This week’s selection, chosen from listings posted by a-n members on the site’s Events section, includes exhibitions in Brixton, Leamington Spa, Penzance, Rye and Wimbledon.
The Oxfordshire festival, which offers an alternative to traditional music festivals by placing visual art at the centre, has received additional funding from Arts Council England.
As City of Culture 2017 approaches, Hull’s longest-running artist-led gallery leaves its premises of 19 years to make way for new £36 million music and conference venue.
Glasgow-based artist Ailie Rutherford has created The People’s Bank of Govanhill and is action-researching a new currency for the Govanhill community and running a crowdfunding campaign to print editioned notes designed by Marvin Gaye Chetwynd.
The artist-led space in Bethnal Green, founded in 2004 by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler, is fighting to retain its space as developers bid for its home of nine years.
British Art Show 8 opens in Leeds on Friday 9 October and the city – currently bidding to be European Capital of Culture 2023 – is responding with a raft of additional activity. Leeds-based writers and artists Amelia Crouch and Lara Eggleton report on what the city’s homegrown and artist-led organisations are up to as Leeds City Council throws its support behind a showcase of the city’s buoyant visual arts scene.
A recent event in Leeds organised by Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy asked whether artists were the key to making a step change in arts and culture giving. Amelia Crouch went along and found that the issue of low pay for artists was all-but ignored – but that the idea of artists as fundraisers may not be all bad.
An ambitious new artist-led festival is taking place across Manchester and Salford this weekend, with studio spaces and major venues hosting a number of projects produced especially for the festival alongside, open studios across both cities. Bob Dickinson meets artists and festival directors Elisa Artesero, John Lynch and Roger Bygott to find out more.
Artist-led space TOPOS to host a series of week-long exhibitions and discussions, beginning with TS Eliot-nominated poet Sean Borodale.
Written in response to the Alias annual gathering event, Moving Forward and Staying the Same: Artist Led Evolutions, AirSpace Gallery co-director Glen Stoker considers the continued importance of artist-led activity to the UK’s visual arts ecology.
A crowdfunding campaign has been launched by South West England-based artist-led support network Alias. The funds will enable the grass-roots organisation to provide new programmes and advisory sessions as well as new international opportunities for artists.
Art in Bearpit is a new programme of temporary art works for a public realm, community-led regeneration scheme in Bristol city centre, produced by the artist-led group Hand in Glove. Pippa Koszerek reports.
A new Collaborative Doctorate Award devised by Warwick University and a-n, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, has been awarded to Brighton-based artist Emilia Telese.
Sovay Berriman’s latest, self-funded project will take her to Mongolia and Australia searching for ‘markers and boundaries of experience’ in desert landscapes, and researching the correlation between those landscapes and the narratives of the people that inhabit them. We spoke to the artist as she prepared for the first leg of her journey.
Now in its tenth year, Embassy Gallery’s Annuale festival in Edinburgh celebrates artist-led collaboration in Scotland’s capital and beyond.
A new collaborative research study from Warwick University and a-n will explore the impact of artist-led initiatives on cultural value.
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.
After last year’s hiatus, the artist-focused art fair returns to London during Frieze week, offering a snapshot of grassroots practice in 2013. We find out more from Sluice co-director Karl England and talk to some of this year’s participants.
An artist-led project space in Manchester’s Northern Quarter is trying to raise funds to replace the recent theft of its uninsured electrical equipment.
Following on from INTERPLAY in November last year, Hand in Glove is organising Part 2: TENTERPLAY – ‘a survival camp for artist-led practice’.
Lincoln is developing a strong, artist-led art scene that is responding to the particularities of the area while presenting the work of local and international artists. We report from this historic East Midlands city.
Manchester-based artist Maurice Carlin recently co-organised a public discussion on artist-led spaces during his current residency at HomeShop, Beijing. He reports on how it went and the issues and solutions that were raised.
As a new art competition launches in Leeds, we speak to the project’s curator, its sponsor and one of the shortlisted artists about the city’s changing; and self-sustaining; art scene.
Artist-led collective B I T celebrate the launch of its new studio complex tomorrow with an evening of art, music, food and drink. We talk to Bob Gelsthorpe, one of the group’s founders.
As cuts continue to bite, Sheffield’s S1 Artspace and The Royal Standard in Liverpool launch fundraisers.
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