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Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey
25 January 5 March
Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey
25 January 5 March
Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin
6 January 22 March
Introduction to different kinds of residencies and what they have to offer for creative and career development.
Andrea Ronan outlines some UK residencies including what sponsors or residency programmers may expect in return for the fees, studios, materials and accommodation on offer.
Gordon Dalton talks to Danny Rolph about creative process, gallery representation and residencies at Delfina and the British School at Rome.
Richard Cox profiles the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, USA, and discusses his involvement as both resident artist and selector.
Brigid Howarth looks at the career of ceramic artist Kate Schuricht who developed her own business after receiving a Crafts Council Setting Up award.
Lucy Wilson explores the development and expansion of Hidden Art, an initiative set-up by Dieneke Ferguson to promote the work of designer-makers in Hackney.
Brigid Howarth looks at how Sue Park, Amanda Doughty, Joe Magee and Kuljit Chuhan make a living thourgh selling their work or skills.
Hilary Williams talks to four artists about how they have developed specific products. She learns about their initial motivation and inspiration, how they developed their ideas into production and what marketing strategies they employed for these particular products.
Marice Cumber introduces key marketing concepts for artists and offers advice to help target your marketing effectively.
Illustrating the approach she brings to her new role at [a-n], Gillian Nicol highlights some of the challenges and opportunities for artists and their practice today, looking broadly at education and employment, status and lifestyle and the impact of widening access to technology.
Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
11 January – 15 February
Located in a ‘cultural industries’ area ourselves for the past three years, we can confirm that the advantages – creative networking and exchange, vibrant working environment, immediate access to like-minded cultural specialists, mutual support in development, etc – are there […]
Paul Edwards describes how residencies provide him with the opportunity to concentrate wholly on his practice.
Penelope Curtis explores how ‘installation art’ has affected our readings of art, artists and curators.
Last September a diverse group of artists from Germany, Austria, Russia, Scandinavia, the US and UK assembled in the studios of the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne for a frenzied weekend of live performance. Rob Flint was one of the participants.
New Delhi isn’t an obvious destination for visual arts practitioners. However, as Judith Staines discovered, scratch the surface and a more interesting picture starts to emerge.
Chisenhale in London is opening its doors to the public 11-13 October, providing an opportunity to meet with artists and performers, take part in workshops, see the gallery exhibition and get an insight into how an established arts studio group […]
April saw the launch of Scotland’s first purpose-built artists’ studios complex in Glasgow, enabled through an initiative from WASPS. The building at 77 Hanson Street is capable of housing 200 artists and makers, alongside residential accommodation for visiting international artists […]
Susan MacWilliam reports on her residency at Caribbean Contemporary Arts (CCA), Trinidad.
Jacqueline Moon reports on how she developed her interest in the architecture of cities through travelling from her home town of Glasgow, to Barcelona.
In the summer Edinburgh-based artist Julie Read attended IMPACT, the Second International Printmaking Conference in Helsinki. She also took the chance to check out the local artscene.
Artspace Portsmouth has mounted an exhibition that celebrates twenty-one years as an arts organisation. ‘Key Works’, showing at the City Museum and Records Office in Portsmouth, until 2 September, investigates perceptions of museum artefacts. Exhibiting artists had access to the […]
“Imagine an ecological city, where communities are based on voluntary cooperation not competition, mutual aid not private profit, cultural diversity not globalised monoculture, permaculture not consumer culture”.1