The creativity of artists living in Wales is marked by Arts Council Wales’ annual Creative Wales Awards. With over £215,000 offered to nineteen artists across all artforms, these awards provide valuable ‘time out’ to review current practice and research new […]
This spring, as part of the Africa 05 arts festival, a number of artists from around the African continent are in London making new work for various cultural institutions. Paul Glinkowski introduces the work of five of them.
Trinity Technology College, Warwick
11-23 February
Contents include: ‘Are you International?’ A Liverpool Biennial event on the languages through which art is explored. South Africa’s re-entry into global art scene: Johannesburg and Cape Town feature in two commissioned articles. In Reviews, an exhibition exploring the relationship […]
Bookville, a temporary bookshop project in Newcastle upon Tyne, opened its doors in February. Managed by artist Graeme Walker, Bookville is specialising in books made by artists, but also stocks artists multiples, zines, prints, film and music. The shop includes […]
The decision as to which image to use on the cover of a-n magazine each month is never an easy one. We’re well aware of the impact on an artist of having an image distributed directly to 32,000 readers and […]
We’ve a whole new set of essays available on www.a-n.co.uk as a result of November’s NAN event Quo vadis. They are freely available to all as part of a-n’s ongoing support for artists’ networking activities. Specially commissioned by Chris Brown […]
I first visited Sweden when I was invited to participate in the Gothenburg Biennale in 2001.
Leyhill Arts and Gardens HMP, Gloucestershire
21 January – 3 March
The Walker, National Museums, Liverpool
22 January – 17 April
Droit House, Margate
15 January – 5 March
The rolling out of a-n’s frameworks for good practice in artists’ fees and payments continues apace. Already referenced in The Guardian and Arts Professional, the fees and payments research is further endorsed by Arts Council England with Senior Visual Arts […]
In February, contributions were invited by a Parliamentary Select Committee from key visual arts organisations to an inquiry into DCMS’s support of the art market, in particular into “ways of supporting and encouraging living artists and the production of new work”.
I was interested to read Dominic Thomas’ article ‘Critical Contexts’ (a-n February) and wholeheartedly agree with his view that “many [professional development] schemes seem unable or unwilling to tackle the issue of the actual product of an artist’s labours”. ETA […]
EQUATA, the Disability Arts Development Agency for South West England, has announced the first ever Devon Disabled Artists Consultation Day, to be held on 31 March from 3 pm – 7 pm at the Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street, Exeter. The […]
a-n’s Director of Programmes Susan Jones introduces Good practice in paying artists.
Artists in Australia have the National Association for the Visual Arts to thank for an improvement of their tax status with the tax office. Tamara Winikoff, NAVA’s Executive Director confirmed the Australian Tax Office’s new stance, saying: “Finally, after eight […]
Twenty-three of Scotland’s leading writers, visual artists, poets, musicians, dance artists and crafts professionals have been shortlisted for this year’s Scottish Arts Council National Lottery Creative Scotland Awards. The £300,000 awards scheme is for projects that are inspiring and highly […]
An ambitious new media public art project for Perth opening in September includes a number of artworks commissioned by Iliyana Nedkova, New Media Creative Director of Horsecross, the organisation behind the project. The half million pound project is being developed […]
Finding the Common Threads is a two-year study being conducted by the Centre for Creative Communities with support from Arts Council England, London and Deutsche Bank. With London as its focus, the project is investigating some of the issues funders […]
Gateshead Council launched a new-look Town Hall Square in January with the unveiling of John Creed’s public sculpture Acceleration. Commissioned by Gateshead Council and funded by One NorthEast under the Single Regeneration Budget, the artist was selected as part of […]
Arts Council England is to undertake a review of the presentation of contemporary visual arts to inform the development of a national strategy that will help create closer links and collaboration across heritage and contemporary visual arts and commercial sectors. […]
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee instigated an inquiry into the sponsorship, by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, of the UK art market. A particular focus is ways of supporting and encouraging living artists and the production of […]
Arts organisations in Derby, Leicester and Nottingham have been encouraged to collaborate in new creative work through a commissioning fund offered as part of the Three Cities Cultural Consortium initiative, funded by Arts Council England and the Millennium Commission. Grants […]
The Creativity and the artist seminar will examine the argument by the Scottish Executive that “the creativity of Scots, from the classroom to the board room, is the edge we need in a competitive world” and goes on to charge […]
