the processes of making art, writing about art, and finding a place in the wider world of art. Here she talks to Andrew Bryant about criticality and affect, the prickly subject of money, and why we need idealists.
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Pippa Koszerek: Project and manage
Pippa Koszerek, a Campaigns Researcher at a-n, lets us in to her early career developments with Hull Time Based Arts.
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What are we worth?
Ania Bas reports on the first in a series of discussions under the theme of The New Economy for Art being organised by Artquest, Contemporary Art Society and DACS that addressed how artists can generate income during these challenging economic and social times.
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Artists, markets and measurement
Artist, educator and AIR Council member Rosalind Davis reports on some recent events for and about artists and contexts for practice.
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Ethics & Interns This event looks really interesting next week – looking at Internships and all the problems they bring along. http://ethicsandinterns.eventbrite.com/ Seems pretty pertinent given the whole slave labour/Tesco situation going on with the benefits system. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/nov/16/youn… I hate […]
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I am in the “quiet zone” or the “angry coach” as I like to call it. The man next to me is typing noisily on his laptop and I, usually a very forgiving person, am ready to rend him limb […]
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Richard Taylor: The invigilator’s chair
Richard Taylor, online editor of a-n’s Students community and Degrees unedited, maps his journey over four years and shares insights from one invigilator’s chair to the next.
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Slaughter House 1 Late last night I was pleased to hear my neighbours putting their bins out. It was purely a feeling of self satisfaction as I, following the counsel of my phone, had already put mine out at a […]
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Understanding Turning Point – A briefing paper
Over the past five years, the words Turning Point have been read, heard, written and spoken with increasing frequency by people in the visual arts in England, but for many individual arts practitioners, in particular, the origins and activities of Turning Point remain a bit opaque. This briefing paper is for them and for anyone interested in understanding more about what Turning Point is and does.
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A fair share – direct funding for individual artists from UK arts councils
The key finding of this study reveals that shockingly few individual artists apply for funding in their own right, and even fewer are successful. What this means is that there is little direct funding being given to artists to pursue and develop their own projects, under their own control – under 20% of available funding for the visual arts in England, 14% for Northern Ireland and around 18% for Scotland and Wales in 2009-2010.
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Making connections
News and updates on AIR’s strategies and activities designed to support professional artists within their practice and working lives.
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We Have Our Own Concept of Time and Motion
Auto Italia South East, London
25 – 28 August
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FAQ I don’t live near anywhere near Leeds/Wakefield/Huddersfield/Manchester/Birmingham – can I do a course via distance learning? Yes. All 2011/12 courses are available via distance learning. I can’t make it to the enrollment exhibition – can I apply online? Yes. […]
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Every journey is different
A selection of post-graduate study routes on offer across the UK.
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Sam Curtis – Weekender
CAZ, Penzance
19 July 2011 to 20 July 2011
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A little discussion started on Twitter the other evening (impossible to do anything other than gloss over in 140 characters or less), prompted by Emily Speed, to do with when does an artist stop being ’emerging’ and become ‘established’. Good […]