The March of the Artists is a joint project by John-Paul Brown, Eve Robertson and Lauren Sagar. On 29 July 2018 they set off walking the 250 miles of river-ways and canals between Manchester and London, a planned 28-day trip avidly documented on Instagram.
In Brief: news briefing featuring national and international stories including: Sculptor Martin Puryear to represent US at Venice Biennale; Banksy expresses frustration over unauthorised Russian exhibition; Sotheby’s to auction world’s first film poster.
This week’s selection from a-n’s busy Events section, featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n members, includes selections from Birmingham, Brighton, Liverpool, London and Manchester.
In Brief: News briefing featuring national and international stories including: Home CEO Dave Moutrey appointed director of culture for Manchester; curator Omar Kholeif departs Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago to pursue freelance projects; Australia’s largest contemporary art gallery to be built in Melbourne.
a-n is partnering with three Manchester-based art and design organisations to pilot a new programme of professional development sessions for artists that will take place in the city between July 2018 and March 2019.
Taking place on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 March, the artist-run Next Term Festival in Manchester brings together local communities, artists, educators and policy makers to celebrate creativity and debate the future of art in schools.
The director of Manchester’s Castlefield Gallery looks back on her first year in the role, a period which has seen the organisation renew its Arts Council England NPO status enabling it to push forward with its talent development programme for artists.
In 2015 we heard of a theory surrounding the movement of artists from Manchester city centre to create a place for production in Salford, and to think of the city centre as a place for the presentation or work. Being […]
The exhibition and project space in Salford, Greater Manchester, will close before the end of the year, with directors Paulette Terry Brien and Laurence Lane also leaving their roles as curatorial coordinators of The Manchester Contemporary festival.
A selection of exhibition highlights for the week ahead including the Zabludowicz Collection’s 2017 Annual Commission and Christian Nyampeta’s film work at Camden Arts Centre.
So these past few weeks have all been about the ‘Hidden Altrincham’ which is an art festival near Manchester in…erm…Altrincham. It has been a well organised event with lots of different and exciting creative types kicking about. I personally have […]
With its longstanding city-centre home about to undergo redevelopment, Rogue studio group has relocated to a former primary school building in the east of the city.
I am at a critical juncture in my creative career; I need to develop strategies that will help push me forward. I wanted to be on StudioBook as I knew the development programme would help me access a ‘tool-kit’ to […]
First Week of StudioBook 2017 The first week of Mark Devereux Projects’ StudioBook 2017 surpassed my expectations. I arrived in Manchester on Sunday night at Islington Mill, the incredible space that I and two other StudioBook artists are staying […]
It is a sheer privilege to sit with a group of artists around a table, with a fabulous curator (Kitty Anderson of The Common Guild, Glasgow), and talk. Not only talk, but ask questions, those simple but sometimes allusive questions […]
I am fortunate to be one of the twelve participating artists for StudioBook2017 mentoring programme and grateful to a-n.co.uk for the support. My reflection on my experience during the programme will be shared on this blog.
I am one of twelve artists selected for Mark Devereux Projects’ StudioBook 2017 and one of five artists selected to receive an a-n bursary to support the costs of StudioBook.
This blog contains my reflections on the lead up to, during and after the Studiobook 2017 programme.
Mark Devereux Projects work with artists to advance their respective practices and careers by providing high-quality, tailored professional development; they launched their intensive programme called StudioBook in 2015. This fabulous opportunity for early to mid-career artists, delivers seminars, workshops and […]
I am an artist seeking new directions and guidance, luckily I have been selected for StudioBook 2017…in hope of a new road to follow.
