On the cover – 2009 February
Gemma Nelson is a young emerging British artist, based in London.
Gemma Nelson is a young emerging British artist, based in London.
Featuring artists’ projects and new ventures in the public realm.
Outpost Gallery
2-21 December
Based in Basingstoke, Hampshire arts education charity The Making was established to promote talent, excellence and innovation in contemporary craft, art and design in Hampshire and the South East.
Chris Fite-Wassilak is winner of the inaugural Curatorial Open a new three-year initiative for emerging curators at post graduate level organised by Hayward Touring.
Jessica Lloyd-Jones, Pulse, blown glass, neon gas, electricity, 16x12x10cm, 2008.
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.
New sonic works presented in October enabled five emerging artists to use personal narratives and found sound of urban spaces to create installations that resonated between the past, present and future of their sites.
Recent art and design graduates from across the UK are showing at the Hub this autumn.
The cultural landscape of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland encompassing history, memory, land and people is a fertile ground for the imagination.
In a world increasingly skewed by notions of commodity and markets, artists and creative practitioners must be proactive in seeking out opportunities that enable them to experiment and take the risks that will drive up the quality of their work.
Mark Gubb asks public art commissioners and consultants their views on how they select artists for commissions and what they expect artists to prepare for interview.
Jane Watt looks into the world of academic research and examines research opportunities for artists within institutions and the UK higher education system.
Lauren Healey discusses Gallery Glues relationship to NAN.
This month sees numerous milestones and celebrations for a-n: firstly, Interface is one year old and to mark the occasion, Reviews has been compiled by its Online Editor Rosemary Shirley whose selection of Interface entries from the past twelve months demonstrate the quality and potential of online reviewing.
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.
Artist Lynn Harris and artist/curator Paul Stanley talk about working together in the latest in our Collaborative relationships series.
Opinions on exhibiting, networking through blogging, and arts council bureaucracy
Kathy Rae Huffan describes Central Asian Project, a programme of residencies and cultural exchange between artists from the UK and Kazakhstan that took place between 2006-08.
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 talks to John Walter about his time at the British School at Rome.
The continual shaving of UK arts budgets, cuts in mainstream grants programmes linked with escalating overheads and news of an ever-deepening economic downturn arent good news for visual artists who depend largely on winning freelance contracts and getting good responses to their project proposals.
Mark Webster gives an account of the pan-European Animator project and its final event in Warsaw on 26 April.
A companion listing to Indexing intelligence publication.