Written in response to the Alias annual gathering event, Moving Forward and Staying the Same: Artist Led Evolutions, AirSpace Gallery co-director Glen Stoker considers the continued importance of artist-led activity to the UK’s visual arts ecology.
A campaign against proposals to close the ceramics department at City and Islington College has gained the support of Turner Prize-winning potter Grayson Perry.
In a piece originally published on The Conversation, Victoria Durrer of Queen’s University Belfast argues that damaging cuts to the arts in Northern Ireland are reshaping the sector.
Massive cuts are to go ahead at the new £189m Library of Birmingham, but for now at least the library’s Photography Collections’ team is to be saved.
This year’s Venice + Scotland presentation at the 56th Biennale will see 28 students and recent graduates from seven art schools across Scotland taking part in a major learning programme.
For the second time, a-n will be supporting artists to attend the preview of the Venice Biennale. With a short deadline, a-n members are invited to submit their applications without delay.
A crowdfunding campaign has been launched by South West England-based artist-led support network Alias. The funds will enable the grass-roots organisation to provide new programmes and advisory sessions as well as new international opportunities for artists.
This week’s selection of must-see shows includes a major retrospective of sculptor Lynda Benglis’ work at The Hepworth Wakefield, a survey of Marlene Dumas’ paintings in London, and Angolan artist Nástio Mosquito in Birmingham.
City to receive extra funds to help with its ambition to stage the 2017 Turner Prize.
Our selection of what’s on highlights for the next seven days, drawn from postings by a-n’s members on the site’s Events listings section.
Why is gender inequality still rife in the visual arts and why are so many women in the arts still ‘scared’ of feminism? As a new exhibition opens at the artist-led Airspace Gallery in Stoke, Dany Louise is looking for answers.
Artist-led gallery and studio space The Royal Standard is hosting a quick-fire series of exhibitions by 26 studio members over three weeks. Laura Robertson reports on an exciting opportunity for artists in Liverpool.
The Kent-based organisation that has championed art in the environment for over two decades has announced it is to cease trading.
Art in Bearpit is a new programme of temporary art works for a public realm, community-led regeneration scheme in Bristol city centre, produced by the artist-led group Hand in Glove. Pippa Koszerek reports.
Five artists have been shortlisted for the 2015 Converse x Dazed Emerging Artist Award, in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts.
Following an open call, FORMAT International Photography Festival has announced the winners of its EXPOSURE Awards, with the prizewinners exhibiting during this year’s festival in March.
Staff at the National Gallery in London start a five-day strike today in protest at plans to privatise jobs.
Despite public protests including a petition attracting nearly 8000 signatures, Transport for London has confirmed the demolition of Eduardo Paolozzi murals.
This week, the sun is shining at Glasgow’s Tramway, everyday perceptions are challenged at Bristol’s Spike Island, and environmental politics are explored at Nottingham Contemporary.
The artist Alex Hartley has won the Arts Foundation’s £10,000 Art in the Elements award, chosen from a shortlist of four.
In a piece originally published by The Conversation, Kate Oakley, professor of Cultural Policy at University of Leeds, argues that without better pay and conditions and subsidised education, the arts and creative industries will increasingly become the preserve of the well-off and privately educated.
The latest round of a-n’s Go and See bursary scheme for artist-led groups has awarded over £12,500 to 11 artists’ initiatives across the UK.
In the third of our weekly series, we highlight this week’s exhibitions and events from a-n’s members. Drawn from our popular Events section, they take us on a journey across the UK.
Students at Wimbledon College of Arts have taken over a lecture theatre for a day to protest at the ‘marketisation’ of art education.
Turner Contemporary’s Self exhibition looks at artists’ self-portraits from the 17th century to the present day, exploring the changing way artists have seen themselves – and society has seen artists. Dany Louise reports from Margate.
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