Workspace round-up
Profiling studios and facilities around the UK.
Profiling studios and facilities around the UK.
Independent curator Jeni Walwin looks at issues relating to selling work and examines a number of different ways that artists can engage with the art world on a commercial basis.
A round-up of some artists’ info sites beyond the UK that we rate.
Recent months have seen changes to the artistic landscape in Nottingham, reflective of a wider shift occurring in the surrounding cultural environment. These changes demonstrate that Nottingham is an increasingly attractive base for artistic activity, with a rising retention of graduates leaving higher education as well as enticing artists from the region and further afield.
A new study has revealed that exports account for 30-40% of designer-makers’ business within Cockpit Arts, with France, Japan and US the main markets.
Organised by University of Westminster research fellow Clare Twomey to coincide with London Design Week, September’s one-day symposium Collaboration: Artist and Industry held at The Building Centre, London offered international and UK perspectives on artists in residence within the ceramics industry.
With a-n amongst the first to record its phenomenal impact through publication way back in 1991 of Live art, performance as it was then known, exhibited the characteristics of all that was innovative and edgy. In its introduction, Robert Ayers and David Butler commented: Live arts continued value and relevance is mirrored by the extent to which other live artists continue to come up with surprising, disconcerting new possibilities.
Sarah Thelwall reveals that there is not one art market but several different ones. These markets are very different in terms of the artists, gallerists and collectors who participate and develop them. This Art market tour articulates the main markets and looks at what drives them.
With half the UK’s population residing outwith urban conurbations, and regional and arts and cultural policies prioritising local engagement, locations often regarded as countrified are strategically raising their art world profile through imaginative programmes and project.
New art spaces opening around the UK.
Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
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Lauren Healey discusses Gallery Glues relationship to NAN.
Felicity Shilingford discusses collaboration and networking within her practice.
Artists talking hosts blogs from artists engaged in a wide range of practices and at all stages of their careers.
In this months round-up we profile six open studio events.
Naori Priestly who graduated from the Royal College of Art last year with a MA Constructed Textiles is one of 300 makers selected to show in Origin 2008.
Highlighting digital and new media commissions, exhibitions, research and resource developments.
Over 160 artists are showcasing work in Wirksworth Festivals Art and Architecture Trail.
Updated for 2008 Research papers, Indexing intelligence is a listing with live weblinks of accessible ‘facts and figures’, research studies, conference reports, publications and other resources that are pertinent to all those working in the visual arts, compiled and edited […]
Paul Stone explores the wide range of International residency options available to artists and offers a framework for considering what you might want from a residency.
Paul Stone talks to Sheena Macrae about her three-month residency at Gertrude in Melbourne, Australia and its huge impact on her practice.
Paul Stone talks to John Walter about his time at the British School at Rome.
Publicly-funded arts organisations are exhorted to extend participation in the arts by getting more people actively engaged in off-site and public realm programmes. Alongside, those in the business world are increasingly aware of the advantages of bringing artists ideas into development and regeneration projects. Here we highlight selected projects happening over the summer within the wider public domain.
Andrew Bryant delves into the student blogs on Degrees unedited and provides insights and analysis into what they reveal.
Artist Sally Sheinman and curator Sanna Moore talk about working together in the latest in our collaborative relationships series.