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Various locations, Nottingham
22 October – 18 December
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Blogger profile: Janet Hollins
There’s a fine line between art making for its conceptual purpose and for its commercial value. Janet Hollins’ MA seems to offer opportunities to pursue both, but how does her blog tell the story? Richard Taylor investigates.
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Re:Thinking Trade
During its time as a hardware store, Rapid was proud to be the only independent to take up the entire street.
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Partners in arts
Commentary arising from research into local authority arts organisers’ needs, aspirations and modus operandi, revealing how they value and engage with artists and the approaches they take to their own professional development and to supporting the environment for contemporary visual arts.
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Spontaneous City in the Tree of Heaven
Artists Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson and curator Emma Underhill discuss their collaboration on a project to create a sculptural ‘habitat’ that will contribute to the life cycle of birds in two urban garden locations.
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Nottingham Sideshow
Sideshow will take place between October and December for the second time around whilst the quinquennial British Art Show visits Nottingham.
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Reflections on the arts funding crisis
Thoughts from artists and arts professionals about how cuts in public spending will affect their future working pattern. Plus April Britski gives an account of how recent governmental decisions to cut arts funding have affected Canadian artists.
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Digital visions
Selected round-up of forthcoming events, training courses and professional development opportunities from the world of new media arts and imaging.
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The Big Draw at Croft Castle
Kate Raggett and Mandy Fowler give their recollections of an ambitious one-day land art workshop in rural Herefordshire that involved nearly 200 participants, several bales of straw, and a Cessna aircraft.
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Art in unconventional settings
Public art projects, residencies and commissions in non-gallery spaces.
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How to negotiate an exhibition
A guide for artists and arts organisers to creating a mutually-beneficial relationship.
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Jayne Knight
Jayne Knight is Arts Development Manager at Suffolk County Council. She was the driving force behind Making Art Work, an ambitious and widely regarded professional development programme for Suffolk-based artists that ran from 1999 until 2006. She talks to Jane Watt about how the scheme developed, her work in a local authority and survival tips for rural-based artists.
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Transforming a city
Startling architectural interventions, large-scale touring exhibitions and ambitious commissions will transform the city of Norwich 7-22 May through Norfolk & Norwich Festival (NNF10) as it presents its first ever visual arts programme.
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Big picture – 2010 May
Francis Thorburn
Mobile Picnic Pavilion
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Healing words
At the beginning of March this year, the Arts Council of Wales hosted ‘Arts in Health and Well-being’, a conference about prevention, intervention and creative action in healthcare.
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Clemens Kogler
Clemens Kogler was born in Bayern in 1980 and is studying at The University of Arts, Linz. Starting out as a painter, he has also worked in advertising and television. His practice is now made up of being a graphic designer, animator, film maker, and illustrator among other roles. He is one of the artists based in Linz to be awarded a studio at the Salzamt for one year during 2009/2010. Kogler has exhibited and won awards at numerous film and animation festivals. sixpackfilm distribute some of his work and his commercial work is represented by Liberty Films in the UK.
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Crop Marks
Artist Kirsten Lavers and Andy O’Hanlon (Arts Development Officer for South Cambridgeshire District Council) talk about Kirsten’s appointment as community artist for Orchard Park, which led to the ambitious multi-layered collaborative project, Crop Marks.
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Editorial – 2010 April
Antony Gormley’s One and Other commission for the Fourth Plinth last year, and more recently Michael Landy’s Art Bin project at South London Gallery both suggest the emergence of a new form of artwork that has the capacity to engage mass audiences directly.
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Cultivate and celebrate: treasures of the kitchen garden
Artist Christine Wilcox-Baker recounts her residency at Tatton Park with Gardens Manager Sam Youd.
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Bites from the blogs
This month’s Bites.
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northcabin
Aldo Rinaldi and Katherine Daley-Yates discuss northcabin, a programme of site-specific commissions in an unusual venue in Bristol from 2008-09.
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Commissioning for the future
Exploring selected public realm interventions from across the UK.
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On the cover – 2010 February
Toby Paterson, Black Axonometric 1, 2006.
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Money matters
A selection of articles and other content dealing with artists’ income:
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Celebrating disabilty
As part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, the Unlimited programme is designed to celebrate disability, arts, culture and sport “on an unprecedented scale”.
