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Susan Miller gives an overview of her time spent in the Spanish capital as a result of a travel award from the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation.

Deirdre King profiles LA-based artists’ initiative Raid Projects and its international activities.

Every five years the provincial German town of Kassel, one hundred miles north of Frankfurt, hosts one of the biggest events in the art world calendar. Frederika Whitehead profiles ‘Documenta 11’ and picks some of her personal highlights.

Brigid Howarth investigates ways in which artists are making work and collaborating with industry.

This year will be the second ‘Fresh Art’ event at the Business Design Centre in Islington.
Here gallery director and selector Chris Noraika outlines his view on the event’s somewhat controversial status, and some artists tell us of their experiences and expectations.

For artist Emma Baird Murray, Coed Hills Rural Artspace in South Wales has become a place of inspiration, a space where making art, sustainable living and community involvement go hand in hand. She describes how the organisation works with artists in a rural setting.

Adrian Barron and Tim Davies report on their involvement in an international environmental art project in the rainforests of Belize.

Gaia Persico, whose work can be seen this month in ‘EASTinternational’ in Norwich, reveals how her working practice – truly international and portable in nature – has grown from her other occupation as a member of an airline cabin crew.

In January 2002, Sally Cartwright and six other designers were selected by the Birmingham and Solihull International Trade Team – working with Trade Partners UK and West Midland Arts – to exhibit work at the British Embassy in Brussels as part of a trial exporting sheme.

G39’s Chris Brown reports on a stimulating seminar for artist-led initiatives in southwest England.

Malcolm Dickson highlights the issues around the future needs of artists’ organisations in Scotland.

Jessica Loseby shares in her experience of initiating a net art project and becoming ‘cyber-chic’.

Angharad Pearce Jones reports on the relationship between Welsh artists and musicians, and the creation of Capsule, a new visual arts venture that celebrates this creative crossover.

Erik Hagoort profiles the Amsterdam-based independent artists’ information agency – Trans Artists – the latest in our series of developing international partners.

Ola Gustafsson and Lesley Young of protoacademy report on their involvement in the fourth Gwangju Biennale in Korea.

Judith Staines visits Mumbai and reports on its reputation for contemporary art.

This one-day symposium brought together applied arts practitioners and students from many artistic viewpoints, and offered an insight into what new technology and digital practice has achieved and its potential future impact on practice.

Brendan Fletcher takes a look at how artist-led initiatives, and the Manchester galleries’ willingness to listen have helped shape the current changes in the Manchester art scene.

Work & Leisure International partners – Paulette Terry Brien and Laurence Lane – describe how their organisation has evolved over ten years of working together and with artists.

With a long history of working with artists, Habitat’s art programme provides the opportunity of prime viewing space that acts as a springboard for young artists.

The INTERNATIONAL section was introduced to [a-n] MAGAZINE in April last year in recognition that an increasing number of artists have the desire to operate in a global arena. As part of a plan to continually improve the scope and coverage of the international opportunities and other information in [a-n] MAGAZINE, [a-n] THE ARTISTS INFORMATION COMPANY is forging working relationships with a diverse range of arts organisations around the world. This month sees [a-n] MAGAZINE welcome the first of these international partners with profiles of united net-works.org in Sweden and the Sculptors’ Society of Ireland.

The Sculptors’ Society of Ireland The Sculptors’ Society of Ireland (SSI) was established in 1980 to improve the professional standing of sculptors, raise the profile of sculpture and to develop the quality and scope of commissioning procedures and opportunities in […]

Organised by twelve second-year students on the Royal College of Art’s MA in Curating Contemporary Art, FAIR was something of a hybrid between an exhibition and an international art fair. Max Andrews reports on this pioneering project and profiles some of the participants.

Paul Bonaventura talks to Tim Eastop, Senior Visual Arts Officer at the Arts Council of England, about a new initiative to create international practice-based opportunities for individual artists.

Polly Gould gives an overview of the process and outcomes of a collaborative residency with Anne Eggebert at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, and Hastings College of Art and Technology.