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Digital resources
Exploring selected arts organisation with significant facilities and programmes for digital and new media practices.
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Rural initiatives
Highlighting new projects by organisations located in Aberdeenshire, Cumbria, Devon, Dumfries, Fife, Mull, Lancashire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Suffolk, and Western Isles. “There is, in truth, nothing essentially backward-looking, conservative or traditional in rural culture. There are too many innovators, in too […]
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Murray Martin
30 Years of Side Gallery
Until 10 November
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Eye in the sky
Nottingham-based Reactor’s newly-commissioned, site-specific project, The Tetra Phase set in Manchester’s The Old Fire Station beside Piccadilly Station employs CCTV to offer a unique perspective. Set in this disused historic building – known only as The Station – it presents […]
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Floating world
Initiated by Glenn Holman and Andy Parsons in 2003, the aim of Floating world is to identify ways in which artists can disseminate their ideas widely using the medium of artists’ books.
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Our survey says
Ayling & Conroy survey the motives and trends that effect how UK commercial galleries select artists to exhibit.
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Rare diamonds: A beginners’ guide to the art market
Guyan Porter talks about the socio-economic dynamics of art markets and deconstructs notions of the art market in the UK.
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Funding news
Artists and artists’ support agencies have benefited from recent Arts Council England funding rounds.
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Frieze projects
Presented annually at Frieze Art Fair, the curatorial programme consists of site-specific interventions and installations, performance, debate and conversation through Frieze Commissions, Frieze Talks and The Cartier Award.
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Boxed in
Sonya Dyer’s publication questions assumptions about non-white artists, curators and administrators that shape the current diversity landscape, and suggests alternative ways forward.
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On the cover – 2007 July
Jessica Preston, Circles & Cones, 3D textiles, cotton, 2007.
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Open space
Public art is the opportunity for an artist to affect a locality, and to engage and challenge its community.
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Setting up an artist-led space
Russell Martin’s guide to running your own gallery demystifies the process of setting up an artist-led space and highlights the issues to consider before taking such a step.
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a-n Magazine June 2007
Contents include: European collaboration and cultural diversity: in news a conference in Estonia, commissions for Subdoh Gupta, Rashid Rana, and comment on the 8th Sharjah Biennial. Simon Zimmerman asks if you can afford not to visit a new website on pensions for artists. PDF version [size 7.5MB]. Requires pdf reader.
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Karin Kihlberg
Karin studied BA (Hons) Fine Art from 1999-2002 at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, University of Central England. She now works in partnership with Reuben Henry, both in the residencies they offer at Springhill Institute – the studio in Birmingham that they set up in 2003 – and embarking on residencies abroad to make their own work.
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Lucy Panesar
Lucy Panesar’s college aspiration was to be a practising artist and part-time college lecturer, and a methodical approach to her career has made this a reality.
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Adele Prince
Jo Wilson looks at the practice of Adele Prince who, since graduating in 2001, continues to work full-time as an artist on a variety of commissions and exhibitions.
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Sculpture prize
A 1991 intercity rail map re-presented to look like a tree; a sculpture that changes position with the seasons and an exhausted Mars slumped against the foliage are three of the works short-listed for the 2007 Jerwood Sculpture Prize.
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Grace Ndiritu
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.
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Radical positions
It would seem that politics has taken centre stage in contemporary art.
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British Council cuts
The British Council plans to redeploy a third of the currently money spent in Europe to Muslim countries in the Middle East and Central Asia.
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Leading through practice: Calling the meeting
“Spirit in community will die unless there’s someone calling the meeting.”
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Leading through practice: Artists don’t change bloody lightbulbs
They sit in the dark and mope
[or artists take the lead]
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Leading through practice: Framing the discussion
Artist as Leader is a programme that aims to understand the ways artists lead through their practice with a view to informing and developing a critical understanding of the role of creativity in culture.
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Opportunity or rip off?
Advice from artists on assessing opportunities
