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Editorial and letters 4 Making a difference 26 Artist’s story 5 Catherine Wilson profiles inIVA’s achievements over the last decade. It’s raining again: Tim Machin Curating now 30 Reviews 6 Gordon Dalton reports on the Curating Now symposium at the Irish Museum of Modern Art hoping to resolve the future of museum curating. What’s on 10 Whose island 34 Subscribe or renew 19 Musician, artist, and craftsman, Brian Dewan is a latter day American News 20 renaissance man. Read this excerpt from his recent performance in the exhibition ‘Romantic Detachments’. Networking artists’ networks 24 Opportunities 36 Unique advertising and listings New on www.a-n.co.uk for UK and beyond Fees & payments Art vacancies 51 A practical guide from Rod McIntosh on negotiating a better rate of pay, Employment opportunities adds to the body of material building up around this new web topic. Directory 52 Engaged Practice Listing of specialised services Jane Watt speaks to Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie about the Bata-ville a-n News 58 project and working with Commissions East. Updates and announcements on a-n Academic research people, partners and projects Paul Glinkowski talks to artist-curator Mark Beasley as he embarks on a Stanley Picker Fellowship at the University of Kingston. And to David Falkner, Director of the Stanley Picker Gallery, about how Beasley’s project will fit in with the research culture of the university. Jobs & Opportunities Updated weekly on www.a-n.co.uk Organisations International contacts in Belgium and The Netherlands.

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4 Editorial & letters a-n Magazine January 2005 Above: Top right: Above: Tim Machin, What You may Not Know, ink on Tim Machin, Untitled (Lone Stag in a Tim Machin, Situation at Noon Today, cut paper (a leaflet from Barclay’s Bank, the text Landscape), cut paper Blu-Tak (a stag cropped newsprint (the daily weather forecast from the excised using a pen from Barclay’s Bank), from a tourist leaflet, a whole packet of Blu-Tak), paper, all the clouds cut out), 7x5cm, 2001. 20x20cm, 2003. 15x8x5cm, 2004. It’s raining again Artist’s story: Tim Machin

It was raining. Real rain; I could feel the with my parents, and my drawings, still It’s not been as easy as the advert entire packet of Blu-Tack), a glossy ink washing off the drawings I carried a bit soggy, sitting on a shelf. My draw- promised – living a bit out of the loop, photo of a glacier turns out to be a in a bundle under my arm. All my stuff ings: a weather map torn from a news- struggling to make ends meet, but I’ve sort of bank heist – a free leaflet was crammed into plastic bags as I paper with the clouds cut out, the got by. And got on – successful group about debit cards, its text obliterated trudged through the London puddles – marks made by coloured pencils on the shows in London, inclusion in the Con- with the pen-on-a-chain done whilst leaving my flat in a rush (after a falling packet they came in, a tube map with temporary Art Society’s Artfutures, and waiting to see the manager – the out with my landlord), finishing my MA, new rail lines biroed in. work in another Mostyn Open. bank unwittingly providing space and and getting out of the city. Climbing At a loose end, I applied for the Now it’s raining again. I’ve just put materials to deconstruct their adver- aboard a train, heading north, no idea Arts Council England, South East set- up the work of the past months. tising. It looks like this is the way for- what to do next. ting up scheme. Money, business sup- Called ‘Pooleyville’ after the back-of- ward – to make work in the spaces I This was 2001. I’d had some success port, a ‘materials’ (read laptop) envelope sketches for Milton Keynes can, for nothing. 2005 sees a solo – getting into the Jerwood Drawing budget, a free studio and the next by architect FW Pooley. It’s a collec- exhibition in Northampton and, Prize, Pizza Express Prospects Drawing thing I know, I’m moving to Milton tion of old masters for the new city, weather permitting, the transfer of my Prize, and Mostyn Open and showing Keynes with eighteen months to get quirky sketches of life here – a stag guerrilla tactics back to London. (and selling) my work with Discerning my head around life, make some work steps out high on a rocky crag (the Tim Machin is an artist based in Milton Eye. But now I was skint, back living and make a name. stag from a tourist guide, the crag an Keynes. Reviews Providing a critical response to a diverse selection of artists’ activity across the UK. Chosen from press release material you send us, and links with artists’ networks, a-n commissions writers to sample and report back on what they thought. To find out more see ‘Join in’ on www.a-n.co.uk

RBS BURSARY 2004 outer reaches of the cosmos, but with suggestions of holes and hair, and RBS Gallery, London titles like Space Pussy, one sensed 21 October – 3 December that she wanted the body, the stars and the rain to mix in a metaphorical The annual bursary exhibition of the blend. Nevertheless, to some extent Royal British Society of Sculptors the show’s mood of ageing and ought to be a fair litmus test for a weathering continued. Mhairi Vari’s new sensibility. Each year they gift assemblage of old tool-cupboard ten young artists working in Britain junk, Shed, was lent a mood of lively with the benefit of a year of free animation by being overrun with tiny membership, then haul them back discs of Plasticene: the floral design twelve months later to see what of the collapsed recliner on which the they’ve done. Usually fresh from an disused objects lay seemed to seep MA programme, and some with dis- over them like a fantastical mould. In tant foreign origins, the artists are one of the most intriguingly, confi- surely likely to produce a messy diver- dently unresolved installations, sity, so it is extraordinary that such Invention of an Egg Timer, Jenny openness should have resulted in Dunseath erected various shapes and such a happy union in the first of the constructions of plywood and hard- society’s two gallery spaces in South wood in arrangements that made Kensington. one think one moment of Brancusi’s Sidney Brouet strung up an old studio, the next of the playpen. In sash window on a hefty metal frame Alastair Mackie’s untitled – for 3 Station Road. Filling the lower one of the most outwardly attractive half with lead, and hanging pendu- in the show – the skulls of mice that lous weights from pulleys to keep it he had unearthed from owl’s regurgi- hoisted up, the sculpture felt like a tated pellets, were formed into a per- fragment of a silted, buried building. fect ball. And Claire Morgan’s Brigitte Jurack’s Lake No.1 – Dead installation Come Fly With Me Sea was a similarly dark, but more offered a painstaking arrangement diagrammatic, rendering of the con- of hanging nylon threads which tours of the invisible depths of the brought together the attached dan- inland sea; standing up on a tripod delion seeds into a buoyant arrow support, one’s eyes could only glance shape. This, incidentally, won over the lake’s surface, but the shape approval on the opening night, and of the depths were graphically clear. was given the £500 Roy Noakes Japanese twins Akiko and Masako Award. Takada added to the fluvial mood These artists seemed remarkably with Sugarscape, a kind of geological unmoved by a contemporary British landscape rendered in transparent art scene that is dominated by neo- bottles filled with various colours of Pop accents, by preoccupations with sugar. And when I brushed against design, romantic fantasy and concep- Tine Bech’s suspended black Rain tual art. Far from striving to be mod- Balloons, made them skitter across ern, most dwelt on the poetics of age. the floor and unleash the sound of And given that the market is always pattering rain from the ingenious trying to turn up new moods with electronics inside, the whole room’s which to package young artists for vision of wet, subterranean darkness sale, that steady resolve was reassur- was brilliantly complete. ing. Unity doesn’t make a sensibility Morgan Falconer however, and looking closer, the incli- nations of the contributors revealed themselves to be quite different. The variety of directions in the second, larger gallery made this clear. It was Top: Bottom: most evident in faintly abstract draw- Mhairi Vari, Claire Morgan, Come ings that Tine Bech included to Shed, Plasticene, fly with me, steel, found objects, nylon, dandelion seeds, accompany the Rain Balloons: at first 215x125x60cm, 2004. lead, variable glance they may have resembled the dimensions, 2004.

6 Reviews a-n Magazine January 2005 Above and below: Barbara Ryan, Hotel Europa – Candyland Suite, installation view (detail), 2004.

BARBARA RYAN: appropriated from faded empires – a coat of arms, a crown, an eagle, an old HOTEL EUROPA – (Soviet) flag, football bunting. Sugges- CANDYLAND SUITE tive phrases appear on the walls and floor – ‘Mattoid’ and ‘Biasa’ are Brighton merged into the painted surface in Until 28 February (by appointment) modern vinyl lettering while ‘Chabro’l’, ‘Sucre V’ and ‘Nemours’ are painted in Candyland Suite in Hotel Europa is a italic script. room in Barbara Ryan’s house in Although physically restricted, the Brighton, and yet, it’s like another viewer is encouraged to open thought world. The space is homely and processes. Ryan has likened the instal- strange, simultaneously familiar and lation to “an ongoing mathematical foreign. The visitor enters the room equation”. In this way, the room paral- blindfolded, is seated, then left alone lels thought processes, combining the to remove the blindfold and explore varied elements in a perfect balance the space whilst remaining seated. The for a moment. Although the elements room is small and sparse – painted sur- appear random, they have been care- faces, words, images, some objects, an fully selected and arranged to achieve exotic smell. However, it is a very pleas- this balance. The room becomes a vir- ant space, and one is tempted to stay tual synaesthesia of smells, images, in this candy-coloured environment. out-of-reach textures and suggested Wallpaper-type patterns are painted sounds constructed out of a wide onto the walls – from 1950s shapes to vocabulary of colours and images from classic fleur-de-lys. Stripes lead the eye European history. around the space. Initially it seems like When ready to leave the room, the a dream, in which fragments of images visitor rings a small bell on the table, and words reappear in various forms and with the blindfold replaced, the and sequences. guide leads the visitor from the room. Perhaps Hotel Europa is some- Outside, it all seems like another world, where in Central Europe, one of those where centuries and geographical grand imposing nineteenth century spaces freely intersect and overlap. The piles where mysterious and glamorous space of the artist’s mind is a great visitors take up residence. Candyland place to get away from it all. Suite contains elements of a land Deborah Schultz is a lecturer. first century landscape”. Other exhibitors include some estimable names – Michael Porter’s photographed/painted studies, and Sian Bonnell’s wonderful photographs of Stonehenge as bread soldiers and the Dorset Coast as peas and mash, for example – as well as artists who will be new to most viewers. Another factor uniting them is that they are all associated with HE institutions, either as lecturers or doctoral candidates. For good or ill, LAN2D is deeply immersed in the culture of academic research. Nevertheless, no career-curator has hi-jacked artists here to represent a contrived thesis about ‘the new landscape ’, and the works in the exhibition are left to speak for themselves. But what makes a good discussion group does not necessarily make a compelling exhibition. LAN2D: BEYOND practices concerned with ‘landscape’, commensurately diverse, much of it Inevitably perhaps, the exhibition and what this word means in the wake teetering on the verge of moving into overall is no better or worse than the LANDSCAPE of The Boyle Family, Ian Hamilton Fin- a three-dimensional, performative mixture of good and indifferent lay, and psycho-geography. The group mode. things that characterises, say, a Crossley Gallery, has a Janus-like identity. It operates Part of this exhibition is devoted to studio group show. Dean Clough, Halifax against the digital grain in striving to artist’s books, including the exquisitely David Briers is a writer and curator based 6 November – 9 January address a perceived underestimation devised collaborative publications of in Yorkshire. of such ‘traditional’ two-dimensional Iain Biggs’ Wild Conversations Press. LAN2D is not primarily an exhibiting practices as painting, photography The text appended to this part of the Left: Above: group. It is a discussion network and printmaking. But at the same exhibition is right to assert that “the Emma Stibbon, Berlin Lily Markiewicz, engaged in various ways with the the- time, LAN2D is not opposed to hybrid contemporary artist’s book... is particu- East 11, woodcut. Chasing after the ghost of its own grace, inkjet, oretical framing and evaluation of art or ‘new’ media. The members’ work is larly suited to engaging with twenty- 110x170cm, 2004.

8 Reviews a-n Magazine January 2005 THE END IS THE new Bull Ring in Digbeth, the central ALAN BIRCH: FEARLESS tion. In Moby Dick, Birch draws upon area popularly regarded as the Melville’s epic novel and presents Cap- BEGINNING IS THE END upcoming arts quarter of the new The Touchstones, Rochdale tain Ahab’s leviathan as a huge laser- Birmingham. It is the invention of 23 October – 5 December cut stencil in steel. The whale contains Colony, Birmingham Mona Casey and Paul McAree, local rebus icons representing a range of 6-28 November MA graduates, who curated the show Earlier this year, the Government issued fears: criminal gangs, asteroid impact, and also appear in it. The gallery a booklet to each and every household Christian fundamentalism, nuclear When commercialism and limited hopes to open officially in the spring, in the UK, Preparing for Emergencies. energy, BSE, MRSA, et al. Ahab’s possibilities characterise the art here or elsewhere in the city, and this The design of the booklet, drawing leviathan becomes our enslaver too. establishment, it is hardly surprising exhibition could be regarded as an upon the iconographic and social power Fear of a different order sees Birch to find young artists, once again, attempt to impress. of information graphics, inscribed in the rail at the war in Iraq in an ambitious making art about art and about the Dave Rowland’s video work in public consciousness the potential series of etchings, after Goya, which art world. Meiying Collins’ contribu- which he appears as a human foun- threat of a terrorist attack as a clear and includes an appropriation of the now tion to this group exhibition is a tain continues a dialogue with past present danger. It is into this arena that notorious image of the mock execution ‘doll’s house’ white-cube gallery con- art that was initiated by Bruce Nau- artist Alan Birch steps. Birch extends the of an Iraqi prisoner at Abu Ghraib structed inside a cardboard box and man. Casey and McAree’s painting parameters of the debate to include a prison. The image appears again, more showing the drawings of untrained, AAAggghhhh comments on Mod- multitude of real and imagined threats, contentiously, in a digital photograph, unknown Liam Patrick John Collins. ernist theories of painting as self- the fear of which is sustained by govern- as a scenario played out by a child’s White Polygon Gallery, with its expression whilst Goldsmith’s ment agency, tabloid headlines, urban action figures. Elsewhere, Birch’s takes miniature video screen, could be graduate Ellie Harrison exhibits pen- myth, and moral panic. a broad-brush approach to contempo- mailed anywhere for a few pounds dulum clocks whose weights have In Safety Instructions for the Mod- rary ills: celebrity culture, football, the and when online, as it has been, it been replaced by fruit and bread – as ern World, Birch lampoons a genre – BSE crisis. It becomes clear that Birch’s might be a gallery in Hoxton or Soho. the food decays the clocks lose time. already on the verge of self-parody – in target is not simply the climate of fear, The questions this democratic piece In keeping with all the work in the a series of images warning of the dan- but our loss of faith, in politicians, in raise go to the heart of this exhibi- show, this piece reflects on the nature gers of unattended luggage, street rob- scientists, in our sporting heroes, tion and indeed of the gallery enter- of art but in a way that is witty but bery and Rohypnol-spiked drinks. One indeed a loss of faith in the shared val- prise itself. not overly serious – which is where a telling image features a woman incar- ues that help a society achieve cohe- Colony is a modest, new space lot of this type of art can fall down. cerated in her own home, twitching at sion, free from fear. near to the Custard Factory and the John Cornall the curtains, a prisoner to her imagina- Brendan Fletcher is an artist and lecturer.

Above: Above: Rachel Collins, White Polygon Gallery, mixed Alan Birch, Safety Instructions for the materials, 2004. Photo: Paul McAree. Modern World (detail), 2004. To advertise in What’s on Contact the Communications What’s on and Sales team on +44 (0) 191 241 8000 A paid-for listing of exhibitions and events across the UK with F: +44 (0) 191 241 8001 previews interspersed throughout giving a taster of what’s on. [email protected] To find out more see ‘Join in’ on www.a-n.co.uk Deadline: 5 Jan for listings 10 Jan for display ads

Aberdeen project. Curated by Ian Skoyles and Pamina Stewart. Peacock Visual Arts 21 Castle Street, AB11 5BQ: Bradford 01224 639539. www.peacockvisualarts.co.uk Tues-Sat 9.30-5.30 Gallery II University of Bradford, Chesham 5 Feb - 12 Mar: ‘Stop, Look, Listen’, Building, Great Horton Road, BD7 1DP. emerging artists Tommy Perman, Ziggy 01274 235495. Campbell and Kev Sim present mixed- www.bradford.ac.uk/gallery media visual art and music exhibitions Mon-Wed 11-5; Thurs 11-6 and events. 14 Jan - 25 Feb: ‘Exploration of Watercolour’, Deborah Lawson, inspired by Accrington forms created by nature, constructed by people or purely by the properties of Haworth Art Gallery watercolour on paper. Haworth Park, Manchester Road, BB5 2JS: 01254 233782. www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk Brighton Wed-Fri 2-5; Sat & Sun 12-4.30 5 Jan - 6 Feb: ‘Big Shimmer Thrust’, Lisa Susan Walsh, 83 Drawer. IO Gallery Ashcroft. Until 9 Jan: Old Favourites from Brighton Designers and Makers, the Permanent Collection. 15 Jan - 13 Feb: 39 Sydney Street, BN1 4EP. ‘Alphabet’, Peter Blake with free guided 01273 671212 tours and art activities. www.lumicube.com/iogallery Distance No Object Mon-Sat 10-6; Sun 11-5 Contact gallery for details Alnwick The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle Until 23 January Phoenix Gallery Shire Pottery Gallery and Studios 10-14 Waterloo Place, BN2 9NB: Millers’ Yard, Prudhoe Street, NE66 1UW. Bringing together four artists working with paint, furniture and sound, 01273 603700. www.phoenixarts.org 01665 602277. Tues-Sat 11-5 www.porcelain-shirepottery.co.uk ‘Distance No Object’ reflects on the human desire to collect and display Mon-Sat 10-5.30 beautiful objects. Lubaina Himid exhibits and drawings of arks, 22 Jan - 5 Mar: ‘The Happy Accident’, Until 31 Jan: ‘Dreamscapes’, Elizabeth each littered with optical illusions and hidden meanings – the arks are painting and drawing installation by Jeb Haward, mixed-media work by Kally Talbot, hauntingly beautiful paintings in employed as metaphors for both a safe haven and a no-go danger zone. oils of dreamt, remembered, imagined Laurence, beaded by Nicola Susan Walsh has collected, altered and re-assembled old furniture to cre- landscapes. With paintings by Jenny Holm Mann and ephemeral drawings and and studio porcelain by Ivar Mackay. ate her work for the show. This new unit of furniture acts as a decon- sculpture by Kate Walters. structed self-portrait. Also on show are Mark Parkinson’s floor paintings Barnard Castle and Patricia Walsh’s sound piece, Vantage Point. Stephen Palmer Bristol For more information see listing on this page or visit www.bowesmuseum.org.uk Bowes Museum here DL12 8NP. 01833 690606 108 Stokes Croft, BS1 3RU. www.bowesmuseum.org.uk 0117 942 2222. Daily 11-5 Bath thousands of cars and people to a faint www.thingsfromhere.co.uk Until 23 Jan: ‘Distance No Object’, blur. Tues-Sun 12.30-6.30 or by appointment Lubaina Himid, Susan Walsh, Mark 7 Jan - 18 Feb: ‘Stitch or Swallow - Hotbath Gallery Parkinson, Patricia Walsh, paintings, City of Bath College, Hotbath Birmingham naughty needles/sinister stitches’. Eight photographs, installations and sound. Street/Beau Street, BA1 1UP. 01225 female artists give traditional needlecraft 328673. www.hotbathgallery.co.uk a biting contemporary edge with their RBSA Gallery Barnsley Mon-Fri 9-4.45; Sat 10-4 4 Brook Street, St Paul’s, B3 1SA. subversive subject matter. Includes Jenny 6-26 Jan: ‘Pause... capturing the sublime’, 0121 236 4353. www.rbsa.org.uk Hart, Allyson Mitchell and Whitney Lee. exhibition which aims to stimulate debate Cooper Gallery Mon-Wed, Fri 10.30-5.30; Church Street, S70 2AH. 01226 242905 about contemporary interpretations of the Thurs 10.30-7; Sat 10.30-5 Bury St Edmunds Mon-Fri 10.30-4; Sat 10-3 sublime by showing works which evoke a 4-29 Jan: ‘stART’, all work under £200. sublime response in the viewer. Contact gallery for details Free demonstrations throughout. 4-28 Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery Feb: ‘Freeze’, studio ceramics, glass and The Market Cross, Cornhill, IP33 1BT. Basingstoke Bedford jewellery featuring Ashi Marwaha’s ice 01284 762081. topaz range and glass by Bill and Jackie www.burystedmundsartgallery.org BCA Gallery McNeill. Mon-Sat 10-5 Fairfields Arts Centre 18 Jan - 26 Feb: ‘Self’, jewellery, Council Road, RG21 3DH. 01256 33 Castle Lane, MK40 3XD. 01234 321621 www.fairfields.org 273580. www.bedfordcreativearts.com The Window photography and installation with Barby Mon-Wed 9.30-5.30; Thurs 9.30-3.30; Tues-Sat 11-5 Arcade, off the High Street, City Centre Asante, Jivan Astfalck, Ari Athans, Fri by appointment; Sat 10-1 8 Jan - 19 Feb: ‘Rush Hour’, Martin B1. 0121 643 6040. Roseanne Bartley, Dinie Besems, Clement 15 Jan - 12 Feb: Brenda Perkins, Newth, extraordinary series of images [email protected] Cooper, Martin Figura, Patricio Forrester, retrospective exhibition of landscape taken with hour-long exposure times Daily 9-6 Karl Fritsch, Ken Ohara, Gerd Rothmann, paintings. reducing the relentless movement of ’The Window’ is a Birmingham Artists Joyce Scott, Lorna Simpson and Pamela So.

