Time to think and space to talk
Rohini Malik Okon explores the evolving relationship between Faisal Abdu’Allah and The Agency Contemporary.
Rohini Malik Okon explores the evolving relationship between Faisal Abdu’Allah and The Agency Contemporary.
Diana Yeh reports from the ‘Fieldworks: Dialogues between Art and Anthropology’ symposium.
Jane Watt looks into professional development initiatives available to artists working in the public domain, in the fourth of the six-part series ‘Navigating Places’.
Lost Properties
Published by England & Co
Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
20 October 30 November
Stroud House Gallery, Stroud
1 November 6 December
Phoenix Arts, Leicester
27 October 7 December
Oriel Davies, Newtown
8 November 3 January
We take this opportunity to thank the many artists who we’ve worked with over the past twelve months as advisers and consultants, on the Networking Artists Networks initiative, and as presenters and trainers on our professional practice and artists’ […]
I have often thought some of the pictures you choose for your front cover to be rather odd. The November image (John Goto’s Pasturelands) was no exception. The image raises no particular question other than why choose it? I think […]
(i) Dream one
The sloth creature is on a table and I am looking at its arse.
Whilst sitting in my parent’s garden in the summer of 1996, I became mesmerised by the patterns created on the table by the light filtering through my father’s pint jug of beer.
It was refreshing to read Jane Watt’s account of the two successful collaborations between architects and artists in November’s a-n Magazine (Back to school). All too often it seems that artists have been roped in at the last minute to […]
I read with shock about the threatened closure of the gallery at Glasgow’s Tramway (News, November a-n Magazine). As an artist based in the north west of England, I have regularly visited Glasgow specifically to see exhibitions at Tramway and […]
Libby Anson talks to Juan delGado and the Wellcome Trust about his residency.
Henna Asikainen reports from the Fifth International Conference on Environmental Aesthetics.
Scott Sherry reports from an artist-initiated festival of publicly-sited artworks.
Our ongoing programme of presentations and seminars to promote application of our new Code of Practice for the Visual Arts was launched at Fruitmarket Gallery’s ‘Scotland Now’ event, aimed at new graduates and professional artists, on 1 November. This was […]
As part of the Networking Artists Networks pilot in the north east of England, we’ve invited artist Louise Short to bring her famous art pub quiz to the region. It’s the perfect opportunity to take part in a fun, informal […]
Commissioning editor Brigid Howarth is co-director (with Ben Coode-Adams) of Artefact Projects. In collaboration with The Manchester Museum they have been developing a project that experiments with low cost, temporary and innovative solutions to the problems of gallery and museum […]
a-n’s Newcastle offices were the venue in November for an installation and projection by Amsterdam-based artist Hermelinde Hergenhahn, as part of ‘Space Between Us’, a Vane exhibition curated by Una Henry and Thomas Peutz of SMART Project Space, Amsterdam. Also […]
Welcome to Philip Marsden, appointed in November. An BA fine art graduate from University of Newcastle, he joins the Communications and Sales team. Congratulations to Louise Wirz, Director of Development, who gave birth in October to baby Nina. a-n Magazine […]
Deborah Smith unpicks the notion of collaborative practice in the work of the artist, writer and curator David A Bailey, the third article in the ‘Crossing over’ series.
Brigid Howarth discovers what makes art buyers tick.
Yorkshire-based Chrysalis Arts was commissioned earlier this year to create temporary art installations in Skipton High Street as part of a Renaissance-planning weekend. This street has remained unchanged for over a 100 years and, as well as being a traffic […]