It has been eight years since Australian economist, David Throsby last reported on the financial status of artists for the Australia Council and found a third of them living below the poverty line.
I feel there is an undercurrent connecting the debate initiated by Jon Bowen’s letter ‘Intellectual Bankruptcy’ (a-n Magazine, May 2010) and Sarah Rowles’ ‘Art for All? Radical pedagogy vs. a desire for education’ (a-n Magazine, July/August 2010).
Glad to see that a-n is giving space to debate the activism of Liberate Tate and the relationship between oil, art and sponsorship (a-n Magazine,September 2010).
As a professional gambit, the independent artist and the freelance arts professional has always benefited from a degree of flexibility, responsiveness and even spontaneity and reinvention when negotiating their engagement within the visual arts sector.
In response to Stephen Black’s letter (a-n Magazine, September 2010).
Did Cathy Lomax actually say, “Cuts basically mean that people that don’t have a privileged background will not be able to make art” (‘Reflections on the arts funding crisis’, a-n Magazine, September 2010)?
In the lead up to the Government Comprehensive Spending Review, the proposed closure of the UK Film Council and The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council was communicated to most through an announcement in The Guardian in July¹.
Contents include: Open studios, digital visions and arts funding features; In Debate, is sponsorship compromising the integrity of artists and organisations? Kate Raggett and Mandy Fowler on an ambitious one-day land art workshop in Collaborative relationships. PDF version [size 6 […]
This month’s bites.
Selected open studios events coming up in September.
Clare Mitten, AZTECH_Toppal.
Thoughts from artists and arts professionals about how cuts in public spending will affect their future working pattern. Plus April Britski gives an account of how recent governmental decisions to cut arts funding have affected Canadian artists.
Selected round-up of forthcoming events, training courses and professional development opportunities from the world of new media arts and imaging.
Kate Raggett and Mandy Fowler give their recollections of an ambitious one-day land art workshop in rural Herefordshire that involved nearly 200 participants, several bales of straw, and a Cessna aircraft.
Sideshow will take place between October and December for the second time around whilst the quinquennial British Art Show visits Nottingham.
Soundbites.
For the best part of twenty years, established artist-duo Thomson and Craighead have been experimenting with technology, producing installations and site-specific pieces involving video, sound and electronic networks.
A research project in North Wales is using a market stall to promote making skills and provide connections between students and the local community.
Comings and goings amongst arts professionals and curators, designed to aid networking and collaboration.
A-n The Artists Information Company and Artquest have recently announced a new partnership programme that will provide increased professional development opportunities for artists throughout the UK.
ExtInked, a project by collective Ultimate Holding Company, saw 100 people get tattooed by Ink vs Steel last November.
Active members from AIR recruited to proactively contribute to raising the profile and widening recognition of the value of artists.
Transmission Gallery’s resource room and archive opened to the public in July, enabling all to explore what has put Transmission Gallery at the forefront of Glasgow’s art scene since 1983.
Artists are in effect micro-enterprises that hold long-term objectives for their practice that bear little or no relationship to arts and governmental policy time-frames and achievement measurements.
Last September, artist collective Tether embarked on a road trip across the UK to visit and interview the many artist-led galleries, arts initiatives and collectives in cities as far and wide as Dundee, Birmingham, Bristol, Brighton and Liverpool.