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Buxton Museum and Art Gallery Oriel Myrddin Gallery Terrace Road, SK17 6DA. 01298 24658. Church Lane, SA31 1LH. 01267 222775 www.thegreencube.co.uk/kinderdream.html Mon-Sat 10-5; closed BH Tues-Fri 9.30-5.30; Sat 9.30-5 8 Jan - 19 Feb: Robert Jackson, Sarah Lees, Osi Rhys Osmond and David Tress 15 Jan - 11 Mar: ‘Footsteps on Kinder’, reveal differing responses to the materials Paul Goodrick, mixed-media interpretation and methods of drawing. of Kinder Scout in the Peak District, its strange beauty and attraction to walkers. Artist’s talk Sat 15 Jan, 2pm. Colchester

Firstsite Cambridge at the Minories Art Gallery, 74 High Street, CO1 1UE. 01206 577067. Kettle’s Yard www.firstsite.uk.net Castle Street, CB3 0AQ. 01223 352124. Mon-Sat 10-5 incl BH, excl Christmas & www.kettlesyard.co.uk New Year Tues-Sun 11.30-5 Until 26 Feb: ‘Interior View’, the only UK venue for this international exhibition of Contact gallery for details Shelley Fox, Foundation, installation paintings, drawings, sculptures, accompanied by audio work by the artist installations and photographs influenced Taxi Gallery Scanner. Photo: Keith Paisley by architecture. Eleven artists reflect the 38 Stanesfield Road, CB5 8NH. social and cultural significance of 01223 576017. www.taxigallery.org.uk architecture. Opening times vary Belsay Coat: Shelley Fox Contact gallery for details Hay Gallery Queen’s Hall Arts Centre, Hexham School of Art & Design, Sheepen Road, Cardiff CO3 3LL. 01206 518141 15 January – 26 February Mon-Fri 10-4 17 Jan - 3 Feb: ‘Drawing: Investigation, Chapter Following on from last year’s successful ‘Fashion At Belsay’ exhibition at Bel- Imagination, Process’, works by Joanna Market Road, Canton, CF5 1QE. say Hall and Gardens in Northumbria, this Creative Partnerships Durham Chapman, Ian Hay, Maria Meadows. 029 2031 1050 www.chapter.org Sunderland project has teamed designer Shelley Fox with a group of young Tues-Sun 11-8; Mon 11-5 people from Washington Comprehensive to create a new pattern for a ‘Belsay Compton Verney Until 23 Jan: ‘Romantic Detachment’, 40 artists explore the collisions and Coat’. Fox’s installation at Belsay was an ‘upstairs downstairs’ take on stately intersections between the ideals of home life featuring padded walls created from garments and laundry. For Compton Verney House Trust Creative Partnerships, GCSE students have spent time drawing at Belsay Hall CV35 9HZ. 01926 645500. European Romanticism and an www.comptonverney.org.uk alternative grass-roots Romanticism. and have worked with pattern cutters at Northumbria University, Newcastle, Nov-Feb: Open to pre-booked groups only. Includes Olaf Breuning, juneau/projects, on the fabrication of the finished garments. These garments, designed by Fox Permanent collections: Naples 1600-1800, Cathy Ward & Eric Wright and William and personalised by the students, will be exhibited along with documenta- German 1450-1650, British Portraits, Pope L. tion of the project and a film that Fox originally exhibited at SHOWstudio. SP Chinese Bronzes and Artifacts, British Folk Art and The Marx-Lambert Collection of For more information visit www.queenshall.co.uk Popular Art. 2005 exhibition programme Howard Gardens Gallery launches in March. School of Art & Design, Howard Gardens Campus, Howard Gardens, CF24 0SP. 029 2041 6600 Coventry Mon-Thurs 9-8; Fri-Sat 9-5 21 Jan - 17 Feb: Heather Parnell, Mick Herbert Art Gallery & Museum Petts, Nigel Talbot, artists in residence and Jordan Well, CV1 5QP. 024 7683 2386. in transit. 12 Feb: exhibition conference, www.coventrymuseum.org.uk Mon-Sat 10-5.30; Sun 12-5 write for details. Until 16 Jan: ‘Taken Root’, Lesley Whelan, large-scale multi-media paintings drawing Carlisle inspiration from the natural environment, plant folklore and the cultural significance Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery of plant life. 15 Jan - 13 Mar: ‘Save or Castle Street, CA3 8TP. 01228 534781. Delete’, commissioned by Greenpeace. www.tulliehouse.co.uk Mon-Sat 10-5; Sun 12-5 The Library Gallery 15 Jan - 27 Feb: ‘Bad Behaviour’, charting University of Warwick, CV4 7AL Thurs-Tues 1-7 a subversive streak in contemporary art, 8-21 Jan: ‘Fucundity’, Alfreda McHale, two presenting sculpture, installation, installations which examine and unpick photography and video from the 1980s to received notions of the ‘domestic’, the present day. Including work by combining the found object with visual Grayson Perry and Jeremy Deller. imagery.

Rush Hour BCA Gallery Martin Newth 8 January - 19 February 2005 Free Admission Open 11am - 5pm BCA Gallery, 33 Castle Lane, Bedford MK40 3XD. 01234 273580 Tuesday - Saturday www.bedfordcreativearts.org [email protected] Wheelchair access available Darlington ‘ShowCASe: Contemporary Art for the UK’, over 150 works of contemporary fine art Myles Meehan Gallery and craft. Darlington Arts Centre, Vane Terrace, DL3 7AX. 01325 348843. www.darlington-arts.co.uk 45 Market Street, EH1 1DF. Mon-Sat 10-8; closed Sun 0131 225 2383. www.fruitmarket.co.uk Until 28 Jan: ‘Commerce, Ecology: Conflict Mon-Sat 11-6; Sun 12-5 or Compromise?’, Dave Morris, sculptures Until 13 Feb: ‘Orbus’, Ellen Gallagher, and drawings provoking thought about the power of the multi-national major solo exhibition of new and existing corporations and their effect on the work by this American artist featuring vast natural environment. paintings, five 16mm film projections and a series of scalpel-cut drawings. Derby Ely Q Gallery 35/36 Queen Street, DE1 3DS. Babylon Gallery 01332 295858 www.q-arts.co.uk Babylon Bridge, Waterside, CB7 4AU. Wed-Fri 12-4; Sat 10-4 01353 616993. 15 Jan - 26 Feb: ‘Truth and Beauty’, www.babylongallery.co.uk exciting, surprising work by contemporary Tues-Sat 10-4; Sun & BH 11-5; artists and state-of-the-art images from closed Mon the 2002 Biomedical Image Awards. A Above: Below: 8 Jan - 13 Feb: ‘Translation 2’, Jo Berry, collection from The Wellcome Trust Kate Pemberton, Loren Bevan, evocative and inspirational ‘light box reflecting the symbiotic relationship Floppy Disk. Storytelling. between truth and beauty. drawings’ applying industrial laser technology and commercial computer Dumfries Artsparkle software. Exeter Various venues, 28 Edinburgh Road, DG1 1JQ: Until 9 January 01387 262084. Devon Guild of Craftsmen www.artandcraftsouthwestscotland.com This is the first project from Leeds-based Vitrine, created by Pippa Hale Riverside Mill, Fore Street, Bovey Tracey, Tues-Sat 10-5 and Kerry Harker. The collaboration with Artsparkle places artists multi- TQ13 9AF. 01626 832223. 8 Jan - 5 Feb: ‘Teamworks’, photographers ples in a variety of retail windows and glass advertising spaces around the www.crafts.org.uk exploring various themes and projects. city centre – the spaces are all branded with the Vitrine logo for easy iden- Daily 10-5.30 ‘Fur and Feathers’, work from the Until 2 Jan: ‘Wish List’, everything you Permanent Collection including wildlife tification. Artists exhibiting in the project include Farhad Ahrania, Lisa ever wished for Christmas and more. art from Elizabeth Blackadder, Joan Cheung, Kate Pemberton, Dave Ronalds and Deborah Willmington and Makers, artists and designers from around Eardley, John Maxwell and S J Peploe. the accompanying catalogue includes an essay by novelist Jake Arnott. All the country who produce fresh, multiples are for sale either via mail order or online. Catalogues can be imaginative items. picked up at participating venues and at other cultural hotspots around Leeds and other city centres. SP Exeter Phoenix Cooper Gallery For more information visit www.vitrine.org.uk Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, EX4 3LS. Design, University of Dundee, 13 Perth 01392 667080 Road, DD1 4HT. 01382 345330. Mon-Sat 10-5 www.exhibitions.dundee.ac.uk 8-19 Jan: ‘Divine Horsemen, the Voodoo Mon-Fri 9.30-5.30; Sat 9.30-4.30 Gods of Haiti’, Jonnie Jonklaas, two- 21 Jan - 26 Feb: ‘Jerusalem Syndrome’, screened installation. 25 Jan - 19 Feb: ‘A Nathan Coley, an ongoing enquiry into New Canvas’, Animated Exeter. ‘Dreams place, identity and belief. For this and Films’, Georges Schwizgebel. ‘Towards exhibition Nathan Coley travelled to Israel Animation’, Gunnlaug Moen Hembery. to eplore the phenomenon of ‘Jerusalem Syndrome’. Spacex Gallery 45 Preston Street, EX1 1DF. Edinburgh 01392 431786. www.spacex.co.uk Tues-Sat 10-5 Until 19 Feb: ‘Computing 101B’, artist-duo 2 Market Street, EH1 1DE. 0131 529 3993. www.cac.org.uk JODI are inspired by the very things we Mon-Sat 10-5 hate about computers. Includes the Until 8 Jan: ‘Pleasurelands: 200 Years of masterpiece of computer art Fun at the Fair’. Johann Georg von Dillis. ‘My%Desktop’ and new work ‘Max Payne ‘Art Textiles 3’. 22 Jan - 12 Mar: Cheat’s Only Gallery’.

12 What’s on a-n Magazine January 2005 The Devon Guild of Craftsmen £1 million redevelopment now complete CRITICAL DEBATES: BEYOND IDENTITY - NEW DIRECTIONS IN VISUAL CULTURE V&A, Seminar Room 1, Sundays, 15.00 - 16.30

16 January 2005 – Rachel Garfield, film, video and photographic artist and writer, and Amelia Jones, Professor of the History of Art, University of Manchester 30 January 2005 – Joy Gregory, photographer and installation artist, and Mark Haworth Booth, Visiting Professor of Photography, University of the Arts London, and formerly Curator of Photographs, V&A 13 February 2005 – Sonia Boyce, painter, photographic, mixed media and installation artist, and Marcus Verhagen, art historian and lecturer 27 February 2005 – Lubaina Himid, painter and installation artist, and Deborah Cherry, Professor of the History of Art, Central St Martins College of Art and G New Jubilee Gallery Design G The Terrace café with rooftop seating G Extended Craft Shop 13 March 2005 – Zineb Sedira, photographer, video and installation artist, and Lift and ramped access now available Jane Harris multi-media artist and Senior Research Fellow, Central St Martins G College of Art and Design The largest contemporary crafts gallery in the South West 10 April 2005 – Faisal Abdu’ Allah, photographer, video and installation artist, David Adjaye, architect, and Helena Ben-Zenou, painter, photographic, video and installation artist, and curator Get Fresh2 15 January – 27 February Celebrating the commitment and diversity 24 April 2005 – Susan Stockwell, sculptor, draughtsman and installation artist, and Dr. Alicia Foster, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, Surrey Institute of Art and of emerging craftspeople, designers and artists from the South West Design working across a wide range of craft disciplines.

Series organised by Rosie Miles, Curator, Word & Image, V&A with the advice The Devon Guild Of Craftsmen, and assistance of Pauline de Souza, Director of AAVAA, African and Asian Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey, Devon Visual Artists Archive, University of East London Open 7 days 10am to 5.30pm Tickets from Grand Entrance Booking Office, V&A, or ring V&A Bookings Office Free Admission 020 7942 2211 Full price: £8.50, Students: £5.50. For further information visit www.vam.ac.uk 01626 832223 www.crafts.org.uk

Previews focus

Each month previews focus on a different region of the UK Coming up over the next few months: • February: East of England • March: Northern Ireland • April: North West England and North Wales

Take out a What’s on listing to increase your show’s chances of being previewed. Next deadline: 5 January for February issue. Contact the Communications and Sales team on 0191 241 8000. Farnham Until 29 Jan: ‘Street Level Open’, over 30 artists from across Scotland illustrating Surrey Institute of Art & Design the diverse approaches to photography Foyer Gallery/James Hockey Gallery, from the experimental, documentary and University College, Farnham Campus, the staged, covering wall-based work, Falkner Road, GU9 7DS. 01252 892668. installation and video. www.surrart.ac.uk/galleries Mon-Fri 10-5; Sat 10-4; closed Sun & BH Halifax Contact gallery for details Bankfield Museum Folkestone Boothtown Road, HX3 6HG. 01422 352334. Metropole Galleries www.calderdale.gov.uk The Leas, CT20 2LS. 01303 244706 Tues-Sat & BH 10-5; Sun 2-5 www.metropole.org.uk 8 Jan - 20 Feb: ‘Images of Women in Tues-Sun 10-5 Advertising’, the story of the portrayal of 8 Jan - 20 Feb: ‘History in the Making’, women in advertising since Victorian Victor Mount, a retrospective. ‘New times. Works’, Mark Wright. Curated by Peter Fillingham. Dean Clough Galleries Dean Clough, HX3 5AX. Frome 01422 250250. www.DeanClough.com Daily 10-5 Black Swan Arts 2 Bridge Street, BA11 1BB. Until 9 Jan: ‘Room 2.8’, De Montfort University MA Photography students. 01373 473980. www.blackswan.org.uk Noel Jabbour, The Maria Magdalene series. Mon-Sat 10-5 ‘Illustrations’, Chris Vine. ‘Lan2D - Beyond 8 Jan - 12 Feb: ‘Elemental Insight’, touring Landscape’, group exhibition. ‘Not Just for exhibition initiated by the Met Office Christmas’, jewellery, textiles, glass and featuring craftspeople and artists from the ceramics. ‘The Christmas Show’, seasonal South West of England who are concerned selection of work. with the natural environment, both in Noel Jabbour terms of process and ideas. Piece Hall Art Gallery fa projects, London The Piece Hall, HX1 1RE. 01422 Until 15 January 358300. www.calderdale.gov.uk The Gallery Gateshead Central Library, Prince Consort Tues-Sun & BH 10-5 Road, NE8 4LN. 0191 477 3478. Israeli photographer Jabbour presents a series of works taking the legend Until 9 Jan: ‘Christmas Crafts’, ceramics, textiles, jewellery and glass ware. 14 Jan - www.gateshead.gov.uk of Saint Maria Magdalene as inspiration. Over the last two years she has Mon-Fri 9-7; Wed 9-5; Sat 9-1; 13 Mar: ‘Living Letters’, the Calligraphy closed Sun photographed herself at key locations from the saint’s life including the and Lettering Arts Society. 14 Jan - 6 Feb: 7 Jan - 19 Feb: ‘Beyond the Angel’, lake at Galilee where it is said that Mary anointed Christ’s feet and Saint- ‘Moor View Art Exhibition’, prints, textiles photography exhibition by Damien Baume near Marseille where she lived in isolation after the crucifixion. By and photography by residents of Moor Wootten highlighting the social, economic mixing self-portraiture with spiritual narrative, Jabbour looks to explore View in Halifax. and environmental issues of life at her own Christian heritage whilst commenting on the status of independ- Ravensworth Grange Farm, directly across ent women in Middle Eastern Society. Mary’s position as both ‘saint’ and Hartlepool from the Angel of the North. ‘sinner’ is taken as a starting point to explore a number of complex issues including sexuality, boundaries and the forbidden. SP Hartlepool Art Gallery Glasgow Church Square, TS24 7EQ. For more information visit www.faprojects.com 01429 869706 www.artnucleus.org Collins Gallery Tues-Sat 10-5.30; Sun 2-5 University of Strathclyde, 22 Richmond 5 Jan - 27 Feb: ‘New Work’, Reinhild Street, G1 1XQ: 0141 548 2558. of Art prototypes of plans, proposals, diagrams Beuther, suspended light boxes. A www.collinsgallery.strath.ac.uk 167 Renfrew Street, G3 6RQ: and projections for future artworks. powerful and unique approach to Mon-Fri 10-5; Sat 12-4 0141 353 4500. www.gsa.ac.uk photography using layers of material to 8 Jan - 12 Feb: ‘Helen Keller International Mon-Fri 10-7; Sat 10-2 Street Level Photoworks form final images, in particular human Award’, contemporary art competition Until 14 Jan: ‘Beagles and Ramsay - 26 King Street, G1 5QP. 0141 552 faces and bodies. Her work shows close concerning deafblindness originated by Unrealised and Unrealisable Dreams’, new 2151. www.sl-photoworks.demon.co.uk relationships, couples, parents, Sense Scotland. drawings, related maquettes and Tues-Sat 10-5 relatives, friends.

