Artists’ development in practice
Professional development opportunities are widely available, ranging from cash awards to advisory sessions and critical debate.
Professional development opportunities are widely available, ranging from cash awards to advisory sessions and critical debate.
The focus generated this month by Vital 07 is the catalyst for exposing of some of the UKs key promoters of live art today.
Gordon Dalton’s piece (Networking Artists’ Networks, a-n Magazine August 2007) showed that the silly season is not limited to the tabloid newspapers.
Bravo, Dave Grimbleby and thanks for saying what many of us have thought for a long time.
This months visual arts appointments
Arts Council Englands announcement on 26 September of its new Chief Executive, Alan Davey, was met with mixed feelings in the arts world.
The Crafts Council, the national development agency for contemporary crafts in the UK, has gone through huge changes in the last five years.
Leeds-based artists Lucy Gibson and Yvonne Carmichael are curating a new gallery space in Leeds.
Herts open studios celebrated its seventeenth year in September.
MASA Artists a group of visual arts practitioners with studios on Blackfriars Road, Salford are celebrating the organisations 25th anniversary with a series of artistic initiatives over the forthcoming months.
Public art think tank ixias recent review of public art and planning in England revealed that, through the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG), the government is considering changes to the planning system.
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.
Exploring selected arts organisation with significant facilities and programmes for digital and new media practices.
Zadok Ben-David, Black Field (detail), site-specific installation, hand painted, acid etched stainless steel, dimensions varied, 2007.
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 […]
This month’s a-n Collection: Country living puts a spotlight on artistic activity in rural locations.
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.
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) […]
Corrections from the September issue of a-n Magazine.
Just a quick note to say well done on developing such an easy to use, and very useful tool. Congratulations! Im delighted to say that after using four years of self-employed accounts to work out the figures for each of […]
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 […]
The Mayfly connotes ephemerality, a point no doubt in the minds of those naming this series of three one-day events.
30 Years of Side Gallery
Until 10 November
Various venues, Peckham
6-12 August
Fruitmarket, Edinburgh
26 July 21 October