Contents include: Studio and workshop facilities profiled in ’Space to create’; ’Partners in art’ looks art local authority arts organisers needs; artists Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson and curator Emma Underhill discuss the Spontaneous City in the Trees of Heaven project in […]
Artists Studio Company has launched a major new public gallery in Southwark.
Artists Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson and curator Emma Underhill discuss their collaboration on a project to create a sculptural ‘habitat’ that will contribute to the life cycle of birds in two urban garden locations.
Profiling studio and workshop facilities around the country, plus ambitious exhibition projects that are engaging with local communities.
Commentary arising from research into local authority arts organisers’ needs, aspirations and modus operandi, revealing how they value and engage with artists and the approaches they take to their own professional development and to supporting the environment for contemporary visual arts.
Iniva and A Space have produced a new set of Emotional Learning Cards, following the success of the first set ‘What do you feel?’.
During its time as a hardware store, Rapid was proud to be the only independent to take up the entire street.
One of the things that makes digital media so exciting is that they problematise many naturalised systems and spaces of communication.
Su Blackwell, Gondol (detail).
Comings and goings amongst arts professionals and curators, designed to aid networking and collaboration.
Two north west projects are creating links between artists, artist-led groups and creative communities.
Engage/Enquire’s ‘The Art of Influencing Change, Economies and Ecologies’ at Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne and NALGAO’s annual conference in Brighton.
This month’s bites.
The Photographers’ Gallery officially closed its doors to the public for one year on 19 September 2010 to “embark on our ambitious development of the building, creating a new, international home for photography in the UK”.
Turning point, Visual Arts UK, CultureForum, NALGAO – these are just some of the burgeoning peer networks for arts professionals that have been proactive and visible in the arts funding debates.
Once upon a time, bohemians were considered a sub-culture, an alternative group of individuals moved by lifestyle choices and artistic endeavours.
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
30 September – 2 January
Flow, London
9 September – 6 November 2010
Project Space 11
Plymouth 8 – 25 September
Gasworks, London
18 September – 7 November
Site Gallery, Sheffield
11 September – 30 October
Giulia Ricci, Untitled, hand made drawing, pen on paper, 25x20cm, 2010.
In these exceptional times, practitioners and arts professionals need to ensure their messages have clarity when making the case for the arts.
A large gap exists today between the reality of being an artist and the image of The Artist which is portrayed by history and media, and perceived by the general public. Rich White asks what do artists actually do for society, how can they help with regeneration, particularly in a time of recession, and what is its real value?
The Royal Academy of Arts wishes to record its objection to the published letter by Stephen Black in the September issue of a-n Magazine (Great open submission swindle).
