Mark Leckey: Parade
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
13 February 28 March
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
13 February 28 March
Not all diseases are preventable but a healthy response to illness fostered by a positive relationship in the treatment setting can help combat the secondary problems of depression and isolation. Over four months Gina Glover documented the life of the […]
The 2004 Sonning Prize is to be awarded this month to the British-Palestinian sculptor, performance and installation artist Mona Hatoum. Awarded every other year by the University of Copenhagen, it is offered to a man or woman “who has significantly […]
Young Artist of the Year, worth £5,000 in this year’s Hunting Art Prizes, went to Falmouth College of Art final-year fine art student, Marco Amura, whilst 1999 Falmouth fine art graduate Alisdair Lindsay scooped second prize worth £4,000. Their work […]
Inherited genetic illness, the impact of the built environment on social values and the cultural significance of heroin use all feature in the latest round of visual artists awards from the Scottish Arts Council. Four awards of £15,000 will give […]
Fabrication started in February on the first of ten major artists’ commissions for the new Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. The commissions are part of Leading the Way, a three-year arts programme to enhance the new Gloucestershire Royal Hospital through integrated public […]
Commissions East has launched a regional-wide professional development programme for visual artists. Funded by Arts Council England, East and European Social Fund (ESF), the three-year programme will impact on some 500 professional artists living or working in the east of […]
Giles Sutherland looks at the relationship between glass artist Keiko Mukaide and Edinburgh College of Art.
A crafts commissions programme is underway at the Crafts Study Centre at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design. Seven makers in south east and west England were selected from a wider trawl. Their brief was to design and produce […]
Artist-led Leeds Sculpture Workshop has rented property in Leeds for over ten years. Now the studio has moved into a permanent home that will enable artists to rent studio facilities at affordable prices in a professional atmosphere. This is a […]
Digital and sound artist Jony Easterby is making a nine-metre high lighthouse-style work on a cycle path in Kent as part of Sustrans’ Art and the Travelling Landscape scheme. Aimed at providing a resting and viewing place for users of […]
CBAT, The Arts and Regeneration Agency is to hold a two day conference, Urban Legacies, in Cardiff on 6-7 May 2004. This coincides with ‘Aint no love in the heart of the City’, a series of temporary art projects in […]
Helen Maurer and Bernd Behr share their response to this exhibition of historical work and its relation to their practice. Introduction, research and interviews by Rosemary Shirley.
Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1997 with an MA in ceramics, I have been practising as a ceramic designer and producer.
John Beagles comments on the increased presence of artist-run initiatives at this year’s Glasgow Art Fair.
Area 10 Artist Collective originally took on Eagle Wharf with a ten day license through Camberwell Arts Week and Southwark Council. This then led to two license agreements over the next 12 months, each of them peppercorn agreements, meaning no […]
Lesley Millar, Project Director of ‘Through the Surface’, profiles the process and outcomes of this major collaboration between artists from the UK and Japan.
Paul Glinkowski profiles the work of Paul Bonaventura, co-founder of The Laboratory, the research wing of the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at the University of Oxford, in the fifth article of the ‘Crossing over’ series.
Lorna Green reports on the China Changchun International Sculpture Conference 2003 and opening of the Changchun World Sculpture Park.
‘Painting with light’ was a phrase I first heard whilst studying for my degree in architectural glass.
a-n’s Future forecast event (29-30 January) was attended by seventy participants despite particularly bad weather conditions and we’d like to thank everyone who took part. Angus Farquhar spoke of the philosophy behind his company, Nacionale Vitae Activa (NVA), […]
The first a-n Critical conversation of 2004 took place at the beginning of February at Psyche in Middlesbrough. The event was a huge success and saw this year’s programme off to a great start with over fifty people gathering to […]
Mike Brown, a-n’s Financial Consultant, is leaving the North East of England for pastures new (well, Yorkshire) and regrettably we will be losing his input. We’d like to thank Mike for his valuable contribution and to wish him well in […]
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John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
2 December 31 January