Artists Access to Art Colleges (AA2A) is a national scheme, providing visual artists and makers with the opportunity to undertake a period of research, or realise a project, using workshop and supporting facilities in Fine Art and Design departments. Artists […]
If you can make a case that your work would benefit from £5000 and you graduate in the summer of 2002, then you’re eligible for a Woo Foundation bursary. Nicholas Rena received an award in 2001 and was pleased to […]
The North West Arts Board Setting Up Scheme is designed to provide specialist support and assistance to craftspeople, photographers and visual artists during the early stages of their careers. Working in partnership with host organisations such as museums, galleries and […]
In 2001, commissioning agency Artworks Wales placed an advert in [a-n] MAGAZINE for a commission to design and build a clock for the newly refurbished ticket hall in Cardiff Central Railway Station. Martin Smith applied and was offered the commission. […]
Louise Crawford’s eight-month collaboration with architects Ian Alexander of McKeown Alexander explored issues central to redeveloping Glasgow’s Merchant City and Trongate, the home of arts organisations Transmission, Market, Glasgow Independent Studios, Street Level and Glasgow Print Studios. Entitled Fieldwork, the […]
As part of a new residency programme, Vicky Isley and Paul Smith are working part-time at ArtSway this year and artists Alistair Gentry, Charlie Murphy and Emilia Telese will each spend a month in residence. Isley and Smith are behind […]
Selected by art historian Frances Borzello, academic and commentator Germaine Greer, artist Jenny Saville, and expert on ageing Dr Leonie Kellaher ‘Art, Age and Gender’ presents work by women artists that explores all aspects of ageing from cradle to grave. […]
For the Beacon’s Golden Years project, Martin Newth has used pinhole photography, hand-built giant camera obscuras and digital imaging to examine perceptions of changes in Whitehaven, and its immediate and wider context over the past fifty years. Engaging with community […]
Cable Street Studios has flourished as a working space for artists for over twenty years and is now one of the largest studio blocks in London. As land prices in Docklands increased massively, Cable Street became highly desirable to developers. […]
The Devon Guild of Craftsmen’s shop and gallery, based at the Riverside Mill in Bovey Tracey on the fringes of Dartmoor, has recently undergone a transformation. Thanks to substantial grants from the lottery, it now boasts new display units, fitted […]
This year’s open studios event at Cockpit Arts showcases this London-based studios’ Developing Professional Practice programme alongside work by over 100 makers based there. Now in its second year, the programme aims to guide makers in the development of crucial […]
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.
With visual arts students all over the country graduating in the next few months, there will soon be a wealth of new talent around. For artists, the first year out of education can be an exciting but difficult one. With a steep learning curve ahead, often it can seem like all the opportunities available are beyond reach.
This month, in Opportunities, there is plenty to help guide you into the world of the professional artist. Some opportunities are specifically aimed at new graduates and others are open to artists at all stages of their careers.
To introduce the section, Molly Tufnell talks about winning a prize for stitched textiles, that is open to textiles students and new graduates (see Awards for more information).
Britart.com gives access to a virtual gallery twenty-four-hours a day, every day of the year; anybody in the world with access to the internet can look at my work. This contact with the audience reflects the inspiration I take from […]
Lab Culture was a six-day residency at Lighthouse Digital Arts, Brighton. It provided equipment, forum space and technical support within an intense programme structure – as well as food and accommodation – to enable participants to produce digital work beyond […]
I began volunteering at Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth in June 2001 having answered their advertisement in the April 2001 issue of [a-n] MAGAZINE. From my first day as a volunteer through to my present position as part-time education assistant and gallery […]
From 494 applicants and 1,300 individual works, six artists have been shortlisted for the Jerwood Painting Prize, worth £30,000. Judges Norbert Lynton, Keith Patrick, Frank Cohen, Andrea Rose and Charles Saumerez Smith aimed to identify, celebrate and highlight the range […]
The much-vaunted merger between the Arts Council of England and the ten English regional arts boards finally took place on 1 April. The new body has nine regional offices matching the government’s regional boundaries and a national office in London. […]
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