This weekend, nomadic curatorial and artistic practice, Companis, presents Rude Food Fiesta – a fusion of food, performance and spectacle taking place in Birmingham. Sian Tonkin, one of the event’s organisers, provides a taster.
London-based studio provider Acme celebrates its 40th anniversary with an archive exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, looking at its first decade. Co-founder and Chief Executive, Jonathan Harvey, discusses how a group of recent graduates formed a charitable housing association, launched Acme Gallery and became the self-supporting organisation it is today.
Barrow-in-Furness based Art Gene launches its latest ‘cultural tourism’ project this week – a route guide that uncovers fascinating facts and hidden histories about the area as a way to inform “social rather than economic regeneration”. We find out more from Art Gene co-founder Stuart Bastik.
After last year’s hiatus, the artist-focused art fair returns to London during Frieze week, offering a snapshot of grassroots practice in 2013. We find out more from Sluice co-director Karl England and talk to some of this year’s participants.
A new artist-led studio and gallery space housed in three shipping containers on the Somerset coast has just announced a residency opportunity for an emerging artist. We find out more from printmaker Susan Lowe, one of the project’s organisers.
As the exhibition TO-MORROW or TO-DAY opens simultaneously in Leeds and Ghent, we find out why linking up with other artist-led organisations is so important.
The Manchester Contemporary, which describes itself as ‘the largest fair of critically engaging visual art outside of London’, announces galleries and project space initiative.
The visual arts, collaboration and experimentation will be on the agenda at this weekend’s Supernormal festival in rural Oxfordshire. We speak to Sam Francis about her curated programme focussing on gender roles in the realms of art and music.
An artist-led project space in Manchester’s Northern Quarter is trying to raise funds to replace the recent theft of its uninsured electrical equipment.
With a move to new premises on the cards for later this year, Bob Dickinson meets International 3’s Directors, Paulette Terry Brien and Laurence Lane, and finds them in a decidedly optimistic mood.
The Centre is Here symposium saw representatives of alternative art schools presenting their visions for art education. Kathryn Ashill, who starts an MA at Glasgow School of Art in September, found plenty to take on board as she prepares to embark on her course.
A site-specific art trail opens this weekend in one of London’s ‘Magnificent Seven’ cemeteries. We find out more from project curator Jane Millar.
Hilary Gresty follows-up a-n’s report on the recent Artquest conference, For the love it, by adding a question mark – and suggests that this is the right time to make the case for the economic and social recognition of the work of artists.
Over 100 artists gathered to discuss what they value most about their profession at Artquest’s one-day For the love of it conference in London.
Following on from INTERPLAY in November last year, Hand in Glove is organising Part 2: TENTERPLAY – ‘a survival camp for artist-led practice’.
London’s leading artist-led fair springs into step.
A new publication from g39 in Cardiff looks back at the artist-run organisation’s first 13 years and includes new artworks and specially commissioned text. Cardiff-based artist Kathryn Ashill talks to g39 co-founder Chris Brown.
Lincoln is developing a strong, artist-led art scene that is responding to the particularities of the area while presenting the work of local and international artists. We report from this historic East Midlands city.
Manchester-based artist Maurice Carlin recently co-organised a public discussion on artist-led spaces during his current residency at HomeShop, Beijing. He reports on how it went and the issues and solutions that were raised.
As an exhibition of works on paper opens in Southwark Park to celebrate three decades of the Bermondsey Artists’ Group, we talk to two members about the organisation’s thirty year commitment to art, community and learning.
Lauren Healey talks to Northern Art Prize 2011 winner Leo Fitzmaurice about objectness, appropriation and his time-intensive research process.
Sited on a working railway platform in London’s East End, Banner Repeater is an artist-led space with a difference. We talk to founder Ami Clarke as the organisation launches its first peer membership scheme and a vital fundraiser.
The eighty-strong Artists’ Bond opens its doors to another forty members from 1 April. But, as founder Ellie Harrison describes, anyone looking for a practical funding scheme would do well to look elsewhere.
Edinburgh’s Collective Gallery is moving to new premises on Calton Hill in the summer. Prior to that, though, there’s work to be done and funds to be raised with an auction of artists’ work. We talk to Director Kate Gray about new departures and exciting possibilities.
Modern Edinburgh Film School brings together practitioners in visual art, poetry, performance and film to explore alternative approaches to the screen. Project founder Alex Hetherington talks about community, social sculpture and his search for a sense of ‘elsewhere-ness’ in a very traditional city.
