On the cover – 2006 August
Ruth Moilliet, Wild Carrot (detail), 2006
Ruth Moilliet, Wild Carrot (detail), 2006
Paul Cole, Pink Hat, oil on canvas, 225x165cm
Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Bury St Edmunds
13 March 21 April
Sara Raza on Grace Ndiritu, a young London based artist who is enjoying an upwards ascent with an impressive portfolio of national and international exhibitions, that present a fresh style of politics and performativity.
Kate Walters, I can’t hear you (detail), watercolour, gouache, oil and graphite on shellac, 2006.
Paul Plews & Marieta Tsenova, Beauty, photograph, 2005.
Glasgow-based Jackie Anderson is the 2007 RSA Alastair Salvesen Scholar.
Arts Council England’s scheme to offer all interested parties the opportunity to make their views known on the issue of the public value of the arts.
As Anne Brodies Big Antarctica project blog draws to a close, C Moray de Morands compelling account of her Berlin residency is building up steam.
Nicola Wallis, a graduate of the Slade School of Art and AIR member, has won the Adrian Carruthers Studio Award.
The Jerwood Photography Award worth £2,000 presented in December 2006 to Paul Plews has now been withdrawn following a complaint. The photographers submitted works, one of which was featured on the December issue of a-n Magazine, were taken from a […]
Curwen and New Academy Gallery, London
10 January 3 February
In response to the lack of affordable wet & dirty spaces in the area, artist Jackie Berridge has purchased the ground and first floor of a Victorian lace mill in Long Eaton, Nottingham, for conversion into studios.
News on PACE, Showhow and Prickings mentorship.
Bournemouth Library, Bournemouth
28 October 16 December
Short-listed for the 2006 Jerwood Photography Awards are Zoe Hatziyannaki, Peter Oetzmann, Paul Plews, Indre Serpytyte and Paul Winch-Furness, whose work is on show at the Jerwood Space, London until 9 December prior to a national tour.
Volunteer opportunities are the norm across the visual arts, often perceived as the only route for newcomers to the profession to gain the CV experience that will get them noticed and their foot on the career ladder.
An exploration of professional development support needs for makers in the West Midlands has identified that as makers working patterns are characterised as multi-tasking portfolio workers.
“The UK’s leading information and advocacy organisation for artists and their collaborators”, a-n, a newsletter and ‘artists information company’, has become so grossly over laden with the argot of management consultancy.
Artists comment on the Arts Council’s Turning Point Strategy.
NAN: Networking Artists’ Networks
Jane Watt outlines the core strengths of NAN and looks to the future.
Paul Matosics letter (June issue) raises important issues for all artists for whom operating professionally is vital.
Views on cultural policy and the environment for contemporary practice.
As a textile artist based in Nottingham, I am currently one of nine artists and craft makers in the East Midlands engaged in Connect @The Usher Gallery.