‘Saatchi paints a scathing picture of the contemporary art world and says that being a buyer these days “is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar”. He says: “It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, hedgefundy, Hamptonites; of trendy oligarchs and oiligarchs; and […]
Ceri Hand Gallery, London
8 October – 3 November 2012
Sarah McCrory, formerly of Frieze Projects, has been announced as the new director of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art.
Annabel Tilley talks to Gary Hume about twenty-five years of practice, prizes and paint.
York St Mary’s, York
25 May – 4 November 2012
At an event at Manchester Art Gallery last night to celebrate the purchase of his work A Sleek Dry Yell, Haroon Mirza talked to a-n about life as an international artist and his plans to host residencies in his Sheffield studio.
Working on a site/context specific piece of work for a solo show as part of the ‘in the window’ program @ AirSpace in Stoke-on-Trent. I think I may have discussed Firewall before (and have even posted video) but the work […]
The Baltic, Gateshead
1 January – 29 February 2012
We catch up with a 2011 graduate, one year on from her degree show, to unveil alternative means of productivity with Scotland and Venice, well placed volunteering and research through internship.
Unique New Forest gallery forced to close following loss of Arts Council funding.
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.
An abridged version of Dany Louise’s follow-up report on small visual arts organisations cut by Arts Council England, six months after her ‘Ladders for development’ enquiry. She asks: how have these organisations fared and what do their futures hold? Read the full version of this report with updates on all surveyed organisations: www.a-n.co.uk/realising_the_value
‘Ladders for development’ argues that the visual arts sector should pull together and support small visual arts organisations cut by Arts Council England because they “punch above their weight” and provide vital development of future artists. Six months on, Dany Louise interviews these arts organisations again, to find out how they’ve fared and what their futures hold.
Various venues in Lincoln, Lincoln
21 – 29 October 2011
My efforts at trying to have some kind of break for half term have been disrupted by accidentally getting involved in Frequency Festival events. This has been quite challenging considering Orange have completely cut off my mobile phone service, so […]
This month sees the culmination of a two-year project at Siobhan Davies Dance, one of the country’s most distinctive dance companies. Choreographer Davies has paired dance artists with visual and applied artists to bring their creative practices together and create new works ranging from performance to film and installation. The commissioned dance artists are Henry Montes, Sarah Warsop, Gill Clarke and Deborah Saxon who are partnered respectively with Marcus Coates, Tracey Rowledge and Lucy Skaer. Henry Montes and Deborah Saxon have also made a piece together with Bruce Sharp. Here, three of the visual artists relate their experiences.
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.
Current professional development support schemes for visual artists in the UK.
Tate Britain, London
27 January – 16 May 2010
That’s some shameful shit Despite a couple of weeks in which I have come across new and revisited old collaborations that have been: · Difficult-but-rewarding (Carol Yinghua Lu discussing her work with Liu Ding at the Chinese Arts Centre, “There […]
So much has happened since my last blog. I hardly know where to start. I was very lucky to win one of the first student awards at U.C.F. along with three performing arts students. It was a lovely evening with […]
New evidence exposing, quantifying and discussing the likely impact on the visual arts of Arts Council England’s decisions on fifteen previously Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs) visual arts organisations unsuccessful in their NPO application. It shows that a disproportionate number of artists’ membership and development agencies and practice-based organisations lost core funding, despite ACE’s aim of creating a balanced national portfolio and makes recommendations for sustaining their work as part of a strengthened arts ecology.
