A UK-wide scheme that enables artists and makers to work alongside students in universities and colleges for mutual benefit is launching a digital portfolio of stories from artists who’ve taken part in these ‘mini residencies’.
In April, Liverpool-based artist and curator-led group TAXED held an experimental event at A Foundation in Liverpool: TAXED No10: Skillmarket, an exchange for practical skills and useful information.
Fiona MacDonald, Cumulissa, 2009.
Whether you are an artist or someone who works with artists, to be able to fully realise the creative ambition of a project you need to be able to negotiate effectively. This is the ongoing focus of our Collaborative Relationships series, which aims to expose the nuts and bolts of how artists work with their collaborators, whether that is another artist, a curator, commissioner or another type of creative partner.
JB is too quick to dismiss the value of higher education at art school (Letters, a-n Magazine, May 2010), and I hope you’ve had an overflow of protest to his letter. In my experience, it has a multitude of failings, […]
Angelia Seik’s letter (Letters, a-n Magazine, May 2010) claims that artists don’t have the sense to form a union that would give them a necessary mouthpiece. This isn a-n Magazine June 2010
Angelika Seik berates artists for “not having the sense to organise themselves into a union” (Letters, a-n Magazine, May 2010). Of course as visual artists north of the border are well aware the Scottish Artists Union formally constituted as a […]
There is a new way in the UK, it’s called AIR. It is not a union but represents 14,000 artists, with more joining all the time. This number of artists cannot be ignored in these extremely difficult financial times! Let’s […]
What does the country’s new government mean for the visual arts? Can the Cameron-Clegg alliance steer us through a recessionary climate intact? Last month Jeremy Hunt, the new Culture Secretary, announced in a TV interview on Newsnight that the Department […]
In 2007 Noemi Lakmaier and Joy Stanley were granted a NAN New Collaboration bursary to fund research and development for Final Intervention, a project responding to the lack of opportunities for early-career installation artists to make and show new work. It aimed to organise collaborative projects/exhibitions within buildings about to be pulled down. Emilia Telese talks to the artists about the bursary and its impact.
In September 2009, the Lincoln Art Programme was granted a NAN Go and See bursary to travel to Bristol for research and development. Emilia Telese talks to Alan Armstrong about the bursary and its impact on his group.
Contents include: Healing words and Open doors features; artist, curator and writer Rachel Marsden considers the importance placed on the written word in conveying artworks to visitors in Debate; Big Picture is Mobile Picnic Pavilion by Francis Thorburn; Victoria Clare […]
Showcases all the best graduate art and design shows with advertising of degree shows around the UK. Plus ‘What next?’ focus on three recent graduates discussing their careers so far and in ‘It’s an adventure’, Degrees unedited online editor Richard […]
Francis Thorburn
Mobile Picnic Pavilion
Workspace developments, studio residency projects and open studio events happening around the UK.
At the beginning of March this year, the Arts Council of Wales hosted ‘Arts in Health and Well-being’, a conference about prevention, intervention and creative action in healthcare.
During 2009, the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), based at the Scottish Marine Institute in Oban, western Scotland hosted an artist in residence.
Startling architectural interventions, large-scale touring exhibitions and ambitious commissions will transform the city of Norwich 7-22 May through Norfolk & Norwich Festival (NNF10) as it presents its first ever visual arts programme.
Rules designed to prevent illegal immigration have denied entry to the UK by international artists and performers, a Manifesto Club report says.
An announcement from Islington Mill, a studio and gallery space (amongst other things) in Salford caught my eye recently.
In Time, a collection of case studies recently published by Live Art UK represents some of the innovative and pioneering ways in which live art has both posed and responded to exciting cultural challenges of our times.
The core of the Stiwdio Safle programme is the ongoing professional development and practise of the artist and the public realm context they inhabit and respond to.
In a new Research paper commissioned for www.a-n.co.uk, Emily Speed looks at the complex nature of making a living as an artist.
Launched in 2006,Turning Point is a national ten-year strategy for the visual arts. A network of regional Turning Point groups has since been emerging, each charged with “strengthening the visual arts infrastructure”.
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