West Midlands based agency The Public will become a recognised learning provider and deliver twenty workshops for 120 creative industry practitioners, freelancers and emerging artists from Sandwell and Dudley through a new arrangement with the Black Country Learning and Skills […]
Eight artists have each received £30,000 to develop a creative project as part of the delivery of the Creative Scotland Awards. Making these cross-art form awards in March, Chair of the Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Awards 2004 judging panel […]
West Midlands-based organisation The Public and British Waterways recently commissioned seven artists to undertake projects based around the Birmingham Main Line canal at Galton Valley, Smethwick as part of strategies to encourage people to engage and understand their local canals. […]
Presentations by consultant Lee Corner and a-n Director of Programmes Susan Jones on the Code of Practice for the Visual Arts were incorporated into Engage’s Making Connections series of seminars during March. Held at Queen’s Hall Hexham, Artsway New Forest […]
Two lucky winners in our new competition for 2004 graduating art and design will be able to launch their careers at On the Wall, a brand new art fair to be held at London’s Olympia 29 September – 3 October. […]
Matthew Blackman is currently on a six-month placement with Forma, contributing his experience of marketing and customer relationship management at a-n to the development of this new organisation. Forma is an arts organisation, based in Newcastle, involved in cutting-edge projects […]
Kaavous Clayton reports from the InFest: International Artist-Run Culture conference in Vancouver, Canada.
Aikaterini Gegisian profiles The Leleg Institute Project, a platform for collaboration and cultural exchange in Turkey.
For the final article in this series Jane Watt asks artists and commissioners about their involvement in current innovative projects.
Looking beyond our own locality and specialisms is vital in maintaining a fresh and innovative outlook and we know artists appreciate the value and challenges in making links beyond what and who they already know. Over the past eighteen months […]
Winners of the decibel visual arts awards, aimed at black and Asian artists, and curators, were announced in March.
Nisha Duggal reports from A Free State, the recent culmination of decibel, Arts Council England’s cultural diversity profiling initiative.
Calling universities a-n has been inviting proactive universities across the UK to sign up and participate in a new competition aimed at 2004 art and design graduates. Along with some star prizes, the competition will provide hundreds of emerging artists […]
Cultural Enterprise Office, Glasgow and a-n partnered on a gathering on 23 February, to discuss development of a forum for professional development for artists in Scotland Held at CCA Glasgow, the event attracted 29 organisations and individuals who represented a […]
This month a-n will be out and about at Glasgow Art Fair. A Code of Practice seminar hosted by Susan Jones will take place Friday 16 April. The event is free to artists. See display advert on back page or […]
Welcome back to Grainne Sweeney who returned from her maternity leave at the beginning of March. Welcome also to John Kent who joins the team as our Financial consultant bringing with him a wealth of arts and business financial experience, […]
Giles Sutherland looks at the relationship between glass artist Keiko Mukaide and Edinburgh College of Art.
Helen Maurer and Bernd Behr share their response to this exhibition of historical work and its relation to their practice. Introduction, research and interviews by Rosemary Shirley.
John Beagles comments on the increased presence of artist-run initiatives at this year’s Glasgow Art Fair.
Lesley Millar, Project Director of ‘Through the Surface’, profiles the process and outcomes of this major collaboration between artists from the UK and Japan.
Paul Glinkowski profiles the work of Paul Bonaventura, co-founder of The Laboratory, the research wing of the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at the University of Oxford, in the fifth article of the ‘Crossing over’ series.
At the recent a-n event at Cove Park, artists came together to discuss issues around practice in rural locations. Presentations from Alison Bell, Marcus Coates and Su Grierson – artists with diverse contemporary practices – provided stimulus for thought and […]
Area 10 Artist Collective originally took on Eagle Wharf with a ten day license through Camberwell Arts Week and Southwark Council. This then led to two license agreements over the next 12 months, each of them peppercorn agreements, meaning no […]
Not all diseases are preventable but a healthy response to illness fostered by a positive relationship in the treatment setting can help combat the secondary problems of depression and isolation. Over four months Gina Glover documented the life of the […]
The 2004 Sonning Prize is to be awarded this month to the British-Palestinian sculptor, performance and installation artist Mona Hatoum. Awarded every other year by the University of Copenhagen, it is offered to a man or woman “who has significantly […]
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