a-n Magazine 2007 October - a-n The Artists Information Company

Black Field (detail)
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a-n Magazine October 2007

Contents include: Crafts strategy examined plus Focus on rural arts initiatives. Alex Hartley’s photographs draw attention to potential for architecture. Jerwood shortlist: drawings by Kerry Phippen, Adam Sunderland and Holly Atrum. New a-n+AIR Public and products liability insurance for AIR members, plus Interface site launched. PDF version [size 8,655 kb]. Requires pdf reader.

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Halo
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Rural initiatives

Highlighting new projects by organisations located in Aberdeenshire, Cumbria, Devon, Dumfries, Fife, Mull, Lancashire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Suffolk, and Western Isles. “There is, in truth, nothing essentially backward-looking, conservative or traditional in rural culture. There are too many innovators, in too […]

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Black Field (detail)
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On the cover – 2007 October

Zadok Ben-David, Black Field (detail), site-specific installation, hand painted, acid etched stainless steel, dimensions varied, 2007.

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The Garden of Earthly Delights
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Digital resources

Exploring selected arts organisation with significant facilities and programmes for digital and new media practices.

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Insurance for artists

In November, a public liability insurance scheme aimed especially at practising visual and applied artists will be launched through a-n. Here we set out the context for the new scheme and highlight the research by Platform 3 that has informed it.

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Well done

Just a quick note to say well done on developing such an easy to use, and very useful tool. Congratulations! I’m delighted to say that after using four years of self-employed accounts to work out the figures for each of […]

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Murmuration at Embassy Court
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Erratum

Corrections from the September issue of a-n Magazine.

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Strangely sterile

If Andrew Bryant is “trying to figure out what kind of artist I am”, what is his role as a teacher? His blog seemed to show what I consider is ‘wrong’ with so-called conceptual art of the recent (ie Saatchi) […]

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Don't Hurt Me
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Mayflies

The Mayfly connotes ephemerality, a point no doubt in the minds of those naming this series of three one-day events.

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Gateshead Plates
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Crafts strategy launched

After a far-reaching review and reshaping exercise, the Crafts Council has launched its new three-year plan. Describing itself as the national development agency for contemporary crafts in the UK, its key areas of work for the future are summarised as […]

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Drawing Between
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Floating world

Initiated by Glenn Holman and Andy Parsons in 2003, the aim of Floating world is to identify ways in which artists can disseminate their ideas widely using the medium of artists’ books.

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On the edge

If you’re awash with the trappings of bureaucracy that get attached to your project and are beginning to wonder where the art practice has got to, be inspired by a new publication from an organisation committed to ideas and futures. […]

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This Edible Map (detail)
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Left luggage

Involving ten artists and two curators, ‘The Suitcase Project’ provides an extended period of international collaboration between Cardiff and Copenhagen, creating works that fit into a suitcase. The project developed around ideas of portability, travel and transition. In keeping with […]

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The Tetra Phase
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Eye in the sky

Nottingham-based Reactor’s newly-commissioned, site-specific project, The Tetra Phase set in Manchester’s The Old Fire Station beside Piccadilly Station employs CCTV to offer a unique perspective. Set in this disused historic building – known only as The Station – it presents […]

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Rabbit
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Drawing conclusion

Seventy-seven artists have been shortlisted for 2007 Jerwood Drawing Prize, which includes a first prize of £6,000, a second prize of £3,000, and two student awards each of £1,000. Included are Holly Antrum, Lucy Austin, Catherine Bertola, Lizzie Cannon, Julie […]

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