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Modern Women
A new exhibition and collaboration between artists Emilia Telese and Binita Walia providing commentaries and insight on how the role of women is shaped and constrained by social, economic and political contexts.
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Events #6: The week ahead from a-n’s members
Event and exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from our busy Events section and featuring events and exhibitions posted by a-n members.
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Sluice_ open call: testing the art fair model
Sluice_ art fair is to return with its DIY ethos for Frieze Week 2015 and has issued a call for participants from the artist/curator-led and emergent gallery sector.
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Artist-led evolution: facing the challenges in uncertain times
Written in response to the Alias annual gathering event, Moving Forward and Staying the Same: Artist Led Evolutions, AirSpace Gallery co-director Glen Stoker considers the continued importance of artist-led activity to the UK’s visual arts ecology.
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Alias crowdfunding campaign: artist-led advisory network seeks funds
A crowdfunding campaign has been launched by South West England-based artist-led support network Alias. The funds will enable the grass-roots organisation to provide new programmes and advisory sessions as well as new international opportunities for artists.
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BamBamBam at Royal Standard: encouraging artists to take greater risks
Artist-led gallery and studio space The Royal Standard is hosting a quick-fire series of exhibitions by 26 studio members over three weeks. Laura Robertson reports on an exciting opportunity for artists in Liverpool.
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Art in Bearpit: an artist-led meeting point on a Bristol roundabout
Art in Bearpit is a new programme of temporary art works for a public realm, community-led regeneration scheme in Bristol city centre, produced by the artist-led group Hand in Glove. Pippa Koszerek reports.
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2. PEER SUPPORT SESSIONS
Initiate your own peer sessions. In 2014 I joined contemporary art group ARTEL, we exhibit annually on a theme. Last year: ‘Raw – reflections on the aftermath of war’. This June – ‘Possessed’. Our first peer critique will be 29 […]
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Embassy’s 10th anniversary: a celebration of its membership
Artist-run Edinburgh space Embassy marks its 10th anniversary with a party, a publication and a new commission. Richard Taylor reports.
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Rural arts and policy
Selected texts, discussions, guides and profiles that address issues around or profile arts taking place in rural contexts.
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Really important arts people
Texts and profiles of artists who’ve made a difference to the life and times of the visual arts and stand out as role models.
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Glasgow’s Open House Art Festival: an animated open call
The artist-led Open House Art Festival in Glasgow is calling for submissions for the second edition of the festival next May, and has released a short animation to encourage applications.
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About artist-led initiatives, networks and collaborations
Features and resources that discuss the scope, value and role of the artist-led within cultural and arts development. Image from Impact of Networking publication included in this collection.
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Cardiff Open Studios Weekend: more than 140 artists across the city
The Cardiff Open Studios Weekend sees more than 140 artists opening their work spaces to the public over two days. Artist and curator Bob Gelsthorpe – co-founder of the city’s Bit Studios – reports.
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Since Sliced Bread: uncovering what we mill and what we eat
Fi Burke’s latest project celebrates the culture and history of the windmills of rural Lincolnshire, the communities that once relied on them for their daily bread, and those living in their shadows today. We talk to the artist about her exhibition, Since Sliced Bread, which marks the culmination of her year spent exploring the ‘field to fork’ journey of the food we eat.
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Biting the hand that feeds at Stoke’s Artist Soup Kitchen
Former a-n director Susan Jones will be sharing evidence gathered through a-n/AIR’s Paying Artists campaign over a hearty lunch of vitamin-rich soup at Stoke-on-Trent’s AirSpace Gallery, the latest event in a series of talks and workshops.
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Performance indicators: why ‘live’ art matters today
As this year’s Frieze Art Fair introduces ‘Live’ – a new strand of performance-based installations – Jennifer Picken assesses the state of play and provision for performance and live art in the UK.
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Bristol Biennial: What now, what next?
I wrote this for a-n: In keeping with the spirit of this year’s artist-led Bristol Biennial, on Sunday 28 September the city’s nomadic Hand in Glove project followed the 10-day festival with a special Interplay event exploring the question: What now, what […]
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Bristol Biennial: impressive, radical and artist led
I wrote this for a-n: This weekend saw the Bristol Biennnial 2014 burst into life with a jam-packed 10-day programme that peppers the city with intriguing events in unusual spaces. Caves, Edwardian toilets, buses, fountains and an ordinary terraced house all […]
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Bristol Biennial: What now, what next?
To mark the end of this year’s artist-led Bristol Biennial, Hand in Glove hosted a special Interplay discussion to explore what the festival should do next. Julie McCalden reports.
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MODEL Liverpool: “We’re trying to get people used to constant change”
MODEL is a new artist-run gallery in Liverpool that aims to provide a flexible and experimental platform for artist-led activity in the city. Laura Robertson pays a visit and speaks to its three founders.
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Bristol Biennial: impressive, radical and artist led
Produced on a tiny budget and run by an artist-led group, the Bristol Biennial is a 10-day festival of art across the city. Julie McCalden reports from the opening weekend.
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The Frontier Zone: a new arts colony in Wisbech
A new art colony and residency retreat, initiated by artist and priest Father Paul West and curated by Aid & Abet, is being pioneered in the Fenland market town of Wisbech.
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Artists’ campaign against austerity: a space to mobilise for change
The Artists’ Assembly Against Austerity is to launch this month. We speak to Season Butler about how artists can get involved.
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Axolotl
The first in a series of independently curated group exhibitions during Liverpool Biennial, Axolotl has an abundance of connotations, within the press release we are teased with curious narratives