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Working practice
Structurally F–cked
An inquiry into artists’ pay and conditions in the public sector in response to the Artist Leaks data.
Research - a-n The Artists Information Company
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Working practice
10 years of Artist Support at SPACE
10 years of Artist Support at SPACE summarises how SPACE, London, has supported artists through its tailored professional development programmes.
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International contexts
International Connections
A report highlighting the impact and challenges for the visual arts sector in the first year of operations following the UK’s departure from the EU.
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Cultural policy
Making Changes in Craft: Craft Expertise Phase One Report
Report argues that more needs to be done to give space to makers from a wider variety of traditions to tell their stories and to increase the representation of makers from all backgrounds.
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Cultural value
The chance to dream: why fund individual artists?
Susan Jones explores the contribution Arts Council England’s Grants for the Arts programme has made in sustaining artists’ individual practices, and argues for a new, more nuanced and localised approach to direct funding in the future.
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Cultural value
The Market for Craft
Craft Council’s third historical analyses of the market for craft, commissioned in response to increasing intelligence that the market was expanding and diversifying.
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Cultural value
The Wide Revolution: reflections on the history of political art
Dave Beech explores how art, artists and arts practice participate in a wider revolution, and the inter-relationships between art’s political, activist and socially engaged practices and the institutional and infrastructural politics of art itself. Commissioned by a-n Artists Council as part of its one-year research project Artists Make Change.
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Cultural value
Artist as Active Citizen
Ellie Harrison discusses how arts skills and strategies, built over the course of a career, can be applied to ways of making change. Commissioned by a-n Artists Council as part of its one-year research project Artists Make Change.
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Working practice
Covid-19 impact survey
Drawing on the findings of a-n’s survey and reflecting the views of over 4,000 members, the Covid-19 impact survey report provides robust insights into the emerging impacts of the public health crisis with 93% of respondents reporting that their practice or career has been affected by the outbreak.
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Cultural value
Pivotal moments in artistic practice
Sonya Dyer considers the key challenges facing mid-career artists and makers in this essay written in response to Pivotal Moments, the conference she organised in September 2018 in collaboration with the SPACE-led professional development programme London Creative Network.
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Working practice
Artists practising well
Nicola Naismith’s report, undertaken as part of her AHRC funded research supported by Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, is concerned with the issue of affective support that artists working in health care settings are currently able to access.
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Working practice
Possible Utopias. Totally, sometimes.
Steve Dutton discusses the outcomes of a-n’s Artist-led Bursaries, awarded to six artist-led groups in 2017 to explore how artists and artists’ groups adapt to navigate turbulent cultural and political landscapes.
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Education
Primary Colours
Report on the decline of art education in primary schools in England with recommendations for action.
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Working practice
Livelihoods of Visual Artists: Data Report
Report detailing findings of a large-scale national study of the livelihoods, careers and needs of visual artists in England conducted in 2016 by TBR and funded by Arts Council England.
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Working practice
Livelihoods of Visual Artists – Summary Report
As part of a large-scale national study of the livelihoods, careers and needs of visual artists in England conducted in 2016 by TBR and funded by Arts Council England, this report provides an overview of the study findings.
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Working practice
Livelihoods of Visual Artists: Qualitative Evidence Report
As part of a large-scale national study of the livelihoods, careers and needs of visual artists in England conducted in 2016 by TBR and funded by Arts Council England, this report is based on in-depth discussions from five focus groups held across the English regions in March and April 2016.
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Working practice
Livelihoods of Visual Artists: Literature and Data Review
As part of a large-scale national study of the livelihoods, careers and needs of visual artists in England conducted in 2016 by TBR and funded by Arts Council England, this report provides a summary of the first stage of the research, a review of existing literature and data to inform the study and subsequent primary research.
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Cultural value
Arts Council England – MPs research
Primary research into MPs attitudes to Arts Council England, by party.
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Creative Industries
Creativity and the future of skills
Analyses 35 million job adverts between 2013-17 for use and meaning of the word ‘creativity’.
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Working practice
Studio Berlin lll: The situation of Berlin artists and the gender gap
New and primary research into the gender gap between artists living and working in Berlin.
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Leadership
Changing Cultures: Transforming leadership in the arts, museums and libraries
Commissioned by ACE in 2018 to better understand the current landscape of leadership in the sector and to survey available support.
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Participation
Active Ingredients: The Aesop planning and evaluation model for arts with a social purpose
Recognising a need for more consistent and systematic focus given to how arts interventions produce effective social and health outcomes, this short paper explores two challenges. 1. How to describe the changes that arts experiences achieve, which does justice to […]
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Cultural policy
Next ten-year strategy: Evidence review
ACE commissioned report from Britain Thinks, reviewing how the arts, museums and libraries sector has progressed since 2010
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Working practice
Careers in the Arts
Comprehensive report of the three-year NXT project, which took place from 2015 with 25 partners in 15 European countries.
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Education
Evaluation of the Museums and Schools Programme
Evaluation of a six year programme funded by DfE, connecting museums with local schoolchildren, targeting areas with high levels of deprivation and low cultural engagement.