14 What’s on a-n Magazine January 2005 Hertford those aspects of the environment which often pass unnoticed within the bigger Courtyard Gallery picture. Full details on website. Courtyard Arts Centre, Port Vale, SG14 3AA. 01992 509596. Leicester www.courtyardarts.org.uk Wed-Sun 10-4 Contact gallery for details City Gallery 90 Granby Street, LE1 1DJ. Hull 0116 254 0595 Tues-Fri 11-6; Sat 10-5 Contact gallery for details EICH Gallery University of Lincoln, George Street, HU1 3BW. 01482 311030. Leigh www.eichgallery.org Mon-Sat 10-4 Turnpike Gallery 22 Jan - 4 Mar: ‘Mere Illustration’, a Civic Square, WN7 1EB. 01942 404469. challenging exhibition of contemporary www.wlct.org illustration. Curator, Robert Mason. Mon, Thurs & Fri 9.30-5.30; Tues 10- 5.30; Wed 9.30-5; Sat 10-3 Huyton Until 15 Jan: ‘Land (2)’, images of a suburban landscape by photo-artist David Huyton Gallery Walker. Huyton Library, Civic Way, L36 9GD. 0151 443 5619. [email protected] Letchworth Garden City Mon-Fri 9.15-7; Sat 10-4; Sun 11-4 Until 6 Feb: ‘Local History’, Brenda The Place Roscoe, Jamie Williams and Margaret Letchworth Arts Centre, 18-20 Leys Cropper, Community Volunteer Services Avenue, SG6 3EW. 01462 670788. photographers documenting buildings www.placearts.org and the landscape of Huyton and Tues-Thurs 10-6; Fri-Sat 10-4 surrounding areas. Until 15 Jan: ‘Draward’, contemporary drawings by recent graduates Jools Kings Lynn Johnson, Giai Persico and Andrew Davies. 14-29 Jan: ‘The Place Open Exhibition’, Kings Lynn Arts Centre mixed-media show of Hertfordshire-based 27 King Street, PE30 1HA. artists. 01553 779095 Tues-Sat 11-4 5 Feb - 5 Mar: ‘Tales Told By An Idiot’, Lincoln prints by Susan Adams, Sean Harris and Chris Nurse (Red Barn gallery). Gallery on the Strait 27 The Strait, LN2 1JD. 01522 532101 Kingswinford Tues-Sat 10-4 Contemporary art gallery. Original Broadfield House Glass Museum paintings, sculpture, limited edition prints, Compton Drive, DY6 9NS. Eriko Yamamoto, The Tabernacle, collagraph. studio glass and ceramics. Artists include 01384 812745. Andrew White, Dr Harry Eccleston, Loszek www.glassmuseum.org.uk Dabrowski, George Relf, Kevin Wallhead, Tues-Sun 12-4 Susan Jackson, Michael Thacker, Allen Until 30 Jan 05: ‘Galle: A Centenary’, Smith, Tracy Scott and from Poland, art nouveau glass by Emile Galle who Recent Works from Northern Print Studio Bogdan Pikulicki. died in 1904. Red Box Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne Kirkby Usher Art Gallery Until 27 January Lindum Road, LN2 1NN. 01522 527980 It’s Northern Print Studio’s tenth anniversary and to open the celebra- Tues-Sat 10-5; Sun 1-5 Kirkby Gallery Until 9 Jan: ‘Stranger than Fiction’, Newtown Gardens, L32 8RR. tions, this exhibition features a broad selection of work created at the stu- 0151 443 5617. dio during the last decade. Included are new works by three Japanese photography, video and film. 15 Jan - 28 [email protected] printmakers Fusako Yoshikawa, Erico Yamamoto and Chikako Yahamoto. Mar: ‘Croque Mort’, spotlight on Douglas Mon & Fri 9.15-5; Tues & Thurs 9.15-7; Demonstrating very different approaches to printmaking – Yoshikawa Gordon, series of photographs of a baby Sat 10-4; Sun 11-4 biting her toes. uses traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques, Eriko Until 16 Jan: ‘Sleeper’, Richard Meaghan, Yamamoto her own contemporary interpretation of the traditional paintings of invented landscapes inspired Llandudno by photographs, films, books, music and method combined with painting and intaglio processes and Chikako other popular media. Yamamoto works with intaglio using imagery derived from her experience of living in Japan – the three artists from Nagoya Printworks were invited Oriel Mostyn Gallery 12 Vaughan Street, LL30 1AB. Lee Valley to work at Northern Print Studio as part of a residency programme in 01492 879201. www.mostyn.org August 2001. The show also includes wood engravings by Hilary Paynter Mon-Sat 10-5 and BH Gunpowder Park Lee Valley and screenprints by Norman Mathieson along with works by Theresa Eas- Until 8 Jan: ‘Zen Gardener’, Peter The Field Station, Sewardstone Road, ton, Chris Mouncey, Val Mouncey, Eunice Routledge, Michelle Wood,and Finnemore, touring exhibition supported Waltham Abbey, EN9 3GP: 01992 762128. www.gunpowderpark.org Donald Wilkinson. SP by the Arts Council of Wales accompanied Accessible 24 hours a day Exhibition by appointment only. For more information visit by a 48-page publication with essays by Nov-Jan: ‘Prospects I, II, III, IV’, Amanda www.redboxgallery.com Cynthia Greig, Patrick Lynch and the Hopkin’s site-specific work focusing on artist. London Until Feb: Hannah Campion, new paintings. Windows Bar is an unconventional exhibition space showing 198 Gallery 198 Railton Road, Herne Hill, SE24 0LU. these lively, colourful and luminous 020 7978 8309 www.198gallery.co.uk compositions inspired by the Red Sea and Mon-Fri 11-5 its underwater landscapes. Until 7 Jan: ‘Mass Hollow’, Zory. 21 Jan - 4 Mar: Mario Lewis, new video and Manchester installation work by Trinidadian artist exploring aspects of contemporary culture, Castlefield Gallery personal history, the nature of film and 2 Hewitt Street, Knott Mill, M15 4GB: ideas about representation. 0161 832 8034. www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk Bhavan Centre Wed-Sun 1-6; Thurs 1-8 4a Castletown Road, W14 9HE. Until 28 Jan: ‘Transfer’, Becky Shaw. Shaw 020 7381 3086. [email protected] attempts to move the entire art collection Daily 2-6 of the Manchester Royal Infirmary 22-30 Jan: ‘Mali’s Shortlisted Artists’, hospital to Castlefield Gallery. exhibition of contemporary art work. Chinese Arts Centre Cafe Gallery Projects Pia Jönsson, Trådar (Threads). Market Buildings, Thomas Street, M4 The Gallery By the Lake, Southwark Park, 1EU. 0161 832 7271. Bermondsey, SE16 2UA. 020 7237 www.chinese-arts-centre.org 1230. www.cafegalleryprojects.org Mon-Sat 10-6; Sun 11-5 Sat & Sun 12-4 Contact gallery for details 29-30 Jan: ‘REAP’, Anne Bean, Mark Sequences Anderson and Gail Dickerson, Mold installations, actions and rituals exploring Peterborough Digital Arts, Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery, the notion of marking and capturing time; Peterborough Oriel Gallery time as memory, process, moments, Until 23 January Clwyd Theatr Cymru, CH7 1YA: 01352 metamorphoses and metaphors. 756331. www.clwyd-theatr-cymru.co.uk Etienne Jules Marey’s historic chronophotographic sequences are the Mon-Sat 10-10 Diorama Gallery inspiration behind this exhibition curated by Paul St George, featuring Until 15 Jan: ‘A Retrospective of the Work 34 Osnaburgh Street, NW1 3ND. of Geoff Yeomans’, complex still lifes, life 020 7916 5467 works by contemporary artists who use digital and traditional photo- studies and the sides of rusting ships. 22 www.diorama-arts.org.uk graphic media to explore ideas of space, time, movement and duration. Jan - 5 Mar: ‘fforma’, group of 26 artists Mon-Sat 11-6 2004 was the centenary of Marey’s death so it’s fitting that this show from the Aberystwyth area. 31 Jan - 12 Feb: ‘I Paint Therefore I Am’, should reflect on his experimental photographs – he pioneered tech- dyslexic artist Mike Juggins shows a niques for capturing movement through sequences of still images. Newark collection of vibrant new oil paintings. Included in the exhibition are works by Darren Almond, Pia Jönsson and Simon Lewandowski. The show will tour throughout 2005 to venues in Rufford Craft Centre Jersey Galleries at Osterley Rufford Country Park, Nr Ollerton, NG22 Osterley House, Osterley Park, Isleworth, Leamington Spa, London, Poole and Derby. SP 9DF. 01623 821315. TW7 4RB: 020 8232 5052. For more information visit www.pdarts.org.uk www.ruffordcraftcentre.org.uk www.nationaltrust.org.uk Daily 10.30-5 Sat & Sun 1-4.30 during Mar; Wed-Sun & Contact gallery for details BH Mon 1-4.30 Apr-Nov Contact gallery for details stunning exhibition of hidden treasures, The Coningsby Gallery the finest of contemporary craft by top 30 Tottenham Street, W1T 4RJ, 020 Newbury 7636 1064. www.coningsbygallery.com Kingsgate Workshops Gallery new designers and established makers, 110 - 116 Kingsgate Road, NW6 2JG. award winners and prize winners. See Mon-Fri 10-5 New Greenham Arts 17-29 Jan: ‘Landscape Rhythms & 113 Lindenmuth Road, New Greenham 020 7328 7878. www.societyofdesignercraftsmen.org.uk Textures’, mixed media paintings by Mike Park, RG19 6HN. 01635 817480 www.kingsgateworkshops.org.uk for more details. Bell. Preview 18 Jan, 6.30-9.30. www.newgreenhamarts.com Sat-Sun 12-6 or by appointment Mon-Sat 10-5 8-23 Jan: ‘Rien a Declarer’, installation of Oxo Tower Wharf 10-27 Jan: ‘Animated Spaces’, mixed suitcases recently exhibited in France, The Drawing Gallery Bargehouse Street, South Bank, SE1 9PH. media group show by BA student artists curated by Stephen Williams. 5-27 Feb: 37 Duke Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6DF. 020 7401 3610. www.oxotower.co.uk from Reading University, showing themes ‘MA Student Shows from Byam Shaw’. 020 7839 4539. of experimentation and play. Daily 11-6 www.thedrawinggallery.com 20 Jan - 6 Feb: ‘Face to Face’, Mon-Fri 10.30-5.30; Sat by appointment Mall Galleries armed with a camera young people 4-29 Jan: Rebecca Fortnum, exhibition of The Corn Exchange Federation of British Artists, 17 Carlton Market Place, RG14 5BD. 01635 House Terrace, SW1Y 5BD. involved in Red Cross youth projects from recent drawings. 522733 www.cornexchangenew.com 020 7930 6844. around the UK document their Mon-Sat 10-5 www.mallgalleries.org.uk surroundings and the things and people The Jerwood Space Until 31 Dec: ‘The Balancing Act’, Shirley Mon-Sun 10-5 important to them. 171 Union Street, SE1 0LN. 020 7654 Eccles, glass and mixed media. 14-20 Jan: ‘The MA Communication 0171. www.portfoliocatalogue.com Daily 10-6 Design Postgraduate Exhibition’, from Newcastle-under-Lyme Stanley Picker Gallery 4-30 Jan: ‘Jerwood Photography Awards Central Saint Martins College Faculty of Art, Design & Music, Kingston of Art & Design featuring graphic 2004’, winners of the national University, Knights Park, Kingston upon design, illustration and digital media competition. Recent graduates Emma Newcastle Borough Art Gallery Thames, KT1 2QJ. 020 8547 8074 Borough Museum & Art Gallery, work from over 60 students from Hamilton, Travis Hodges, Sarah Lynch, www.kingston.ac.uk/picker Brampton Park, ST15 0JG. 01782 20 nations. Rihard Page, Leonie Purchas. In Tues-Fri 12-6; Sat 12-4; 619705. www.untitledbroadcast.com association with Portfolio Magazine. Mon by appointment www.newcastle-staffs.gov.uk 8 Jan - 20 Feb: ‘The Space Between Work Mall Galleries 12 Jan - 26 Feb: ‘Architecture & Ideology: Federation of British Artists, Windows Bar and Dreams’, Staffordshire-based 17 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5BD. Hiding in Plain Sight’, Erasmus Schroeter, 28th Floor, London Hilton, 22 Park Lane, contemporary artists collective, Broadcast. 020 7930 6844. large-scale c-prints of Nazi ‘Atlantikwall’ W1. www.artstar.clara.net A reconciliation of contemporary art within Daily 10-5; final Sun until 4 bunkers juxtaposed with a collection of www.hannahcampion.com a wider visual context and the attendant 26 Jan - 6 Feb: ‘Designer Crafts 2005’, historical GDR architectural postcards. Mon-Fri from 12; Sat-Sun from 5.30 relationships with other mediums.

16 What’s on a-n Magazine January 2005 Newport Art Exchange Portsmouth Saltburn 39 Gregory Boulevard, Hyson Green, NG7 6BE. 0115 924 4611 Rope Store Gallery Aspex Gallery Mon-Fri 10-6; Sat 1-3 Saltburn Artists Projects Quay Arts, Sea Street, PO30 5BD. 01983 27 Brougham Road, PO5 4PA. Saltburn Gallery, 30-32 Marske Road, 10-29 Jan: ‘Shake-n-pour’, an exhibition 822490. www.quayarts.org 023 9281 2121. www.aspex.org.uk TS12 1QG: 01287 626060. Mon-Sat 10-4 by the last artists club untamed, rarely Tues-Fri 12-6; Sat 12-4 (closed 24-28 www.saltburnartistsprojects.co.uk 8 Jan - 12 Feb: ‘Abstract Nature’, Vidya seen outsider art, poetry books, c.d and a Dec & 31 Dec - 3 Jan) Wed-Sun 12-4; Thurs 12-7 Surujballi, solo show. Paintings, collage grand exhibition end performance, Until 15 Jan: ‘Being Mammy’, Harold and mixed-media work tracing themes 29 Jan 6-10. Until 9 Jan: ‘Studio Line’, showcasing the from the purely abstract through to a Offeh, multi-media installation. 29 Jan - talents of the studio tenants at Saltburn focus on nature. 26 Mar: ‘New Life’, David Burrows, Studios, using drawing as an Bonington Gallery baroque assemblage of debris interrupted Nottingham Trent University, Bonington interpretative tool to highlight the by immaculate attention to detail, Newtown Building, Dryden Street, NG1 4GG: thoughts, processes and unique nature of 0115 848 6131. saturated colours and a floor that sparkles each individual’s practice. Mon-Thurs 10-5; Fri 10-4; Sat 1-5 with grey dust. Oriel Davies Gallery Contact gallery for details The Park, Powys, SY16 2NZ. 01686 Scarbrough 625041 www.orieldavies.org Rochester Mon-Sat 10-5 Nottingham Castle Until 15 Jan: ‘Esperantis’, Patrick off Maid Marian Way, NG1 6EL. Crescent Arts Rochester Art Gallery and Craft Case The Crescent, YO11 2PW. 01723 Shanahan, large-scale photographs of 0115 915 3700 Visitor Information Centre, 95 High 351461. www.crescentarts.co.uk artificially lit urban spaces in Spain and Daily 10-5 Street, ME1 1LX. 01634 338325 Tues-Sat 10-1 & 2-5 Portugal. ‘A Sit e for Un-Building’, Alec Contact gallery for details www.medway.gov.uk Contact gallery for details Shepley and Steve Dutton, multimedia 8 Jan - 6 Mar: ‘Death and the Consumer’ installation contemplating the ‘ruin’ and Yard Gallery and other paintings, Jeremy Critchlow, Wollaton Park, NG8 2AE. the artwork. 22 Jan - 12 Mar: ‘Patagonia’, multi-layered works on canvas. ‘Quiet Scunthorpe Kyffin Williams, painting. 0115 915 3920 Land’, Julian Rowe, handmade artist’s Daily 11-5 Contact gallery for details books. 20-21 Visual Arts Centre Northampton St. Johns Church, Church Square, DN15 6TB. 01724 297070. Ormskirk Rugby Northampton Museum & Art Gallery www.northlincs.gov.uk/arts/centre Guildhall Road, NN1 1DP. 01604 Tues-Sat 10-5 Rugby Art Gallery & Museum 238548. www.northampton.gov.uk Chapel Gallery Until 22 Jan: ‘In Search of Daedalus’, Mon-Sat 10-5; Sun 2-5 St Helens Road, L39 4QR. 01695 Little Elborow Street, CV21 3BZ. Arthur Cross. ‘Handmade’, selling 22 Jan - 6 Mar: ‘A Happening’, exhibition 579863. www.westlancsdc.gov.uk 01788 533201. exhibition of artist made craft wares. Until of figurative ceramic sculpture by Paula Until 12 Feb: ‘TrashCanimals’, Matthew www.rugbygalleryandmuseum.org.uk 19 Feb: ‘Playground of Life’, Simon Kent. Armstrong, paintings of musicians by Roby, charismatic creatures. 8 Jan - 5 Mar: Tues & Thurs 10-8; Wed & Fri 10-5; Sat Until 26 Feb: ‘Boundaries of the Body’, Carolyn Bushell and India-inspired textiles ‘New Creators’, LACi, jewellery showcase 10-4; Sun & BH 1-5; closed Mon by Greta Palmer. with Alena Asenbryl, Rebecca Jones, Until 9 Jan: ‘Rugby Open 2004’, range of Jacky Oliver. Until 29 Jan: 20-21 Open Art Rebecca Kernycznyj, Carol Lingard and media from painting and photography to and Sculpture Exhibition. 29 Jan - 12 Mar: Norwich Amy Wilkinson. ceramics and sculpture. ‘Bald Statements’, ‘Succour’, Claire Curneen. Jean Parker, series of alabaster heads that began following her experience of cancer, Norwich Gallery Oxford Sheffield Norwich School of Art and Design, St but represents universal themes of loss of any kind. George Street, NR3 1BB. 01603 756247. VOX Projects Cupola Gallery www.norwichgallery.co.uk 49 Stratfield Road, Summertown, 178a Middlewood Road, Hillsborough, Mon-Sat 10-5 OX2 7BG. 07901 687557. Runcorn S6 1TD. 0114 285 2665. 13 Jan - 26 Feb: ‘Ready to Shoot’, Gerry [email protected] www.cupolagallery.com Schum, Fernsehgalerie Gerry Mon-Fri on request; Sat-Sun 12-6 Norton Priory Museum Mon-Sat 10-6.30 Schum/videogalerieschum 1968-1973. A 7-23 Jan: ‘Beauty and the Block’, Kit Tudor Road, Manor Park, WA7 1SX. Until Jan 05: ‘Genius’, Christmas comprehensive retrospective of one of the Craig, Tim Greaves and James Heffron. 01928 569895. www.nortonpriory.org exhibition based around the theme of most important and complex artistic Group show of photography, painting and Daily 12-4 quality, inspired work showcasing the best projects of the late 60s and early 70s. sculpture. 13 Jan - 7 Mar: ‘Geminii Connexions’, fibre in contemporary fine and applied art. artists Rosemary Cassidy Buswell and Nottingham Portree Judith Railton have two very different Encounters at views of masks, love and hate, rainbows, 127 Club Garden Road, Sharrow, S11 Angel Row Gallery An Tuireann Arts Centre bodices, Rossetti and more. 07870 698333, Central Library Building, 3 Angel Row, Struan Road, IV51 9EG. 01478 613306 [email protected] NG1 6HP. 0115 915 2869. www.antuireann.org.uk Mon-Thurs 12-5; Sats 4 Dec, 8 Jan, 5 www.angelrowgallery.com Mon-Sat 10-5 The Brindley Mon-Sat 10-5; Wed 10-7; closed Sun 15 Jan - 26 Feb: ‘Invisible Fields’, Victoria High Street, WA7 1BG. 0151 907 8360. Feb, 5 Mar 12-5 Until 8 Jan: ‘Self’, international artists Claire Bernie, Samantha Clark, Maria www.thebrindley.org.uk Until Mar 05: Encounters (artists Ruth exploring personal identity and belonging Doyle, Sarah Felton, Su Greirson, Anne Mon-Sat 10-4; closed Sun and BH Ben-Tovim and Trish O’Shea) take up through photography, jewellery and Bjerge Hansen, Jane McInally, Until 8 Jan: ‘Cheshire Textiles’, diverse residence in their third dis-used shop in installation. ‘Present’, craft showcase Metacorpus, Jeannette Sendler, Anna show by contemporary textile artists. 14 Sheffield. Displays of cross art-form work featuring the best in contemporary hand- Coccidiaferro, Rosalind Nashashibi, Jan - 13 Feb: ‘All in a Day’s Work’, made with and in response to local made jewellery, accessories, housewares Susannah Silver, Susan Sloan. A variety of Markmakers, visual arts collective works in residents and the urban environment will and objets d’art. approaches to video installation. a wide range of media. change over time. Graves Art Gallery Avenue, SS2 6EX: 01702 612621x207. Design, Media & Culture, Ashburne Wellington Road, TA1 5AX. 01422 Surrey Street, S1 1XZ. 0114 278 2600. www.focalpoint.org.uk House, Ryhope Road, SR2 7EF. 0191 842091 www.sheffieldgalleries.org.uk Mon-Fri 9-7; Sat 9-5 515 2128. www.regvardygallery.org Sat 10-5 Mon-Sat 10-5 Until 12 Feb: ‘Shadow Play’, Denny Tues 10-8; Wed-Fri 10-5; Sat by appoint- 5 Mar: ‘At the Edge: Extending Textile Until Jan: ‘Aspects of Architecture’, ment Robson, new body of work exploring time Boundaries’, Textile Forum South West exploring architecture in photography, and memory. Each image depicts the 18 Jan - 18 Feb: Brian Chippendale. This conference on developing textile networks with photographs from the mid-19th interior of a privately owned house in will be the first solo of Chippendale’s work century to the present day. Jointly curated London that has been continuously in Europe. A hand-made, limited edition and how concepts/technology relate to by Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust inhabited by the same two families for publication accompanies the exhibition. textile practice. Details from Sonja and the V&A Museum. over 500 years. Andrew, Swansea [email protected] Millennium Gallery St Andrews Arundel Gate, S1 2PP. 0114 278 2645. www.sheffieldgalleries.org.uk Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Witham Mon-Sat 10-5; Sun 11-5 Crawford Arts Centre Alexandra Road, SA1 5DZ. 01792 516900 www.glynnviviangallery.org 22 Jan - 17 Apr: ‘Tate Sculpture: 50 Years 93 North Street, KY16 9AD: 01334 Artserve Gallery Tues-Sun 10-5 of British Sculpture from Tate’, displaying 474610. www.crawfordarts.free- Lockram Villas, 7 Collingwood Road, Until 13 Feb: ‘Avant-Garde Graphics 1918- 20 major works focussing on the human online.co.uk CM8 2DY. 01376 502561 Mon-Sat 10-5; Sun 2-5 34’, national touring exhibition organised form by the most influential British Group and Single Shows of contemporary sculptors of the last 50 years. 14 Jan - 6 Mar: ‘The Dangers of Sewing by the Hayward Gallery for Arts Council and Knitting’, Deirdre Nelson, in England. Also ‘Avant-Garde Film 1918-34’. British art and photography. Opening collaboration with the Collins Gallery, times and bookings, tel 01376 502561, Shrewsbury mobile 07751 074616. Glasgow. ‘Craft Showcase’, Kirstie Mission Gallery Thornber, scarves; Katie Clarke, jewellery; Gloucester Place, Maritime Quarter, SA1 Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery John Maguire and Barm Pottery, ceramics. 1TY. 01792 652016 Wolverhampton Rowley House, Barker Street, SY1 1QH. Daily 11-5 01743 361196 Stafford Until 15 Jan: ‘Succour’, Claire Curneen, Mon-Sat 10-4; Sun 10-5 continuing investigation into 3D Wolverhampton Art Gallery 8 Jan - 12 Mar: ‘Historic Prints from The figurative work that combines the Lichfield Street, WV1 1DU. 01902 Collections’, special selection by members Shire Hall Gallery everyday and ordinary with the religious, 552055 www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk of Shrewsbury & District Arts Association Market Square, ST16 2LD. 01785 spiritual and magical. Mon-Sat 10-5 278345. www.staffordshire.gov.uk to complement the recent SADAA Open 29 Jan - 14 May: ‘Reaching Out’, Mon-Sat 9.30-5; Tues 10-5; Sun 1-4 Print Competition. celebrating the range of projects and Contact gallery for details Sway programmes created by Wolverhampton South Shields Arts and Museums Service with schools Stirling Artsway Station Road, SO41 6BA. 01590 and communities. Sandford Goudie Gallery 682260. www.artsway.org.uk Customs House, Mill Dam. 0191 454 Changing Room Tues-Sun 11-5 Worksop 1234. www.customshouse.co.uk 35 The Crawford Arcade, King Street, 21 Jan: ‘Antarctica Dispatches’, Simon FK8 1AX: 01786 479361. Mon-Sat 10-8; Sun 12-8 Faithfull, drawings. Until 13 Feb: www.stirling.gov.uk/changingroom 20 Jan - 27 Feb: ‘Fabrications’, ‘commonground’, ArtSway’s annual open Harley Gallery Wed-Sat 11-5 paintings/video by Helen Baker observing exhibition of local, national and Welbeck, S80 3LW. 01909 501700. Contact gallery for details the politics of production, and paintings international artists working in all media www.harleygallery.co.uk by Val Close inspired by the idea of display their work. Tues-Sun 10-5 comfort blankets. Stroud 15 Jan - 6 Mar: ‘Hand to Eye’, exploring Taunton the process of creating craft objects, a Southampton Stroud House Gallery Winchester Gallery touring exhibition. Station Road, GL5 3AP. 01453 750575 John Allen, new woven carpets inspired by www.stroudhousegallery.co.uk Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre John Hansard Gallery the Nepalese Himalayas. Seiko Kinoshita, Until 11 Feb: ‘Homelife’, domestic bliss or Coal Orchard, TA1 1JL. 01823 283244. University of Southampton, Highfield, www.brewhouse-theatre.co.uk wall-based textiles. otherwise from artists throughout the UK. SO17 1BJ. 023 8059 2158. Mon-Sat 10-5.30 Includes the work of Cynthia Whelan, www.hansardgallery.org.uk 8 Jan - 19 Feb: ‘Riven Temples’, Michael Tues-Fri 11-5; Sat 11-4 Jennifer Dowgill, Lyn Hutton, Emily Wrexham Fairfax, a series of unique ‘camera Contact gallery for details Mennerdahl, Barbara Howey, Belinda Vize. obscuras’. ‘Behind the Scenes’, Sue Luxton, from sketches emerge paintings of larger Wrexham Arts Centre Southend-on-Sea Sunderland than life characters. Rhosddu Road, LL11 1AU. 01978 292093 Focal Point Gallery Reg Vardy Gallery The Somerset Centre for Enterprise Mon-Fri 9.30-6.45; Sat 9.30-4 Southend Central Library, Victoria University of Sunderland, School of Arts, Somerset College of Arts & Technology, Contact gallery for details

