S Mark Gubb takes a look back at the first year of the NAN bursary scheme and the artists groups it has supported, exploring the advantages of knowing that “you are not alone”.
With Arts Council England’s Grants for the arts scheme back after a summer break, a-n engaged a team of experienced prospectors to share their top tips on making successful funding applications. Rosemary Shirley reports.
Exchange between public and private can be difficult – as politicians find when arguing for corporate investment into education, healthcare and transport. But what might first appear to be radically different viewpoints are perhaps less so when notions of sustainability […]
Yes we did find your comments quite amusing in our post match knees up. Oh dear, you got it all wrong. Funnily enough on the other side of the bridge the text is in Italian! Oops, there goes your lame […]
Paul O’Kane’s excessively witless review of the ‘excessive wit’ in my paintings shown at the ‘Borealis’ exhibition (a-n Magazine September) is just that. Who the hell is this ‘renowned’ George Blacklock? Renowned for what? I’ve never heard of him, nor […]
‘May You Live In Interesting Times’ is Cardiff’s inaugural festival of creative technology. Taking place across the Welsh capital 28-30 October, the festival has been developed between Chapter and Bloc (Creative Technology Wales) and includes a two-day conference, new commissions, […]
This month sees the international art world’s focus turn to London.
Following a period of research and consultation a new strategic development body, Craft Northern Ireland (CNI), is launched this autumn. Its remit is to “develop the creative and cultural resources of the people of Northern Ireland in both cultural and […]
Surrey’s fourth annual Connect and Create arts conference is on 19 October. Hosted by Surrey County Arts, ‘Culture Me Happy! What is culture and is it good for you?’ looks at what we mean by culture and how culture and […]
Once we were Africans Black Arts Alliance has commissioned photographer Anthony Jones to photograph ten, black, multi-generational families living in the Greater Manchester area as part of ‘Acts of Achievement’, the north west of England’s annual celebration of Black History […]
By the time this article is printed, the ink will almost be dry on the law which will introduce into the UK the most important new right for artists in modern copyright history. From 1 January 2006, and after ten […]
Impressions Gallery in York will relocate after thirty-three years in the city, closing its doors to the public on 29 October after Mariele Neudecker’s ‘kindertotenlieder’ exhibition. For the gallery, which attracts some 50,000 visitors a year, the Grade II status […]
Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World,
Haldon Belvedere, Exeter
14 August – 30 October
Site Gallery and Sylvester Works, Sheffield
30 July – 8 October
Permanent Gallery, Brighton
1-28 August
Rabley Contemporary Drawing Centre, Marlborough
18 June – 24 July
and
Seven Seven Contemporary Gallery, London
23 September – 9 October
Something Haptic, Glasgow
A few points on making an application to Arts Council England’s Grants for the arts scheme. One key difficulty is contacting your local Arts Council England (ACE) arts officer. All too frequently emails or calls are not returned and this […]
Subscribers to a-n will have found enclosed a copy of NewcastleGateshead by Layla Curtis, commissioned by Locus+ and previewed in last month’s What’s on section. 30,000 copies of the map will be distributed across North East England to coincide with […]
Chapter one. Into the woods.
Contents include: Checklist of good practice promotes meaningful development for volunteers, a news report on outcomes from The Cultural Commission. Samantha Clark reflects on residencies in the Swiss Alps and at Wysing Arts. A review of contemporary artists using pinhole […]
Our 25-year publishing schedule continues with guest editors appointed for the forthcoming months. In October Deborah Smith is guest editor for the third in the a-n Collections series with a newly commissioned set of writing “embedded within sites of specifity” […]
We welcome Castlefield Gallery as a new partner in development of a-n’s Jobs and Opportunities – updated weekly online. The focus will be to research those opportunities that are essentially artist-led. Drawing on its extensive network of peers and seeking […]
We have commissioned artist Adam Walker, from the normalife collective, to update North Essentials, a-n’s contacts guide on www.a-n.co.uk for artists and arts professionals working in the North East of England. Contact him on 0191 241 8000 or email [email protected] […]
London-based artist and researcher Jane Watt has been appointed to undertake a review of the NAN initiative to date that will make an important contribution to the development of this programme that was launched in March 2003. She brings to […]
