Ceramic artists Elise Austrin, Karen Atherley, Jo Davies, Akiko Hirai and Joanna London are amongst exhibitors in ‘Handmade 07’, being held at Chelsea Old Town Hall 27-30 November.
Jeffery Byrd, Holy Ghost, performance, Boston, 2004. Photo: Bob Raymond
After a lengthy baited-breath waiting period, the government’s Comprehensive Spending Review that sets public funding levels for 2008-11 was announced.
Professional development opportunities are widely available, ranging from cash awards to advisory sessions and critical debate.
The focus generated this month by ‘Vital 07’ is the catalyst for exposing of some of the UK’s key promoters of live art today.
Gordon Dalton’s piece (Networking Artists’ Networks, a-n Magazine August 2007) showed that the silly season is not limited to the tabloid newspapers.
NAN Scotland event at Gracefields Arts Centre, Dumfries, 12 September 2007
Bravo, Dave Grimbleby – and thanks for saying what many of us have thought for a long time.
This month’s visual arts appointments
Arts Council England’s announcement on 26 September of its new Chief Executive, Alan Davey, was met with mixed feelings in the arts world.
The Crafts Council, the national development agency for contemporary crafts in the UK, has gone through huge changes in the last five years.
Leeds-based artists Lucy Gibson and Yvonne Carmichael are curating a new gallery space in Leeds.
Herts open studios celebrated its seventeenth year in September.
MASA Artists – a group of visual arts practitioners with studios on Blackfriars Road, Salford – are celebrating the organisation’s 25th anniversary with a series of artistic initiatives over the forthcoming months.
Public art think tank ixia’s recent review of public art and planning in England revealed that, through the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG), the government is considering changes to the planning system.
Black Dog Publishing
Edited by Johanna Billing, Maria Lind and Lars Nilsson
Sally Lai is currently a Clore Leadership Programme fellow and holds an MA in Curating from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Based in Manchester, the wide range of exhibitions and projects she has been involved with reflect her special interest […]
Sonya Dyer explores Karen Mirza and Brad Butler’s collaborative practice as artist filmmakers.
In a short essay by Richard Hylton on the occasion of Jimmy Robert’s solo show, ‘brown leatherette’, 2002, Hylton recalls Robert’s commentary about his own work gravitating towards “the empty space between materiality and representation”. Robert’s work across the mediums […]
American artist and curator Jen Wu lives and works in London, and is currently an Inspire Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London.
Sara Haq on Judy Freya Sibayan, performance and conceptual artist, curator, publisher and museum.
Arnolfini, Bristol
15 September – 11 November 2007
Chisenhale Art Place, London
14-16 September 2007
ICIA Art Space 2, Bath
12 September 2007 – 4 January 2008
Southwell Artspace, Southwell, Nottinghamshire
15 September – 13 October 2007
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