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Hosted by the Stanley Picker Gallery at Rosario Hurtado and Roberto Feo, were the University of Kingston, the Stanley short-listed in 2004 for the Jerwood Picker Fellowships are awarded annually Applied Art Prize. Stanley Picker Gallery to a contemporary fine artist and a con- Director, David Falkner, describes El temporary designer. The Fellows are Ultimo Grito as “artistic rather than offered a fee, production costs and industry-led designers whose ideas con- access to the University’s staff and facili- tain a lot of humour”. Their previous ties, including studio space, to research designs have included childrens’ T- and create new work over a twelve- shirts with learning games printed on month period for first presentation in the them and Ego Club, ‘a discotheque for gallery. one person’. This year’s newly appointed Fine Art The Fellowships – which will be Fellow, the artist-curator Mark Beasley, advertised again in Spring 2005 – were proposes to research and make a docu- aimed this year at artists with three to mentary which will both reflect back five years’ professional experience, rather upon his own projects and practice, and than at recent MA graduates as was pre- examine the wider history of artist-cura- viously the case. “The Fellowships have torship. Beasley secured the Kingston Fel- shifted up a gear,” says Falkner, “allowing lowship immediately after returning from the university to work with artists of gen- a residency with fellow artist-curator uine international stature on two really John Russell (formerly of BANK) at the interesting and important projects.” PS1 artists’ space in New York, a satellite For more information venue of the recently relaunched www.kingston.ac.uk/picker Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The res- An article which looks in more depth at Mark Above: Beasley’s proposal, and at the respective Vong Phaophanit and Claire Oboussier, Life Lines. idency was part of Romantic Detach- expectations of the artist and of the university at the outset of the fellowship, is newly avail- ment, an exhibition curated for PS1 by able on www.a-n.co.uk > Knowledge bank > Adam Sutherland of Grizedale Arts. Time & space > Academic research INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION The Stanley Picker Design Fellow- Paul Glinkowski ship is awarded this year to a pair of The Life Lines landmark public art sensors that respond to environ- Spanish-born designers, currently based commission by international artists mental changes. It has been fabri- in London, who collaborate as El Below: Vong Phaophanit and Claire cated by Neon Circus, a creative Mark Beasley/Flatpack001, iDeath, Ultimo Grito: ‘all the rage’ in colloquial as part of ‘Roadshow’, Grizedale Oboussier will be launched in Febru- lighting provider which has worked Spanish. Partners in life as well as art, Arts 2003. ary. The fifty-four metre long with other artists including Martin dynamic sculpture will translate the Creed and Langlands and Bell. The ever-changing sounds, weather and work is due to sited at Pier Hill, and movement of people in Southend-on- will provide a link between the sea Sea into a major visual statement. front and the town centre, a land- Vong Phaophanit and Claire mark for local residents and a visi- Oboussier frequently collaborate on tor attraction. public art works. A 1993 Turner The £390,000 project was Prize nominee, Phaophanit recently funded by Arts Council England: completed a residency at the Cen- East as part of a major cultural tre for Drawing, Wimbledon School regeneration programme called of Art. Major public commissions ‘arts|generate’, with substantial created in collaboration with artist financial contributions from the and writer Oboussier open at Ikon National Lottery and regeneration Gallery, Birmingham and in Liver- funds. Life Lines was commissioned pool City Centre in 2005. Past proj- by Southend-on-Sea Borough ects include a streetscape for Poole Council in association with Com- City Harbour. missions East, and will contribute Sited on Pier Hill – an area cur- to the development of Southend- rently undergoing a multi-million on-Sea as a national centre of cul- pound transformation – Life Lines tural excellence by 2010. It heralds uses transparent acrylic, coloured the implementation of the Public lines of LED light and cutting-edge Art Strategy developed by Commis- electronic technology triggered by sions East on behalf of the council.

20 News a-n Magazine January 2005 Above: Myfanwy Johns, Light Lines II, digital print. PRIZE AWARDED

Myfanwy Johns won the £2,500 Indigo interest the prize has attracted. We got Art Prize, a new opportunity promoted submissions from artists as far away as in a-n Magazine and on www.a-n.co.uk. Australia. We are absolutely delighted Above: Launched in September by Indigo Art – with the quality and diversity work sub- Walter Jack, St Peter’s Square, Leeds. the UK’s leading suppliers of bespoke mitted, and have already offered sev- artwork to interior design projects eral entrants an exclusive publishing a series of public art interventions within the hotel/leisure industry – the contract.” CURTAINS across Yorkshire in 2003, design work aim of the competition is to find art by The panel selected to judge the for a new bridge in Essex to span the professional practitioners that compli- competition included Johanna Love Walter Jack’s recently installed seven- A127 and link ancient paths and rights ments the most up-to-date design (Printing Fellow Royal Academy of metre high steel curtain in a new public of way, and appointment to the team trends. Arts), and interior designers Jane Goff square outside the new BBC building in now redesigning Slough High Street. Johns is based in Birmingham and (Goff Associates) and Elaine McBride central Leeds forms part of a growing Smaller pieces are on show as part is working on a Research PhD at the (Platform 9), who selected the winner portfolio of public art and architectural of a British Council touring exhibition University of Gloucester. from a shortlist of fifty. Look out for features across the UK. Other projects and an innovative seating solution can Indigo Art’s Kaye Kent said: “We details of next year’s competition in a-n include The Green with landscape be seen at the Royal Museum of Scot- have been overwhelmed by the level of Magazine and www.a-n.co.uk. architects Whitelaw Turkingto, to create land, Edinburgh.

GOINGS AND COMINGS ALTERNATIVE ROMANIA Stephen Snoddy left in November as Exit Genoa and Lille as joint Capi- H.arta, an artist-run space in leading the venture describe it as, Director of the Baltic after less than tals of Culture 2004, to be succeeded Timisoara, Romania, celebrated its “Not a gallery solely showing fin- nine months there. Baltic is also seek- by Cork, holder of the title for 2005. three-year anniversary in Decem- ished works but a place for interac- ing a replacement for Chair architect- Cork’s programme comprising 236 ber. The organisation – whose tion, art process and engagement developer Alan J Smith whose term of creative projects has been designed to name is a play on words, in that with the public. We provide a rela- office has expired and advertised the represent the best of international ‘harta’ is the Romanian word for tionship that offers people not just post of Curator during November. practice and new work in Cork. ‘map’ – was established to over- an opportunity to admire or con- Tamara Krikorian is set to depart Divided into architecture, design and come the limitations young artists template art, but also a space Cywaith Cymru-Artwork Wales in Sep- visual arts, festivals, film media and encounter in that country, where where the visitor can be proactive tember next year after twenty years as sound, literature publications and they face a traditionalist educa- and express their thoughts and Director. Her post will be advertised in conferences, music, residencies tion system, a lack of information opinions on art.” January – see www.cywaithcymru.org research and process, sport and the- and communication structures, a H.arta specifically seeks Performer-lecturer in genetics and atre and dance, the programme is marginalized position as regards involvement from students and disability Tom Shakespeare took on the supported by local and EU funds. their activities, and isolation from emerging artists who can use the role of Chair of Arts Council England The legacy – as with many previous the broader European arts com- space to experiment and test work- North East in November, succeeding Capitals – rests on urban regenera- munity. ing processes and ideas. Paul Collard of Culture 10 fame who tion. Cork is the smallest city to ever Focused from the outset H.arta space, Str Iuliu Maniu Nr 3 et, 2 Timisoara, 1900 Romania has moved on to the post of National be awarded the opportunity. around communication, the artists www.e-cart.ro/h.arta [email protected] Director, Creative partnerships. www.cork2005.ie Above: Jony Easterby and Pippa Taylor, Samphire Tower, 2004. Photo: J Bewley INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCIES TOWER UP

Established in 1988, London-based Dieuke Spaans (The Netherlands). Samphire Tower, created by Jony East- installs commissioned art works along Delfina Studio Trust provides the Supported by Berlin Senate: erby and Pippa Taylor was opened in the National Cycle Network that are largest international residency pro- Department of Science, Research October, forming part of Sustrans’ Art designed to reflect aspects of an area gramme in the UK. Of thirty stu- and Culture, Fonds BKVB: Founda- and the Travelling Landscape project. and provide stopping and resting places. dios, twelve are allocated as an tion for Visual Arts, Design and Inspired by the ‘coastwatch’ lookout It advertised two contracts for lead artists award that provides artists with stu- Architecture in Amsterdam, Kun- posts along the UK’s coastline, this in the October 2003 issue of a-n Maga- dio space and related facilities free sthalle Wien, PépiniÈres MAP and hand-built pentagonal tower stands an zine. These were subsequently awarded of charge for one or two years. Visiting Arts, Delfina invites propos- impressive ten metres high, and is to artists Isabella Lockett and Michael International artists are also given als from international artists for the located at Samphire Hoe between Pinsky for a commission in Nuneaton, accommodation on the same basis. residency programme annually dur- Dover and Folkstone. and Lesley Kerman for a work along the Often collaborating with major ing January and from UK artists Art and the Travelling Landscape Nuneaton and Bedworth route. institutions, Delfina is able to pro- biannually during January (2006 vide the kind of facilities and cul- next UK deadline). For more infor- tural environment that mation see Opportunities listings international artists need to get the and www.delfina.org.uk best out of a new setting. VIDEO GAME time a second, third, and fourth video International resident artists for was made, each in response to whatever 2004/05 are Markus Amm (Ger- Above: Below: A collaborative video work, Exquisite preceded it. The result is thirty-six short many), Josh Blackwell (USA), Katrin Markus Amm, Karen Russo, still Corpse was initiated by Rachel Cornish videos that leave the viewer to try to Untitled, oil on from Spontaneous Lock (Germany), Kate Natuyele paper, 22x28cm, Human Combustion, as part of a body of work that examines make the connections between them. (Zambia), Karen Russo (Israel) and 2003-4. video, 40 min, 2000. what it means to be ‘here and now’. Questions of authorship fragment as Cornish was joined by Charlotte Bern- the works depict the nature of conscious stein, Liliana Lopez, Stormsmith Nomi, experience that can’t be divorced from Eileen Bonar, Sally Irvine, Teresa Whit- the culture in which it evolves and in ing, Rachel Dobbs and Fritz Stolberg to which one body of work emerges. play an adapted Exquisite Corpse A frenzied walk through an icy game. Where words had been used in labyrinth starts the opening sequence, the original version developed by the leading to a heady walk down winding Surrealists – each person contributing a passages behind houses until the scene word at a time to make sentences – changes and slows to a snail’s pace. As video became the twenty-first century well as collaborating on the making of medium. The artists, based either in the work, the artists have each taken a London or South West England, played hand in arranging the venues to show the game over a three-month period, the work, that has already been pre- simultaneously creating artwork. sented in London, Berlin, Newlyn, Brazil Nine different sequences began and Exeter. with each artist making a short video of See www.rachelcornish.co.uk/ their own choice. Changing hands each exquisitecorpse.html

22 News a-n Magazine January 2005 AFRICA 05 PROFESSIONAL

Chris Ofili has designed the logo for DEVELOPMENT next year’s celebration of African arts and culture across London. The The primary aim of A.a (Artist’s aid), logo design rotates the silhouette an artists’ support organisation co- of Africa fifty-two times, once for directed by Sophia Crilly and Nicola every country in Africa, with the Siddons, is to establish communication map rotated around Cape Town, and networks between artists in Man- the city the artist feels has changed chester and environs. It brings together most, evolving from a post-colonial practising artists to discuss their work village to a bastion of apartheid and to facilitate artistic development, and onto what it is today. alongside creating a stronger and Africa 05 will be a programme more dynamic artistic community. of major events that mark the con- To support artists’ practice A.a runs temporary and past cultures from regular monthly meetings at Castlefield across the country and the Dias- Gallery that provide a chance for artists pora. Under the Directorship of Gus to show work, receive critical feedback, Caseley-Hayford, the British discuss collaborative projects and Museum, South Bank Centre and exchange information about events, Arts Council England are coordi- exhibitions and other opportunities. nating a season of events with over Amongst recent events were a day- forty other partners in London. trip to Liverpool Biennial and partici- A highlight of the event is Africa pation in a Midwest Casino. Guest Remix, a season of visual and per- speakers have included Mike Chavez- forming arts, with the Hayward Dawson (Flux magazine), James Gallery the venue for ‘Contempo- Hutchinson (floating ip), Deborah Ker- rary Art of a Continent’. Opening mode (Ikon) and Martin Vincent (inter- 10 February, this is will be largest Above: national 3). survey show ever of contemporary Jane Alexander, African Adventure, mixed A.a also operates a web-based criti- media installation, detail, 1999-2000. African art, featuring artists of all Courtesy: Jane Alexander cal forum, offering a place to discuss generations. Arranged around three ideas around current arts practice and broad themes, ‘City and Land’ rials by Nigerian Dilompriozulike. His- identity, religion, spirituality and the review projects and exhibitions. This explores the contrasting experi- tory and Identity focuses on power body is Egyptian artist Ghada Amer aims to encourage discourse and criti- ences of urban and rural life. and authority, modernity and tradi- who is presenting delicate works from cism within the arts, as part of sustain- Included is new work from South tions and collective identities. It cotton threads, Kenyan Wangechi ing and raising the production and African photographer David Gold- includes an installation by Yinke Shon- Mutu’s mixed media collages and Abd standard of art and art-related critical blatt, a spectacular eight-metre ibare and a sculptural tableau by El Ghany Kenawy and Amal Kenawy writing. Here, artist Jonathon Traynor high ‘cloth of gold’ made from bot- South African Jane Alexander. will show a video installation. reviews ‘Futurology: The Black Country tle tops by Ghanaian El Anatusi Amongst exhibitors in ‘Body and Soul’, For more information go to 2024’, shown at The New Art Gallery and an assemblage of found mate- that addresses issues of individual www.hayward.org.uk Walsall in the summer, where presen- tations included: “Becky Shaw’s Civics: The Science of Citizenship [that] fol- lows three sixteen-year-olds re-zoning the failing’ school where they have just ARTISTS’ ENTITLEMENTS finished their GCSEs, a process that it is hoped will lead to a revitalisation of The Scottish Arts Council’s submission principles as artists’ ‘rights’, SAC sets support of the arts at local, regional, the school and which echos the Black to the Scottish Executive’s Cultural out a series of recommended entitle- national and international levels. Country Consortium’s plans for Commission describes artists in a key ments as: •Freedom from censorship and the regional regeneration. Shaw’s perform- role in future plans. Amongst a signifi- •Artists’ activities should be regarded right to choose to engage, or not to ance also employs the three teenagers cant ‘wants’ list, SAC would like “a as professional, legitimate, vital to a engage, with social, economic and as gallery technicians for her presenta- country where artists are valued, and civilised society and deserving of due political agendas set out by others tion on the way in which education encouraged to work internationally and recognition, recompense and presen- must be guaranteed. and work interact, and is an eloquent whet the appetite of an international tational support. SAC’s submission – in part designed exploration of the roles of Charles, audience”. •The means to create work (space, to argue the case for SAC itself – arises Edward and John all of whom would Within a portfolio of themes time and opportunities to collaborate, from extensive consultation processes have had a bright enough future in the around infrastructure, interaction with experiment and take risks) should be with artists, arts organisers and others industrial powerhouse that was the government, education and participa- adequately provided. whose work involves the arts. The door is West Midlands.” tion, SAC urges the commission to •Access to world-class training to sup- still open for further comment prior to A.a actively seeks and welcomes consider establishing an ‘Artists’ char- port artists’ practice, mechanisms to the Cultural Commission’s report in reviews, articles, essays and proposals. ter’ that would “set out the principles enable lifelong learning, and opportu- June. New material is presented on a regular by which the nation will deal with nities for working across borders basis and all selected material is To find out more about, and make com- those who come forward as artists (whether artform, region or nation) ments on, SAC’s submission go to archived online and will feature in a and cultural workers, so creating the should be available. www.scottisharts.org.uk You can also make publication in 2005. a submission direct to the circumstances for citizens to benefit •Artists should be able to participate Cultural Commission on For further information see www.culturalcommission.org.uk www.artistsaid.com or contact from their work”. Describing these in forming and developing policies for [email protected] Networking artists’ networks

NAN facilitates exchange, dia- logue and collaboration amongst visual artists, what- ever their practice and loca- tion. It offers a focus for critical exchange and feedback and through research and mapping, seeks to develop greater awareness of the value of artists’ initiatives and of their changing professional needs.

For more information about NAN visit www.a-n.co.uk> about a-n>Networks> Networking networks or contact Emilia Telese, Artists’ Networks Coordinator [email protected]

“I’ll always make art anyway, but I’d hope to expand my practice in a way that is sustainable, self financing and not censored by having to meet criteria that fits more into the field of social engineering.” Bradley Hogan, artist, Bristol

“Observing and actively participating in an intense networking event in FurtherStudio. Alive interactive studio where visitors and critics can observe the artist creating stimulating and unfamiliar their work in real-time, online from their own surroundings can only be very desktop. Taken from a three-month residency with Jess Loseby organised by Furtherfield. inspiring for my own practice.” Robb Mitchell, artist, Glasgow NAN NEWS elsewhere, in order to explore new proj- featured on www.a-n.co.uk or in a-n Artists’ networks research bur- ects and provide a focus for critical Magazine. saries – call for artists exchange. APPLICATIONS TO: Emilia Telese (NAN AIM: One of the underlying principles The bursaries are not intended as pro- research bursaries), a-n The Artists of the NAN initiative is to encourage duction grants. Information Company, First Floor, 7-15 artists’ groups and networks to gener- VALUE: up to £500 per award Pink Lane, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 ate collaboration and extend their pro- HOW TO APPLY: There is no applica- 5DW or [email protected] fessional practice. tion form. Artists groups and networks Next deadline: 15 February 2005 Following the success of the first and should send an outline of no more Successful applicants will be notified second series of the NAN research bur- than two A4 pages, describing: in March. saries, we’re offering more awards for Your research project aims groups to test ideas and professional • Who will be making the visit Artists’ advisory group – call for relationships. • Who you want to visit and why members NAN is being developed through Bursaries are awarded quarterly by the • Indication of timescale for the visit The NAN Artists’ advisory group is the Arts Council England revenue NAN Artists’ advisory group, ensuring • Outline budget backbone of the NAN initiative. support to a-n The Artists Infor- that artists are at the centre of a peer- Please also include a description of Formed in July 2003 to steer NAN’s mation Company. Scottish Arts reviewed decision-making process. your group of network, including: identity and direction, it plays a major Council and ESF funds support WHO IS ELIGIBLE: non-exclusive artists • Group/Network name role in identifying issues, formats and activities in Scotland and North groups and networks with an “open” • Group/Network history the overall development of NAN’s pro- East England. approach to new members. Please • Group/Network aims gramme and initiatives. note: Individual artists are not eligible. • Future projects The advisory group consists of a vary- WHAT THE BURSARIES ARE FOR: sup- • Contact details (including website if ing number of artists actively involved porting exchange between artists’ available) in arts initiatives and/or networks as groups and networks, in the UK or Note that your group/network may be well as developing their practice.

