Castles, stations, streets and stadiums
A look at current projects and commissions taking place in unconventional settings.
A look at current projects and commissions taking place in unconventional settings.
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
14 May – 10 July
Blogger Ann Shaw talks to Andrew Bryant about working in the virtual realm, her career development from journalist to artist, and current concerns.
Here we have unveiled our list of the top ten Artists talking blogs.
Profiling new courses and developments in postgraduate teaching across the UK.
An overview of some of the most exciting open studio events across the UK this summer.
Launched in March, Creative Scotland’s first corporate plan presented an ambitious vision for the nation’s arts, culture and creative industries. This is backed by core Treasury financing of £35.5m with £14.5m of Scottish Government funds for specific initiatives, unspent reserves from the interim between Scottish Arts Council/Scottish Screen and Creative Scotland, some lottery funding back after diversion to the Olympics and reduced overheads due the merger that included a 30% staff cut.
PEER, London
9 February – 2 April
Is surface texture, pattern and ‘the natural’ an escape or a trap? Rosalind Davis talks to Andrew Bryant about this and other questions in her work written about in her Artists talking blog.
Despite setting up a successful jewellery business with her husband, blogger Jane always knew she was an artist and eventually found the time and space to develop her painting. Andrew Bryant talks to Jane about business, the relationship between art and craft, the obsession with interpretation and about feminism and painting.
Speaking at the Culture Change conference in January, Arts Minister Ed Vaizey called on arts organisations to embrace new technology as a resource to engage and develop audiences.
Eastside Projects, Birmingham
27 November – 29 January
News of current public realm and gallery commissioning projects.
A selection of forthcoming open exhibition competitions, bursaries and prizes for artists.
Antonia Dewhurst talks to Degrees unedited Online editor Richard Taylor during her final year at Coleg Menai, Bangor, North Wales.
Virginia Verran discusses winning the Jerwood Drawing Prize, the importance of art education and the multifaceted nature of her practice.
In June 2010, Darlington-based photography collective Wideyed was granted a NAN Go and See bursary to travel to Belgrade for research and development. Emilia Telese talks to Lucy Carolan of Wideyed about the bursary and its impact on the group.
The Photographers’ Gallery officially closed its doors to the public for one year on 19 September 2010 to “embark on our ambitious development of the building, creating a new, international home for photography in the UK”.
Comings and goings amongst arts professionals and curators, designed to aid networking and collaboration.
Profiling studio and workshop facilities around the country, plus ambitious exhibition projects that are engaging with local communities.
Featuring a selection of the UK’s arts organisations that are providing vivid cultural life to rural areas.
2010 Fine Art Photography graduate Joanna Waclawski talks about studying at Glasgow School of Art (GSA), and reflects on how re-sitting a year amplified her perspective on photography as a medium.
A research project in North Wales is using a market stall to promote making skills and provide connections between students and the local community.
Artists are in effect micro-enterprises that hold long-term objectives for their practice that bear little or no relationship to arts and governmental policy time-frames and achievement measurements.
Selected round-up of forthcoming events, training courses and professional development opportunities from the world of new media arts and imaging.