I exhibited at a local gallery last year at the end of October and was lucky enough to sell three paintings and the agreement with the gallery was that they taken half the proceeds as commission which was just under
Christopher Thomas considers the importance of potential failure in art-making as described in artists’ blogs.
In December 2008, Worcestershire Contemporary Artists (WCA) was awarded a NAN Go and See bursary to look at different artist-led organisations in urban and rural areas. Emilia Telese talks to Nathaniel Pitt of WCA about the initiative’s development and the impact the bursary had on its activities.
Notations is a group of four artists based in the UK and The Netherlands who describe their practice as psycho-geographic. They were awarded a NAN Go and See bursary in June 2008 to travel between the UK, the Netherlands and Belgium for research and development. Here, Emilia Telese talks to Notations artists Rebecca Birch, Sara Bjarland, Florencia Guillen and Karien van Assendelft about their work and their bursary.
What is an artist-curator? What makes a good collaborative partnership between a curator and an artist? What financial, practical and critical support is available to curators? Do you work with an organisation or go it alone?
Further details from a selection of this month’s MA and post-graduate course advertisers
Contents include: Emilia Telese’s analysis of a number of parallel art markets in the UK; open studio events around the UK and calls to take part; Rod McIntosh’s guide to negotiating a better rate of pay; plus Beacon co-director John […]
Emma Lilley discusses Kate MccGwire’s work Sluice.
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Beacon co-director John Plowman and artist Kelly Large discuss the project ‘Our Name is Legion’.
It’s great to have critical writing by Sonya Dyer on the Mobile Conference in the May issue of a-n Magazine, but can I correct some inaccuracies in her coverage?
Since the launch of Own Art in 2004, over
Contemporary Art Society’s latest initiative, the Annual Award for Museums, will provide
“Sensuous, delicately crafted, beautiful” are not the typical adjectives one would normally affix to the kind of art featured in the Turner Prize.
Artist/filmmaker Anton Hecht’s new work will premier this month.
Tether is a Nottingham-based artist collective that forms the nucleus for a cluster of associated activity, including studios, exhibitions, off-site projects, a video programme and podcasts, even stretching to a ‘Tether’ festival.
This month’s artworld movers.
A new site-specific installation for St Martin’s Church, Colchester, The Manifestation is a unique collaboration founded on the global dialogues of Richard Layzell and Tania Koswycz and presented by Firstsite in partnership with the Colchester Arts Centre.
A remarkable place on the outskirts of Vienna, Macondo exists between an airport, a freeway and the imagination.
‘Overview’ features a new body of work by mixed media artist, Susan Kinley, made over the last three years linking themes of aerial viewpoints, boundaries and fragmentation.
Australia’s initial hopes that it would escape the worst of the global financial crisis have vanished.
Arts Council England announced a package of measures to support artists and the arts as they battle a recessionary period.
Open studio events around the UK plus calls to take part.
The relationship between artists and money has always been one of contradictions and idiosyncrasies. Fine art higher education in the UK concentrates mainly on the artist’s intellectual pursuit, somewhat disconnected from any idea of financial independence.
Caroline Saul, Bulbous Form One, recycled plastic milk bottles, 45x45cm, 2008.
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