Getting the right balance between life and work is high on the agenda of professionals nowadays. And in the case of practitioners, there’s the added complexity of melding the doing of art with the need to earn a living and […]
As a female artist I must say I was initially not too impressed with the selection of this years Comme Ca Art Prize North for the simple fact that there werent any female artists shortlisted especially as there is […]
The reason there are no women in The Comme Ca Art Prize North is because the Jury was unanimous in its short list decision. They asked me what I thought about an all male shortlist and I was happy to […]
The scope and applications of art in the public realm continues to grow, with public commissions provided by private developers as well through community-based public programmes. In this month’s round-up, we highlight projects in Bristol, Manchester, Norwich and Blackburn.
Installed earlier this year on the newly redeveloped promenade at Blackpool, Stephen Hurrel’s ‘The Sound Of The Wind Looks Like This’ is an interactive light-based piece consisting of six light poles, two wind turbines and an anemometer and wind vane […]
The shortlist for the new Comme Ca Art Prize 2003 worth £10,000 for contemporary visual art in the North of England was announced in July, from an entry of 300. The biggest art prize funded by a commercial, non-public funded […]
Artists from the West Midlands are being commissioned to transform the old Commercial X-Ray Factory on Foundry Lane, Smethwick. The project, re:Location, began in July and will run to October culminating in a public exhibition entitled ‘Radioactive’. Organised by The […]
Cardiff: Plans are underway to transform a Victorian tram shed in Cardiff into a new contemporary art venue. The brainchild of Cardiff 2008 and architects Caruso St John, once established in 2005, Depot will provide a major international showing space […]
The 2003-2007 Arts Council England capital scheme places artists’ workspace and studios as one of two priorities, with cultural diversity the other. The five stated aims for grants of up to £100,000 are that projects supported should: • change people’s […]
Creative Curating students at Goldsmiths College have launched a new website to showcase their projects and research. Focusing on the individual curatorial projects including exhibitions, publications, events and broadcasts, the site provides details of a programme running to 2004. Amongst […]
Organised by artists in east London,’Roman Road Revel’ was a village fête with a difference. Lucy Wilson reports on this and other artists-led projects that appropriate traditional community fairs and festivals.
Chris Noraika discusses the pros and cons of working outside
of the commercial gallery stable system.
Jane Watt looks at artists and commissioners who are redefining what it means to work in the ‘public region’, in the second of the six-part series ‘Navigating Places’.
Aikaterini Gegisian profiles ZKM Center for Art and Media in Germany.
Special degree show review: Sorcha Dallas reports back on Scotland’s graduate exhibitions.
Special degree show review: Chris Brown visits colleges in Wales.
Internet lurking and political subversion were two of the issues raised at a ‘blue skies’ workshop led by business and management consultant Jane Walker for a-n. The first of three planning meetings of a specially-convened UK artists’ advisory group, the […]
At the recent Creating Places conference, Peter Hewitt spoke of Arts Council England’s support for “the infrastructure which allows artists and their creativity to thrive”. He spoke directly about the positive contribution collective studios in the major conurbations are making […]
The Code of Practice for the Visual Arts, arrives in time for me to be able to recommend its implementation to a certain arts organisation I recently had a rather unpleasant encounter with. I asked for details from them of […]
The shortlist has been announced for the new annual Comme Ca Art Prize for contemporary visual artists in the North of England. The five lucky artists are Matthew Houlding, The Little Artists, David Mackintosh, Paul Rooney and Richard Talbot. For […]
Reviews editor appointed We are pleased to announce that from this issue onwards we have a new reviews editor. Chris Brown, an artist based in Cardiff, will be selecting and commissioning writers for the reviews section of a-n Magazine – […]
Graham Parker on the reasoning behind Manchester’s presence at this year’s biennale.
Edoardo Malagigi questions the meaning of title of this year’s biennale.
Special degree show review: Simon Webb scouts around the Midlands.
Special degree show review: Rosemary Shirley heads south to Chicester, Southampton and Winchester.
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