Ahead of the deadline on 12 February for a-n members to apply for the 2018 Artist Bursaries, Richard Taylor takes a look at how six members used their 2017 Travel bursaries for research and artistic activity.
Being elsewhere There are benefits to leaving home to make work. I left behind my usual commitments and responsibilities, creating internal space, a blank studio and real time. At home my role changes, in accordance with the time of day […]
Part 1 of a reflective blog about reevaluating my practice during an A-N supported Fellowship
Thanks to an A-N Travel Bursary, foundations were laid for a photographic project exploring Finland’s rich history of couple dancing. The first leg took me around South Savonia in the east of Finland and this blog is a kind of unravelling of the people and places I encountered.
Actively seeking collaborators through print workshops across Europe, backed by a-n travel grant.
Notes from a travel to HangZhou with Macclesfield Historian Dorothy Bentley Smith (a-n Travel Bursary)
In February I received the A-N Travel Bursary to enable me to return to Mexico where I began the first stage of a new major body of work.
Funded by the A-N travel bursary 2017, I was able to return to Mexico to strengthen and develop connections with galleries, museums and individuals, widen my understanding of working internationally, and develop my ongoing body of work Conceal with the aim of publishing it.
This summer I spent a month in Northern California for a residency at the Exloratorium, a museum of “art, science, and human perception”. To support the venture I received a £1000 bursary from a-n towards the travel costs of the […]
I will visit Iran for the first time as an adult and artist following an AN- travel grant.
James Clerk Maxwell and Prokudin-Gorskii in the Twenty-First Century
English artist Hannah Rose Thomas organised an art project in Kurdistan for Yezidi women who have escaped ISIS captivity.
a-n Travel Bursary ~ artistic collaborations in the West Bank May 2016
I need to start at the beginning…
Embarking on a trans-Atlantic collaboration. Research and development trip supported by a bursary from a-n The Artist Information Company.
This is a blog to process my journey making a new work and fostering new connections within the field of experimental performance.