Maintaining a critical context is a core ingredient in sustaining an artist’s practice, as asserted in Dominic Thomas’ article published this month. He regrets the current culture of “avoidance of the core subject” in which professional development programmes are seemingly […]
Five years ago I had no choice but to shake my inbred cynicism, learn social skills and become a hairy artisan.
Paul Glinkowski looks at the UK studio landscape, highlighting successful new studio models. He also offers advice to artists wanting to set-up their own group.
ROOM, Bristol
12 January – 13 February
Q Arts, Derby
15 January –26 February
Chris Brown of g39 and Louise Short of Station, devisors of Quo Vadis, reflect on the motives, intentions and themes of the event.
Triangle Gallery, SPACE Studios, London
15 January – 15 February
Published by Transition Editions
Edited by Paul Murphy
Market Gallery, Glasgow
9 January – 5 February
Contemporary Art and Ideas in and Era of Globalisation
Published by inIVA
Dominic Thomas on the importance of a critical context for artists’ practice. One of a specially commissioned set of articles resulting from Quo Vadis available now on www.a-n.co.uk.
Paul Glinkowski on the circumstances around cultural barriers and how they can be breached or transformed.
Philip Babot on the cross-border and international achievements of artists’ organisations in South Wales.
Or: Where do you go? Who goes there? Who are we anyway? Carolyn Black enquires.
Sarah Jane Pell with an Australian perspective on the impact of this ‘jam-packed’ weekend.
Analysis of past and current situation for artists’ fees and payments, introducing some issues for artists, employers and policy-makers to consider in the future.
Work by the late Alexandra Reinhardt is on show (until 25 February) at the Menier Chocolate Factory Gallery, Southwark, now the home of charity Paintings in Hospitals (PiH). This is the first of an annual programme of exhibitions and events […]
Penny Klepuszewska, a 2003 graduate from Nottingham Trent University and Chris Boyd, a Manchester Metropolitan University second-year interactive arts student were joint winners of the UK Art Prize 2004, that attracted over 40,000 entries and created ten finalists. They shared […]
A report published in November shows multiple approaches by organisations in the creative sector in Yorkshire and the Humber to addressing cultural diversity. Arts Council England, Yorkshire, Yorkshire Forward (the regional development agency) and University of Leeds have invested in […]
Christmas came early for thousands of UK fine artists and visual creators, with over £2.25 million being paid out to them in December through Payback 2004.The Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS) negotiates a share of revenue from collective licensing […]
One-to-one encounters feature in a series of performance salons organised by London-based Home. Designed to bring audience and performer closer than ever in the venue’s domestic context, these events create a space in which to explore the contemporary desire for […]
Abstracts of papers on the theme of Ethics into Aesthetics are invited by 1 May for possible inclusion in an international conference held 12/13 August to accompany EAST 05, the annual open exhibition held at the Norwich Gallery. This year’s […]
An allotment site in Lower Kersal within the Irwell Sculpture Trail, Salford was the location for a socially-engaged residency involving artists Debbie Akam Power, Rick Faulkner and Peter Hatton. Following negotiations with the allotment association, a project evolved that was […]
The result of a year-long project by Ellie Harrison, ‘Gold Card Adventures’ is presented until 21 March at Piccadilly Circus underground station, London, courtesy of Platform for Art. Purchasing a Gold Card year’s travel pass and using her daily commute […]
Glasgow-based Market Gallery presents work by six 2004 graduates from Scotland’s art courses in ‘A nation turns its eyes to you’. Working directly onto the gallery walls, Miranda Blennerhassett uses the familiarity of pattern and motif from interior decoration to […]
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