24 Networking artists’ networks a-n Magazine January 2005 NAN is looking to include more artists ested in collaborating on new events Furtherfield is looking at ways to provide a more in the advisory group, to better repre- and helping to resource and promote Furtherfield is a UK online platform for useful service for international visitors. sent geographical and artistic interests other artists’ events in Bristol, the creation, promotion, criticism and RAG has connections with a number and cultural difference. Gateshead, Manchester and archiving of adventurous digital/net of other groups, including the Wor- Artists receive a fee and travel Nottingham. artwork for public viewing, experience thing Community Arts Council, 2 by 4 expenses to attend quarterly meetings Contact [email protected] for and interaction. It creates strategies to Studios group, Horsham District Coun- and undertake other advisory work for details. actively communicate ideas and issues cil Leisure Link, East Kent Arts Devel- the NAN initiative. in a range of digital & terrestrial media opment Officers and others. Artists interested in being part of the Promote your artists’ contexts; featuring works online and Artists can join the mailing list for free NAN artists advisory group should networking event organising global, contributory proj- and advertise exhibitions and events contact Emilia Telese at Are you organising an artists’ critical ects, simultaneously on the Internet, on the website, and to post calls and [email protected] for further discussion event in 2005? We are the streets and public venues. Further- opportunities in the South East Eng- information. interested to help promote artist-led field focuses on network related proj- land and beyond. Deadline: ongoing events on this page, especially where ects that explore new social contexts Membership for participating to events they enable interaction between that transcend the digital, or offer a and additional services is £5 per regions and across artform. Please subjective voice that communicates month. NAN EVENTS send a short description including: beyond the medium. Information from Dan Thompson at www.artistsandmakers.com threelittlewordsanditgoes- name of event, organising group, loca- The majority of activities are self likethis… do it now tion, venue, eligibility, cost, contacts funded and are sustained by the pas- Sat15/Sun16 January for further information and booking sion, ideas, exploration and skills of The Rogues Starts 11am Glasgow details to [email protected] the Furtherfield team as well as its The Rogues is a group of artists set up Collaboration between Something diverse membership. Occasional public to display work in unused shops in Haptic (Glasgow) and TotalKunst funding facilitates a more in-depth col- Reading town centre. The Rogues (Edinburgh) within the Networking ARTISTS’ NETWORKS laboration with programmers and Gallery was started by Reading artists Artists’ Networks initiative Yoke and Zoom artists on specific projects, usually Lorenzo Belenguer, Zoë Fungesmith From self-determined ‘grass roots’ to Yoke and Zoom are an artists’ family leading to more intuitive audience and Mandy Monkcom. The plan came funded support networks, artists can composed by Nina Coulson and interaction and accessibility. to fruition with the staging of the realise their ideals if they put their Alexander Johnson. Based in Malvern, The Furtherfield Networking Parties group’s first exhibition, entitled ‘Wing- heads and shoulders into it. Two days Worcestershire, a small rural town are informal annual platform events in ing it’ and taking place at the disused of free stimulating visits, talks and net- that has no established contemporary which artists, thinkers, techies, entre- premises of the Purple Turtle bar. The working events between Glasgow and art networks, Yoke and Zoom have preneurs, transgressive types, scientists, Rogues were in the premises for just Edinburgh. served as a port of call to generate musicians, performers, curators and three weeks but that was enough time To book: Edinburgh/Glasgow artists interest in the arts on a local, critics are invited to bring along docu- to gauge the feeling of the community. contact [email protected] by 10 national and international level and mentation of any current projects. Their latest exhibition – ‘Winging it January as a network of artists through their Everyone gets to talk about something again’ – ran with equal success 11 Other Scotland-based artists: 15 places Art Machine project, an initiative with they are really involved in, opening up November –21 December in Gun have been allocated to provide travel artist-led distribution of work as its potential for individuals and groups to Street, Reading. The Rogues is now bursaries for Scotland-based artists main focus. collaborate and realise each other on also supported by local body, RCEA from outside Glasgow and Edinburgh In June 2003 they sent an email ask- their own terms. (Reading Community Enterprise to take part. To apply for one of these ing artists from outside Japan to sub- Artists are encouraged to mingle - Agency), which has opened the door places send no more than 100 words mit small multiples to be distributed there are no rules except that all for other potential sponsors to assist in saying how this event will benefit your in Tokyo. The work was placed in the guests must be involved with a cre- terms of finance and premises. The practice to [email protected] no Tokyo Art Machine, a re-appropriated ative project and bring with them cur- Rogues’ idea is to have a gallery to dis- later than 10 January, as places allo- Sagami condom vending machine at rent documentation. play their work as well as including cated on a first-come-first-served basis. Rice+ arts cafe, exhibition space and Information from [email protected] or other artists from Reading and around. Information on other artists’ events in home to Mukojima residency organ- www.furtherfield.org This support is continuing and pro- Scotland in the Networking Artists’ ised by Emiko Kato in Kyojima, Sum- vides a foundation for the growth of Networks initiative from ida-ku, Tokyo. The Art Machine RAG the initiative. The Rogues has also the [email protected] contains small artworks that are the RAG is an artist-led initiative in West intention to make art more accessible price of a packet of condoms. Sussex, including a local as well as an to everybody and finally to create a Call for future event ideas The first Art Machine opened at the internet-based network of artists. permanent artist led visual arts in cen- NAN events are developed in conjunc- Yoke and Zoom Teaparty in August RAG encourages the practice and the tre in Reading. The Rogues believe tion with artist-led initiatives, in con- 2003 half way through Yoke and understanding of contemporary artists that using disused premises is a good sultation with the NAN artists’ Zoom’s artist residency. From October and makers by seeking new collabora- way to sample the market and see if advisory group and coordinated by 2003 it travelled to Nadiff a small tions, challenges and further adven- there is demand. a-n. bookshop and exhibition space in tures in the arts. The group serves www.theroguesgallery.org.uk They are designed to highlight and Omotesando, Tokyo. In Japan the people and places, providing the respond to regional and national multiples were available to buy at chance to experience contemporary For your artist’s group or debates and issues around artists and 600yen (about two pounds fifty) arts and crafts, and poetry and music. network to be included, send a their practice, and include inspirational each. All artists involved received an On the ground, RAG organises events brief description including experiences, talks and activities to pro- exchange artwork and details of all and exhibitions for members, and host aims, history, future projects mote artists’ networking and work are listed on Yoke and Zoom’s monthly networking meetings, open to and contact details suitable exchange. Ideas and proposals from website. all artists and makers working in the for publication to artists’ groups, networks and initiatives More Art Machine events have taken West Sussex area. RAG runs [email protected] are welcomed and can be put forward place since, and the group is planning www.artistsandmakers.com, providing More artists’ networks listings at the next Artists’ advisory group new events for the future. services for artists and makers in South on www.a-n.co.uk > meeting in March. Informationfrom [email protected] East England. The website also attracts Organisations For 2005, we are particularly inter- or www.yokeandzoom.com international attention, and the group Making a difference Catherine Wilson profiles inIVA’s achievements over the last decade.

As we launch into 2005, it is significant to consider that inIVA perceive its role in nurturing relationships with, and the careers (Institute of International Visual Arts) has just celebrated its of, artists from culturally diverse backgrounds today? And what tenth anniversary. Ten years maybe a short period in the his- has inIVA most significantly achieved in the last ten years? tory of immigration in Britain, but in terms of the longevity of To understand its role today is to understand some of the organisations that support artists from culturally diverse back- objectives at its original inception. It can be said that artists are grounds living and working in this country, it is a major mile- often, by virtue of what they do, resilient, but throughout the stone. As Gilane Tawadros, Director of inIVA, pointed out twentieth century (and longer) artists from culturally diverse recently, the only other organisation with similar continuity in backgrounds in Britain have had to be more resilient and perse- the field of the contemporary visual arts is Autograph, which has vering than most. In this context, the strategies of art practice existed for sixteen years. have often been inextricable from attempted strategies of nego- InIVA’s recent programme of exhibitions and events, Site, tiating difference within the, at times, uncomprehending and referred to one of its central themes. That is, site “as a physical inflexible parameters of Western arts organisations and institu- location – a marker of a specific place, home or presence – but tions. Thus, Tawadros identifies that, in 1994, one of the first also site as origin and identity – an emotional and mental space challenges for inIVA was to not only represent difference, in which helps define who you are”. When these cross over we terms of cultural diversity, but to also prioritise different ideas, confront one of the major questions of the twenty-first century: different experiences and always to seek models of doing things how do you negotiate difference? How do you place space in differently. The founders decided not to privilege a fixed gallery which people with different experiences, different ideas, from space, but to create a more open framework for experimentation different cultures can have a conversation and agree about the by pursuing different strands of activity: exhibitions, publishing, position of the world. research, education and multimedia. This seemed to be more As both inIVA and Autograph embark on staking a more appropriate to the concept of a network of international ideas permanent claim to the cultural landscape of Britain in the form and their understanding of the diaspora as not characterised by of a new building and home at Rivington Place, London – a fixed location. In keeping with the organisation’s non-essen- designed by David Adjaye and due to open in 2007 – it seems a tialist perspective, and its role as a collaborator and catalyst, no prime moment to ask a number of questions. How does inIVA artists are excluded from its projects. Tawadros admits that, at

“a decade ago, inIVA pre-empted various questions about globalisation and global art”

Right: Harold Offeh, Alien Communications, 1999.

26 Organisation profile a-n Magazine January 2005 Above: Sutupa Biswas, Birdsong, “Another important aspect of inIVA’s approach is that, while it engages 16mm, 7mins 7secs, 2004. with wider social, political and, in particular, post-colonial debates, it exists firstly to privilege artists and artistic practice”

the beginning, many people found this problematic, but she culminated in a touring exhibition in 2004. Tawadros had stresses inIVA’s belief that difference can only be bridged by cre- known Biswas and followed her career for some time before the ating a two way path of cross cultural dialogue. artist approached her to talk about ideas for a new project. Another important aspect of inIVA’s approach is that, while it Although Biswas had not produced a substantial body of new engages with wider social, political and, in particular, post-colonial work for quite a long period, Tawadros ascertained over a series debates, it exists firstly to privilege artists and artistic practice. This of meetings that her preparatory ideas for the film works, Bird- stems from a belief in respecting the integrity of artistic practice song, 2004 and Magnesium Bird, 2004 had been in gestation for and acknowledging that it is, in itself, a discreet form of knowl- a while. “What I try to gauge is their [the artist’s] sense of edge and research, and does not take second place to politics, his- urgency about making a body of work… so it is partly about the tory or philosophy. Tawadros feels that “artists take soundings of idea, the concept and also how well cooked it is. Is it formulated what is going on in the wider society and culture, and if you pay and how long have they been living with that idea?” attention, if you listen, often you will hear the sound of shifts and At this point, the relationship moved on to the decision changes that will become apparent later to a wider society…”. She process, which led to inIVA co-commissioning (with Film and cites the example of the exhibition ‘Veil’, which was the inspira- Video Umbrella) Birdsong, an intense and evocative 16mm film tion of two artists interested in the idea of the veil within their own work that addresses cultural identity, memory and rites of pas- art practice, namely, Zineb Sedira and Jananne Al-Ani. (‘Veil’ was sage. With a second film, Magnesium Bird this formed the basis subsequently curated by the artists, together with David A Bailey of a touring exhibition (produced by both inIVA and Film and and Tawadros). This happened “before September 11, before all Video Umbrella) seen at venues in London, Nottingham and the debates about veiling, and before all the debates about Islamic Leeds throughout 2004. This year, the curators have arranged culture and society and difference became a global issue”. The for the exhibition to visit the US and be shown at the Douglas F objective, therefore, is to embrace core artistic practice whilst being Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College, Portland, Oregon. unafraid of the political. Further, inIVA has also published (in collaboration with the In developing beneficial relationships with artists, there is no gallery) a substantial monographic text on the artist, which com- one approach. In some cases, artists may approach inIVA with prises the first critical appraisal of her work. ideas, in other instances artists maybe invited to collaborate on So, within the incredible diversity of contemporary British projects, or it maybe a combination of both. For the artist, culture and society, is inIVA a catalyst for change? A change Sutapa Biswas, a dialogue with inIVA over two to three years in how mainstream arts organisations, museums and galleries engage with artists from culturally diverse backgrounds, and, could have imagined such a widening in terms of the inter- Above and right: more importantly, a change in the way people in the wider nationalisation of the art world, in terms of what kind of Marc Garanger, Femmes Algériennes, 1960. British society perceive such artists? Are the debates sur- artists are shown.” However, she firmly believes that it is not rounding marginalisation, which inIVA purports to address, enough to just show artists from Nigeria or Latin America, making a difference? but to also show a range of different practices and ideas, and, Tawadros replies that this type of change never occurs in terms of this, “we’re not there yet”. overnight, nor can it be tracked in a linear way. As the only In retrospect, what Tawadros is particularly proud of is that organisation of its kind in Britain, she perceives its role more via the diverse range of programmes it has produced, inIVA has as a precipitator of change. By constantly questioning the sta- constantly attempted to engage people with a broader notion of tus quo, pushing the relevant debates into the public arena ‘Britishness’ and ‘British culture’. Defying any suggestions of and displaying a long term commitment to commissioning cultural separatism, it is saying the implications of being in this and supporting diverse artists, inIVA hopes the “ripple effect” society and culture is that the parameters of that society and cul- will gain momentum and gradually result in the very work- ture shift. While ‘Veil’ engaged people from different cultural ing environment beginning to change. “I don’t think ten and social backgrounds with issues pertinent to Islamic culture years ago one could have thought that there would be so in Britain as well as the Islamic world, a project like Boxer, pro- many black British Turner Prize winners. I don’t think one duced by Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, confronted ques-

28 Organisation profile a-n Magazine January 2005 tions of race and nation in terms of popular culture, through its redundant, then it will be around for some time yet. If any- collection of essays, in ways that were accessible. Rather than thing, the sense of urgency she feels about the organisation’s addressing one particular racial or cultural group, it seems that mission has increased over the last ten years, rather than inIVA might have created a space in which different people can diminished. Despite her praise of Arts Council England’s come together. consistent support of the organisation since its formation, Tawadros also claims that, a decade ago, inIVA pre-empted Tawdros feels there is still a danger that funding bodies think various questions about globalisation and global art. It began to the one off organisation, or the one off programme of fund- articulate questions about “what global, contemporary cultural ing, can deliver the results needed and the problems are experience would be about and how we would begin to think solved. One only has to look at how many mainstream arts about a world that was truly global, not just defined in terms of institutions employ non-white curators, and how many artists Europe and North America”. Hence, its commitment to engag- from culturally diverse backgrounds actually make it through ing with artists from regions and cultures beyond these centres, art school, let alone successfully have a career, to know that as well as its early foray in 1996 into exploiting the potential of too many challenges remain on the horizon. the web when it launched its website, inIVA Online, to enable Catherine Wilson is a freelance writer and artist based in London. artists to create new artworks for the internet. inIVA, 6-8 Standard Place, Rivington Street, London EC2A 3BE If it is true, as Tawdros says, inIVA’s job is to make itself +44 (0) 207729 9616 www.iniva.org [email protected] Curating now

Gordon Dalton reports on the Curating Now symposium at the Irish Museum of Modern Art hoping to find the future of curating in museums.

Above: What is your relationship to your nearest art museum? Do you Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid), Ivo Mesquita Kendall Geers and K O think of it as a dusty old vault, a temple to art history or is it at (Museo de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo), James Rondeau (Art Insti- Lab, S/Laughter, Neon tube sign, digital neon the cutting edge of contemporary art practice, full of interven- tute of Chicago) and IMMA’s own Rachel Thomas and Enrique controller, aluminum tions and socially engaged platforms for debate? Could it possi- Juncosa. armature, 2003. Courtesy: Stephen bly be both, or somewhere in between, where new and revealing Despite, or maybe because of, such an intimidating line up, Friedman Gallery, relationships between historical and contemporary art are bro- the symposium failed to create an environment of debate and London kered? Can the modern museum provide a support structure hotly contested rhetoric, preferring to rely on a series of forty- for artists and perhaps be a guiding light in artistic practice in five minute presentations that check listed each representative’s the twenty-first century? More prosaically, will the museum recent activity alongside a brief history of their institution’s always be second place in forming trends? development to varying degrees of success. No brief was avail- Curating Now: An international symposium on curating able before, or at,the symposium, which only left a series of contemporary art in public museums and galleries, assembled headers including The Future of The Museum (Obrist); New an impressive list of panellists and over 300 delegates in the Art / Old Museum (Rondeau) and the more representative A always impressive surrounds of the hosts, the Irish Museum of Short Guided Tour... (Power). Modern Art (IMMA). The cast of assembled stellar speakers This was to be disappointing given the line-up. Obrist’s high- included Über-curator Hans Ulrich Obrist (Musee d’Art Mod- speed delivery stopped short of giving any easily navigated direc- erne de la Ville de Paris), Paolo Colombu (Museo Nazionale tion to the future, but recommended any method that would della arti del XXI Secolo, Rome), Douglas Fogle (Walker Art stop museums becoming too comfortable in their current role, Center, Minneapolis), Fumio Nanjo (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo), and that artists, audience, curators and museums should focus Iwona Blazwick (Whitechapel, London), Kevin Power (Museo on destabilising relationships with each other. Obrist also

30 Conference report a-n Magazine January 2005 lamented the lack of museum literature on contemporary prac- Douglas Fogle posited the view that the institution must be a Above: tice, highlighting the negative effect that being unable to read safe place for unsafe ideas and one that must be self-critical. He Cedric Price, NANO Museum, curated by Hans about Marcel Duchamp would have upon contemporary art. He elaborated that the Walker has initiated an advisory panel that is Ulrich Obrist, 2000, Paris was also the only speaker to directly say that museums should intended for self flagellation, to debunk many of the ways of (travelling show). start from the very beginning on the rethinking of collections, working and thinking that have become ingrained. Iwona displays, exhibitions and the actual spaces and roles that muse- Blazwick struck the biggest chord with the unusually subdued ums play. audience with her brief but intriguing history of the Whitechapel. Obrist’s million miles per hour approach contrasted nicely She argued that institutions have to operate in multiple, often with Colombu’s more reflective stance in the development of critical ways, and that the white cube is perhaps the most inter- Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI in Rome. Whilst understanding the need esting of spaces as it really does allow you to do anything. of a more open-ended approach to a museum, Colombu desired Kevin Power certainly had a dour outlook, with a very critical a more personal relationship with works of art in an institution, overview of his institution but one that would eventually gener- one which would grow and grow over a number of years. This ate a positive outcome. He rightly pointed out that there is a slower, more contemplative relationship to a museum requires structure with Government at one end, and artist at the other, the architecture and location of a building to invite wide and with the museum perhaps closer to the Government that it diverse audiences, whilst providing an ongoing engagement would like. He also asked us to question whose values legit- with both the local and global. Hadid’s proposed designs cer- imised art practice, which was perhaps a thinly veiled criticism tainly seem to capture these requirements, with the buildings of the same artists being used by the same curators and shown signature corridor spaces placing Hadid as the architect de jour in the same museums and galleries giving all concerned an ever of museum as temple, albeit one with very open doors. escalating sense of importance. It is true to a degree that good Above: Claire Langan, Too Dark for Night, 2001, Super 16mm film transferred to DVD, dimensions variable, collection Irish Museum of Modern Art.

“engagement with local This places the museum not as the final stop on artists’ careers but as an important support structure, and places contemporary and global communities are practice alongside the collection. Hopefully this relationship is essential in interrogating and two way, with the museum using the privilege of artists work- ing alongside them to their advantage. It was a shame that this re-imagining our museums” close relationship could not have spread to include the view of an artist amongst the symposium speakers. James Rondeau advocated artist responses to a museum’s collection, but whilst interesting on a formal level (such as Roni Horn placing her photographs across the museum, or Michael Asher paying people to look at the Picasso’s), they kept within the museum/artist structure. However, along with the work of the rightly ubiquitous Thomas Hirshorn it promotes an envi- ronment of looking at looking, of how we negotiate the art deserves to be shown and it is likely that certain artists (Elias- museum. son, Tirvinija, etc) will emerge in different places at the same Away from the symposium, an example of a more direct and time. However, the influence and power of global biennials and provocative relationship with institutional ways of thinking can the art market cannot be ignored (as it was here). These struc- be seen in the work of South African artist Kendall Geers. Via tures and the legitimisation they can breed if not negotiated the (sanctioned) throwing of bricks through museum windows, carefully can only lead to a massive mediocrity. bomb threats as interpretative texts, protests, vandalism and the IMMA itself is a practical example of how artists can be part refusal to be categorised, Geers produces provocative and politi- of the modern museum. The Artists’ Work Programme pro- cal work that sees the museum structure (and art world in gen- vides six studios in IMMA’s grounds for artists at every stage of eral) as a metaphor and direct reference to society as a whole. their career for a period of practical and academic research. His practice and his relationship to institutional thinking as a Many of these artists were also included in IMMA’s ongoing whole speak of domination, social control, and the need for indi- collection of young artists from Ireland (such as Clare Langan). vidual and collective responsibility.

32 Conference report a-n Magazine January 2005 Above: Japanese exhibition, 1902, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.

A more subtle, but no less insightful example of infiltrating temporary art practice, it is only now that it is being filtered into an institution is evident in the work of artists Glenn Davidson museum practice. At best, it shows institutions addressing con- and Anne Hayes, who work collectively as Artstation. Their prac- temporary art practice. At its worst, this language is being used tice could be described as being permanently in residence, work- casually as a catch-all to show an engagement with a political ing predominately away from the gallery sector but within and social repositioning, whilst perhaps ignoring its strengths. complex institutional sectors such as museums, urban planning If the IMMA conference didn’t quite scale the heights its and the European Union. Artstation quote the influence and col- speakers promised it was maybe because an air of caution and laboration with the field of cybernetics, leading to an under- scepticism was tangible in relation to this. Museums are in a standing of how systems interact. By becoming directly involved dangerously fragile position, with Government pressure on top, with, and gaining an understanding of, a structure, Artstation and artistic concerns at the bottom. An open door policy or lab- then work within the local context to map out new possible oratory approach is important, but the museum as temple or forms of interpretation and possible ways forward (or backward white cube is also an important space, and perhaps the greatest if necessary). This goes beyond ‘looking at looking’ and asks us challenge to an artist, and audience, who are not one easily cat- to think about thinking. The end product of this workshop egorised whole. process is a physical architectural response to the given space Whilst curatorial practice as promoted by Palais de Tokyo’s that speaks of digestive systems or complex mathematical dia- Nicolas Bourriard and Obrist has been essential in broadening grams, and act as a guide of how to negotiate the institutional contemporary art practice, it seems crucial that there is now a structure. downsizing or critical reappraisal before museums adopt the lat- These restructurings of given methodologies, museum col- est trend. Instead of using laboratories to camouflage their activ- lections, commissioning and purchases and an engagement ities, museums should use them as a positive and critical with local and global communities are essential in interrogating self-analysis. Without this ‘thinking about thinking’ there is a and re-imagining our museums. danger that contemporary art in museums will just be lipstick Much was made of undertaking a more relational model, on an increasingly old gorilla. with already fading buzzwords like platforms and laboratories Gordon Dalton is an artist and curator. being used liberally by all involved in relation to museum prac- Curating Now: An international symposium on curating contemporary art in public museums and galleries was held at the Irish Museum of Modern Art 10- tice. Whilst this is common place and almost laissez fare in con- 12 November 2004. Whose island? Devised by Grizedale Arts, ‘Romantic Detachment’ features artists from the UK and the USA. Brian Dewan’s text forms part of his performance/ installation for the exhibition.

