In 1998 artists Simon Honey and Teresa Neal were commissioned to work with young people in a series of workshops in the Wandle Valley area. The WAVE project commenced in April 2000 and proved to be a challenging task for everyone involved.
Coming from Macedonia, a country where sixty to seventy percent of the land is forest, the immediacy of nature is a significant element of my working practice.
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.
I like to make extraordinary things derived from the ordinary.
Various venues, Sheffield 13 October – 24 November
Millais Gallery, Southampton 19 October – 1 December
Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Kendal
15 October – 21 December
Spike Island, Bristol 21 October – 9 November
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
29 September – 25 November
Photostore, the Crafts Council’s interactive picture library of makers, is now more accessible. A user-friendly, computerised resource it contains over 40,000 images and information on contemporary craftspeople that can be accessed by searching for maker, object, material or technique. This […]
As part of the Year of the Artist programme, Michael Pinsky was in residence in the Town Planning Department of Chelmsford Borough Council earlier this year. Unusually perhaps for a local authority residency, his brief was to offer radical and […]
The Arts Council of England, in collaboration with the regional arts boards, has set out plans for a Year of Diversity. The aim of ‘The Big Idea’, is to “celebrate, profile and enhance diversity across the arts”. Due to run […]
A CD-Rom documenting Artsway’s three-year project ‘The World of Our Landscape’ aims to further knowledge and debate on the impact of landscape on contemporary practice. The project involved established and emerging artists who through exhibitions, residencies and commissions responded to […]
Axis – the national digital register of artists – has appointed Kay Pallister to the new post of content curator and Reuben Knutson as the Schools’ Resource project leader. Pallister, who relocates from New York’s Gagosian Gallery, brings with her […]
The creation of small-scale saleable works is a strategy that many artists may have considered. Here, Brigid Howarth talks to two artists with successful product lines that sit alongside their main practice.
Moira Jeffrey attended ‘At the City’s Edge’ in Glasgow, a conference that amongst other things addressed ‘what artists are questioning and why’. Here, she feeds back on the projects discussed and the main debates that arose.
Richard Billingham took time out from preparations for the Turner Prize to discuss how he moved from an aspiring cash-strapped artist living in the heart of the Black Country to a celebrated artist of international acclaim.
This ambitious artist-led project has involved seventy-five artists and resulted in over 100 artworks. Cassie Thompson visits the exhibition and talks to the project organisers.
Once again the Istanbul Biennial opened at a time of extraordinary difficulty. In 1999 the event only just survived the city’s devastating earthquake, whilst the recent backdrop was an explosive economic crisis and the imminent war in the (uncomfortably) Near East. But, as Kevin Dent reports, from this unpromising background the biennial emerged as a triumph offering the city something to celebrate and enjoy.
John Plowman profiles KÜnstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, one of about a dozen such institutions in Germany offering residencies to international artists.
Roxy Walsh, recipient of the Abbey Award in Painting, gives an overview of her time at the British School at Rome (BSR).
In 1993, at the British School at Rome, I began to explore new themes that explored metaphor and transformation. Using castings from metre-long acanthus leaves, I alluded to the analogy of leaf and human anatomy (in spine, rib and vein) […]
The Caravan Gallery is a mobile exhibition venue and research project initiated by Chris Teasdale and myself. We are drawn to subjects familiar to us all but often overlooked – the ordinary and extraordinary details of everyday life. The focus […]
‘Mappa Manna’ forms part of the ongoing commissioning programme for solo shows of site-specific work at the Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester. The title of the exhibition is from the Latin mappa, meaning map, or literally ‘napkin of the world’ and […]
In my work, I search for repeated patterns of behaviour and phenomena and record those that have rich aesthetics to exploit. Through The Centre, Glasgow, I was awarded a four-month residency in Royston, a housing scheme that overlooks Glasgow city […]
