“It feels good to know you have someone on your side”. In ‘Journey’s end’, Emilia Telese describes the supportive environment of her residency at Artsway and the ongoing pivotal support it offers artists involved in its programme. In ‘Mad world’ […]
The bumper issue of [a-n] Magazine this month has a distinctly digital flavour with a critical overview of recent net art and a profile of evolving new media consortium SCAN that aims to promote emergent, collaborative and experimental practice. In […]
Phoenix Arts Association – a charitable organisation based in Brighton – provides studio space for over 100 artists and supports a gallery and education programme. It holds ten exhibitions a year, eight of which are selected from an open call. […]
Kelly Atkins, Purse, green felt-backed carpet with neoprene inside. Kelly recently took part in the Crafts Council Next Move scheme – an individually tailored programme of mentoring and networking. Look out for more Crafts Council opportunities in future issues. a-n […]
Rosie Leveton, The Bakery of Secrets, baked sugar and abattoir knives (detail), 2002. Rosie is a recent recipient of the Mark Tanner Award. Worth £4,000 the award supports an artist for one year culminating in an exhibition at Standpoint Gallery. […]
Last year artist Idit Nathan completed an eight-month residency at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. She spent her time in the department of medicine for the elderly, gathering material for an exhibition by talking to the patients and attending daily group sessions. […]
Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Helix Arts agency aims to bring artists working in all disciplines into direct contact with people, primarily those who have had little experience of or contact with the arts. Projects have taken place in a […]
D-cap (demystifying contemporary arts practice) is a pilot project, organised by East Street Arts in Leeds, aims to create a greater understanding of contemporary artists and their work through audience development, training and mentoring. Last year six artists were selected […]
Last year Simon Keenleyside, a Royal College of Art graduate, won the first BOC Emerging Artist Award. Organised by the agency Art for Offices, the award is worth a total of £20,000 and will be offered annually to a UK-based […]
Anecdotal Cardiff is an artist-initiated project produced in collaboration with Artworks Wales under the Good Ideas residency scheme. The project brief invited artists to construct and set-up their own residency with a host organisation before approaching Artworks Wales for up […]
Stare is an interactive live art piece that seeks to redefine the rules of engagement between artist and audience. Concerned with the passive role of the art object, John Rogers attempts to reverse the balance by making unbroken eye contact […]
Art Works in Mental Health was developed in 2002 to increase understanding of the role of art and artistic expression in the lives of people who are affected by mental illness through showcases of their work. The project culminated in […]
Annie Cattrell is concerned with the hidden structures and systems of life. Her work evolves by isolating and fragmenting these systems in three dimensions, allowing the viewer to access the physical boundaries between the interior world of the body-mind and […]
Rebecca Skeels recently completed an MA in Design by Project at Central Saint Martin’s, in London. She is now is now working full-time on a silversmithing residency at South Hill Park arts centre that was advertised in [a-n] MAGAZINE. The […]
After completing a degree in graphic design Jimmy Turrell broadened his artistic vision gaining experience in as many areas of arts practice as possible. As artist-in-residence at The Crucible Theatre he worked with a group of young people, creating an […]
The first New Work Scotland Programme (NWSP) was launched by Collective Gallery in 2000. It aims to support the careers of emerging artists in Scotland, allowing them to create new work and bring it to the attention of a wider […]
The annual encore 10×10 awards of up to £10,000 are offered to ten artists working in the northern region of England. The scheme aims to allow practitioners the freedom to reflect on and develop their work and applications are restricted […]
During the third year of my degree in Fine Art Tapestry at Edinburgh College of Art, my year group of twenty decided to put on our first collective exhibition. We utilised a redundant shop building in the city and staged […]
Glow is an installation of 702 gilded, suspended light bulbs first shown at Artspace in Sydney, Australia in February 2001 and exhibited this summer at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea. Glow started life as one in a series […]
In July 2000 I completed a three-month ceramic residency at Cleveland Craft Centre, funded by Northern Arts. I decided to spend the first month of the residency away from the studio, driving around the North York Moors and up and […]
The Pilgrim Gallery in Bloomsbury, London has recently opened its doors to promote the work of both established and emerging artists. The inaugural exhibition features new paintings by William Dick. Dick based in London has developed a reputation over a […]
A major public artwork programme has evolved from Blackpool’s coast protection scheme, with a number of phases continuing until 2004. The coordination and selection process was undertaken by the Art Department based in Manchester with the main interest being for […]
I was commissioned by ‘Connected’, Oldham, to create a collaborative installation with art-based mental health groups for Oldham Art Gallery, using any medium and subject matter. I approached this very organically, not wanting to impose a concept, but let the […]
The starting point of my work begins with a place/site, both in practical and technical terms. The next step would be to make something which explores/exploits that place. This has meant, within the gallery context creating a new place co-existing […]
‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries’ is a high-profile annual exhibition open to final year undergraduates, current postgraduates and artists who graduated no earlier than the preceding year. It has a reputation for providing a platform for artists at the start of their […]
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