Manning’s Island. Blackwell’s Island. Welfare Island. Roosevelt Island. there were several hospitals, penitentiaries and other charitable institutions Mosley Island. Whose Island was it? Whose island is it? That changes from in permanent stone architectures that practised ritual incarceration. age to age, from sea to sea, one anchor dropped deep, deep down into the Until Mosley, ritual incarceration was practised widely and was even murky past, the other flung into a future so bright and shiny that you’d be required by law. Intellectuals have argued that suppressing this basic blinded in seconds just to look at it. We ride into that future like a tram on human urge is unnatural and that laws forbidding it ought to be relaxed. a cable, moving slowly and inexorably forward. Progressive schools have argued that the practice of detaining children There are still a few old timers knocking around who remember the after school (rationalised by administrators to be a ‘deterrent’ for undesired Roosevelt Island years. In those days they had a residential community in behaviours) should be decriminalised and that many well meaning teach- tall buildings the likes of which were all over American cities, long before ers have been forced into Voluntary Forfeit of Employment (VFE) as prac- the eight storey limit became universal. The Mosley Island Historical Soci- titioners. Parents of children in private homes as well have had to accept ety has photographs of them, they were built in the 1970s. Not a trace of any VFE and charitably admitted to a polyp. The polyps, which have been of the structures ever built on the island remain, except the foundations and adopted from the first to the third world, can sustain several thousand walls of the Smallpox Hospital when it was known as Blackwell’s Island. All human beings without any contribution from its inhabitants. Dr Mosley were destroyed by the wrecking ball, fire, vandals, and the City of New York. himself likely never dreamed the scale and ubiquitousness of his inflatable The lighthouse was removed about fifty years ago and today is displayed in polyps or their effectiveness in the dissolution of vices such as the need for the American Museum of Historic Structures in the AHZ, Wyoming. privacy, compulsive responsibility, entitlement to employment and other Some people think that the mile-long inflatable polyp on the island today antisocial and unhealthy appetites, including the appetite for unhealthy has always been there because it looks ‘old fashioned’ but, in fact at one time foods. Yearly, PIs (Polyp Inhabitants) sign heartfelt testimonials in praise

34 Romantic detachment a-n Magazine January 2005 Brian Dewan, Nina Katchadourian and friends, Patient Island, performance, installation, 2004. of healthy, nourishing foods and their unequivocal support of the Good However, all good things must come to an end, and the same goes for Foods Movement (GFM). Generally the PIs are practitioners, recalcitrists, Mosley Island. Proposals have been put forward, chiefly by the descen- mumblies, the unevolved, and cancers on the GFM. Not all people in VFE dents of Mosley’s rival Ronald ‘Red’ Freemont, to rename the island Free- inhabit IPs, but everyone on Mosley Island inhabits a polyp, which once dom Island, deflate the polyp and relocate its inhabitants, and construct an upon a time was the largest inflatable polyp in the world. eight hundred foot Freedom Cone which will be illuminated at night, and Dr ES Mosley: child prodigy, psychologist, indoor sports champion and watched by eight guards from six guard-barges twenty-four hours a day to founder of the Universal Good Sciences (UGS) was a very successful pio- protect the cone. References to Mosley’s Island can be found at the Free- neer in global shepherding. Raised by a sixth generation mental health pro- dom Island Historical Society (FIHS) CompuLibraritron cubby fessional trained in classical Freudian psychoanalysis and an Olympic gold cl:560fihs/gobbledy-fnd*pan unless deemed irrelevant. medal winner in Women’s Swimming, Mosley was a gifted advertising Brian Dewan guru at age sixteen. He later popularised indoor sports such as deck and Dewan is one of the artists exhibiting in ‘Romantic Detachment’, a project devised by chair, galloping, shuffleboard and income-free-O. At the age of fifty-two he Grizedale Arts and first shown at PS1 MoMA, New York 16 October – 7 November 2004, before touring to Q Gallery in Derby. The exhibition is currently at Chapter Arts, Cardiff purchased the American Medical Association, the Roman Catholic until 23 January. Church, the Unification Church and the National Institute of Mental The above text is taken from the peformance/installation Patient Island, a collaboration Health and consolidated them into the UGS International and was with Nina Katchadourian and friends which also resulted in the production of a limited edi- tion LP record. appointed Chair of the GFM. Though he is no longer with us, we remem- For more information on ‘Romantic Detachment’ see www.grizedale.org or visit ber and love him now and forever, and Mosley Island is the first of many the official ‘Romantic Detachment’ at land masses to be named in his honour. www.garrettphelan.com/RomanticDetachment_intro.html To advertise in Opportunities To submit a free listing contact the Communications +44 (0) 191 241 8000 Opportunities and Sales team on F: +44 (0) 191 241 8001 +44 (0) 191 241 8000 [email protected] Connecting visual and applied artists with work. Sections include: Awards, F: +44 (0) 191 241 8001 Deadline: 5 Jan for Feb issue Beyond the UK, Commissions, Competitions, Events, Exhibiting, Jobs, Mail [email protected] a-n magazine Art, Professional development, Publications, Residencies, Selling. Deadline: 10 Jan for Feb issue Deadline: every Tues for weekly updates on www.a-n.co.uk

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CALL FOR Artsadmin Bursary Scheme for Early ENTRIES and Mid-Career Artists JERWOOD APPLIED ARTS PRIZE 2005: METAL In 2005, Artsadmin is offering bursaries for Applications are invited for the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize 2005 UK-based artists working in Performance, In 2005 the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize will be presented for Metal. This is an exciting new addition to the existing categories Live Art, Experimental Theatre, and of Jewellery, Ceramics, Textiles, Glass and Furniture. Time-based Media with a performative The Jerwood Charity has generously enhanced the Prize to element. £30,000 creating the most significant prize in contemporary applied and decorative arts. The Prize will be awarded to an individual who, in the opinion of a panel of specialist judges, displays excellence, innovation and has made a significant For full information and guidelines please visit: contribution to the field of Metal in the United Kingdom in the www.artsadmin.co.uk, write to last six years. Applications from craftspeople, designers and artists working [email protected], creatively in all areas of contemporary Metal practice including or send a stamped A4 SAE for 42p to: silversmithing and goldsmithing are welcomed and encouraged. Applications are invited from designers at any stage in their career. There is no age limit however students are not eligible to apply. Bursary Scheme The shortlist for the prize will be announced in February 2005. Artsadmin The work of the shortlisted makers will be exhibited at the Toynbee Studios Crafts Council Gallery from 8 September to 20 November 2005. This major exhibition will then tour to at least three museums or 28 Commercial Street galleries throughout the UK. London E1 6AB Information and applications are available on www.craftscouncil.org.uk and by post by writing to Jerwood Applied Arts Prize 2005: Metal, Crafts Council, 44a Pentonville Deadline: Tuesday 1st February 2005 Road, Islington, London, N1 9BY or calling into the Crafts Council Resource Centre at the previous address or emailing [email protected] with your name and address. Closing date for applications is 12 noon Monday 24 January 2005 www.a-n.co.uk photography darkroom, a ceramic studio July the following year; 31 January: for a with a kiln and a smith’s cottage. Bikes visit in August-January are also available and when necessary transportation by taxi. The distance from Artspace the centre to Hellsö village (shop and WHAT: Artspace’s focus is on experimental telephone) is 1 km and to Karlby village and conceptual installation practices: (bank and post office) 8 km. There is no critical and theoretical research into bank automat on the island. contemporary visual culture; collaborative WHERE: Finland. and process-based projects; WHEN: all year round. Please state the interdisciplinary, multimedia, new media preferred duration of your stay. Preference and net.art practices; site specificity; is given to artists who wish to stay for at performance art. Housed in the historic least 3 weeks. Gunnery Building and located on the FEE: there is no fee for anyone coming famous Sydney harbour. from outside Nordic countries (except in WHERE: Australia. winter which is 6 / day) for others the WHEN: ongoing. fee is 10 / day. FEE: no stipend TO APPLY: send freely formulated TO APPLY: Artspace invites proposals for application and CV. its program on an ongoing basis for CONTACT: Salme Paldan , The Åland Galleries 1, 2 and 3, the studios, Archipelago Guest Artist Residence, conference program and publications. It is Kökarkultur r.f, AX- 22730 Kökar, Åland interested in receiving proposals from Finland, +358 40 7473642, curators as well as artists, performers, [email protected] writers, theorists, groups and artists’ www.kokarkultur.com organisations from Australia and overseas. DEADLINE: end of February for the period Proposals should include: the conceptual May-September and by the end of and / or theoretical rationale of your September for the period October-April. project; visual material or documentation (slides, drawings, video, photographs or Jeleni Studio texts); a curriculum vitae listing past WHAT: Artists-in-Residence programme George Sherlock, Deluge I, acrylic. Sherlock exhibited in the Royal West of England Acadamy exhibitions, projects, publications and Exhibition 2004. For details of how to apply for this years exhibition, see advert on page 40. that aims to contribute to creative other professional activities relevant to development in many different fields of your proposed project; a proposed art through providing a social and cultural COST: free. TO APPLY: by email or hard copy with a timeframe. Please note that we they only platform for work. FEE: none. CV of no more than 2 sides of A4 plus able to return materials if a stamped, self- The Programme operates all year round TO APPLY: SOA do not want individual supporting visual, audio or other material addressed envelope is included. and enables a wide range of artists and artist’s tapes or tapes from established to illustrate your submission. Do not send CONTACT: Nicholas Tsoutas, Director, arts scholars to work independently on curators; they want video artists to curate original artwork. Supporting Artspace, 43 - 51 Cowper Wharf Road, individual projects in the historical centre their own show. The submission will not documentation will not be returned. Hard Woolloomooloo NSW 2011 Australia, of Prague. Artists working in all mediums be re-edited and will be aired as received. copy submissions and supporting material +61 2 9368 1899, fax: +61 2 9368 1899, are welcome to apply and encouraged to Each show must include five artists. must be provided in duplicate. Application [email protected] develop cooperative projects with local Multiple shows can be submitted. Each form and guidelines can be downloaded www.artspace.org.au artists and arts institutions. The centre has show must be no longer than 28 minutes from the link below. DEADLINE: Artspace considers a full range of multimedia equipment. in length and include 2 minutes of CONTACT: Simon Kirby, Ophelia Huang, applications all year round WHERE: Centre for Contemporary Arts advertising for the project. Submissions Artist Links, c/o Sally Cowling, British Prague, Czech Republic. must be edited according to the Council, Spring Gardens, London, Eyebeam WHEN: ongoing. guidelines on the website. +86 (0)21 6391 2626 ext. 210, WHAT: multidisciplinary artist-in-residence COST: $1,700 US, which includes Once a show is compiled email SOA and fax: +86 (0)21 6391 2121, programme that supports creative accommodation and 24-hour use of the you will be assigned an episode number. [email protected] research, production and presentation of studios but not telephone and fax costs. A Accepted formats: Mini-DV / NTSC, PAL www2.britishcouncil.org/china-arts- projects that query art, technology and 16,000CZK bursary is available to (in VHS form), but you must send a new artistlinks-whatis culture. Projects range from moving applicants from Eastern Europe, South Mini-DV/NTSC for transfer. Every DEADLINE: 15th January image, sound and physical computing America and Asia/Pacific. participating artist must fill out the works, to software, websites, technical FEE: none. application form on the website. No Ateljé Stundars prototypes, performances, workshops and TO APPLY: application must include a pornography – no blatant genitalia WHAT: Founded in 1998, it is part of the public interventions. letter of intent, brief resume of performances. International Artist in Residence WHERE: New York. professional work, visual documentation CONTACT: SnackOnArt, PO Box 180034, programme. WHEN: Residencies vary in duration from that gives impression of recent work (6-10 Brooklyn, New York, USA 11218, Provides artists with a studio and a guest 3-12 months. Applications are accepted slides, CD, photo, video, catalogues), [email protected] apartment for 2-6 months. A board on an ongoing basis and reviewed by a preferred term of residency and/or www.snackonart.org chooses the guest artists twice a year on selection committee that meets quarterly. alternative term. Documentation is DEADLINE: ongoing the basis of the applications. The 60m2 (Please note, Eyebeam will be undergoing returned only upon request and the studio has a graphics workshop, photo lab renovations in autumn 2004 and will not applicant must provide prepaid postal Artists Links China and some digital image editing be reviewing applications before 2005. As coupons. WHO: artists in England and China equipment. There is a self-contained 75m2 of January 2005, an online application CONTACT: Ludvik Hlavacek, WHAT: China Artist Links 2005/06. This apartment with sauna and bike a stones process will be available.) [email protected] Jeleni Studio, research and development opportunity throw from the studio. FEE: production support through 24/7 Jelen’ 9, 118 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic, does not cover commissioning, exhibition WHERE: Finland. studio access, a $1500 honorarium for +420 2 24373178, [email protected] / or performance. Projects in all art forms WHEN: all year round. participation in public programs [email protected] www.fcca.cz welcome with a focus on contemporary COST: the residency is free; the artist only (exhibition, prototyping events, live DEADLINE: February 28, for terms work and new creation. Joint proposals pays for her/his travel and living costs. events), access to studio and exhibition September/October, with Chinese artists or partners welcome. FEE: a small grant for the artist’s material equipment, technical support from November/December, January/February. WHERE: throughout China. costs is included. Eyebeam staff and interns. Resources September 30, for terms March/April, WHEN: early 2005 to late 2006 for one- TO APPLY: when applying for residency include the Moving Image Studio and the May/June, July/August month minimum with 6-10 weeks you should fill in the application form and R&D Lab. recommended. also attach your complete CV and There is the opportunity to teach, guest SnackOnArt COST: none. documentation of your artistic activity as lecture and/or assist with on-going WHAT: independent experimental FEE: usually between £3000-£4000 but well as a detailed plan for your stay at educational programs and workshops for television project founded in 1997 as a the award depends on the needs of the Ateljé Stundars. an additional stipend. work in progress about sharing ideas and project. Awards will cover travel cost, CONTACT: KulturÖsterbotten/Svenska Eyebeam does not provide travel and building a creative community. SOA’s accommodation, per diems and some Österbottens , Handelsesplanaden 23 A accommodation for artists living outside main goal is to expose experimental video material costs. Because China is less 65100 VAASA, FINLAND, of New York. However, it is willing to assist art on television and public spaces. expensive than the UK it is also expected +358 6 324 2211, [email protected] artists in their applications to secure this WHERE: New York. that the award will cover some home www.svof.fi/artstundars funding from other sources. WHEN: ongoing. expenses as well. DEADLINE: 31 July: for a visit in February- TO APPLY: Contact Eyebeam for proposal

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Artists are invited to submit work for borealis a selling exhibition showcasing the best contemporary art from the North East of England. borealis will be launching at Flowers East in London on 7 July 2005 and travelling to four regional venues. borealis will present the best drawing, painting, photography, sculpture and video works. The selection panel will consider work from artists who have gained their fine art degree at one of the recognised North East art schools are currently working or living in the North East, or have a history of working within the North East region. To be considered please submit the following six 35mm slides (clearly captioned with artists name, title, dimensions, medium and artists price) a full and current CV artists statement (no more than one side A4) stamped addressed envelope (for return of visual material) Closing date for applications: 18 February 2005 All slides must be representative of your current working practice and illustrate material available for exhibition and sale. Submissions should be sent to Jenny Jennings, Great North Art Affair, St Nicholas Chare, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1RJ. T: 0191 2457105 [email protected]

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r Open to all painters, this exhibition is selected from open entry by a panel of eminent artists, Candid Galleries art critics and art dealers. 3 Torrens St, London, EC1V 1NQ 020 7837 4237 candidarts.com

CREEKSIDE OPEN Opene painting Open competition for an exhibition at Submission dates APT Gallery on Creekside in May 2005

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Sci Art Exhibition Exploring Genes and Behaviour • How similar are identical twins? • What difference would it make if genes contributing to sexuality, intelligence or personality were found? • Is creativity inherited? The University of Newcastle is looking for three visual artists to make new work which responds to behavioural genetics research and the nature/nurture debate, for an exhibition in spring 2006 at the University’s Hatton Gallery. Specific choice of topic is up to each artist, who will then be paired with a scientist working in the relevant area, or with an affected community. Artist fee £5,000; production budget £10,000 each. For further particulars, email [email protected] or phone 0191 241 8614 and leave contact details.

Who: Visual Artists and Makers. What: Call for entries by visual artists and craft makers of work influenced by computer and game arcade game imagery. Staffordshire Arts and Museum Service also requires submissions of interest from visual artists wishing to undertake 1 month residency in Staffordshire to produce work on the same theme. Where: Shire Hall Gallery and Staffordshire. To apply: Send up to 8 slides/photos, cv and artist statement to Owen Hurcombe, Arts Development Officer (Visual Arts and Crafts) c/o Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford, Staffordshire, ST16 2LD, [email protected] www.staffordshire.gov.uk/sams Deadline: Please send and SAE if you need your images 14 February returning.

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Deadline: March 19th 2005 ˆ}ˆLˆˆÌÞ Exhibition dates: April 11th – June 3rd 2005 ˆÌˆâi˜Ã œv Ì i 1 Õ« ̜ >˜` ˆ˜VÕ`ˆ˜} Ì i >}i œv Îx >à >Ì Î£ Commission on sales: 33% iVi“LiÀ Óääx] VÕÀÀi˜ÌÞ ˆÛˆ˜} ˆ˜ Ì i 1° Opening of the Spinnaker Tower To celebrate the opening in 2005 of Portsmouth’s Millennium Tower, Artists Harbour i`ˆ> Gallery is inviting fine artists and makers to submit no more than 2 works, up to 1 metre ,"- ,/- ܈ Vœ˜Ãˆ`iÀ ܜÀŽ ˆ˜ >˜Þ “i`ˆÕ“° in any direction, influenced by City Towers and other architecural icons. Artists are asked to include a brief submission consisting of: -ˆ`i -ÕL“ˆÃȜ˜ • your C.V. • SAE • a brief description of the work(s) 1« ̜ ÃˆÝ ÜœÀŽÃ Vœ“«iÌi` ȘVi >˜Õ>ÀÞ Óää{ ÜˆÌ 6 >˜` • one image per work (photos, prints, .jpeg files by CD or email) ÃÌ>Ìi“i˜Ì° Please send your submissions to: Towers & Icons, Artists Harbour Gallery, Storehouse 9, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, HM Naval Base, Portsmouth PO1 3PX, UK. -iiV̜Àà Tel: 02392 73 2003. Email: [email protected] www.artistsharbour.com *ÀœviÃÜÀ À> >“ ÀœÜiÞ] i>` œv i«>À̓i˜Ì ­*>ˆ˜Ìˆ˜}®] ,œÞ> œi}i œv ÀÌ ->À> ÞiÀÃVœÕ} ] ˆÀiV̜À] ->À> ÞiÀÃVœÕ} ˆ˜i ÀÌ ˜`Ài> ,œÃi] ˆÀiV̜À œv 6ˆÃÕ> ÀÌÃ] ÀˆÌˆÃ œÕ˜Vˆ°

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Many artists’ awards and prizes are on offer I> Ãi«>À>Ìi œÌˆVi ̜ À̈ÃÌà >˜` >««ˆV>̈œ˜ vœÀ“ vœÀ ˜œ˜‡1 >À̈ÃÌà ˆÃ >Û>ˆ>Li vÀœ“ ,"- ,/- >˜` œ˜ˆ˜i ­`iÌ>ˆÃ LiœÜ®° For details and entry forms, please send a large SAE (35p) to: i>`ˆ˜i Federation of British Artists, Σ >ÀV Óääx 17 Carlton House Terrace, LONDON SW1Y 5BD Ìi\ äÓä Ç{än äÓ£{ iÝÌ°ÎÓ{ ,"- ,/- v>Ý\ äÓä Ç{™™ ÈÇÎn "ÛiÀ‡-i>à œÕÃi i‡“>ˆ\ VՏÌÕÀiJÀœÃ°œÀ}°ÕŽ *>ÀŽ *>Vi ÜÜÜ°ÀœÃ>ÀÌðVœ°ÕŽ Find us at: 020 7930 6844 -Ì >“iýà -ÌÀiiÌ] œ˜`œ˜ -7£ £, www.mallgalleries.org.uk www.a-n.co.uk TRICYCLE OPEN 2005 Call for submissions

Professional artists and recent graduates wanted for the Tricycle Gallery’s annual open submissions.

