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The Battle of Orgreave
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Battle of Orgreave

Contemporary re-enactment, art event or memorial? David Butler gives an insider account of Jeremy Deller’s ambitious Artangel Times commission.

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Outline
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The next stage

Graham Parker discusses his approach to his role as Visual Arts Officer at Salford University.

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mapmap
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Digital Arts Network

Lizzie Muller and Andy Roshay of the Digital Arts Network describe how the network addresses the need for regional collaboration in digital arts development.

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Kidnapping Europe
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International Ceramics Festival

In his opening speech at the International Ceramics Festival in Aberystwyth, Garth Clark, owner of the Garth Clark Gallery in New York, remarked on the way potters tend to “herd together” not, he emphasised, like distracted lemmings, but like caribou, moving with a purpose towards their goal.

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Veils of Absence
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Transcending fixed geographies…

Art has always had the ability for convergence and understanding amongst people, irrespective of language barriers. Internationalism in art is that space that transcends fixed geographies, identities and positions to create a new coherence from diverse dialogues. As an artist […]

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Landscape
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Unheimlich

Pete Clarke gives an account of his involvement in an exhibition that is part of an ongoing network of exchanges between artists from the north west of England and different European cities.

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Images from a selection of projects
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Action and theory

In the last feature in this series, the focus is on artist Anatoly Osmolovsky living and working in Moscow.

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Communion
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Communion

Communion was a living, growing artwork, installed within the pedestrian bridge at Tynemouth Metro station near Newcastle upon Tyne. The work consisted of twenty-two paper basins, suspended by strands of muslin and counterbalanced by blown glass vessels. Sealed within each […]

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Familiar Strangers (buffet car)
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Familiar strangers

I am curious about British reserve and the idea that a silent community exists on trains. As artist in residence on Connex trains during May, I actively engaged with passengers on the London to Brighton Express. Connex sponsored the cost […]

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Mind Dance

Originally trained as a scientist, I see the similarities between artistic and scientific activity: the intense concentration in pursuit of the possible or the maybe. So when the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine invited me to exhibit in […]

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Sky Map
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Art map

An unusual work of art was seen over the Cardiff Bay in June when artists Hana Sakuma and Adrian Holme created ‘Sky Map’ to coincide with the official opening of Cardiff Bay barrage. The work was commissioned by PLACE, which […]

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Workforce trends revealed

A substantial study by Metier, the national training organisation for arts and entertainment, reveals the sector to be a large and complex one that encompasses some of the most profitable parts of the economy in the recording industry and commercial […]

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Directive unhelpful

In July 2001 the European Parliament and Council of Ministers did something for artists. But before you rush out to open a few bottles of something to celebrate the new EU Art Resales Directive, hold it, as it isn’t all […]

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The Dinosaur's Egg (detail)
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Arts exploration go-ahead

A groundbreaking new partnership between Meteor, Axis, Foundation for Community Dance, NAWE, Sound Sense and Writernet has secured £360,000 from the New Opportunities Fund to create ‘Arts Explorer’. Funding and collaboration between partners will enable some 10,000 pages of text, […]

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Collective Pulse
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Light touch

Installation artist Caitlin Heffernan and mixed-media artist Sandra Beccarelli have joined forces to create ‘Collective Pulse’, an “unsettling and inspiring environment of pictures to dance to, in an installation to dream in”. Both artists are excited by light and works […]

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Andrew Stones - NESTA fellowship recipient
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NESTA invests in artists

The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) recently announced over forty new awards worth over £3.5 million, as part of its mission to spot and invest in UK innovation and creative talent. This brings the total awards […]

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Arts are Ours
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Front line

Kate Tregaskis discusses recent seminars exploring education work involving artists and the effect this has on artists’ practice.

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The Interrogators' Garden
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Paula Rego

In the first of a series of articles focusing on the career development of well-established artists, Emma Safe meets Paula Rego to discover how she has steered her career to such celebrity.

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Slotty Fever
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Funding mole 2

You’ve done the research, and have got three or four possible sources of funding for a new project. How do you put in an application that stands out from the pile: what gives your approach the edge?

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Labyrinth in a Barn
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Crossing boundaries

Directors and committee members of The Landscape and Art Network expand on the cross-disciplinary nature of the organisation and its remit to defend and improve our environment.

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Forbidden Path
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Researching Japan

Fiona Rutherford reports on her experience of a Crafts Council research trip to Japan and the lasting contacts she made.

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Ntate Nyabela, traditional basket maker
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Twenty years in Lesotho

Graham Taylor gives a personal account of his experience of setting up an educational initiative during his time living in Africa.

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Blue Soap
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Continuous currents

This month Kate Fowle has been talking to Christopher Cozier about his experiences as an artist in Port of Spain, Trinidad.

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