Creative places
Profiling studios and facilities around the UK.
Profiling studios and facilities around the UK.
Contents include: UK studio organisations profiled in Creative places; Rona Smith’s North Elevation architectural collaboration in Collaborative relationships; state of higher education debates; plus Reviews from UK and Ireland. PDF version [size 5.4 MB]. Requires PDF reader.
Artist Rona Smith, public art consultant Vivien Lovell and architect Soraya Khan discuss the development of Rona’s ambitious North Elevation work which was permanently installed at Lumen United Reform Church last year.
“There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall” Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise, 1938
Responding to the gap in intelligence about artists and their practice, AIR: Artists’ Interaction and Representation has been conducting a series of research projects with the aim of informing cultural advocacy and policy-making.
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This month’s blog selection.
Hinterland curator Jennie Syson says this year’s commissions “will present a cycle-powered cinema, trees grown from books, tasty opportunities to eat the local plant life and a chance to do a spot of bird watching whilst appreciating areas of natural beauty within the city and beyond”.
The quality of art education offered in UK universities has been regularly under the spotlight in recent times. In this month’s Debate, an MA graduate gives an account of the critical situation, and proposes an alternative system to offer education for artists.
I think the issue with this government high street initiative is that it’s not part of a programme which attempts to actively deal with the underlying problems that have caused the recession in the first place.
The problem with ethical regulation in art or in any walk of life is that it is open to abuse and interpretation.
Is it only me who thinks there is something wrong with art education these days?
66 Corporation Street (opposite McDonalds), Corby
18 September – 17 October
Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
5 September – 3 October
Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn, Cambridge
5 September – 1 November
Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin
12 September – 10 October
It’s Hard To Make a Stand by Steve Bishop
Dan Thompson from The Revolutionary Arts Group reveals how artists are once again making use of empty spaces as a means to kick-start both the cultural and economic well being of town centres, and suggests seven steps to enable this area of practice to flourish.
Richard Taylor in conversation with MA in Fine Art at University College Falmouth student Karen Howse
Dr. Julia Horn, Joint Director of the Centre for Career Management Skills (CETL) at University of Reading talks to Jane Watt about the fascinating research project and online resource Beyond the PhD
London Photomonth is the only photography festival in the capital and the largest event of its kind in the UK.
Interrogation Walsall that explores the impact that one artist can make in one place in one day is part of Longhouse’s annual programme, which provides professional development opportunities for artists working in the public realm.
Auto-Italia South East was formed in April 2007 by three artists: Amanda Dennis, Kate Cooper and Rachel Pimm. It is the name of the project, a larger network of artists, as well as the space they run in a donated building in South London.
This month’s blog selection.
This month’s art world movers