The Tricycle Gallery is seeking artists to exhibit from June 2005. The Gallery particularly welcomes applications from up and coming artists and resident artists in the large ethnic community of Brent, as well as artists of national or international stature. Exhibitions will be selected on the basis of excellence. UK and European artists are welcome.

For more information on how to apply send a stamped addressed envelope to Tricycle Gallery, 269 Kilburn High Road, London NW6 7JR or email [email protected]

£1000 Prize Call for artists

… to take part in Britain’s Major National Theme of 2005 – Sea Britain/Trafalgar 200: Past Glories, Future Horizons TRAFALGAR CONTEMPORARY An exhibition celebrating the Battle of Trafalgar Bi-Centenary

Deadline: April 30th, 2005. Entry fee: £10 Competition: £1,000 1st Prize (decided by panel during May) Exhibition dates: June 10th to October 22nd, 2005. Commission on sales: 33% Artists Harbour Gallery in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard invites fine artists and crafts people to submit a contemporary response to the theme of Trafalgar 200: Past Glories, Future Horizons No more than two artworks, maximum dimension one metre in any direction. Works will be seen throughout the summer and autumn by visitors to Portsmouth, including major national events: the International Fleet Review by The Queen (June), the International Festival of the Sea (July) and Trafalgar Day (October). Artists are asked to include a brief submission consisting of: • your C.V. • SAE • a brief description of the work(s) • one image of each work (photographs, prints, .jpeg files by CD or email) Please send your submissions to Trafalgar Contemporary, Artists Harbour Gallery, Storehouse 9, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, HM Naval Base, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO1 3PX, UK. Tel: 02392 73 2003. Email: [email protected] www.artistsharbour.com

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www.a-n.co.uk details. foreign exchange network of artists in How gay are your genes? Chindogu Design Exhibition All international applicants will need to residence, it is an advantage if you can WHO: visual artists in any media. WHO: artists, designers, inventors resident apply for the appropriate visa. Please note offer a similar exchange agreement, WHAT: working alongside a professional in the UK. that those applicants whose country of however not obligatory. writer and with individuals to produce one WHAT: open competition leading towards citizenship participates in the visa waiver CONTACT: Artist in Residence, Stiftelsen or more original works based on the a selected exhibition planned to run program may apply for short-term Kulturhuset USF, Georgernes verft 12, NO- testimonies and writings of project alongside the Comedy Festival Week in residencies (90 days or less) without a 5011 Bergen, Norway, +47 55 31 55 70, participants, perhaps also drawing on July. visa. For this reason and in the interest of fax: +47 55 23 20 06, [email protected] scientific imagery surrounding DNA and WHERE: New Greenham Arts and the finding additional funding for lodging www.usf.no genetics. This project is committed to Corn Exchange Newbury. and travel, ask that foreign applicants DEADLINE: 1 January and reflecting the hopes, fears and ideas of the INFORMATION FROM: Sally Childs, Visual apply six months ahead of the date that 1 May each year LGB communities in the north east of Arts Manager, New Greenham Arts, 113 they wish to start their residency. England and communicating their Lindenmuth Way, Newbury RG14 6HN, Artists participating need to present their experiences and views to a wider audience. 01635 817480, [email protected] The Camargo Foundation work in an appropriate public form. This WHAT: the Camargo Foundation WHEN: from autumn 05. www.cornexchangenew.co.uk can include gallery installations, TO APPLY: send CV including two referees www.greenham-common-trust.co.uk/arts maintains a study centre in Cassis, France demonstrations of research in progress, and contact details, images of recent work, DEADLINE: 14 February for the benefit of fellows who wish to panel discussions, on-line projects, or covering letter, supporting proposal and pursue projects in the humanities and multimedia performances, in addition to provisional budget. Royal West of England Academy social sciences related to French and open studio events. Artists should include CONTACT: Dr Tom Shakespeare, PEALS WHO: all painters. in their proposal examples of how they Francophone cultures, as well as creative Research Institute, Bioscience Centre, WHAT: call for entries for open painting might like to present their work publicly. projects by visual artists, photographers, Times Square, Newcastle NE1 4EP, competition. Submission fees apply. CONTACT: EYEBEAM Administrative video artists, filmmakers, media artists, [email protected] WHEN: 24 Apr - 4 June. Offices, 45 Main Street, 12th Floor, composers and writers. Creative projects [email protected] PRIZES: prize money £9,000+. Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA, do not need a specific French connection. DEADLINE: 31 January APPLICATION FORMS: send C5 SAE to +01 718 222 3982, F +01 718 222 5621, The Foundation offers, at no cost, thirteen Open Painting, Royal West of England [email protected] www.eyebeam.org furnished apartments, a reference library, Public Art Commission Academy, Queen’s Road, Clifton, Bristol DEADLINE: ongoing darkroom, artist’s studio and music WHO: all artists. BS8 1PX, www.rwa.org.uk composition studio. The residential WHAT: Bradford Gateways and Corridors, Available from Feb. New Museum of Contemporary Art fellowship is accompanied by a $3,500 the commission will be a landmark for one SEDING IN DAYS: 31 March, 1-2 April. WHAT: artist slide review. Artists to submit stipend. of the major routes into the city and will See display ad documentation of their work for DETAILS: candidates for fellowships are convey an image of Bradford that is consideration. asked to submit the appropriate number positive, identifiable and distinctive. Courses WHERE: New York. of copies of an application form including WHEN: project completion June. WHEN: Ongoing. a project summary, CV and detailed FEE: for shortlisted artists a fee of £1,000 Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art FEE: No fee/costs. description of their projects not to exceed plus expenses up to £150 is available. WHO: painters, sculptors and other art TO APPLY: Submit slides or other 1,000 words. Candidates in the visual INFORMATION FROM: Jill Kelly, Public practitioners from around the world. photographic documentation no larger arts, photography, video arts, filmmaking, Arts, The Orangery, Back Lane, Wakefield WHAT: the CyCA Postgraduate Diploma is than 8” x 11”, videos (1/2” NTSC format), media arts, music composition and writing WF1 2TG, 01924 215550, an eight month programme based in DVDs, CD-ROMs, or a website address should also submit samples of their work. [email protected] . www.public-arts.co.uk only (we do not accept original work or The Foundation requires without DETAILS: all tuition is in English. Some models) plus a CV and artist’s statement. DEADLINE: 21 January exception that all application materials, assistance with fees may be possible and When submitting materials, please mark See display ad free living accommodation may also be including letters of recommendation, be your envelope ‘Artist Slide Review’. SAE for offered. postmarked by 15 Jan. Residency awards return of materials. Glasgow City Council INFORMATION FROM: 0113 274 3287 in are announced early April of each year. CONTACT: New Museum of Contemporary WHO: artists interested in working with the UK, +44 113 274 3287 in Eire, Art/Chelsea, 556 West 22nd Street (at APPLICATION FORMS FROM: The the project’s design team. www.artcyprus.org 11th Avenue), NYC 10011, USA. Camargo Foundation, US Secretariat, WHAT: to develop proposals for artworks See display ad Administrative Offices: New Museum of 400 Sibley Street, Suite 125, St Paul, MN which will integrate within the design and Contemporary Art, 210 11th Avenue 2nd 55101-1928 USA, +01 651 238 8805. construction of the King Street North Block Master of Fine Art Floor NYC 10001, +01 212 219 1222, DEADLINE: 15 January building in the Merchant City area of WHAT: two-year full-time postgraduate F +01 212 431 5328, Glasgow. course in Fine Art practice within the [email protected] Commissions DETAILS: the building is currently the School of Arts & Cultures at the University www.newmuseum.org subject of an advanced feasibility study of Newcastle upon Tyne. DEADLINE: ongoing Skatepark Sculpture into its refurbishment and development as TO APPLY: contact Nigel Villalard, 0191 WHO: community artist, preferably based a unique visual arts resource providing 222 6047, or HaSS Graduate School, USF Verftet in the North of England. studios, production facilities in Daysh Building, University of Newcastle WHAT: a residency for professional, WHAT: to work with a group of young photography, film and video, and upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 international foreign artists, writers, skateboarders to produce an iconic piece printmaking and exhibition spaces. 5RU, www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/fineart directors and composers. Residencies for of sculpture for a newly-installed INFORMATION FROM: www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply/forms fine art and crafts are open only to non- skatepark. The piece needs to represent [email protected] DEADLINE: 21 February Nordic citizens. Writers, directors and the fluidity and gracefulness of DEADLINE: 7 January See display ad composers may be citizens of one of the skateboarding. Nordic countries, except Norway. The FEE: £8,000. Competitions MA Enterprise and Management for residency includes two studios and CONTACT: Kate Staines, Hambleton the Creative Arts WHO: those working in the visual arts, apartments. These are situated at USF District Council, Civic Centre, Stone Cross, Future Landscapes Verftet, an old sardine factory converted design and media industries. Northallerton DL6 2UU, 01609 767203, WHO: artists working in all art forms into a large and diverse culture centre. including new media. WHAT: programme based upon the [email protected] WHERE: Norway. WHAT: The Whittingham Riddell delivery of a ‘tool kit’ of specially designed www.hambleton.gov.uk WHEN: Ongoing. Shrewsbury Open art competition, part of modules covering a wide range of DEADLINE: 31 January FEE: 3 month residency at USF Verftet in a the This Is Art Shrewsbury Festival and the business and management issues. rent-free studio and additional Shrewsbury Summer Season. WHERE: London College of accommodation. The artist must supply RNLI Opportunities WHERE: Shrewsbury Museum & Art Communication. WHO: artists. living costs, travel, materials, insurance Gallery; The Old Market Hall Film & Digital WHEN: full-time and part-time options and transport costs. WHAT: create new work for a national Media Centre; Photography & New Media starting Jan. TO APPLY: Artist centres and cultural award for outstanding supporters of the Gallery. INFORMATION FROM: 020 7514 6569, organisations are hereby invited to submit Lifeboat Service. WHEN: 19 July - 4 Sept. [email protected] one artist per year. Chosen artists must WHEN: the awards are due to be PRIZES: to include 1st prize £3,000; local DEADLINE: asap return application form, CV and presented at the Barbican, London in May. artist prize £1,000; people’s choice £500. See display ad documentation of work by mail. FEE: anticipated budget £10,000. INFORMATION: send SAE to Festival Open Artists can also apply individually, with CONTACT: Kerry Sawyer, RNLI, West Quay Enquiries, Shrewsbury Museum & Art Events letters of reference from local or national Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ, Gallery, Barker Street, Shrewsbury SY1 arts community and/or art institutions. [email protected] 1QH, [email protected] International Ceramics Festival Since Stiftelsen Kulturhuset USF and the DEADLINE: 14 January DEADLINE: 1 May WHO: potters, teachers, students and Council of Bergen wishes to establish a See display ad See display ad ceramic enthusiasts.

44 Opportunities Online listings and display adverts are updated every Thursday by 5pm a-n Magazine January 2005 WHAT: three day festival with Peacock, 76 King Street, Knutsford WA1 creative and innovative use of paper in CONTACT: Hames Levack, The Old Loft, demonstrations, kiln building and firings, 6ED, 01565 621156, the visual arts, craft and design. 6 Conduit Street, London, W1S 2XE, slide shows, films and lectures, exhibitions, [email protected] WHEN: Mar/Apr 05. email:[email protected] trade stands and bookstalls. DEADLINE: 21 January CONTACT: Artworks MK, 01908 608108, DEADLINE: ongoing WHERE: Aberystwyth Arts Centre. [email protected] WHEN: 1-3 July. Exhibiting www.artworks-mk.co.uk/exhibitions National Eisteddfod of Wales CONTACT: International Ceramics Festival, DEADLINE: 11 February WHO: anyone born in Wales or of Welsh Aberystwyth Arts Centre, University of Waterloo Gallery parentage, or who has resided or worked Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 WHO: individual artists and groups Chapel Gallery in Wales for the three years prior to 30 3DE, 01970 622882, [email protected] making wall hanging work in any media. WHO: artists working on the issue of July 05, or any person able to speak or www.internationalceramicsfestival.co.uk or WHAT: applications invited for 2005 ‘Identity’. write the Welsh language. book on 01970 623232. programme. WHAT: work in any media. WHAT: call for entries for visual arts DEADLINE: asap DETAILS: our aim is to run a gallery which WHERE: Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk. exhibition. is accessible to both the public and artists. TO APPLY: send six images of work and PRIZES: Gold Medal for Fine Art and Blackwater Arts Art Fairs A not-for-profit organisation, all charges artist statement to Ruth Owen, Gallery £5,000; Gold Medal for Craft & Design WHAT: series of art fairs in London and made are to meet our overheads and to Officer, Chapel Gallery, St Helens Road, and £5,000. elsewhere during 2005, including fairs enable us to provide a varied programme Ormskirk L39 4QR, 01695 571328, INFORMATION AND APPLICATION devoted to sculpture, prints and drawings including some non-commercial [email protected] FORMS FROM: Robyn Tomos, Visual Arts and studio pottery. community exhibitions. DEADLINE: 28 January Officer, National Eisteddfod of Wales, TO APPLY: contact Blackwater Arts, 01904 INFORMATION AND APPLICATION 40 Park Ty Glas, Llanishen, Cardiff 673129, [email protected] FORMS: send SAE to Waterloo Gallery, Emerging Artists CF14 5WL, 029 2076 3777. DEADLINE: asap 14 Baylis Road, London SE1 7AA. WHO: anyone working with the moving DEADLINE: 14 February DEADLINE: 21 January image - video artists, filmmakers, Choreodrome 2005 animators, VJs. From Motor Cars to Space Ships WHO: choreographers. WHAT: call for entries for regular WHO: artist makers. game WHAT: providing opportunities for self- WHO: visual artists and makers. screening events. Video art, short films, WHAT: create work for an exhibition directed choreographic research using WHAT: call for entries by visual artists and animation, experimental work up to based on transport of any kind, all media studios and other facilities, this activity craft makers of work influenced by 15mins max in VHS, DVD format. accepted from sculpture, painting, textiles, will be complemented by directed computer and arcade game imagery. WHERE: Candid Arts Cafe Gallery, ceramics, wood, jewellery. WHERE: Henshaws Arts and Crafts Centre. choreographic laboratories and an Staffordshire Arts and Museum Service London. intensive project for dancers. TO APPLY: send work and SAE for return WHEN: 19 Mar - 5 June. also requires submissions of interest from WHERE: The Place. to Matthew Bowen, Candid Arts Trust, 3 DETAILS: work that is fun and offers visual artists wishing to undertake one- WHEN: 18 Jul - 11 Sept. Torrens Street, London EC1V 1NQ. visitors some kind of sensory interaction, month residency in Staffordshire to CONTACT: Louise Dickson, 020 7383 DEADLINE: ongoing ie touch, vision, sound, movement, will be produce work on the same theme. 3524, [email protected] welcomed as the Centre specialises in WHERE: Shire Hall Gallery and Application packs available from 14 Jan. training artists who have a visual Staffordshire. Art Auction EAST DEADLINE: asap WHO: artists living in the eastern region. impairment, hearing impairment and TO APPLY: send up to 8 slides/photos, cv, WHAT: call for entries for exhibition. additional disability. artist statement and SAE for return to WHERE: Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery. TO APPLY: send CV, artist statement as to Landmark Arts Centre Owen Hurcombe, Arts Development WHO: designers and artists. APPLICATION FORMS FROM: 01284 why you feel your work fits the theme, Officer (Visual Arts and Crafts) c/o Shire WHAT: applications sought for 762081, images (CDs but no email formats), Midsummer Art Fair and Autumn Art Fair. Hall Gallery, Stafford, Staffordshire, ST16 www.burystedmundsartgallery.org include dimensions and price to Marissa WHEN: 7-19 June and 21-23 Oct. 2LD, [email protected] DEADLINE: 4 March Wakefield, Centre Manager, Henshaws TO APPLY: send SAE to Landmark Arts www.staffordshire.gov.uk/sams See display ad Arts and Crafts Centre, 50 Bond End, Centre, Ferry Road, Teddington TW11 DEADLINE: 14 February Knaresborough HG5 9AL. See display ad 9NN, 020 8977 0495/7558. The 62 Group DEADLINE: 11 February See display ad WHO: textile artists. Artists Books WHAT: new member applications invited. Grounds for Designs WHO: artists making artists books. At The Ddge: Extending Opportunity to exhibit and promote work WHO: sculptors, installation artists, 3D WHAT: artist-run initiative to make Textile Boundaries on a national and international level. artists, mixed-media artists. WHAT: launch conference focusing on contact with other artists who wish to INFORMATION: send SAE or international WHAT: 4th MoDA Annual Outdoor Group developing textile networks and share costs to set up a new artists book stamp vouchers to PO Box 16439 Show, contemporary responses to examining how concepts and technology website, attend artists book fairs, Glasgow G20 6WB, or download from historic/modern garden sculptures sited relate to textile practice. collaborate making books and curate www.62group.org.uk in the gounds of Museum of Domestic WHERE: The Somerset Centre for exhibitions. DEADLINE: 31 May Design and Architecture in Barnet, Enterprise, Taunton. TO APPLY: send CV, brief statement about See display ad London. WHEN: Sat 5 Mar, 10-5. how your practice includes making books, WHEN: on site visits 29-30 Jan and 5-6 COST: £35, concessions £25. six images of work (min three of artist’s Mall Galleries Feb. Installation 7-14 May. Exhibition INFORMATION FROM: Sonja Andrew, books stating size, edition, technique), WHO: all artists. 17 May - 24 July. TFSW Coordinator, 01422 842091, slides/CD/prints and SAE for return to WHAT: submit work for the following CONTACT: Jolanta Jagiello, 15 Eynsford [email protected] Noelle Griffiths, Hafod Press, Maentwrog, exhibitions: Pastel Society, receiving days Road, Seven Kings, Ilford IG3 8BA, 020 See display ad Gwynedd LL41 3AQ. 14 & 15 Jan. Royal Institute of Painters in 8597 0322, 07957 774791, DEADLINE: 28 February Watercolours, receiving days 4 & 5 Feb. [email protected] Yorkshire Coast Open Studios Royal Society of Portrait Painters, www.moda.mdx.ac.uk WHO: artists living on the North Yorkshire Artworks-mk receiving days 4 & 5 March. DEADLINE: 25 February coast, the North York Moors and North WHO: visual artists, designers, makers and WHERE: Mall Galleries. East Ryedale. photographers. INFORMATION AND ENTRY FORMS: send ‘game’ WHAT: to apply for inclusion in open WHAT: proposals which have an engaging large SAE (35p) to Federation of British WHO: visual artists and makers. studios event. concept and which can be interpreted Artists, 17 Carlton House Terrace, London WHAT: call for entries of work influenced WHEN: weekends of 4-5, 11-12, 18-19 through educational activities. SW1Y 5BD, 020 7930 6844, by computer and arcade game imagery. June. WHERE: Artworks-mk, Milton Keynes. www.mallgalleries.org.uk WHERE: Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford. INFORMATION AND APPLICATION Various internal and external spaces over See display ad TO APPLY: send up to eight slides/photos, FORMS: send SAE to ‘Create’, Unit 7, two different sites including a Grade II CV, artist statement and SAE for return to 39/40 Queen Street, Scarborough YO11 listed barn, garden, open courtyard and Hames Levack Owen Hurcombe, Arts Development 1HQ. workshops/studios. WHO: new artists living in Wales. Officer, Visual Arts and Crafts, c/o Shire DEADLINE: 10 January WHEN: 2005/06. WHAT: artists applications for exhibitions. Hall Gallery, Stafford ST16 2LD, CONTACT: Artworks-mk, 01908 608108, WHERE: Hames Levack, a gallery [email protected] Cheshire Open Studios [email protected] dedicated to levelling the creative playing www.staffordshire.gov.uk/sams WHO: professional artists and makers www.artworks-mk.co.uk/exhibitions field. Setting up shows in unusual spaces DEADLINE: 14 February based in Cheshire, all media. DEADLINE: 11 February all over London, and managing and WHAT: to take part in the county’s annual curating a range of permanent venues. EMACA (East Midlands African & open studios event. Paper Exhibition TO APPLY: download applications forms Caribbean Arts) WHEN: Sept. WHO: artists, designers, makers currently from www.hameslevack.com To be sent WHO: visual artists of African descent. INFORMATION AND APPLICATION working with paper or paper pulp. with colour printouts, slides or CD’s. WHAT: fine arts and craft media sought FORMS: send SAE to COS, c/o Firbob & WHAT: selected exhibition profiling No applications via email please. for exhibitions, workshops, educational www.a-n.co.uk Juliet Gomperts Trust 4 week residencies worth £2000 at Centro Verochio, More jobs… Tuscany. Project Funding, up to £1000 for work in following categories: Weekly updated War and Tea, Social Opportunities Housing, Work in Wood www.julietgompertstrust.co.uk listings for subscribers or s.a.e. to JGT, 31 Addison on www.a-n.co.uk Avenue, London, W11 4QS deadline: 21 Feb 2005

Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art 2005-2006 Based on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, the CyCA Postgraduate Diploma is an eight month programme for painters, sculptors and other art practitioners from around the world. As an artist or recent graduate it is an opportunity to develop or redefine your practise in an ancient and fascinating location. All tuition is in English and some assistance with fees may be available. Free living accommodation may also be offered. For a prospectus visit our website at www.artcyprus.org, or call 0113 274 3287 in the UK, or 0044 113 274 3287 in Eire. CYPRUS COLLEGE OF ART an art college with a difference

