Photographing landscapes was displaced for me some years ago by having children. Instead I started to make photographic work about my familiar surroundings – from the laundry and toys, to favourite picnic venues. As a family, we’ve been visiting the […]
I have been creating shadows with dyed rice since leaving Goldsmiths two years ago. Last year I was commissioned by the Chinese Arts Centre (Manchester) and the Bull Theatre (London) to create interactive installations with real and imaginary shadows. I […]
Glasgow’s Gorbals has over the last 100 years, for both good and bad, become engraved on world consciousness. As the third major redevelopment of the area in less than a century again changes the geographic and social profile of this […]
September saw realisation of two public art commissions involving artist Peter Fink. In Edinburgh, the second phase of his artwork for the Fruitmarket Gallery was officially switched on. A light pavement running the length of the gallery façade, it completes […]
Cyprus College of Art – whose courses and opportunities for UK artists have been promoted through [a-n] MAGAZINE for many years – are drawing up plans to abandon the British model of art education. This constitutes a major break for […]
It’s ‘welcome back’ then to Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA). After a substantial refurbishment, the centre reopened on 25 October, as a multimedia, international venue. To achieve this, architect David Page yoked together seven buildings to establish a cohesive […]
The UK’s seen a noticeable increase in professional development schemes for artists, encompassing training, mentoring, networking and information services. There is an obvious cross-reference to the government’s endorsement of ‘lifelong learning’ as a principle, encouraged through the offer of individual learning accounts for all. These moves increase opportunities for the kinds of artistic development that incorporates developing and honing skills, accessing facilities and ultimately furthering career strategies. The results are more than just CV embellishment. By providing points of crossover between artists, such schemes contribute to peer support systems and help to address the potential isolation of artists. Here, three individuals involved in artists’ professional development matters describe some of the resources around, and discuss how artists are making the most of them.
In the second of a series of articles focusing on the career development of well-established artists, Lucy Wilson meets Yinka Shonibare.
Clark Dawson met the Glasgow-based creators of this artists’ book to find out the intentions behind it.
The trust’s coordinator Leila Dawney explains the organisation’s artist-led ethos and its work to support the arts in Birmingham.
Louise Coysh visited ‘Fresh Art’ at the Business Design Centre, London to find out how the fair met with the exhibiting artists’ expectations.
There is a long history of placing contemporary art in remote and rural locations as a method of encouraging tourism. The sculpture trail is now an established form of presentation. Here, Victoria Bernie – an artist based in Edinburgh – describes her participation in a small-scale project in Sweden and Public Art Officer Piers Masterson gives his view on the history and public reception of a much larger project spread across northern Norway.
A regular visitor to Italy since 1981, when Alan Rogers moved there on a more permanent basis his “youthful, romantic love affair” with its warm Mediterranean light was soon replaced by the realisation that day-to-day conditions for contemporary artists were far from ideal.
Julia Dogra-Brazell reports how showing in Israel gave her a new perspective on her own work.
As a jeweller, I started to become more interested in the final image of a particular person wearing my work rather than the actual jewellery-making process. The images I make are very subtly manipulated by computer: the viewer initially perceives […]
This year has been a good one for me. In January I was awarded the Centre of Attention Painting Prize 2001, my work was selected for the BP Portrait Award 2001, and was commended in the Royal West of England […]
‘Adorn, Equip’ is an exhibition at the City Gallery, Leicester, that examines issues around the design of equipment and accessories for disabled people. As a knitted textile artist, I was commissioned to produce garments and gloves for, and in consultation […]
Inspired by both family and the bonds we feel towards certain personal possessions, my work is delicate, ghost-like and ephemeral and alludes to the fragile and transient nature of memory. My first collection of one-off jewellery and body pieces is […]
I approached the Imperial War Museum at Duxford, Cambridgeshire to see if they would host me as their artist-in-residence as part of Year of the Artist. I knew that their collection of aircraft would give new stimulus for my work […]
I graduated from Liverpool Hope University College with a degree in Design and I am now a self-employed designer/silversmith, specialising in silver tableware. Currently I job share as jewellery instructor at Henshaws Arts and Crafts Centre in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire. […]
Cyfuniad, which took place from 26 August to 9 September, brought together twenty-three artists from all over the world to live, work and talk, providing them with the freedom to take risks, explore new avenues and discuss arts matters. Based […]
The argument about how to restructure the arts funding system in England has turned into a power struggle between the Arts Council of England (ACE) and English regional arts boards (RABs): the centre and the regions. Undermining the process is […]
A two-month residency by Polish artist Gosia Zylka concludes with an exhibition at artist-run Saltburn Artists’ Studios. Concerned with the ‘inner side’ of things as well as their outward appearance, the artist’s residency created an opportunity to make new work […]
From over sixty proposals, eight artists have been shortlisted for the prestigious £20,000 Jerwood Sculpture Prize. Ekkehard Altenburger, Benedict Carpenter, Katy Dexter, Ana Genoves, Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva, Marion Kalmus, Richard Trupp and Tom Woolford have now been commissioned to produce small-scale […]
Lucy Wilson talks to Anna Best about her unconventional Year of the Artist residency working with staff at a-n The Artists Information Company.
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