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The Secretary of State called a Public Inquiry on 17/18th October at Hackney Town Hall to determine the future of Richmond House, Richmond Road.
The Secretary of State called a Public Inquiry on 17/18th October at Hackney Town Hall to determine the future of Richmond House, Richmond Road.
A seven-year campaign led by Littorals Ian Hunter and Celia Larner has saved Kurt Schwitters Merzbarn, in Elterwater Village, Cumbria for the nation.
Volunteer opportunities are the norm across the visual arts, often perceived as the only route for newcomers to the profession to gain the CV experience that will get them noticed and their foot on the career ladder.
Richard Deacon, Merlin James and Heather & Ivan Morison have been selected to represent Wales at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007.
An exploration of professional development support needs for makers in the West Midlands has identified that as makers working patterns are characterised as multi-tasking portfolio workers.
“The UK’s leading information and advocacy organisation for artists and their collaborators”, a-n, a newsletter and ‘artists information company’, has become so grossly over laden with the argot of management consultancy.
Images by Vancouver-based artist Kathy Slade.
Ive been working in and around transdisciplinary practice for the last twenty years now, and have found it to be a fertile and stimulating ground both for those working consistently within it or just passing through, Ive just noticed that only recently has it started to become fashionable.
With a background in architectural design, followed by research in architectural history, and then a period teaching public art and writing art criticism, my research has tended to focus on transdisciplinary meeting points between feminist theory and architectural history, conceptual art practice and architectural design, art criticism and autobiographical writing through individual and collaborative research projects.1
Life flows forth out of the door from the limitation of isolated separate existence into the limitlessness of all possible directions. Georg Simmel, Bridge and Door
Andrew Dodds contribution to The dream that kicks, a-n Collections.
As you will have by now no doubt ascertained, The dream that kicks: Transdisciplinary practice in action is a curious collection of works, which at once demonstrates and queries its subject.
Maria Fusco’s innovative publication explores, through action and exchange amongst the writers, the notions and tensions within transdisciplinary practice. With contributions from Clare Cumberlidge, Craig Martin, Jane Rendell, Kathy Slade and Andrew Dodds. From the a-n Collections series. pdf [size: […]
Contents include: AIR membership scheme launched and Artists’ advisory group introduced. Charlotte Hodes wins Jerwood Drawing Prize. Edinburgh’s Annuale III reviewed plus shows in Isle of Mull, Vale of Glamorgan, Leigh and a radio broadcast. Catherine Wilson on her experiences […]
The winners of the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2006 have been announced.
As a former teacher now working for the past five years as a gallery educator and also a freelance artist I have been interested to follow the a-n proposals on artists fees.
This month sees the launch of AIR – Artists’ Interaction and Representation.
Frieze Art Fair is upon us once again, and as well as 150 art galleries from around the world showcasing over 1000 artists work, visitors can take advantage of an ambitious curatorial programme, under the umbrella term of Frieze Projects.
Informed by the Code of practice, contains guidance on how artists and exhibition venues can achieve good practice in their working arrangements.
A text only version of this publication can be found at www.a-n.co.uk/fees_and_payments
Aimed at public sector arts employers, commissioners, consultants and arts trainers, addresses the context for fees and payments for artists’ residencies, workshops and community commissions. Download pdf [Size 497KB]
Financial expert Richard Murphy’s practical framework to demonstrate how visual artists can take responsibility for their working arrangements and establish, and make a case for, their charges and fees. Download pdf [Size 234KB].
Now in its fourth year, Inspired Art Fair aims to show the best in contemporary art from emerging independent artists.
The unfairness of age restrictions on art competitions and opportunities for artists has been aired in the pages of a-n Magazine over many years.
I met Boubacar Keita and visual and performance collective, Art & Action on a visit to Dakar, Senegal last year.
V22 plc has been accepted to deal on PLUS Markets (Ofex), enabling the start in September of the first ever publicly traded shares in a contemporary art collection.