Richard Taylor talks to Lee Devonish in the final year of her Fine Art course at the University of Kent as she moves across disciplines and kick starts degree show plans for the year group.
Contents include: Pointing North highlights the festivals, events and exhibitions taking place across the North of England this season; Katriona Beales reports from the Apha-ville festival symposium in London; in Debate Emma Geliot asks are disabled artists more in the […]
Artists and designers embracing digital learning, production and distribution.
The Light, Leeds
15 September – 1 October
Down Stairs Gallery, Herefordshire
10 September – 30 December
Published by Eastside Projects with Aid & Abet, Extra Special People, Spike Associates, WARP
Poppy Sebire, London
2 September – 1 October
Arts Gallery, University of the Arts London
14 September – 28 October
Richard Taylor, online editor of a-n’s Students community and Degrees unedited, maps his journey over four years and shares insights from one invigilator’s chair to the next.
Since graduating from Leeds University in 2007 Joe Simpson has developed his craft as a painter blending his practice with commissions and more personal projects. With his show ‘Musician Portraits’ open in London, and his portait of Maxi Jazz in the BP Portrait Award 2011, he takes time out to fill us in on his career so far.
Rasmus Nilausen, The Florentine, oil on linen, 65x54cm, 2011.
Digital capabilities have revolutionised artists’ working practices, from transforming the kind of works they make to how they interact with each other and audiences.
On reading Mitra Memarzia’s report on diminishing resources in undergraduate courses (‘The future of art education’, a-n Magazine September 2011) I was moved to both endorse the findings and speculate further on the continuing erosion of specialist teacher training in art education.
I have been reading some interesting comments recently in your magazine about the issue of artists when they leave education and enter employment. I feel I would like to comment on this issue. As an arts graduate I am now […]
I have recently responded to a couple of exhibition opportunity announcements and followed them through – the most recent: Calling all artists for a group exhibition at The Brick Lane Gallery.
Through a letter published in the Sunday Telegraph, 2 October, a consortium of arts bodies including a-n called for inclusion of arts and culture in National Planning Policy Framework.
It’s sixteen years since the Disability Discrimination Act came into force; so are disabled artists more in the mainstream now, or have the goal posts just moved sideways asks Emma Geliot.
The continued squeeze on arts funding is throwing up some interesting solutions to supporting artists, whilst raising some serious debates about the future of the profession.
In October, Eden District Council announced a cut of 70% to Eden Arts by 2014.
Arts Council England and NESTA announced first grants in a major digital initiative, and Katriona Beales went to Apha-ville to glimpse the digital future.
Manchester-based artist Jacqueline Wylie is researching ways in which artists use social media.
October saw the opening of the John Moores Painting Prize 2012. Judges this year are artists Fiona Banner, Angela de la Cruz and George Shaw with Whitechapel Art Gallery Director Iwona Blazwick and Creative director of the BBC, Alan Yentob.
Emily Speed – already well known for her Artists talking blog ‘Getting paid’ and her regular reports for a-n Magazine – added curatorship of an artists’ books project to her portfolio of skills last month, through a commission from a-n.
Textile designers Wallace Sewell’s ‘Barman’ seating fabric was launched this summer as part of the TfL Investment Programme to refurbish Central Line trains in London. The first phase of the new seating is in situ and over time all Central […]
With September’s forecast of a one in six chance of another recession burning in our ears, it’s vital that non-profits like a-n maintain their critical edge.
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