The term amateur, until quite recently, described a person pursuing an activity purely for pleasure rather than remuneration. Derived from the Latin ‘Amator’, meaning ‘lover of’, the Victorian amateur may typically have been a sporting gentleman of independent means, but working class amateurism has a strong and colourful history, from photography to astronomy.
Based in Basingstoke, Hampshire arts education charity The Making was established to promote talent, excellence and innovation in contemporary craft, art and design in Hampshire and the South East.
Although you may not know it, 2009 has been designated European Year of Creativity and Innovation in recognition that Europe needs to boost its capacity for creativity and innovation, both for social and economic reasons.
Group Process is the latest season of work to be staged by Radar, Loughborough University’s contemporary arts programme. Running into February; it involves new and adapted commissions produced by artists Lisa Cheung, Yvonne Droge Wendel, public works / myvillages.org, Parfyme and Yara El-Sherbini.
In the autumn, Boris Johnson London’s Mayor, set out plans to enhance Londoners’ experience of arts and culture in the capital saying that his job is not to back heritage over modernism [but] to encourage all manner of artistic expression.
Chris Fite-Wassilak is winner of the inaugural Curatorial Open – a new three-year initiative for emerging curators at post graduate level organised by Hayward Touring.
British artists and their families were dealt a crushing blow in December as Government again decided to delay implementation of the Artist’s Resale Right for artists’ heirs and beneficiaries.
University of Westminster’s BA in ceramics is set to close in 2013, with no further recruitment.
A new policy to support art, architecture and the built environment is to be developed by Arts Council England following a comprehensive review of Architecture Week.
Consideration for the environment along with building community engagement feature within some recent projects organised in Yorkshire, Scotland, Wales Northumberland and Derbyshire.
Profiling studios and facilities around the UK.
Historically in the United States the domain of culture and the arts has not been seen as the business of Government, though recent events seem to indicate this might be about to change.
I was interested to read your letters from Chris Young in the October magazine and the later response from Jon Bowen in November.
Oh dear. Only two pages of opportunity listings this month (a-n Magazine, November 2008) – seven if you count the larger visual impact boxed postings.
Contents include: Double issue includes Collaborative relationships: Margherita Gramegna and Francis Knight; Big picture by Rowena Dring plus special commissions and workspace features. PDF version [size 6 MB]. Requires PDF reader.
Art at the Centre is an award scheme from Arts Council England, South East that seeks to involve artists from the outset of regeneration projects across the region. As part of this scheme, Maidstone Borough Council looked to develop an Artists’ Quarter in the heart of the town to promote the area’s wealth of creative talent. Here video-media artist Margherita Gramegna and consultants FrancisKnight talk about their involvement in this process and the resulting work, Artists Don’t Bite.
Views from the blogs about the current economic climate.
This month’s prize winners and awards nominees.
Jessica Lloyd-Jones, Pulse, blown glass, neon gas, electricity, 16x12x10cm, 2008.
Zooey Martin profiles the work of Rowena Dring.
Few people will not know that Liverpool, in the early autumn of its European Capital of Culture 2008 year, has been visited by a Big Spider.
Set up by Arts Council England in 2002, Creative Partnerships is set to become an independent organisation. Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE), as the organisation will now be known, will receive a
In October, Iniva announced the appointment of Tessa Jackson as interim Chief Executive.
Engage’s enquire programme, the largest systematic review in England to focus on how children and young people can learn through galleries, contemporary art and with artists, published its findings in November as 02 Inspiring Learning in Galleries.
Last spring, Yorkshire ArtSpace Society hosted Junko Mori within the artist in residence programme.
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