a-n Magazine 2001 November - a-n The Artists Information Company

Glow
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Glow

Glow is an installation of 702 gilded, suspended light bulbs first shown at Artspace in Sydney, Australia in February 2001 and exhibited this summer at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea. Glow started life as one in a series […]

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Spanish studio

Jacqueline Moon reports on how she developed her interest in the architecture of cities through travelling from her home town of Glasgow, to Barcelona.

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Choice quotes

“The Victorian nude. Supported by Tate members” From a Tate Britain press release. “There is a need to ‘skill-up’ artists’ design and communication skills in order for them to gain a better understanding of working in a ‘client relationship’ in […]

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Changes debated

Are the proposals to turn the regional arts boards into regional offices of the Arts Council of England simply a one-off that goes against decentralisation trends, or is it the harbinger of policies for recentralisation? At an international seminar on […]

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Nasdaq Landscape
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Yorkshire landscapes

An installation by Nick Crowe for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s Bothy Gallery responds to the internal space and hints at the landscape beyond. For Nasdaq Landscape, Crowe displays his drawings on twelve flipcharts, each combining a graph with a landscape, […]

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Poetic Possessions
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Boxed In

In the July 2001 issue of [a-n] MAGAZINE Cleveland Arts advertised for an artist to work on a residency, collaborating with Mental Health Service users in Stockton-on-Tees. Sarah Nicholson was chosen to lead the residency and a support role was given to recent graduate Kate Allan, who talks here about confronting mental health stereotypes.

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Tate Thames Dig
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People and place

Roxane Permar considers a selection of the projects discussed at a recent conference, exploring what they tell us about current trends in public art commissioning.

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The Audition Curtain & The Infinity Finder
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Sonia Boyce

Continuing our series on the career development of well-established artists, writer Roy Exley meets Sonia Boyce to discuss how she has steered her career from British Home Stores shop assistant to celebrated artist.

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Candlefold
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Artists in Transition

Rick Faulkner, artist and director of Chrysalis Arts, outlines the international ‘Artists in Transition’ project and how it adapted to the change in circumstances imposed by the outbreak of Foot and Mouth.

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Suspended Sentences
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Suspended Sentences

‘Suspended Sentences’ is the culmination of a year-long collaborative residency between Shirley Diamond, the vendors and the staff at the Big Issue of the North Trust in Manchester. During the residency, hundreds of hitherto unheard and sometimes untold stories were […]

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installing work on Hasting Beach
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inFormation

Over the summer, I have been working on a series of paintings, installed on the walls of a semi-derelict mill in Salford. The mill has been converted into a work and exhibition space for artists and designers in the Manchester […]

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The woods - a year and a day
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A year and a day

Photographing landscapes was displaced for me some years ago by having children. Instead I started to make photographic work about my familiar surroundings – from the laundry and toys, to favourite picnic venues. As a family, we’ve been visiting the […]

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A Dream of Distance between Light and Dark
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Black rice and shadows

I have been creating shadows with dyed rice since leaving Goldsmiths two years ago. Last year I was commissioned by the Chinese Arts Centre (Manchester) and the Bull Theatre (London) to create interactive installations with real and imaginary shadows. I […]

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Seville
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Joy Gregory

My practice is concerned with social and political issues; the visual language I use resides within a traditional aesthetic of truth and beauty.

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Tim Rollins in Memphis
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Positive engagements

Government enthusiasm for involving young people in arts activities has focused the attention of many galleries. Kate Tregaskis reports from Scotland on recent debates around programmes abroad and raises some questions about good practice.

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Untitled
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Designers Block

Abigail Branagan discusses the development of this innovative platform for contemporary design and explores its value to exhibitors.

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installation in Princes Quay shopping centre
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Hart 2001

A new artist-initiated event took place across Hull during September. Here, David Briers explores how the event fits into the city’s existing arts infrastructure and discusses some of the national and European links it generated.

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Open
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New openings

It’s ‘welcome back’ then to Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA). After a substantial refurbishment, the centre reopened on 25 October, as a multimedia, international venue. To achieve this, architect David Page yoked together seven buildings to establish a cohesive […]

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Aphrodite's Rock
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British system abandoned

Cyprus College of Art – whose courses and opportunities for UK artists have been promoted through [a-n] MAGAZINE for many years – are drawing up plans to abandon the British model of art education. This constitutes a major break for […]

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Gateway bridge
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Art2Architecture

September saw realisation of two public art commissions involving artist Peter Fink. In Edinburgh, the second phase of his artwork for the Fruitmarket Gallery was officially switched on. A light pavement running the length of the gallery façade, it completes […]

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maquette
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Gorbals masterplan launched

Glasgow’s Gorbals has over the last 100 years, for both good and bad, become engraved on world consciousness. As the third major redevelopment of the area in less than a century again changes the geographic and social profile of this […]

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