Platform Graduate Award 2021: artists announced
CVAN South East has announced the 24 artists selected for its annual initiative to support emerging graduate artistic talent.
CVAN South East has announced the 24 artists selected for its annual initiative to support emerging graduate artistic talent.
The annual award, which offers a first prize of £10,000 towards studio costs, was created in 2013 by restaurateur Mark Hix.
The winner of the award supporting emerging graduates will receive a bursary of £2,000, plus bespoke mentoring for 12 months.
UCA Farnham Fine Art graduate wins CVAN South East award aimed at artists based in the region who are in the first year after graduation.
Five recent graduates are shortlisted for the award that includes a £2,500 bursary and a year of mentoring.
In Brief: news briefing featuring national and international stories including: Alan Bishop replaces John Kampfner as CEO of Creative Industries Federation; plus ‘slow looking’ sessions for Tate’s forthcoming Pierre Bonnard exhibition announced.
The CVAN network for the West Midlands hosts its annual open entry exhibition for recent graduates from six art schools in the region with a number of prizes and awards announced in partnership with Trust New Art and Cass Art.
Recent graduates from 16 higher education institutions in the South East region will be exhibiting in five partner galleries with the winner of the 2017 award to be announced later in the year.
Highlights for the week ahead selected from our busy Events section and featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n’s members.
43 recent graduates from five West Midlands art schools will exhibit their work over four venues across the region from February 2016, as part of this large-scale partnership exhibition from Turning Point West Midlands.
40 arts organisations across the UK will host paid placements for graduates from lower income backgrounds through the new Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries programme.
Turning Point West Midlands has selected 24 graduates from universities in the region for the New Art West Midlands 2014 exhibition.
276 artists have been awarded a share of £378,269 to fund their professional development
Marking 12 months of the latest cohort of Artists Council, Clémentine Bedos and Jenny Mc Namara, share their highlights from their first year.
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A symposium co-hosted by a-n, the Artists’ Association of Finland and the International Association of Art (IAA) Europe.
Artist filmmaker and a-n member Jennifer Martin discusses her work with Joanna Byrne.
New Contemporaries has announced this year’s selected artists for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021.
Royal College of Art graduate discusses campaigning during the final year of his MA, and going from RCA painting student rep to supporting with Pause or Pay UK – from the backroom of a café in Cyprus, where he has spent two months tracing his family and find his grandfather’s birth certificate.
Textiles artist discusses how arts organisations need to better engage deaf and disabled artists, and how the coronavirus pandemic presents a time for change and opportunity.
Nine artists selected to take part in UP Projects and Flat Time House’s free programme exploring socio-political issues, community-oriented practice and/or public contexts to develop their practice whilst collaborating with others.
Artist and a-n Artists Council Chair discusses his recent performance Mayfly On Wheels, how he feels institutions need to address systemic racism, and the important role artists can play in this process.
The just-published 32-page guide includes an expanded ‘Class of 2020’ section featuring images and insight from both graduating students and lecturers, plus there’s an extensive interview with collaborative duo Jane and Louise Wilson, and collectives from around the UK discuss why ‘putting heads together to collaborate is an artistic no brainer’
Support and advice from across the arts sector, plus wider government and NHS guidance, following the coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak.
For the first time, John Moores Painting Prize is offering a new Emerging Artist Prize with the winner receiving £2,500 in prize money plus money for art materials and a residency at Elephant West. John Moores Painting Prize Project Manager Katherine Lloyd explains more about the award.