Pointing North
Highlighting just some of the festivals, events and exhibitions taking place across the North of England this season.
Highlighting just some of the festivals, events and exhibitions taking place across the North of England this season.
Curator Lauren A Wright discusses her ‘journey’ to Margate.
Profiling studio and workshop facilities around the country, plus ambitious exhibition projects that are engaging with local communities.
Publicly-funded arts organisations are exhorted to extend participation in the arts by getting more people actively engaged in off-site and public realm programmes. Alongside, those in the business world are increasingly aware of the advantages of bringing artists ideas into development and regeneration projects. Here we highlight selected projects happening over the summer within the wider public domain.
Emilia Telese explores peer review funding for the arts within a holistic art and social environment.
Kent, and the Kent Coast in particular, has become host to a series of contemporary art festivals and international events.
Artist David Macintosh takes a personal look at collaborative working.
A-n Director of Programmes Susan Jones reviews artists jobs and opportunities over the years.
Mark Gubb visits Thanet in Kent to meet artists and hear about the cultural revival underway.
With a long history of working with artists, Habitat’s art programme provides the opportunity of prime viewing space that acts as a springboard for young artists.
Gemma de Cruz gives the rundown on what’s what at the 14th London Art Fair.
Wendy Murray gives the lowdown on support structures and organisations for artists in the Netherlands.
With a background in architectural design, followed by research in architectural history, and then a period teaching public art and writing art criticism, my research has tended to focus on transdisciplinary meeting points between feminist theory and architectural history, conceptual art practice and architectural design, art criticism and autobiographical writing through individual and collaborative research projects.1
Susannah Silver catches up with artists involved in one of the first NAN Scotland events at Cove Park, and finds out about networking in rural areas.
Helen Parrott considers the possibilities offered and some of the questions raised by the recent changes to arts funding systems in England and impending changes in Scotland.
The rise of independent artist-run spaces across the UK, and a seemingly impenetrable gallery circuit in London, appear poles apart. Gordon Dalton in Edinburgh and Tim Birch in Manchester visit two young, ‘commercially-minded’ spaces that have picked up on this, and are encouraging an art market in exciting and challenging contemporary work outside London.