Live Weekends: The Last of the Red Wine
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
9 -13 February
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
9 -13 February
Education and community projects engaging artists and audiences across the UK and Europe.
Sarah Rowles examines how conversation and discussion can be considered an education in contemporary art.
The Islington Mill Art Academy was set up by students for students. It is an unaccredited, collectively run higher education experience.
A selection of projects that focus on the development of artists’ practice and their engagement with local communities.
News of current public realm and gallery commissioning projects.
A-n’s Collaborative relationships series exposes the working relationships between artists and the wide range of professionals they choose to collaborate with. In 2009-10 a series of permanent artworks were negotiated for a major redevelopment of Bethnal Green’s former Town Hall into an exclusive hotel. Artsadmin’s Manick Govinda and Clare Qualmann of walkwalkwalk give their account of these negotiations and the work resulting from one of the commissions.
Artists and curators talking in Leeds, Contemporary Art Society in Newcastle and State of the Arts conference in London.
Richard Taylor focuses on how James Clarkson’s migration to Artists talking from Degrees unedited simulates other moves in his practice, his studio and in his unique insight on objects re-placed into the contemporary art context.
The British Art Show (BAS) returns to Nottingham five years on for its seventh manifestation, only this time Nottingham plays host as the launching city and the show has a subtitle – ‘In the Days of the Comet’.
Artists Studio Company has launched a major new public gallery in Southwark.
This month’s bites.
Two north west projects are creating links between artists, artist-led groups and creative communities.
Profiling studio and workshop facilities around the country, plus ambitious exhibition projects that are engaging with local communities.
The embellishment of international study resounds with the affect of writing and the scripture of applied materials to define a multidisciplinary art practice: but how do you pull yourself away from the developed peer structure of art school?
A guide to career development and training opportunities as well as related services and resources that are designed to help artists and makers take their practice to the next level.
The annual Craft Curators Forum, a networking and discussion event from the Crafts Council, was held in London 23-24 September.
2010 Fine Art Photography graduate Joanna Waclawski talks about studying at Glasgow School of Art (GSA), and reflects on how re-sitting a year amplified her perspective on photography as a medium.
Contents include: Open studios, digital visions and arts funding features; In Debate, is sponsorship compromising the integrity of artists and organisations? Kate Raggett and Mandy Fowler on an ambitious one-day land art workshop in Collaborative relationships. PDF version [size 6 […]
Sideshow will take place between October and December for the second time around whilst the quinquennial British Art Show visits Nottingham.
12 Visual art representatives address the damage that will be inflicted by proposed spending cuts, in a letter to the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport.
Art of Digital London is an Arts Council England programme designed to help London Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs) develop strong strategies for connecting with audiences via technology.
Striving and surviving in the do it yourself art world; curating, managing members, self-publishing. Richard Taylor talks to three recently founded artists’ groups about doing it ‘DIY’, progress so far and what the future holds.
Exploring research options on offer to post-graduate students at a selection of UK-based universities and art schools.
Contents include: Post-graduate research options plus art fairs and open studios features; The new politics in Debate; Collaborative relationships features artist Volkhardt Müller and Spacex project coordinator Martha Crean discussing a participatory project in Exeter. PDF version [size 5 MB]. […]