APD (Artists Professional Development) network has received a £10,000 grant from Arts Council England to identify mechanisms to secure its future as the visual arts professional development umbrella. The offer arose after APD commissioned an independent strategic review from arts […]
National artists’ organisation The Art House, will be building new artists’ studios in Wakefield following Wakefield Council’s decision to grant land for the project. The Art House is an inclusive organisation for visual artists, that particularly addresses the problems facing […]
Hilary Thorn on a discussion event held at Static Gallery, as part of the NAN Artists’ research trip to Liverpool Biennial, which looked at the verbal languages through which art is explored.
I arrived in Osaka, Japan with a certain amount of excitement and trepidation.
Kathryn Smith on Johannesburg and Virginia Mackenny on Cape Town. The second part in a series commissioned by Deborah Smith.
a-n’s events and activities programme is on the increase for 2005, providing even more opportunities for critical discussion and professional networking for artists and their collaborators. An underlying principle for us when generating external projects is to work in partnership […]
Thanks to a partnership with Arts Council England, we’ve extended the portfolio of material freely available on www.a-n.co.uk around artists’ fees and payments. Now included is in-depth research by University of Newcastle in artists’ fees and payments and the attitudes […]
a-n’s new year began with a fond farewell to our Editorial Production Manager, Grainne Sweeney. After working with a-n for three years she’s decided to focus more of her time on other activities: “I’ll be spending more time with my […]
Maintaining a critical context is a core ingredient in sustaining an artist’s practice, as asserted in Dominic Thomas’ article published this month. He regrets the current culture of “avoidance of the core subject” in which professional development programmes are seemingly […]
Five years ago I had no choice but to shake my inbred cynicism, learn social skills and become a hairy artisan.
ROOM, Bristol
12 January – 13 February
Q Arts, Derby
15 January –26 February
Triangle Gallery, SPACE Studios, London
15 January – 15 February
Published by Transition Editions
Edited by Paul Murphy
Market Gallery, Glasgow
9 January – 5 February
Contemporary Art and Ideas in and Era of Globalisation
Published by inIVA
Dominic Thomas on the importance of a critical context for artists’ practice. One of a specially commissioned set of articles resulting from Quo Vadis available now on www.a-n.co.uk.
Work by the late Alexandra Reinhardt is on show (until 25 February) at the Menier Chocolate Factory Gallery, Southwark, now the home of charity Paintings in Hospitals (PiH). This is the first of an annual programme of exhibitions and events […]
Penny Klepuszewska, a 2003 graduate from Nottingham Trent University and Chris Boyd, a Manchester Metropolitan University second-year interactive arts student were joint winners of the UK Art Prize 2004, that attracted over 40,000 entries and created ten finalists. They shared […]
A report published in November shows multiple approaches by organisations in the creative sector in Yorkshire and the Humber to addressing cultural diversity. Arts Council England, Yorkshire, Yorkshire Forward (the regional development agency) and University of Leeds have invested in […]
Christmas came early for thousands of UK fine artists and visual creators, with over £2.25 million being paid out to them in December through Payback 2004.The Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS) negotiates a share of revenue from collective licensing […]
One-to-one encounters feature in a series of performance salons organised by London-based Home. Designed to bring audience and performer closer than ever in the venue’s domestic context, these events create a space in which to explore the contemporary desire for […]
Abstracts of papers on the theme of Ethics into Aesthetics are invited by 1 May for possible inclusion in an international conference held 12/13 August to accompany EAST 05, the annual open exhibition held at the Norwich Gallery. This year’s […]
An allotment site in Lower Kersal within the Irwell Sculpture Trail, Salford was the location for a socially-engaged residency involving artists Debbie Akam Power, Rick Faulkner and Peter Hatton. Following negotiations with the allotment association, a project evolved that was […]
The result of a year-long project by Ellie Harrison, ‘Gold Card Adventures’ is presented until 21 March at Piccadilly Circus underground station, London, courtesy of Platform for Art. Purchasing a Gold Card year’s travel pass and using her daily commute […]
