Resources - Page 145 of 170 - a-n The Artists Information Company

Living and Loving No 1: The Biography of Donald Cappy
Resource

Living and Loving No 1: The Biography of Donald Cappy

Who is Donald Cappy? And why does he deserve a biography? Although every fact you could possibly want to know (or not) about the man is detailed in Living and Loving No1: The Biography of Donald Cappy, this full-colour glossy […]

0 0
Night bus
Resource

Night Bus

Broadmarsh Bus Station, Nottingham
18 October – 3 November

0 0
perfect imperfect
Resource

Perfect Imperfect

Elveden Hall, Suffolk
26 October
Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery
8 – 12 October
(blueprints)
Taxi Gallery, Cambridge
19 October – 20 November

0 0
Adaptable cutlery
Resource Archive News archive

Design awards

William Welch’s adaptable cutlery, designed for people with poor grip and restricted movement, won him £16,000 in this year’s Oxo Peugeot Design Awards. Welch was selected from ten finalists covering the five award categories of applied metal design, ceramics/glass/polymers, furniture, […]

0 0
Container City
Resource Archive News archive

Factories for art

Artists’ studio and workshop complexes come about as much from private endeavour as from public funding. In Newcastle, the Biscuit Factory studios were launched in November, the result of an initiative by local businessmen Ramy Zack and Andy Balman. After […]

0 0
Resource Archive News archive

Centre gets Funding

Plans to build a major arts and media facility in the centre of Derby have been boosted by a £87,000 award from the Arts Council of England. This will allow the consortium of organisations behind the project to develop a […]

0 0
Outside in
Resource Archive News archive

Made to order

A high percentage of Jennie Moncur’s work is commissioned. Since 1986, alongside undertaking a range of private commissions, she has built up a portfolio of public works including thirty tapestries; painted fabrics and rugs for Jardine Insurance Brokers; laser-cut linoleum […]

0 0
Resource Archive News archive

Art and business collaborate

Amongst the winners of this year’s Arts and Business Awards was a partnership between Ercol Furniture and Sustrans who won the Arts, Business and Community category. Moving to a new factory in Princes Riseborough meant that furniture manufacturers Ercol became […]

0 0
Pink Rubber Guns
Resource Archive Feature

Pay back

David Jeffreys looks at the issue of arts funding and considers whether there’s a catch to the expansion of public spending.

0 0
Teabag tea tent
Resource Archive Feature

Best western

Drifting south west to Cornwall, Alan Bleakley describes PALP, an artist-led group committed to experimental, collaborative and socially inclusive projects.

0 0
Excavated Mutilations
Resource Profile

Conrad Atkinson

With a solo show currently at the Courtauld Institute, Conrad Atkinson talks to Sue Hubbard about the evolution of his career – a practice rooted equally in the political and the personal.

0 0
Douche
Resource Archive Feature

Mediated journeys

Jose Ferreira introduces us to artists’ imaginative use of technology and its relationship to urban space.

0 0
stills from Jellyfish Lake
Resource Archive Feature

Fail… to succeed

David Butler reports on the current crop of ground-breaking collaborations between art and science that are giving artists the time to undertake sustained, open-ended research without the expectation of a specific outcome.

0 0
RedBall Project
Resource Archive Feature

Big red ball

American artist Kurt Perschke reports with an account of his self-organised large inflatables ‘RedBall Project’ in Barcelona.

0 0
Mundial (world cup)
Resource Archive Feature

Class act

Simon Morrissey takes a look at what the Catalan capital has to offer artists.

0 0
Crossing lines of fire
Resource Archive Feature

On the waterfront

Marc Rome gives an account of his participation in an international collaborative project on New York’s Staten Island.

0 0
untitled
Resource Archive Discussion

Generating income

Last February Jennifer Vickers completed a two-year residency at Manchester Metropolitan University as part of North West Arts Board’s Setting up Scheme. “During the early stages of this placement I struggled to make any kind of profit from my practice, […]

0 0
Planes
Resource Archive Discussion

Community installation

Last May, C Visual Art conducted a two-week residency at Torre Abbey in Torquay funded by Awards for All. Five artists were involved and by combining the individual skills of the group they produced an installation that focused on the […]

0 0
Needle point
Resource Archive Discussion

Why wait to expose yourself

Worcester has recently witnessed the addition of a new £16 million retail development by St Modwen Developments. An arts strategy was included in the planning stages, with new works commissioned and artists consulted as part of the design process. Paul […]

0 0
Seeing it both ways
Resource Archive Discussion

Seeing it both ways

The Arts and Disability Forum based in Belfast offers grants of up to £5,000 to disabled artists throughout Ireland working in all art forms. Awards are granted for a specific project or body of work. Seeing it both ways is […]

0 0
One hundred books
Resource Profile

Stephen Hurrel

I recently completed a public art commission for the new Library and Learning Centre at Leeds Metropolitan University.

0 0
Sofa Spectrum
Resource Archive Feature

Something in the ether

Sandwiched between the mountains and the sea, Llandudno’s modest, faded Victorian gentility is home to Oriel Mostyn Gallery. ‘Something in the Ether’ was a discussion using ‘Mostyn 12′ – the gallery’s twelfth annual open exhibition – to ask whether and how an open show pinpoints emerging trends in artists’ practice.

0 0
Liquid sorrow
Resource Profile

Susie Hamilton

For the last five years I have painted cowboys, explorers and criminals – men seeking liberation outside the laws and limits of society in dangerous, exhilarating places.

0 0