The competition amongst the twelve cities bidding to host Capital of Culture for 2008 heightens, as Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Brighton & Hove, Bristol, Canterbury & East Kent, Cardiff, Inverness & the Highlands, Liverpool, Newcastle-Gateshead, Norwich and Oxford jostle for media […]
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.
Over the past three years Steven Barrett has had nine exhibitions as a result of applying for opportunities listed in [a-n] MAGAZINE. These included his first solo show in the annual ‘New works’ exhibition at the Farnham Maltings Gallery, as […]
June 2001 was a great month for me, I responded to an opportunity in [a-n] MAGAZINE and was selected, together with nineteen other UK artists, to make work in response to poems by disabled writers. The advert invited submissions to […]
In the November 2001 issue of [a-n] Magazine St Blaise Ltd, a company specialising in the restoration of historic buildings, sculpture and monuments placed an ad looking for an artist to join their team working on the project at the Kings Library, at the British Museum. Cathy Littlejohn applied, got the job and found that it’s had a positive effect on her own fine art practice.
The phrase ‘weekend break’ took on a new meaning when fifteen artists were invited to spend time at the Great Eastern Hotel in London’s Liverpool Street and create site-specific work inspired by the space. As a result hotel guests there […]
The latest commission for Compton Verney in Warwickshire, John Kippin’s ‘Beauty, Harmony, Truth: navigating the English country house’ documents the impact of political, social and economic change on the British landscape. His observations were exhibited from April-June on sets of […]
Officers of the English arts funding system had something other than the Jubilee celebrations to think about over the June long Bank Holiday weekend. The week before, all had been issued with the long-awaited outline of the proposed new structure. […]
As an artists’ facility and studio complex, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop has been active on the Scottish art scene for the last fifteen years. More recently, we have been setting up links with numerous European countries, the most ambitious and widespread […]
As part of strategies to improve the professional context for artists, the Arts Council of England commissioned Clare McAndrew and Lorna Dallas-Conte to examine implementation of droite de suite (artists’ resale rights) in other countries and recommend good practice for […]
BALTIC, heralded as a “new breed of public space, an art factory where artists from all over the world will come and work”, finally opens to the public on 13 July. The former flourmill has been converted into a multi-purpose […]
Dream Time, a new award that offers high achievers in arts, science and technology the chance to take time out to explore new creative areas and refresh their thinking, was launched in May by NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, […]
The Ann Sutton Foundation (ASF) was established in October 2001 to raise the profile and design quality of woven textiles in the UK. The launch in June coincided with the 2002 art college degree shows and incorporated an exhibition entitled […]
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.
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