The art of conflict (part 1)
Paul Glinkowski talks to Angela Weight, Keeper of Art at the Imperial War Museum, and to some of the artists she has commissioned to make art in response to war situations.
Paul Glinkowski talks to Angela Weight, Keeper of Art at the Imperial War Museum, and to some of the artists she has commissioned to make art in response to war situations.
The training-led development programmes that were the norm in artists’ professional development delivery some years ago are giving way to new projects that focus around contemporary practice and are driven by ‘real world’ situations. They recognise that being a visual […]
Edinburgh-based Collective Gallery celebrates its twentieth anniversary in August with a group exhibition featuring artists who have exhibited with the gallery over the last ten years (a show ten years ago showed artists from the first then years). ‘The Birthday […]
Paul Glinkowski talks to artist Jem Finer about his ongoing project Longplayer, and to his collaborator James Lingwood, Co-Director of Artangel.
It’s time to gird up your loins and take the annual trek to East Anglia to see the 14th East exhibition at Norwich Gallery. Presenting work by thirty artists, selected from 1,600 entries from thirty-eight countries, with sixteen of the […]
In June 2003 I was awarded the art and science residency at Wysing Arts, Cambridgeshire.
The BBC has commissioned a new work from internationally renowned Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, due for installation next year. Entitled Breathing the light sculpture will be positioned above the new BBC Broadcasting House complex and will act as a memorial […]
West Midlands-based organisation The Public and British Waterways recently commissioned seven artists to undertake projects based around the Birmingham Main Line canal at Galton Valley, Smethwick as part of strategies to encourage people to engage and understand their local canals. […]
Paul Glinkowski’s article painted The Laboratory at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in a very favourable light, and was much appreciated in these parts. However, I should like to mention that The Laboratory would not have developed […]
Matthew Blackman is currently on a six-month placement with Forma, contributing his experience of marketing and customer relationship management at a-n to the development of this new organisation. Forma is an arts organisation, based in Newcastle, involved in cutting-edge projects […]
Winners of the decibel visual arts awards, aimed at black and Asian artists, and curators, were announced in March.
Commissions East has launched a regional-wide professional development programme for visual artists. Funded by Arts Council England, East and European Social Fund (ESF), the three-year programme will impact on some 500 professional artists living or working in the east of […]
A crafts commissions programme is underway at the Crafts Study Centre at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design. Seven makers in south east and west England were selected from a wider trawl. Their brief was to design and produce […]
Paul Glinkowski profiles the work of Paul Bonaventura, co-founder of The Laboratory, the research wing of the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at the University of Oxford, in the fifth article of the ‘Crossing over’ series.
Cumbrian-based Phil Morsman’s white fibreglass sculpture for the Royal Lancaster Infirmary marks the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of DNA. Made in twelve sections and back-lit with four neon colours, it is activated as darkness falls so that the intense, […]
Lucy Wilson profiles the work of design curator Rachael Barraclough, the fourth article of the ‘Crossing over’ series.
We’ve been working on a series of information packs highlighting a-n’s activities and editorial content, ideal for use as supporting material at conferences, artists events and seminars. Material includes: www.a-n.co.uk information sheets on professional practice, artists’ collaborations and public art […]
Cordaelia Craine, who moulds soft leather to produce fashion showpieces, has won a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship worth £3,750. This will enable her to go to Spain and Italy to study the ancient leather moulding techniques still in use today. Queen […]
Isabella Oulton examines the current debates around the status of artists in France as raised at The First National Visual Artists’ Forum.
Rohini Malik Okon explores the evolving relationship between Faisal Abdu’Allah and The Agency Contemporary.
Jane Watt looks into professional development initiatives available to artists working in the public domain, in the fourth of the six-part series ‘Navigating Places’.
Frieze Art Fair, London’s first international contemporary art fair held in October has announced the 2004 dates as 15-18 October. With over 27,700 national and international visitors including collectors, gallerists and curators, students, artists and celebrities this new […]
Commissions in the Environment (CITE) in collaboration with Lancashire County Council and Rossendale Borough Council have commissioned Katayoun Pashban Dowlatshahi to create a permanent artwork that celebrates and reveals the River Irwell. In a truly collaborative process, she is working […]
The Brighton Photo Biennale 2003, the new major event in the photography calendar, kicked off in October. Combining exhibitions, commissions and events, the biennale permeates across traditional gallery spaces as well as appropriating Brighton Parish Church as a site for […]
Brigid Howarth talks to Deutsch Bank curator Mary Findlay about the sourcing and buying of artworks for the largest corporate art collection in the world.