Contents include: Jane Watts reports on Brighton Symposium ‘Is Design Good for You?’; Margaret James-Barber and Buffy Klama on ‘M6-M3 Underway/Unterwegs’; Anna Dumitriu profiled; plus Nottingham/Dresden review feature ‘Don’t mind the gap’. PDF version [size 4.2 MB]. Requires PDF reader.
When artists use empty shops, everyone wins – artists, town centre managers and local authorities working together are proving that.
A collaboration in March between Cockpit Arts and Own-It generated a seminar to explore work by established and emerging designer-makers who fuse craft with technology and their intellectual property rights.
Artists across the UK are being challenged to use the nation as a blank canvas for twelve inspirational commissions that will showcase our creativity to the world, as part of Cultural Olympiad.
Funded by Manchester Metropolitan University and Beacons for Public Engagement, and following an open online vote, North-West-based Lynn Setterington has been awarded a fellowship in public engagement.
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets. Are you making the most of it?
Now three years old, the annual
A series of site-specific art commissions that aim to interact with locations and audiences in Lincoln.
Janie Nicoll brings together in one place a mixed assortment of surprising works deliberately sited within a domestic rather than a gallery setting.
Led by artistic director Lizzi Walton, the 2009 Stroud International Textiles Festival showcases established international textile and applied artists and thinkers alongside emerging new talent.
Following a quiet call for tenders in late December, the Cultural Leadership Programme (CLP) has awarded funds totalling
Jane Watt reports on the Brighton symposium Is Design Good For You? considering the range of projects that artists undertake in healthcare environments.
Benet Spencer’s History Painting.
Margaret James-Barber and buffy klama (yK) offer two complimentary points of view about ‘M6-M3 Underway/Unterwegs’, an artist-initiated exhibition programme for artists in NW England and Berlin, and its legacy for their own practices and future collaborations.
Brendan Lyons, Blu Painting (detail), acrylic paint, 80x80cm, 2008. Installed at the Bluecoat, Liverpool.
Sonya Dyer responds to the Mobile Conference event at Peckham Space, 15 March
The Arts Council of Great Britain was established in 1946. After cutbacks under Conservative governments in the 1980s the organisation was devolved between England, Scotland and Wales in 1994. Following a confusing series of twists and turns over cultural policy […]
The Scottish Artists Union is the leading representative body for visual and applied artists north of the border. We continue to monitor the formation of the new agency Creative Scotland, set to replace the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen […]
