Journey’s end
Former Waygood Gallery and Studios relaunches as Baltic outpost.
Former Waygood Gallery and Studios relaunches as Baltic outpost.
UK survey raises issues of social value and economic survival. Frances Lord reports.
I have just read on AIR that another arts initiative, Lanternhouse, is closing.
Contemporary media arts organisation VIVID, one of the previously Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs) in Dany Louise’s ’Ladders for development’ report, announces that it is set to cease trading this spring.
Ulverston-based Lanternhouse has announced it will close on 31 March 2012 in order for the charity to consider future possibilities and options. The organisation failed to secure future funding in April last year during Arts Council England’s (ACE) National Portfolio Organisations (NPO) awards announcements.
Is there enough funding going to individual artists and are the application processes user-friendly? These were questions a-n set out to answer in the fourth issue of what was then Artists Newsletter in 1980. Now, thirty one years later, we asked Dany Louise to do this research again, examining the current state of play for grants to individual artists as offered by Arts Council England, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Arts Council of Wales and Creative Scotland – including comparators of volumes of artists applying and success rates – and to ascertain whether a “fair share” has been getting into the hands of artists to develop their practice.
News and updates on AIR’s strategies and activities designed to support professional artists within their practice and working lives.
Organisations around the UK facing cuts or closure.
New high profile museums and galleries have opened across the UK, but how can they best contribute to the local arts and culture, asks Emily Speed.
BECTU and other members of the Federation of Entertainment Unions (FEU) plus Connect and PCS held an event in June to launch the Lost Arts Campaign and website www.Lost-Arts.org.
In this issue we continue to get a glimpse of how the visual and applied arts are developing new approaches in a harsher climate.
In the recent ACE funding review, a shocking number of organisations working at the leading edge of digital and new media arts were cut.
In December 2010 the Arts Council of Wales announced its new portfolio of revenue clients. From 116 existing clients more than thirty were lost. Five months on we asked the sector what the impact has been and how the visual arts in Wales has reacted, and what England might anticipate following last month’s ACE announcements.
The Live Art UK network writes in response to the announcement by Arts Council England (ACE) of its National Portfolio Organisation awards for 2012-15.
Local authority cuts as seen from the frontline of visual arts providers.
AIR Activists join art students and other art-activist groups in act of creative resistance at Tate Britain.
Given the voracious and swift nature of the cuts brought in by the current government, it is unsurprising that artists are already feeling the effects.
The British Council plans to redeploy a third of the currently money spent in Europe to Muslim countries in the Middle East and Central Asia.