Art moves – 2008 July
This month’s new appointments.
This month’s new appointments.
Opinions on arts council investments, attitutes towards artists, and studio politics.
Following on from a surge in Fluxus-inspired activity, most recently with The Long Weekend at Tate Modern, Birmingham is hosting FLUX-FEST
Work that confounds traditional notions of craft is the focus for a new touring exhibition from the Crafts Council, the national development agency for applied arts.
An innovative art project designed to create a new identity for one of Londons most misunderstood areas launched in June on Peckham Square.
The Jerwood Foundation, one of the UKs best supporters of artists practice through their awards and prizes programmes, has a focus this month on photography.
A panel of education experts have selected Englands thirty most creative schools to be the leading edge of a £110m national creative learning programme.
Imagine attending a concert but instead of sitting or standing, you walk.
Animate Projects is looking for ambitious, original and thought-provoking proposals that develop the possibilities of animation: films that explore ideas of what animation is, with new forms and processes, compelling narratives, and challenging content.
Recent correspondents have made some very valid points regarding unpaid public art commissions.
For this double issue Reviews has a special focus on art in the public realm.
Mark Webster gives an account of the pan-European Animator project and its final event in Warsaw on 26 April.
Various locations, Frome, Somerset
10 May 21 June
Various locations, Loughborough
12 May 18 June
Festival of Contemporary Visual Art and Ecology
2-11 May
Pines Garden, St Margarets Bay and Charlton Shopping Centre, Dover
15 May 13 July
St Marys in Castro, Walmer Castle, Deal Castle
13 April 1 June
Emma Cocker discusses the practice of wandering, and considers the critical resonances of such an artform.
I have been reading with great interest and thinking a lot about the issue of unpaid public art proposals (a-n Magazine, Letters, April, May, June).
A companion listing to Indexing intelligence publication.
This month: Sarah Morpeth
This month: Alex Hetherington and Janie Nicoll
Penny Jones explores the career of Andrew Tanner who has spent ten years as a designer maker developing many successful ranges of batch-produced ceramics.
Kate Stoddart profiles jeweller Cynthia Cousens, looking specifically at awards, exhibitions and research projects.
Kate Stoddart profiles Adam Paxon, who makes one-off sculptural jewellery in plastic, covering his career development and impact of winning prizes like Jerwood Applied Arts Prize in 2007.