Volunteer opportunities are the norm across the visual arts, often perceived as the only route for newcomers to the profession to gain the CV experience that will get them noticed and their foot on the career ladder.
Richard Deacon, Merlin James and Heather & Ivan Morison have been selected to represent Wales at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007.
An exploration of professional development support needs for makers in the West Midlands has identified that as makers’ working patterns are characterised as “multi-tasking portfolio workers”.
The winners of the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2006 have been announced.
Frieze Art Fair is upon us once again, and as well as 150 art galleries from around the world showcasing over 1000 artists’ work, visitors can take advantage of an ambitious curatorial programme, under the umbrella term of Frieze Projects.
Now in its fourth year, Inspired Art Fair aims to show the best in contemporary art from emerging independent artists.
The unfairness of age restrictions on art competitions and opportunities for artists has been aired in the pages of a-n Magazine over many years.
I met Boubacar Keita and visual and performance collective, Art & Action on a visit to Dakar, Senegal last year.
V22 plc has been accepted to deal on PLUS Markets (Ofex), enabling the start in September of the first ever publicly traded shares in a contemporary art collection.
Unique sites along Nottingham’s River Trent are a focus of a series of site-specific performances, installations and artworks.
Chinese Arts Centre is hosting Vital 06, an international festival of live art in Manchester to raise awareness of the diverse, exciting and challenging work being made by artists of Chinese descent from across the world.
Playing its part in October’s visual arts buzz in London, Zoo Art Fair is establishing its reputation as a showcase for emerging UK and international galleries, project spaces, artist collectives, curatorial groups and publications.
Thanks to a substantial grant from Arts Council England, the National Federation of Artists’ Studio Providers will launch in October.
The Art House, a Wakefield-based membership organisation for artists, has always championed inclusivity.
The second edition of the Gstaad international short film festival for artists’ films took place from 25-27 August.
Since advertising in February a-n Magazine, Phoenix Arts, Leicester has commissioned three new pieces of work that enable the audience to interact on and offline around the city.
The 2006 deciBel Award recipients are: Bernd Behr, Rosalind Nashashibi, Harold Offeh, The Otolith Group, Hiraki Sawa and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
Every professional looks to develop their skills throughout their caree;, the same is true for the creative sector.
In September, the A Foundation launches Greenland Street, a major new contemporary art centre in Liverpool.
Northern Print Studio will move to new premises in October.
A major new initiative designed to strengthen cultural links between the UK and China was launched in July in London.
The second Body Navigation ‘international festival of contemporary arts’ ran 6-9 July 2006 across varied sites, spanning the park on Elagin Island and the urban sprawl of St Petersburg.
Six innovative new commissions by animate! tv will receive a terrestrial TV premiere on Channel 4 in November.
Four Scotland-based artists were awarded £5,000 each after being short-listed for the 2006 Aspect Prize.
September launches the exhibition for the 2006 Nam June Paik award – Internationaler Medienkunstpreis der Kunststiftung NRW (International Media Arts Award of the NRW Arts Foundation).
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