When the BRIDGE founders, Pernilla Iggström and Christel Lundberg, were thinking about the ethos of BRIDGE and working towards the BRIDGE24 exhibition in Brixton in September 2024, they asked themselves “What keeps the English people together?, What do they all […]
For our inaugural BRIDGE exhibition in November 2023, 10 artists from ÖSKG and 10 from ArtCan were selected and paired together by curators Pernilla Iggstrom (ArtCan) and Christel Lundberg (ÖSKG). BRIDGE is an on-going project, encouraging cross-cultural artistic collaboration, where […]
Hello, I’m Pernilla Iggstrom, a Swedish Korean artist and curator based in Brentwood, Essex. Here in this space, I’m delighted to share the progress of a very special project I’ve co-founded and am co-curating called BRIDGE and will be writing […]
STEAMhouse Talk As part of the research project I wanted to do a talk with STEAMhouse, artists and arts organisations to find out how they have been creating work through Covid and what they are doing now we are coming out […]
My journey of self-awareness led me to undertake some fundamental groundwork on understanding the ego and personal-level authenticity. I came across the Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator, explained in Robert Holden’s five week online training course Coaching Authentic Success. The Enneagram provides 9 distinctive […]
Colin Hambrook, disabled artist and editor of Disability arts online, gathers a selection of quotes and advice about the practice and development of disability arts from artists, arts managers, curators, producers and gallery directors working within the sector.
Colin Hambrook provides an introduction to the history of, and current practices in the field of disability arts, including an overview of key organisations that support disabled visual artists.
More News In Brief: Venice launches first permanent art district on Giudecca island; study finds museums in US still failing with artist diversity; Nomura Art Award to offer US$1m prize to ‘nurture creativity in contemporary art’.
In her a-n blog, artist and activist Sonia Boué has called out the disability-led arts organisation Shape Arts over its publication of an article on how to get on an exhibition, which she says is ‘ableist’ and incompatible with the experiences and needs of many neurodiverse artists. Pippa Koszerek reports.
The artist, who identifies as a ‘queer working class female artist’, says in a resignation letter that she has quit due to comments made by Tate director Maria Balshaw.
Trust: confidence, belief, faith, freedom from suspicion & doubt, sureness, certainty, certitude, assurance, conviction, credence, reliance, responsibility, duty, obligation, safe-keeping, keeping, protection, charge, care, custody; trusteeship, guardianship. In a recent Life Scientific Jim Al-khalili was in conversation with Allie Macadam, renowned engineer. In the programme Macadam was in part talking about diversity, or lack of diversity, within the engineering sector, and […]
Report on diversity within Arts Council England NPOs and recipients of GFTA funding, using data gathered annually by ACE.
This year’s Engage International Conference took place in Hull and was titled ‘The Whole Picture: Rethinking Diversity’. Hull-based artist Paul Collinson reports from the two-day event.
Speaking at the ENGAGE conference ‘fringe’ events, Lara Goodband is a freelance curator working with Invisible dust, an organisation that brings artists and scientists together on collaborative projects to promote environmental engagement. Lara and others, from Invisible dust, gave a […]
Lloyds Bank recently bought a double page spread in the Guardian weekend magazine (18.11.17) “Spread your wings with a portfolio career”. This advert, written like a magazine article, contains all the usual elements and advice about starting a portfolio career; […]
A provocation paper commissioned by Bluecoat from ex-Arts Council, NE director, Mark Robinson.
Strategy document from a-n that puts advocacy for visual artists at the heart of its activities for the next five years.
A MUST READ – http://asianworldnews.co.uk/localnews/who-really-populates-britains-arts-sector/
Readiness Where do I start? It appears that my art musings are somewhat patchy yet again. However I do feel that there is a connection and a convergence in a way which I will try to explain. I was recently […]
Do you think art galleries who receive funding form ACE should support everyone? When galleries talk about DIVERSITY and ticking that box when supporting artists what do they actually mean? Do they really support British Indian Artists, living and working in the UK ? […]
