Internationally-renowned artist Keiko Mukaide will create The Memory of Place Fire, an installation in water, glass, stone and light on show at York St Mary’s Church 4 May – 28 October. Transforming the historic church’s interior, her intention is to […]
Anna Lewis, Cathexis, mixed media installation, 2007.
Michell Wren, Story has it, if the Birds move at all, the whole of Liverpool will crumble and fall, No.2, mixed media, 2006.
Kevin Osmond, Untitled (squirl cluster), drawing, 122x152cm
Kate Potter, Portrait, photograph, 2006
Ruth Moilliet, Wild Carrot (detail), 2006
Lorna B Hughes, Upholstered ‘pigeon seats’.
Paul Cole, Pink Hat, oil on canvas, 225x165cm
Ayling and Conroy, Ping pong asteroid, from ‘Fight for sore eyes’ at My House Gallery, as part of Sideshow, 2006.
“Art should be recognised as a staple part of our everyday lives like bread, and in that respect it should be ordinary, albeit an extraordinary ordinariness, but no less essential in sustaining life.”
I went to your website to join up but have not done because I see I am charged £12 extra for not being a practising artist.
Cultural diversity is a term that has pervaded our language and thinking across all sectors of life and institutions, and its latest manifestation of citizenship is perhaps the most coercive strategy being employed by government.
It’s the drive and imagination of artists that is leading major exposures on contemporary visual arts in Leeds and Stroud in May and June that both focus on location.
The opportunities available for visual and applied artists to participate in professional development programmes and develop their careers continue to expand.
Paris – San Francisco-based Hou Hanrou will curate the 10th International Istanbul Biennial.
At a time when over half of those surveyed by Arts Professional confirmed that diverting funds from the arts to the Olympics would not bring benefits to the arts in the longer term, Arts Council England has now come clean and announced intentions to cut the Grants for the Arts budget by one third.
In December 2006, Guyan Porter began a two-month residency in Sri Lanka, as one of the first of a group of six artists to work at the Chandrasavanah Creation Centre in the south of the island.
A 1991 intercity rail map re-presented to look like a tree; a sculpture that changes position with the seasons and an exhausted Mars slumped against the foliage are three of the works short-listed for the 2007 Jerwood Sculpture Prize.
Sculptor Andrew Sabin is presenting new work in an exhibition now showing at Canary Wharf’s Jubilee Park. Previous public realm projects include being lead artist on the Sustrans’ Wandle Trail in Surrey and commissioned artist in Canterbury City Council’s Horsebridge […]
The £83 million Arts Council England fund for Grants for the Arts (G4A) has been cut by 35% to £54 million for 2007/08 with falling lottery ticket sales and the first of the Olympics raids on these funds blamed. With […]
Chintan Upadhyay and Bose Krishnamachari have been voicing their concerns about Indian curatorial practice through their art projects for the last few years. Considering their arguments, JohnyML says that Indian curatorial practice is going through a phase of crisis; a phase of identity crisis.
As a follow-up to his article in March a-n Magazine Terry Anderson, President of the Scottish Artists Union presents his case for a re-appraisal of the proposed Culture (Scotland) Bill.
Contents include: Should artists’ put life on hold to take up residencies abroad? Low stipends and paying the rent discussed. Advice on preparing grant applications and using The artists’ contracts toolkit online. Reviews from Jerwood Space and Elastic in London, […]
Manick Govinda discusses the themes around Sharjah Biennial 8: Art Ecology and the Politics of Change. Includes artists’ profiles of Lida Abdul, Grace Ndiritu and Tea Makipaa plus a selection of articles drawn from across a-n’s archive and key texts […]
Lida Abdul, White house, Kabul, 16mm transfer to DVD, 4’58”, 2005. Courtesy: the artist and Giorgio Persano Gallery
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