This month a-n will be out and about at Glasgow Art Fair. A Code of Practice seminar hosted by Susan Jones will take place Friday 16 April. The event is free to artists. See display advert on back page or […]
Welcome back to Grainne Sweeney who returned from her maternity leave at the beginning of March. Welcome also to John Kent who joins the team as our Financial consultant bringing with him a wealth of arts and business financial experience, […]
Not all diseases are preventable but a healthy response to illness fostered by a positive relationship in the treatment setting can help combat the secondary problems of depression and isolation. Over four months Gina Glover documented the life of the […]
The 2004 Sonning Prize is to be awarded this month to the British-Palestinian sculptor, performance and installation artist Mona Hatoum. Awarded every other year by the University of Copenhagen, it is offered to a man or woman “who has significantly […]
Young Artist of the Year, worth £5,000 in this year’s Hunting Art Prizes, went to Falmouth College of Art final-year fine art student, Marco Amura, whilst 1999 Falmouth fine art graduate Alisdair Lindsay scooped second prize worth £4,000. Their work […]
Inherited genetic illness, the impact of the built environment on social values and the cultural significance of heroin use all feature in the latest round of visual artists awards from the Scottish Arts Council. Four awards of £15,000 will give […]
Fabrication started in February on the first of ten major artists’ commissions for the new Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. The commissions are part of Leading the Way, a three-year arts programme to enhance the new Gloucestershire Royal Hospital through integrated public […]
Commissions East has launched a regional-wide professional development programme for visual artists. Funded by Arts Council England, East and European Social Fund (ESF), the three-year programme will impact on some 500 professional artists living or working in the east of […]
A crafts commissions programme is underway at the Crafts Study Centre at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design. Seven makers in south east and west England were selected from a wider trawl. Their brief was to design and produce […]
Artist-led Leeds Sculpture Workshop has rented property in Leeds for over ten years. Now the studio has moved into a permanent home that will enable artists to rent studio facilities at affordable prices in a professional atmosphere. This is a […]
Digital and sound artist Jony Easterby is making a nine-metre high lighthouse-style work on a cycle path in Kent as part of Sustrans’ Art and the Travelling Landscape scheme. Aimed at providing a resting and viewing place for users of […]
CBAT, The Arts and Regeneration Agency is to hold a two day conference, Urban Legacies, in Cardiff on 6-7 May 2004. This coincides with ‘Aint no love in the heart of the City’, a series of temporary art projects in […]
a-n’s Future forecast event (29-30 January) was attended by seventy participants – despite particularly bad weather conditions – and we’d like to thank everyone who took part. Angus Farquhar spoke of the philosophy behind his company, Nacionale Vitae Activa (NVA), […]
The first a-n Critical conversation of 2004 took place at the beginning of February at Psyche in Middlesbrough. The event was a huge success and saw this year’s programme off to a great start with over fifty people gathering to […]
Mike Brown, a-n’s Financial Consultant, is leaving the North East of England for pastures new (well, Yorkshire) and regrettably we will be losing his input. We’d like to thank Mike for his valuable contribution and to wish him well in […]
Our schedule of regular staff training and meetings means our offices will be closed on 9.30-12.30 on the fourth Tuesday of every month. If you have an urgent enquiry please leave a message on our voicemail system or send an […]
What the eye can’t see, the heart can’t grieve for by Matthew Tickle is a new public art work on view at Queen Mary, University of London until 7 March. A collaborative venture bringing together the artist and theoretical physicist […]
The Scottish Arts Council is creating a single fund for capital lottery funds for the next three years in an attempt to minimise the impact of lower arts income to good causes arising from players of the National Lottery. Ticket […]
A year-long project at Sherborne House has drawn on its unique past and the memories of those who’ve used it, as a resource for artists to make new work. Timeline, that commenced in August last year and runs through to […]
From over eighty nominations, Robert Adams, Peter Fraser, David Goldblatt and Joel Sternfeld were shortlisted for this year’s Citigroup Photography Prize. The winner is due to be announced on 4 March. Now in its eighth year, this prize has become […]
Thirteen artists have been nominated and selected for inclusion in this year’s ARTfutures, to be held 31 March – 4 April at the City of London School. This annual event has for many years been a successful way of generating […]
Michael Brennand-Wood’s year-long residency at the Harley Gallery, Nottinghamshire has culminated in a national touring exhibition. Entitled ‘A Field of Centres’, the exhibition features a series of wall panels constructed from hundreds of individually machine-embroidered flowers. The flowers are built […]
Congratulations to Chester University final year fine art student Jennifer Cook, who won the Wrexham Open People’s Prize for 2003. Worth £250, it is awarded to the most popular work, as voted by gallery visitors, in the annual Wrexham Open. […]
A new scheme to involve artists in the built environment was announced in February by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) and A&B (Arts and Business). An investment of £500,000 over the next two years will engage […]
Openings is a year-long project run by the Art House in Doncaster designed to meet the gap in arts development aid in communities around the region. Organised in partnership with local authorities and cultural agencies, it will provide training and […]
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