The latest round of a-n’s Go and see bursary scheme has awarded 10 artists’ initiatives nearly £5000, supporting the exchange of knowledge and fostering joint developments between artists.
As part of its New Art Spaces project, Manchester’s Castlefield Gallery has opened its biggest space yet, across a six-storey, 80,000 square feet building in the centre of the city. We pay it a visit and find out what makes it more than just another artists’ studio complex.
Bristol-based artist Katie Davies, whose video works explore ‘the politics of spectatorship’, has been awarded the joint Berwick Visual Arts and Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival residency.
The artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman died on 19 February 1994. To mark 20 years since his death from an AIDS-related illness, a series of events and screenings are happening throughout the year, including two recently opened exhibitions in London. We talk to the shows’ curators and explore the riches on display.
From its base in rural Cambridgeshire, Wysing Arts Centre has been supporting artists to make new work for the past 25 years. We hear from artistic director Donna Lynas, and artists Emma Smith and Seb Patane, about the future aims of the organisation and how the its well-regarded residency programme fosters creative relationships.
Creative Scotland has announced £9.4million of capital funding for 12 organisations in Scotland, including Collective Gallery, Fruitmarket Gallery, Cove Park and Hospitalfield Arts.
Following a £1.4million expansion project, Delfina Foundation re-opens its doors with The Politics of Food, a four-year residency project exploring ways creative process and practice can address issues around food, agriculture and the environment.
All a-n’s UK Artist + AIR members get free, specially tailored public and products liability insurance with their annual membership. Here, a-n’s Director outlines why making sure you’re properly covered is essential for every practising artist.
Hotel Elephant’s recent move from the Heygate Estate to Newington Causeway in South London sees the launch of its first shop and café, along with studios, a gallery and projection room within 15,000 square feet of warehouse space.
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.
Antony Gormley, Susan Philipsz, Jonathan Harvey and David Panton are amongst the artists and arts professionals recognised in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List 2014.
For the last of guides to Christmas shopping alternatives to the high street, we take a look at gift ideas from artist-led charities, self-organised publishers and craft centres around the UK.
In part three of our series highlighting artworks by artists and designer-makers that provide an enticing alternative to the high street, we visit Bexhill-on-Sea, Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Liverpool and London.
From the Turner Prize to the recent Lumiere festival, the visual arts has played an important role in Derry-Londonderry’s 12 months as the first UK City of Culture. But as the year draws to a close, what will its legacy be for art and artists in the city?
Our search for gift ideas beyond the High Street continues as we highlight opportunities to support the work of artists and arts organisations in Aberdeen, Ashford, Bristol, London and Sheffield.
As Hull is announced Capital of Culture 2017, Pippa Koszerek takes a look at the burgeoning artist-led activity harboured by this unique and geographically isolated city.
An open day at High House Artists’ Studios this Saturday unveils a new three-storey studio building in Purfleet, Essex, the latest in an ever-expanding network from pioneering London-based charity, Acme.
This week’s selection of must-see shows includes Korean artist Haegue Yang at Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Michael Landy at the National Gallery, and photographic viewpoints of the city in Manchester.
This week’s (8-14 November) whistlestop tour of international contemporary art action takes us to Paris, Sao Paulo, New York, Gothenburg and Leuven in Belgium.
Arts Council England’s update of its 10-year ‘strategic framework’ makes for sober and serious reading. But while there are no dramatic changes in its ambitions and priorities, Mark Robinson finds a worrying lack of solutions for cash-strapped artists and no recognition of the regional imbalance in arts funding.
As the eyes of much of the artworld were on Frieze, the artist-led Sluice Art Fair returned for its second edition, with a mission to encourage a sharing of ideas between artist-run scenes. Dany Louise reports on the weekend event in Bermondsey.
The role of the artist studio within processes of redevelopment in cities has been brilliantly captured in a fascinating publication, The Nomadic Studio: Art, Life and the Colonisation of Meanwhile Space. Tim Clark speaks to Michael Heilgemeir, the photographer behind it.
Over 70 non-commercial venues across east and south London are opening their doors as part of the first ever Art Licks Weekend.
Chisenhale Art Place is marking its +30 anniversary with an open event across the three organisations that occupy the building in east London. We talk to Arts Manager Andrea Davidson and founding artist John Fuller about its history, ethos and how it plans to celebrate.
A new offsite project in Leigh from Castlefield Gallery and Cross Street Arts, comes at a time when the town’s Turnpike Gallery is facing an uncertain future as council budget cuts bite.
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