Discussion - Page 11 of 23 - a-n The Artists Information Company

I have recently been very badly treated by a gallery – as in not told about artworks sold, then not paid, then given bouncing cheques and downright lies and evasion.

The recent coverage in a-n publications on good practice and rates of pay for artists is very useful, but I think that an important issue has not been covered.

I read with interest your latest Good Practice publication, Negotiating your practice.

I am writing about the article in October’s a-n Magazine reviewing The Edinburgh Annuale, ‘Annuale III’ by Guyan Porter.

Avigail Ochert is correct in her observation that for the purposes of considering salaries “artists’ pay scales should not be compared or equated with teachers&#146’”.

This month’s Opportunities focus on international residencies, will sit permanently on www.a-n.co.uk1 as a signpost to regular international residencies that have regular deadlines. Artist Michael Cousin2 has researched this focus alongside his busy practice as an artist, and offers some […]

John Plowman and Nicola Streeten comment.

“The UK’s leading information and advocacy organisation for artists and their collaborators”, a-n, a newsletter and ‘artists information company’, has become so grossly over laden with the argot of management consultancy.

As a former teacher now working for the past five years as a gallery educator and also a freelance artist I have been interested to follow the a-n proposals on artists’ fees.

This month sees the launch of AIR – Artists’ Interaction and Representation.

We are a local authority-run gallery who occasionally employ artists and other workers to do workshops with us on our premises.

I can identify with much of what John Boshoff said in his letter August’s a-n Magazine.

This month’s a-n Collections: Artists’ profiles presents Edith Marie Pasquier’s selection from over 150 profiles on www.a-n.co.uk.

This is a response to John Boshoff’s letter in August.

I completely understand the concerns in this [August] Comment.

Arts Council England has come under heavy fire recently, as debates have raged about how usefully it serves the artistic community and the public.

Artists comment on the Arts Council’s Turning Point Strategy.

I’m 65, on a pension credit, no savings, and I live in a remote spot on the Wales/England border. So obviously money, and delivery problems feature. I’ve had to scale my painting and sculpture right down “can I take it […]

Ask yourself these questions. What makes you an artist? And what do you have in common with other artists?

The Public in West Bromwich went into administration in March – just months before it was due to open.

The launch of Arts Council England’s new strategy for contemporary visual arts heralds the sector’s prioritisation by ACE.

In your July 2006 issue you report on the new BRITDOCART scheme.

With a government spending review impending, the value of culture has had high scale profiling recently.