Catherine Wilson addresses three collaborative projects by Rio de Janeiro-based Mauricio Dias and Walter Riedweg who develop works with communities and social groups often on the edges of mainstream society.
An innovative art project designed to create a new identity for one of London’s most misunderstood areas launched in June on Peckham Square.
A panel of education experts have selected England’s thirty most creative schools to be the leading edge of a £110m national creative learning programme.
Eighty-one artists have been selected from 235 applicants for the 2008 Glass Biennale exhibition.
To preface a new ongoing series exploring relationships between artists and their collaborators, we asked some of today’s most interesting curators for insights into their practices.
The Somafree Institute of Psychoplasmics first appeared in David Cronenberg’s 1979 film The Brood, yet despite once suggesting that if he failed as a filmmaker he could always set up a real life Institute, its 21st Century emergence is not his own doing.
News of John Newling’s residency and The Art House opening.
Information on the Cecil Collins Memorial Award for students.
‘Beacon’ is a recurring feature within the Lincolnshire expanse, with 2007 seeing the fourth annual collection of sited works in the county’s rural landscape and towns.
A report from the Education and Skills Select Committee has confirmed the value of Creative Partnerships’ work within the curriculum.
Produced as part of Gavin Wade’s ongoing project Strategic Questions, this time working with artist Alec Finlay, 100 Verses for the 3 Estates resulted from a collaboration with residents of three housing estates in Kings Norton, Birmingham.
It would seem that politics has taken centre stage in contemporary art.
“Spirit in community will die unless there’s someone calling the meeting.”
October saw the formal opening of Elements, the transformed garden and corridor areas at Park House, North Manchester General Hospital. Under the leadership of artists Stella Corrall and Adam Reynolds, service users and staff at Park House have been brought […]
Godfrey Worsdale on artists who explore moral issues.
For over fifteen years the Chrisi Bailey Award has been given annually some of the most extraordinary educational work with children using photography, digital arts, video and animation. Aiming to reward work that demonstrates creativity and innovation, rather than just […]
Yuen Fong Ling on shifting Identities in Hong Kong
In June 2004 I was shown around an empty flat in Farley Bank, Hastings, with a view to taking it on as an experimental space.
‘Thinking of the Outside’ was a temporary exhibition of new artworks commissioned by Situations at the University of the West of England, in association with Bristol Legible City and Picture This, Bristol, in which six internationally acclaimed artists responded to Bristol’s historic landscape in summer 2005.
Brief extracts from the Social space presentations and discussions, to introduce the issues and broaden participation.
Read the Social space interviews in full along with Becky Shaw’s Introduction and Matters arising.
Social space addresses dynamics and divergences within artist’s practice in the social realm. Guest edited by Becky Shaw with contributors including Ricardo Basbaum, Sarah Cole, Lubaina Himid, Richard Layzell, Andre Stitt and Una Walker. The second publication in Future forecast […]
Part of the 2005-06 Future forecast series, marking a-n’s 25th anniversary, Social space addresses dynamics and divergences within artists’ practice in the social realm.
We set out to work with other artists and curators as well as those people with whom we collaborate on the site of our projects.
Artist Bill Drummond is twinning Kensington in Liverpool with Kensington in London – through kettles.
