Sonya Dyer reports from ‘Hospitality’ the third event in the Artists and curators talking series, held at East Street Arts: Union 105 in Leeds, and asks ‘What is the relationship between hospitality and intimacy?’.
Sarah Rowles examines how conversation and discussion can be considered an education in contemporary art.
Richard Taylor catches up with artist Rebecca Strain as she uses her isolation from developed networks to confront a writing practice that complements the enduring nature of her visual production.
Comparing blogging to a ‘collective game of hide and seek,’ H.E. Cocker rethinks the blog as a place where an idea can exist without existing at all and where the future is implied whilst not yet written.
Despite setting up a successful jewellery business with her husband, blogger Jane always knew she was an artist and eventually found the time and space to develop her painting. Andrew Bryant talks to Jane about business, the relationship between art and craft, the obsession with interpretation and about feminism and painting.
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Artist Pippa Koszerek considers recent student protests within the context of alternative art school strategies.
Martin Patrick on Robert Filliou and George Brecht’s collaborative shop project La Cédille qui sourit.
Robyn Minogue reports from the ‘For a New Europe: University Struggles Against Austerity’ conference in Paris that looked to discuss and organise a common network based on European -wide issues including autonomous knowledge production, self-education and networking.
Terry Smith discusses the Experimental Art School.
Department 21 is a school within a school where designers, artists and architects can meet, collaborate and share working space beyond the institutional boundaries of their own disciplines.
Elements MA is an unfolding proposition for a educational pathway based around a titular masters course. Initially the MA will manifest itself through a series of events, exhibitions and activities from its base at Trade, Nottingham.
Set up in 2008 for the New Dark Age exhibition, Free School is a non-hierarchical, collectivist, no-cost, peer-led art school.
The Hedgeschoolproject is a participatory work by Glenn Loughran that combines art, architecture and activism to explore forms of critical pedagogy and emancipatory learning.
The Islington Mill Art Academy was set up by students for students. It is an unaccredited, collectively run higher education experience.
Emerging from the self-organised culture of the Los Angeles art scene, The Public School is a peer-led education model.
Set up in 2006, the New International School’s peer-network of fifty members organise events, publications and collaborative works in Finland, France, Serbia, the Netherlands and the UK.
The Parallel School of Art engages in collaborative workshops and projects that explore and redefine models of learning.
Igloo, the collective comprising artists Ruth Gibson and Bruno Martelli, present Visitor, a new installation at the Apthorp Gallery, artsdepot, London.
That 63% of those currently on contract to a-n are practitioners demonstrates our commitment to providing income for artists.
A-n’s Collaborative relationships series exposes the working relationships between artists and the wide range of professionals they choose to collaborate with. In this article, artist David Cotterrell and Projects Director Carolyn Black reflect on the realisation of a unique and demanding work for the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail.
A selection of projects that focus on the development of artists’ practice and their engagement with local communities.
Local authority cuts as seen from the frontline of visual arts providers.
W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy)
To stand the test of time, arts organisations re-immerse themselves into their values to stay ahead and the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) in Glasgow is no exception.