The 18th Storey The Haddon Tower Project
Haddon Tower, Birmingham
18-25 March
Haddon Tower, Birmingham
18-25 March
When asked the awkward question What is your work about? I have sometimes given the elusive answer, that it is an enquiry into what goes on behind the net curtains.
Contents include: Laura Ellen Bacon on building nests. Professional development round-up. Susannah Silver reports from visual arts conference in South Africa. Yuen Fong Ling on shifting identities in Hong Kong and Rob Olins on combining public art with landscape. Group […]
The trains of thought that permeate through the writing we commission each month provide indicators for the future. Highlighting what is on the edge of becoming significant within artists practices, is a characteristic of a-ns work, providing a very different […]
For over fifteen years the Chrisi Bailey Award has been given annually some of the most extraordinary educational work with children using photography, digital arts, video and animation. Aiming to reward work that demonstrates creativity and innovation, rather than just […]
Can recycling arts have a positive impact on attitudes to resources? Are there more qualities to recycling arts than quirky uses of materials? I am a recycling artist currently undertaking MA Integrative Arts at Derby University. The research title: Creative […]
I am writing to thank you for informing me I have won a free one year subscription to a-n. [See Survey winners announced on the letters page of last months a-n Magazine.] It was a great start to my day […]
CCA Glasgows Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), one of Scotlands leading cultural venues, has been saved from closure and its day-to-day running taken over by the Scottish Arts Council (SAC), its main funder, after the voluntary resignation of the CCA […]
Susannah Silver reports from the Visual Arts Network of South Africa conference.
Touchstones, Rochdale
28 January 19 March
The Art Gallery, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen
20 January 19 February
Aviva Leeman reports from Artquests recent conference.
Back in 1980 I left Wolverhampton Poly with a BA in ceramics.
Professional development news from across the UK.
The Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW) launches its Project Space this month, the first phase of its development in the newly improved Haldon Forest Park near Exeter, which is also launched on the same day. CCANW […]
2006 is the sixtieth anniversary of the Arts Council Collection, the largest loan collection of post-war and contemporary British art in the world.
Bureau is Manchesters new, purpose-built, independent art gallery. Run by directors Sophia Crilly and Mark Kennard, both practising artists and curators, the gallery provides a platform for dynamic, exciting and experimental work by emerging and established national and international artists. […]
A collaboration between the national Government agencies responsible for sport, arts, heritage, the built environment, and museums, libraries and archives has been launched.
For the first time Nottingham is to host the British Art Show. Taking place every five years, the Hayward Gallery touring exhibition aims to showcase the best in contemporary art. With over one hundred and twenty works by fifty UK-based […]
Bidoun is a quarterly magazine dedicated to the arts and culture of the Middle East and its diaspora. Launched in 2004, it provides a unique platform for fresh ideas and original work by contemporary artists, architects, designers and writers. Bidoun […]
Nicholas Sharp on the Artists Resale Right Regulations 2006.
Room, Bristol
2 February 5 March
After close involvement in campaigning for the Artists Resale Right, painter Simon Black is warmly welcoming this new right.
Yuen Fong Ling on shifting Identities in Hong Kong
Nests and cocoon-like forms intrigue me because they are often built directly into existing structures, such as trees or architectural features.