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Plot twists in Cardiff’s artist-led narrative
As part of the council-supported Cardiff Contemporary festival, g39 gallery is highlighting the creativity of artist-led activity.
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Static sale: Everything must go!
Everything must go at Liverpool’s Static gallery, but, as director Paul Sullivan explains, this is not a closing down sale.
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Artists’ views from CAVE
As the inaugural, artist-run CAVE Art Fair draws to a close in Liverpool, we get the views of some of the exhibiting artists – and a potential buyer.
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Olympian struggle for fair play
A part-time theatrical costume maker battles for justice for Yorkshire artists, alleging that vested interests were at play in connection with a Cultural Olympiad grant.
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CAVE offers a fair deal for artists
CAVE is a new artist-led art fair for the city of Liverpool, set to launch during the opening weekend of the 7th Liverpool Biennial in September. We talk to one of its organisers.
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Last call for the Marmite Prize
Open submission competitions have been generating plenty of comment and debate on a-n of late. What does the biennial Marmite Prize bring to the discussion? We speak to one of its founders.
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You choose the winner
Woolgather Art Prize 2012 opens tonight at 1 Cross York Street, Leeds.
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CAVE
CAVE will take place in Liverpool during the opening weekend of the 7th Liverpool Biennial this autumn.
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Measuring the experience: the scope and value of artist-led organisations
Republishes extracts from my substantial report entitled Measuring the experience: the scope and value of artist-led organisations, the 1993-96 research study that explored and articulated value of the artist-led as a vital research-based ingredient in the visual arts ecology.
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Next to Nothing: An Exhibition on The Price of Nothing and the Value of Everything
The Light, Leeds
15 September – 1 October
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Soon all your neighbours will be artists
Published by Eastside Projects with Aid & Abet, Extra Special People, Spike Associates, WARP
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Navigating the career path
Online editor Richard Taylor interviews artists Maria Bojanowska, Sarah Rowles, Alice Ladenburg and Andrew Maclean about their approach to professional development in the early stages of a career in the arts.
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International relations
Supporting the international activities of artists and arts organisations is a key function for many national arts funding agencies. In order to investigate this area of arts policy and identify key issues affecting the programs and priorities of such agencies, the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) conducted a worldwide survey in English, French and Spanish, the results of which have been analysed and supplemented by other research and presented in a report.
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Arts funding – Canadian comparison
Funding for the arts has never been an easy sell – not with governments or the public. April Britski, Executive Director of CARFAC reports from Canada.
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Big (art) society
Artists’ survival and growth is dependent on networking and professional interchange.
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Midwest
Midwest was an artist’s development programme that ran from 2003 to 2008 in the West Midlands. Here we share pdf reports on Midwest’s activity that provide valuable insights into possibilities within artist-led culture.
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New shades on old structures
Richard Taylor finds out how three artist groups are re-vamping their structures as established organisations, to support new talent and promote a variety graduate activity.
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Open debate
Led by the PITT artist-led space and Worcestershire Contemporary Artists in partnership with the main Worcester City Gallery, The Worcester Open 2010 Contemporary Art project is organised for artists by artists.
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Against the grain
Striving and surviving in the do it yourself art world; curating, managing members, self-publishing. Richard Taylor talks to three recently founded artists’ groups about doing it ‘DIY’, progress so far and what the future holds.
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Asking rhetorical questions
In March The National Campaign for the Arts staged the ‘This country can no longer afford to subsidise the arts’ debate.
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Alias
Project coordinator Ed Adam and consultant Sovay Berriman tell Jane Watt how Alias (Artists-led Initiative Advisory service) has developed over the last ten years. They discuss the dilemmas that artist-led organisations face and offer their survival tips.
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Artists taking the lead
From over 2,000 entries, 59 projects were shortlisted for Artists Taking the Lead. Artists get a
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Consultation with CARFAC
Having celebrated its fourtieth birthday in 2008, CARFAC is keen to rebuild ties with the UK. AIR advisory group members will be meeting in June with April Britski Executive Director of CARFAC (Canadian Artists Representation) during her fact-finding mission researching attitudes to support to professional artists in the UK.
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Glittering prizes (and awards)
Contemporary Art Society’s latest initiative, the Annual Award for Museums, will provide
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Tether development
Tether is a Nottingham-based artist collective that forms the nucleus for a cluster of associated activity, including studios, exhibitions, off-site projects, a video programme and podcasts, even stretching to a ‘Tether’ festival.