Bites from the blogs
Opinions on arts council investments, attitutes towards artists, and studio politics.
Opinions on arts council investments, attitutes towards artists, and studio politics.
Festival of Contemporary Visual Art and Ecology
2-11 May
Penny Jones explores the career of Andrew Tanner who has spent ten years as a designer maker developing many successful ranges of batch-produced ceramics.
Penny Jones profiles Fred Baier exploring the development of his career since the 1970s and commissions for an impressive range of private and public clients.
Sarah Craske & Stacy Keeler, The Womens Land Army, found materials, plant and performance. Commissioned by Margate Rocks 08.
In the second part of our focus on open studio events we profile four organisations providing space as well as the opportunity to exhibit and sell.
Charles Danby reviews the work of Chloë Steele and considers the role of artist-curator duo Day and Gluckman whose notable track record continues throughout 2008-09 with a programme of five exhibitions for the law firm Collyer Bristow LLP.
Various venues, Swansea.
In early April 2008, fifteen artists from around the UK took part in a research visit to Lille, France, entitled ‘The Artist as Social Entrepreneur’.
Jane Adam is a successful jewellery designer with an international reputation. Polly Harknett discusses her career and studio at Cockpit Arts and her wider role in the craft community.
Cynthia Cousens explores the practice of weave-designer Eleanor Pritchard, discussing exhibitions, commissions and Crafts Council support.
Frances Lord profiles Linda Florence, who creates wallpapers, flooring surfaces and interior textiles for domestic and commercial interiors, as well as temporary installations in transient materials.
Kate Stoddart profiles Andrea Walsh, discussing the development of her practice in ceramics and glass, work/life balance and the outcomes of a residency at Cove Park.
Open studio events are an insight into how artists make work, giving a very different perspective from seeing finished works in a gallery setting or a commissioned piece in a public space. Here we take a look at some of the studios opening their doors over the next few months.
Helen Knowles, who featured in a-n’s Degree show supplement 98 publication, reviews her progress over the past decade and discusses her current practice.
Dana Hargrove, a graduate who featured in a-ns Degree show supplement 98 publication, discusses her current practice including a recent residency in South Africa.
Joan Thompson on mental health services and further education.
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Creative ambition 2 and ixia.
This article by Furtherfield.org founders and Directors Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett was originally published in Coding Cultures: A Handbook, commissioned by Francesca da Rimini and d/lux/MediaArts in 2007. Catlow and Garrett discuss the origin and mission of Furtherfield.org and how its participatory platforms are art production tools.
Charlotte Frost on the various support systems run by Artsadmin, including information about its head of operations: Toynbee Studios, and examples of several projects it has produced with the likes of: Graeme Miller, Station House Opera and Gary Stevens.
With reference to the production of inter-disciplinary visual arts, Charlotte Frost indicates the types of activities involved, art forms which respond well to this style of collaboration and some of the difficulties experienced by production agencies in working in this way.
Gillian Nicol introduces this months a-n Collection and considers the implication of the ACE Turning point recommendations on RFOs.
Chris Brown introduces a rulebook to guide you through the whys and wherefores of artist-led activity.
Plans for a major new centre for the contemporary arts, the first of its kind in the North of Scotland, were approved in February by the Scottish Government.
Text-only version of a-n Research paper: Art work in 2007 with live weblinks.