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On the cover – 2009 June
Caroline Saul, Bulbous Form One, recycled plastic milk bottles, 45x45cm, 2008.
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Mystery application fees
I’m sure most a-n Magazine readers have noticed the increasing frequency that they post off their exhibition opportunity submissions neatly packaged with a cheque inside. The amounts can vary dramatically and sometimes seem like money well spent.
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What is community art?
Peckham Space is open to continuing the debate on Mobile Conference initiated by Sonya Dyer in a-n Magazine (Debate, May 2009).
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a-n Magazine May 2009
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.
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Good project – what sort of collaboration?
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.
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Big picture – 2009 May
Benet Spencer’s History Painting.
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A healthy outlook
Jane Watt reports on the Brighton symposium Is Design Good For You? considering the range of projects that artists undertake in healthcare environments.
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Learn to lead
Following a quiet call for tenders in late December, the Cultural Leadership Programme (CLP) has awarded funds totalling
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International textiles
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.
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Empty shops network
When artists use empty shops, everyone wins – artists, town centre managers and local authorities working together are proving that.
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Art at home
Janie Nicoll brings together in one place a mixed assortment of surprising works deliberately sited within a domestic rather than a gallery setting.
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Local interaction
A series of site-specific art commissions that aim to interact with locations and audiences in Lincoln.
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Tipped for success
Now three years old, the annual
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Twittter twitter
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?
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Public engagement
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.
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Cultural Olympiad
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.
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Fusing craft and technology
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.
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On the cover – 2009 May
Brendan Lyons, Blu Painting (detail), acrylic paint, 80x80cm, 2008. Installed at the Bluecoat, Liverpool.
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Art Futures
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 […]
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Culture and Commerce: Scotland’s cultural policy?
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 […]
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Peckham space
Sonya Dyer responds to the Mobile Conference event at Peckham Space, 15 March
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Open studios
Wimbledon Art Studios in south west London opens its doors for its Summer Open Studios Art Show 14-17 May.
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a-n Magazine April 2009
Contents include: Includes: Widening the audience for visual artists feature; John Holden on cultural exclusivity; Matthew Houlding in Big picture; plus 15mm films & beaconsfield in this month’s Collaborative relationships. PDF version [size 4.8 MB]. Requires PDF reader.
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On the cover – 2009 April
The Glass Parallax by Samual Dowd.
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Scotland’s creative future
Following on from an artist-led public meeting last December in Glasgow, Wednesday 25 February saw a public forum on the theme of ‘Arts Futures: Creative Scotland?’ at the Glasgow School of Art.