New shades on old structures
Richard Taylor finds out how three artist groups are re-vamping their structures as established organisations, to support new talent and promote a variety graduate activity.
Richard Taylor finds out how three artist groups are re-vamping their structures as established organisations, to support new talent and promote a variety graduate activity.
A response to the recent Debate pieces: Weakening the Foundations and Why are Artists Poor?
Linda Ball is project leader of Creative Graduates Creative Futures the largest research study to date about the career paths of art and design graduates. She talks to Jane Watt about the research, her own experience of a portfolio career and the importance of having creativity at the core of professional practice.
RSA Upper and Lower Galleries, Edinburgh
14-25 February
John Jones Project Space, London
2-31 October
Bianca Winter considers the nature of digital art and new media artforms utilised in the UK contemporary artscene.
There is something about a ceramics conference that can send a shudder up the spine.
Cardiff Art In Time, affectionately known as the CAT Show, revives one of the seminal art festivals of the 1990s.
I can identify with much of what John Boshoff said in his letter Augusts a-n Magazine.
New Artists and Makers Emporium (N.A.M.E.), the art and contemporary craft show dedicated to showcasing the very best from new artists and makers, will return to Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire on 28 and 29 October.
36 Frederick Street, Birmingham
30 September 29 October
I used to subscribe regularly to a-n many years ago and have just renewed my subscription online. In searching the site I have not been able to find anything collated (enlighten me please if Im wrong!) specific for the more […]
Twenty-three of Scotlands leading writers, visual artists, poets, musicians, dance artists and crafts professionals have been shortlisted for this years Scottish Arts Council National Lottery Creative Scotland Awards. The £300,000 awards scheme is for projects that are inspiring and highly […]
a-ns events and activities programme is on the increase for 2005, providing even more opportunities for critical discussion and professional networking for artists and their collaborators. An underlying principle for us when generating external projects is to work in partnership […]
Market Gallery, Glasgow
9 January 5 February
In November, we swelled the number of artists and arts professionals working with a-n through appointments to two project teams. A special Communications Projects Team has been created, to spend the next six months talking and listening to customers, helping […]
A recent spate of public utterances by influential policy makers and educators suggests that the visual arts may need to develop a more favourable relationship with language. Some argue that it should be better harnessed to support artists; others think language should just back off and let the visual reclaim its rightful place. Paul Glinkowski interprets.
Limousine Bull, Aberdeen
6 June 8 September
Winners of the 2004 Glenfiddich residencies are Christine Borland, Ross Sinclair and Louise Hopkins who will each be provided with accommodation, studio and gallery space to create and show new work. Marking the centenary of the Entente Cordiale, the 2004 […]
Young Artist of the Year, worth £5,000 in this year’s Hunting Art Prizes, went to Falmouth College of Art final-year fine art student, Marco Amura, whilst 1999 Falmouth fine art graduate Alisdair Lindsay scooped second prize worth £4,000. Their work […]
Welcome to Philip Marsden, appointed in November. An BA fine art graduate from University of Newcastle, he joins the Communications and Sales team. Congratulations to Louise Wirz, Director of Development, who gave birth in October to baby Nina. a-n Magazine […]
Last year Simon Keenleyside, a Royal College of Art graduate, won the first BOC Emerging Artist Award. Organised by the agency Art for Offices, the award is worth a total of £20,000 and will be offered annually to a UK-based […]
Heralded as the north of England’s answer to the Turner Prize, the Comme ça Art Prize North aims to raise the profile of artists living and working beyond London. Worth £10,000 (against the Turner Prize of £20,000), the prize will […]
William Welch’s adaptable cutlery, designed for people with poor grip and restricted movement, won him £16,000 in this year’s Oxo Peugeot Design Awards. Welch was selected from ten finalists covering the five award categories of applied metal design, ceramics/glass/polymers, furniture, […]
Government enthusiasm for involving young people in arts activities has focused the attention of many galleries. Kate Tregaskis reports from Scotland on recent debates around programmes abroad and raises some questions about good practice.