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A diplomatic role
Sally O’Reilly talks to Penny Johnson, Director of the Government Art Collection, in the sixth and final article in the ‘Crossing Over’ series.
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Points of contact
Emilia Telese links her role as Artists’ Networks Co-ordinator at a-n to her practice, and discusses the value of communication between artists and society. Business philosopher Jim Rohn said “Effective communication is twenty percent what you know and eighty percent […]
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All change
In June we bade farewell to Doug Battensby who served on a-n’s board for sixteen years, seven of those as chair. A chemical engineer by profession his interest in the arts led to the collection of paintings and sculptures, patronage […]
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PM Gallery and House, London
30 April – 4 July
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Lucy Gunning: Esc
Matt’s Gallery, London
21 April – 13 June
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Twenty Shadows
Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea
8 May – 19 June
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Regeneration
20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe
13 March – 26 June
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Calum’s Road
An Tuireann Arts Centre, Portree, Isle of Skye
1 May – 12 June
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Steven Dickie
I have always been inquisitive about technology.
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Go East
It’s time to gird up your loins and take the annual trek to East Anglia to see the 14th East exhibition at Norwich Gallery. Presenting work by thirty artists, selected from 1,600 entries from thirty-eight countries, with sixteen of the […]
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Rewards
Designers Shin and Tomoko Azumi – featured in our online Signpost: new graduates’ guide to being an artist on www.a-n.co.uk – are amongst the shortlisted artists for the tenth Jerwood Applied Arts Prize. Talking in 2002 about their approach, they […]
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Landmarks
Work by ten artists responding to local issues and contexts have been sited on the Spen Valley Greenway in Kirklees. Part of Sustrans’ Art and the Travelling Landscape programme, the works aim to reflect aspects of the landscape and local […]
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Culture rub
The cyclical nature of arts policy-making means that, in the eyes of Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, ‘art for art’s sake’ is now a good idea, rather than an elitist attitude to be despised. Her substantial essay Government and the value […]
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International Impact
Following on from her ‘Next Move’ show at Castlefield Gallery Manchester until 25 July, new work by Junko Mori is due to feature at Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery, London in ‘Made in Britain’, running 30 July – 11 September. Aimed […]
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Cathedral commission
The centenary of Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral is being marked with an installation by Ewan Forster and Christopher Heighes. Sited in the 300ft bell tower previously closed to visitors, the work will permeate the tower’s ringing, dampening and bell chambers, and […]
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Changing hut
The changing hut is a series of artists’ site-specific installations focusing on unusual new sites for contemporary art. Threshold was commissioned from Claire Morgan and runs to 31 August at Cremorne Gardens in Ellesmere, and is also showing at Donnington […]
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Signpost competition
We’ve had a great response already to our Signpost competition for 2004 art and design graduates. Min Hye Kim was one of the first artists to return her entry form. Here, she discusses her practice; I started to paint sexually […]
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Rural apologies
I was very pleased to see Veer North featured in June’s Networks. Unfortunately the group has been misrepresented. Amateur artists can join as associate members and receive news about events and shows but, before they become full members they must […]
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Editorial – 2004 July
Culture secretary Tessa Jowell’s recent essay1 (see News) indicates the government’s rediscovery of the value of culture “for what it does in itself”. Although couched in terms of a “weapon in fighting poverty of aspiration”, this time the battle will […]
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Locative networking
Iliyana Nedkova responds to the networking themes that arose at Amorphous combustion, part of a body of specially commissioned writing published now on www.a-n.co.uk
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Mission men
Los Angeles-based curator Julie Deamer talks to artist Chris Johanson and the gallerist Jack Hanley about their mutual admiration for each other.
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Schemers
Graham Ramsay reports on the Artist-to-Artist International Scheme.
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Working with artists
Delegates at the National Association of Local Government Arts Officers (NALGAO) annual conference, held in Brighton in May, benefited from a special interest workshop on dialogue and exchange around working with artists. Code of Practice for the Visual Arts researcher […]
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Studios Toolkit
The unique Studios toolkit, freely available on www.a-n.co.uk, is attracting praise from artists needing to know how to establish their own spaces. “The seven members of Valley Artists have read the Studios Toolkit on www.a-n.co.uk and have found it invaluable. […]
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United Net-Works on the Road
United Net-Works, one of a-n’s international partners, is bringing its mobile archive for contemporary artists, artists’ groups, curators, researchers and independent arts professionals to the UK this month. Following stops including Stockholm, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Minsk and Vancouver the project will […]
