Prizes and awards
A round-up of recent shortlists, winners and awards.
A round-up of recent shortlists, winners and awards.
Profiling a range of selling events.
Exploring research options on offer to post-graduate students at a selection of UK-based universities and art schools.
In spring 2010 Spacex invited three UK-based artists to develop new work in response to Exeter’s West Quarter, where the gallery is located. The artists facilitated collaborative encounters and conversations with local residents. Amy Feneck interviewed people about the notion of ‘independent spirit’ in order to develop a script for a new film, Epilogue. Operating from her mobile portraiture studio, Lady Lucy documented encounters in her paintings ‘The Court Portraits’. Volkhardt Müller worked with people to create a series of performed actions on video. Majorette Rehearsing centered around the idea of the majorette as a West Quarter archetype; a paradoxical figure of individual aspiration, community celebration and carnival. For this feature, Volkhardt Müller reflects on his project with Spacex Project Coordinator, Martha Crean.
Contents include: Post-graduate research options plus art fairs and open studios features; The new politics in Debate; Collaborative relationships features artist Volkhardt Müller and Spacex project coordinator Martha Crean discussing a participatory project in Exeter. PDF version [size 5 MB]. […]
Millais Off-Site Projects, Southampton Solent University
25 March 4 July
Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury and Crate, Margate
17 April 1 May
Art Sheffield 2010 Life: A User’s Manual, Various venues, Sheffield, 6 March 1 May
Art Sheffield 2010: Over To You, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, 6 March 1 May
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
23 February 10 April
Grey Area, Brighton
10-25 April
Organised by Hayward Touring Exhibitions, the British Art Show takes place every five years and tours to four different cities across the UK.
Artquest’s international practice seminar held in March at A Foundation London coincided with the ‘Journeys with No Return’ exhibition. Speakers included: artist and exhibitor Kiran Kaur Brar, whose residency in Istanbul was part of this three-city project; project curator Alice […]
The rules of collective art: social engagement and collaboration in contemporary art, hosted by Head of Education Outreach at National Galleries Robin Baillie and Glasgow School of Art’s Ken Neil formed a strand in this year’s conference for the Association of Art Historians.
A UK-wide scheme that enables artists and makers to work alongside students in universities and colleges for mutual benefit is launching a digital portfolio of stories from artists who’ve taken part in these ‘mini residencies’.
In April, Liverpool-based artist and curator-led group TAXED held an experimental event at A Foundation in Liverpool: TAXED No10: Skillmarket, an exchange for practical skills and useful information.
Fiona MacDonald, Cumulissa, 2009.
Whether you are an artist or someone who works with artists, to be able to fully realise the creative ambition of a project you need to be able to negotiate effectively. This is the ongoing focus of our Collaborative Relationships series, which aims to expose the nuts and bolts of how artists work with their collaborators, whether that is another artist, a curator, commissioner or another type of creative partner.
JB is too quick to dismiss the value of higher education at art school (Letters, a-n Magazine, May 2010), and I hope you’ve had an overflow of protest to his letter. In my experience, it has a multitude of failings, […]
Angelia Seik’s letter (Letters, a-n Magazine, May 2010) claims that artists don’t have the sense to form a union that would give them a necessary mouthpiece. This isn a-n Magazine June 2010
Angelika Seik berates artists for “not having the sense to organise themselves into a union” (Letters, a-n Magazine, May 2010). Of course as visual artists north of the border are well aware the Scottish Artists Union formally constituted as a […]
There is a new way in the UK, it’s called AIR. It is not a union but represents 14,000 artists, with more joining all the time. This number of artists cannot be ignored in these extremely difficult financial times! Let’s […]
What does the country’s new government mean for the visual arts? Can the Cameron-Clegg alliance steer us through a recessionary climate intact? Last month Jeremy Hunt, the new Culture Secretary, announced in a TV interview on Newsnight that the Department […]
Richard Taylor in conversation with Craig Hudson from University Campus Suffolk on the skills to learn, the ideas to express and how the human sculptural form embodies the materiality for both.
A guide for artists and arts organisers to creating a mutually-beneficial relationship.
In 2007 Noemi Lakmaier and Joy Stanley were granted a NAN New Collaboration bursary to fund research and development for Final Intervention, a project responding to the lack of opportunities for early-career installation artists to make and show new work. It aimed to organise collaborative projects/exhibitions within buildings about to be pulled down. Emilia Telese talks to the artists about the bursary and its impact.