Now Showing: March’s must-see exhibitions
Exhibitions that coincide with International Women’s Day on 8 March, including Big Women in Colchester and a-n member Sonia Boyce in Margate.
Exhibitions that coincide with International Women’s Day on 8 March, including Big Women in Colchester and a-n member Sonia Boyce in Margate.
Led by Primary, an artist-led contemporary visual arts organisation
Thursday 30 March 2023, 10.30am– 3.45pm
Friday 31 March 2023, 10.30am – 2.15pm
Online via Zoom Free for a-n members
Taking place online, Assembly Nottingham: Collaborative Programming will focus on how organisations and projects can effectively and impactfully work together with artists and communities. This event is for a-n members. Please log in to register for this event. Not yet a member? Find out more and join a-n today
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Led by Hannah Wallis, co-founder of Dyad Creative
Friday 25 & Saturday 26 November 2022
12 – 4pm daily
Online via Zoom
Free for a-n members
Taking place online, Assembly Leicester: Access, will focus on disability rights, DIY activism and working in the arts. This two day event, led by Hannah Wallis of Dyad Creative and hosted by Two Queens Gallery, Leicester, aims to discuss and make visible the activist work of artists in relation to disability justice and access rights.
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A symposium co-hosted by a-n, the Artists’ Association of Finland and the International Association of Art (IAA) Europe.
Artists Council is an advisory group to the Board and Executive of a-n. Over a three-year term, Council members will play a key role in driving the direction of a-n’s advocacy, research and programme activities, with a focus on the leadership development of artists. Artists Council meets four times a year to voice the concerns of artists in their networks and communities, and to take part in a Leadership Development programme developed by a-n in partnership with Clore Leadership.
A collection of strategies for doing the job of being a freelance artist.
180 artists and freelancers working in the visual arts have been awarded a share of £246,882.
Liverpool based artist Emily Speed‘s work explores the relationship between people and buildings and in particular the body and its relationship to architecture. She discusses what she has achieved over the last 12 months, including her first major solo exhibition […]
Alice Wilson is a London based artist exploring notions of home and shelter as a way of understanding relationships to space and place. Her practice has developed through engagement with participatory processes as well as negotiations of site. Her current […]
London based artist Karl Bielik‘s paintings have been in numerous high profile exhibitions, including John Moores Painting Prize, RA Summer Show, and The Marmite Prize. He is a member of Contemporary British Painting and is the Founder and Director of […]
Project Art Works is one of five artist collectives shortlisted for this year’s Turner Prize. Sonia Boué speaks to artist and Project Art Works founder Kate Adams about the history of the collective and how relevant the Turner Prize nomination is to its artists.
Amy Gear and Daniel Clark, founders of Gaada in Shetland, describe how they are “creating an art world on an island.”
Collaborative duo Forest + Found discuss their role as artists in “thinking and engaging with our natural resources and the environment.”
Harold Offeh outlines how his success as an artist “has been built on the hard efforts, work and activism of previous generations.”
Artist collective Rat Trap outline their hopes for the future of the arts in Wales and consider “how to keep striving for utopian visions”.
Recipients of this year’s Birthday Honours also include writer and ceramicist Edmund de Waal and photographer Martin Parr.