As part of its programme, Artworks Navigator developed this bibliography to identify and present a range of available resources for artists working in participatory settings.
Arts Council England has set out its agenda for arts investment for 2015-18, and alongside an announcement that the National Portfolio Organisation budget will combine Lottery funding with government grant-in-aid for the first time, ACE also says it is expecting NPOs to pay artists fairly.
What does 2014 have in store in terms of conferences and events, art fairs and festivals? We take a month-by-month look at what the year has to offer.
A year on from the implosion of Creative Scotland and a year before the independence referendum, where do things stand at the funding body? Johnny Gailey attends a recent Open Session event in Glasgow hosted by CEO Janet Archer, and finds the organisation caught in a curious state of flux.
a-n News – alternative insights into the visual arts now.
As I thought about the time that lapsed between thinking about it and actually starting this blog I remembered school reports ” Joanna is a slow developer”. In terms of art practice it seems to me that speed is not […]
The performance artist, curator and writer Ian White has died following a long illness.
Artists from across the UK will benefit from a-n bursaries specifically designed to support research and development of new collaborations within or beyond the arts. We introduce the artists and projects.
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Serpentine Gallery, london
18 – 19 October 2013
This weekend’s Cove Park Open Day is a chance to meet artists in residence and to bid farewell to the centre’s current building before re-development work starts in 2014. We talk to Director Julian Forrester about what’s in store this weekend, and beyond.
For the second contribution to the Portfolio NW Artists talking blog, writer and artist Darren Murphy considers the attempt to create a critical framework around the exhibition: “An interest in dialogue is the main drive behind my work … the […]
Over the next few days, extracts from Jack Welsh’s commissioned text for Portfolio NW will be posted on the blog. Here is the first extract: Platforms: Portfolio NW and its relationship to arts criticism. If you trawl through the abundance […]
S1 Artspace, Sheffield
7 – 15 June 2013
An analysis and commentary on artists’ work and opportunities in 2012.
Sited on a working railway platform in London’s East End, Banner Repeater is an artist-led space with a difference. We talk to founder Ami Clarke as the organisation launches its first peer membership scheme and a vital fundraiser.
As Creative Scotland’s open session events on the organisation’s future gather momentum, Edinburgh-based photographer and educator Johnny Gailey assesses what’s wrong at the core of its remit and makes a case for true artistic independence.
As artists’ bursaries are offered for the ArtWorks conference in April, a-n’s Director shares some of the thinking and research from the ArtWorks Scotland conference, which examined value and ethics in participatory arts.
Kevin Harrison, Director of Stirling arts agency Artlink Central, responds to Stirling Council’s recent decision to close The Changing Room, the city’s only contemporary art gallery.
Book Review, London
26 November 2012
As Manchester’s Castlefield Gallery relaunches with a renewed vigour for artist development, its director shares the lessons learnt over a challenging and rewarding year-and-a-half.
The 21-strong list represents a range of practices from artists working across the Northern regions.
This Research paper forms part of a series that looks specifically at the nature and value of openly-advertised work and opportunities for visual and applied artists. Drawing on data published on www.a-n.co.uk/jobs_and_opps, this series set out in 2007 to track on an ongoing basis the key categories of awards/fellowships, academic posts, art vacancies, commissions, exhibitions, residencies and competitions/prizes, and by doing so, to identify any trends arising, and provide commentary and contextual evidence and analysis from other related sources, to contribute to arts and cultural consultations and policy.
Newcastle based artist, writer and blogger Iris Priest is currently one of AA2A artists in residence at Northumbria University. Here she talks to Andrew Bryant about art as an ‘impulse’, the driving engine behind CANNED, the magazine she edits, and the ‘binding’ nature of language.
Townley and Bradby have an ongoing collaborative practice. They also have two children. Here they discuss how they used an investigative project to allow their art practice and their parental commitments to inform one another, rather than remaining distinct entities. However, this feature does not look at the existing collaboration between the duo, it looks at the working relationship they initiated with a psychologist who specialises in families.
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.