Birmingham Instutue of Art and Design We are currently inviting applications for the following programmes of study. Digital Arts / Graphics BA (Hons) Fine Art P/T Courses starting January 2005 in Central London 4VG267 A general introduction to art and design computing and Photoshop. MA Fine Art Saturday 8 Jan – 19 Feb. 10:30 – 17:00. These dynamic programmes will introduce you to a range of 4VG250 Learn how to use digital video cameras, and edit your tape. contemporary studio practices and allow you to develop your 4 Jan – 8 Mar. 10:30 – 13:30. individual practice at undergraduate and/or post-graduate 4VG297 Creative Animation. 4 Jan – 8 Mar. 14:00 – 17:00 level. The programmes are delivered and supported by subject 4VG254 Basic digital video editing for beginners using Final Cut . 7 Jan - 4 Mar. 14:00 – 17:00. specialists, visiting artists and critics. All full time students are 4VG288 Digital imaging for Photographers / 2. 5 Jan – 9 Mar. 18:00 – 21:00. allocated studio space in the Grade 1 listed purpose built art school. 4VG284 Advanced Photoshop techniques. Sunday 20 Feb and 27 Feb. 10:30 – 16:30. 4VG293 Beginners web design using Dreamweaver and Photoshop. MA Art & Education 17 Jan – 23 Feb .18:00 – 21:00. This popular programme offers students the opportunity to engage 4VG295 Using Flash for web design and animation – an introduction. with a wide range of cultural, theoretical and artistic debate and 20 Jan – 17 Feb. 14:00 – 17:00. practice. The programme offers two distinct study pathways: Academic 4VG276 Photoshop: an introduction for speakers of other languages. and Individual Practice. The course is ideal for artists, teachers, 6 Jan – 10 Mar. 09:30 – 14:00. art therapists, community artists and gallery education offi cers. 4VK384 Creating promotional material with InDesign and Photoshop. Design and produce your own posters, flyers and logos. An introductory AHRB Bursary applications for full and part time Masters courses design course which helps you learn new skills, develop ideas, and should be submitted as soon as possible as the deadline for produce practical work with a purpose submission is 1st May 2005. 7 Jan – 4 Mar. 10:15 – 13:35. 4VG327 Creative use of computers for U3A (University of the 3rd Age). Interviews for full and part time applicants will take place 5 Jan – 23 Mar. 13:30 – 16:30. throughout the year. 4VK373 Graphic Design Basics. 4 Jan – 8 Mar. 18:00 – 21:00. 4VK377 Graphic Design and Illustration. 6 Jan – 10 Mar. 18:00 – 21:00. For further details and an applications form These are affordable courses taught by practicing professionals with teaching experience. please contact: Sue Rice, Departmental Offi ce, Department of Art, Birmingham Institute Many other courses are in our prospectus – please ask for a copy of our prospectus of Art & Design, Margaret Street, Birmingham B3 3BX. For further details about these courses, and concessionary rates, please contact the Telephone: 0121 331 5970. City Lit Visual Arts Office at The City Literary Institute, 6 Bolt Court, Fleet St, London, EC4A 3DQ. 020 7405 0931. [email protected] www.citylit.ac.uk www.biad.uce.ac.uk

46 Opportunities a-n Magazine January 2005 OPPORTUNITIES FOR ARTISTS – RNLI University of Newcastle upon Tyne The Royal National Lifeboat Institution wishes to commission an artist to create new work for a national award for outstanding supporters of the Lifeboat Service. These awards are due to be Master of Fine Art presented at the Barbican in London in May 2005. The anticipated budget for this project is £10,000. In 2004 the course was successful in securing 12 European Social Please show initial expressions of interest by 14 January 2005 to: Fund Bursaries. We hope to offer similar funding in 2005. Each [email protected] Kerry Sawyer, RNLI, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset, BH15 1HZ bursary covers a portion of fees and provides both a maintenance An artist’s brief will then be sent to you to request further information. grant and an allowance for materials. The MFA is a two year, full-time, postgraduate course in Fine Art practice within the The RNLI is a registered charity that saves lives at sea. Registered Charity 209603 School of Arts & Cultures.

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in University of THE PRINCE’S SCHOOL OF Digswell Arts Trust partnership with U H Herfordshire TRADITIONAL ARTS VISUAL ISLAMIC & TRADITIONAL opportunity for artists, illustrators, ARTS PROGRAMME HIGHER DEGREES IN TRADITIONAL ARTS designers/makers living or The V.I.T.A. Course offers a unique working in Hertfordshire opportunity to study both the theory and practice of Visual Islamic and Traditional artists mean business II – a partnership between Digswell Arts Arts at higher educational level. Trust and the University of Hertfordshire School of Art and Design offers emerging professionals a ‘not to be missed’ opportunity As well as PhD degrees the following three courses are validated by the University of Wales:  a training-needs assessment to bring greater focus to your career development. (1) M.A. (Practical Course) (2) M.A. (Project Course – half practical/half theory)  an intensive six month part time course for selected (3) MPhil (Degree by thesis) participants at the University of Hertfordshire leading to a Post Graduate Certificate in Business and Digital Skills for Artists The study of the theory and meaning of the traditional arts are a and Designers. special feature of the V.I.T.A. programme. The course work is supported by first hand experience of the traditional arts  one to one mentoring for selected participants from an through working sessions with traditional artists and craftsmen. established artist. Students are encouraged to pursue their own particular skills –  membership of the Digswell Artists Network, benefiting from whether it be painting, woodcarving, jewellery, stained glass, regular networking meetings, newsletters and talks. ceramics etc, at the same time as attending classes in geometry, • Take your creative career further! methods and materials, clay craft, arabesque and others. • Use business tools for your career progression! • Accomplish a step-change in your professional practice! For further details contact: • Meet and work with like minded professionals The Administrator, V.I.T.A. programme, The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts, Further details and application forms from 19-22 Charlotte Road, London EC2A 3SG. Helen Shabetai Telephone 020 7613 8500 Facsimile 020 7613 8599 01707 889893 / 01438 315454 Email: [email protected] [email protected] or visit Registered charity no. 1101538 www.chilternweb.co.uk/digswell/ U H Working to connect the art of building & the making of community www.a-n.co.uk activities, residencies and commissions for FORMS: send SAE to Blandscliff Gallery, 9 www.thingsfromhere.co.uk on a regular basis and all selected work relating to the African diaspora and Blands Cliff, Scarborough YO11 1NR, DEADLINE: ongoing material is archived online and will to be entered onto our artist database. www.blandscliffgallery.com feature in a publication in 2005. TO APPLY: send 6-10 images of work on DEADLINE: asap New Media Artists Required INFORMATION FROM: [email protected] slides or CD Rom, artist statement, CV WHO: locally-based artists with own www.artistsaid.com and project proposal to Elvia Burrell, Jobs transport. Visual Arts Officer, The Art Exchange, WHAT: lead participatory workshops Arts Training Wales Contacts 39 Gregory Boulevard, Hyson Green, Aspex Volunteers Programme across North Yorkshire in image creation WHAT: advisory body for Arts Council of Nottingham NG7 6BE, 0115 924 4611, WHO: people with an interest in and manipulation, desktop publishing, Wales funding applications under the [email protected] contemporary visual art and a desire to web, video creation and editing, using Training & Professional Development DEADLINE: ongoing develop practical skills within a gallery Mac laptops. Artists experienced in Scheme. environment. tutoring on the use of digital video and DETAILS: enquirers from different artforms SWALC WHAT: volunteers required to assist with stills cameras also wanted. are dealt with by individuals within the WHO: independent artists and groups. the day-to-day running of the gallery, FEE: dependent on experience and ATW office as follows - visual arts, craft, WHAT: exhibition swapping anywhere in installation of exhibitions, participatory duration of project. arts & disability, multimedia and design, the nation. SWALC is a network working in workshops and the Artists’ Resource TO APPLY: send CV to Julia Smith, Rural Zoe Rozelaar; multicultural arts, voluntary Bristol and Bath. Centre (ARC). Arts, The Old Courthouse, Westgate, arts, music and voice, literature, Donna CONTACT: WHERE: Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth. Thirsk YO7 1AF, [email protected] Jones; community arts, arts management, [email protected] CONTACT: Gambol Parker, Gallery www.ruralarts.org stage management, technical theatre & Manager, Aspex Gallery, 27 Brougham DEADLINE: ongoing theatre design, dance, drama, Cathi Zoom-In Photography Road, Portsmouth PO5 4PA, 023 9281 Marcus. Enquirers from arts organisations WHO: fine art photographers. 2121, [email protected] Mail art should contact Cathi Marcus. Enquirers WHAT: solo exhibitions, each lasting six DEADLINE: ongoing preferring to use the Welsh language weeks, suitable for large and small scale should contact Donna Jones. works. Life’s A Beach Blackwater Arts DETAILS: take one A5 padded envelope INFORMATION: Arts Training Wales, WHERE: the Bread & Roses pub, London WHO: experienced tutors. and an A4 transparent sleeve on holiday. Sbectrwm, Bwlch Road, Fairwater, Caridff SW4. WHAT: tutors wanted for weekend, five- Find a beach location that has either an CF5 3EF, 029 2056 9898, DETAILS: Zoom In organises mail out and day and longer drawing and painting historical or humanistic (celebratory) [email protected] www.a-t-w.com opening night. Artist provides 100 invite courses, both in the UK and overseas. significance or is of great natural beauty DEADLINE: ongoing cards and £40 admin fee. TO APPLY: send CV and details to or ecological interest. Collect 100 grams TO APPLY: send ten images (prints or Blackwater Arts, 108 The Mount, York of this non-toxic beach material in the Go Wales: Funding for Training slides), CV and written statement about YO24 1AS, [email protected] plastic sachet, seal and enclose in the WHO: graduate level employees of any the work to Exhibition Coordinator, Zoom- DEADLINE: asap envelope with a postcard of the beach. age in Welsh small businesses/charities. In Photography, Clapham Leisure Centre, WHAT: broaden your skills, motivate your Record personal notes on this beach Clapham Manor Street, London SW4 6BD, staff, increase productivity. Up to Stroud House Gallery including location, town, country, 020 7720 7437, [email protected] 50%/£1,000 support plus £50 travel. WHO: artists/graduates. latitude/longitude, reason for inclusion, www.zoom.in.org Wide range of courses, conferences, exams WHAT: volunteers to assist with date of collection. For exhibition as part of DEADLINE: 31 January or fees from the provider of your choice. administration, setting up and marketing Lowestoft Art Experience 2005, 5-12 June, exhibitions. Possibilities to devise Advice on activities and eligibility. Suffolk. The Art of Permanence and Change workshops and teaching groups. CONTACT: Caroline Gay, Go Wales, SEND TO: Ben Quail, ‘Life’s A Beach’, 26 WHO: artists in any medium. TO APPLY: send CV with any relevant 029 2087 9119, [email protected] St Margerets Road, Lowestoft NR32 4HS WHAT: collaborations, performances and information to Stroud House Gallery, www.gowales.co.uk DEADLINE: asap live art proposals welcome. Work may be Station Road, Stroud GL5 3AP, DEADLINE: asap site-specific or exist independently, but 01453 750575. due to the external nature of the show it DEADLINE: 31 January Text Me DETAILS: email a copy of the last SMS text Regional Print Centre should be durable, deliberately designed WHO: printmakers from across Wales. message you sent or received. The for interaction or intentionally transient. WHAT: opportunity to use the facilities in Gallery Volunteers message should be transcribed exactly, WHERE: Sydenham Hill Woods. WHAT: volunteers required by Candid Arts Wrexham. Advance booking essential. including any text abbreviations and WHEN: running the course of three Trust for assistance in creating artists CONTACT: Steffan Jones-Hughes, The punctuation. Include date, time and weekends in May. websites, exhibition organisation, Regional Print Centre, Yale College, Grove whether it was sent or received. You can TO APPLY: send CV, relevant images of marketing and administration. Park Road, Wrexham LL12 7AA, remain anonymous if you wish. Texts will previous work, written project proposal of TO APPLY: send SAE marked ‘Volunteers’ 01978 311794 ext 2286, 07813 437205, be used to form a collective ‘text message approx 500 words and SAE for return of to Anne Noble-Partridge, 3 Torrens Street, [email protected] images to ‘The Art of Permanence and London EC1V 1NQ, 020 7837 4237, log’ as part of an ongoing project. DEADLINE: ongoing Change’, 24 Stanstead Road, Forest Hill, [email protected] SEND TO: [email protected] DEADLINE: ongoing London SE23 1BW. www.candidarts.com Textile Forum South West DEADLINE: asap DEADLINE: ongoing WHO: textile practitioners, regional Free Comics museums and galleries, education, DETAILS: ‘Stars and Gutters’ is a quality Fool’s Gold Gallery Intern companies, local authority representatives WHO: artists, jewellery artists. WHO: graduates in Art & Design or two issue comic featuring celebrity icons and arts organisations. WHAT: international exhibition of art related subject. such as Salvador Dali and James Dean. WHAT: non-profit making, voluntary jewellery based on the theme Worn Art WHAT: to participate with The Islington Surplus copies available. Send A4 SAE organisation with the role of generating and Useless Jewels. 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General www.embassygallery.co.uk months, Feb-Apr. membership of the Forum is open to DEADLINE: 20 January TO APPLY: send CV to Matthew Bowen, Artist’s aid anyone over 18 years of age with a Candid Arts Trust, 3 Torrens Street, London WHAT: A.a in Manchester is an artist professional or personal interest in Blandscliff Gallery EC1V 1NQ. support organisation that aims to textiles. WHO: professional 2D and 3D artists. DEADLINE: 14 January establish communication and networks CONTACT: Sonja Andrew, TFSW WHAT: opportunity to exhibit in the between artists. Coordinator, 01422 842091, following themed exhibitions - 19 Mar - 4 Here Gallery WHERE: regular monthly meetings are [email protected] May: ‘Interpreting the Masters’; 7 May - WHO: locally-based volunteers. held at Castlefield Gallery and activities 22 June: ‘Beauty in Age’; 25 June - 27 WHAT: to help with the day-to-day range from speakers on professional Crafts Council Development Award Aug: ‘Getting Your Teeth into running of the space, administration and development issues to day trips, WHO: designer makers living and working Scarborough’; 20 Aug - 12 Oct: ‘Music to coordination of shows. conferences and portfolio events. A.a in England who have completed their My Ears’; 15 Oct - 22 Dec: ‘Christmas WHERE: here Gallery, Bristol. operates a web-based critical forum that studies and have practiced as a Show’. CONTACT: Jane Porter or Camilla Stacey, offers a place to discuss ideas around craftsperson for no more than three years. WHERE: Blandscliff Gallery, Scarborough. here, 108 Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3RU, current arts practice and review projects WHAT: one year scheme offering INFORMATION AND APPLICATION 0117 942 2222, [email protected] and exhibitions. New material is presented maintenance grant of £2,500, equipment

48 Opportunities a-n Magazine January 2005 grants, a residential course in business (applications by post only please), to Guest artists Islington Art & Design Fair training, 1,000 postcards free of charge Caroline Fisher, Bolwick Hall, Marsham, WHO: professional ceramicists and WHO: artists and designers. and inclusion on the Craft Council’s Norfolk NR10 5PU, 01263 732131, painters. WHAT: entries required from the following Photostore. [email protected] WHAT: to be guest artists for 4-6 weeks. four categories: 1-3 Apr, Painting, INFORMATION AND APPLICATION www.bolwick.com In addition to our themed exhibitions we Sculpture & New Media; 8-10 Apr, FORMS FROM: Crafts Council Resource DEADLINE: 4 February are offering one painter and one Fashion, Jewellery, Textiles; 15-17 Apr, Centre, 44a Pentonville Road, Islington, ceramicist the opportunity to be the main Graphics, Photography, Illustration; 22-24 London N1 9BY, 020 7806 2501, The Belmont Arts Centre exhibitor. Apr, Furniture, Ceramics, Glass. [email protected] WHO: artists in any art form. WHERE: Blandscliff Gallery, Scarborough. APPLICATION FORMS: send SAE marked www.craftscouncil.org.uk/guide WHAT: proposals for 2-6 week residencies TO APPLY: send ten photos of work or jpeg ICADF to Matthew Bowen, 3 Torrens DEADLINE: 1 March to include opportunities for practical images on CD, CV, artist statement and Street, London EC1V 1NQ, 020 7837 activities involving children, young people SAE to Blandscliff Gallery, 9 Blands Cliff, 4237, [email protected] Publications or other groups in the local community Scarborough YO11 1NR, www.candidarts.com www.blandscliffgallery.com and resulting in the performance, DEADLINE: 28 February DEADLINE: asap Source magazine presentation or exhibition of an original WHAT: Source photographic magazine is work developed during the residency. Christmas Craft Fair Staffordshire Arts and Museum WHO: all artists. interested in seeing previously WHERE: Belmont Arts Centre, Shrewsbury. Service WHAT: call for handmade goods. unpublished photographic work for WHEN: Sept-Dec. consideration in publication. To this end WHO: visual artists. WHERE: South Hill Park Arts Centre. FEE: 60% share of income earned from they want to arrange meetings with those WHAT: one month residency producing WHEN: 12-13 Nov. activities for which a charge is made, such working with photography at the venues work influenced by computer and arcade TO APPLY: send 4-6 slides/images of as workshops and performances. listed below. Please read all the game imagery. work, artist’s statement and indication of TO APPLY: send a description of the work information below before getting in touch. CONTACT: Owen Hurcombe, Arts price range to Craft Fair, SHP Arts Centre, DETAILS: for more information about the you intend to make and the opportunities Development Officer, Visual Arts and Ringmead, Bracknell RG12 7PA, 01344 magazine it can be viewed online at it will offer for participation (no more Crafts, c/o Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford 416240. www.source.ie To arrange a time please than two sides A4), details of your current ST16 2LD, DEADLINE: 28 February email John Duncan at [email protected] and recent artistic practice, names and [email protected] See display ad with a one-paragraph outline of your work contact details of two professional www.staffordshire.gov.uk/sams DEADLINE: 14 February and four screen resolution jpegs (200k referees to Martin Summer, Belmont Arts Spring Show max per image). Due to the limited Centre, 5 Belmont, Shrewsbury SY1 1TF. WHO: 2D and 3D artists. number of places on each day a selection DEADLINE: 1 March Covepark Crafts Residency WHAT: unthemed selling exhibition WHO: applied artists. process based on the emailed material featuring all styles of work in any media WHAT: three-month residency from 4 Jul - will take place. The magazine is interested Residency Opportunity including glass, ceramics and jewellery. 30 Sept. Funded by the Scottish Arts in seeing work examining particular issues WHAT: applications for the post of Lead WHERE: Obsidian Art Gallery. Council. or ideas. It’s essential to have a look at an Artist working in partnership with WHEN: 17 Mar - 10 Apr. FEE: £3,000, materials grant of £750, actual copy of the magazine prior to Copeland Borough Council and Cumbria APPLICATION FORMS: send SAE to accommodation and studio provided. emailing images. Please see website for Arts in Education. Obsidian Art, Layby Farm, Old Risborough INFORMATION FROM: Cove Park, Peaton availability. Include your phone number WHERE: Millom School/Haverigg Prison, Road, Stoke Mandeville HP22 5XJ, 01296 Hill, Cove, Argyll and Bute G84 0PE, on the email. For direct submissions see Cumbria. 612150, [email protected] 01436 850123, [email protected] www.source.ie There is no payment for DEADLINE: 15 February WHEN: for 60 days between Apr - Aug. www.covepark.org work reproduced. FEE: £9,000 plus expenses. DEADLINE: 18 March PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY DAYS: INFORMATION FROM: 01946 65901, New Art Gallery Context Gallery, Artillery Street, Derry, Sat WHO: all artists. [email protected] Hospital Arts 5 Feb. Street Level, King Street, Glasgow, DEADLINE: 4 February WHO: visual artists. WHAT: exhibit and sell work in new city Sat 19 Feb. Side Gallery, 9 Side, Newcastle See display ad WHAT: six week residency. centre art gallery. All disciplines, styles, upon Tyne, Sun 20 Feb. Q Gallery, Q Arts, WHERE: Duke of Kent Children’s Ward, subject matter welcome. Also smaller 35/36 Queen Street, Derby, Sun 13 Mar. Cove Park Scarborough Hospital. works for the ‘Under £50’ section, eg CONTACT: Source, PO Box 352 Belfast, WHAT: visual arts and crafts residencies. TO APPLY: send up to ten images of work, studies on paper. BT1 2WB, 02890 329691, www.source.ie INFORMATION FROM: Cove Park, Peaton CV, statement and SAE for return of slides, WHERE: York. DEADLINE: asap Hill, Cove G84 0PE, 01436 850123, to Jo Davis, Hafney, Whitby Hospital, TO APPLY: send clear images of work that [email protected] Spring Hill, Whitby YO21 1DP, preferably can be kept on file, brief CV Residencies www.covepark.org [email protected] and artist’s statement to Amie Antoniak, See display ad DEADLINE: 21 January 17 Feversham House, York YO31 7PL, Delfina Artist Residencies 07967 021809, WHO: international artists. [email protected] Space for Rent Selling WHAT: apply for residency in the UK. WHO: artists and makers. www.artfulness.co.uk WHEN: Oct-Jun each year. 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Opportunity to work on issue- WHAT: crafts required for retain area of WHO: artists and craft makers. experiment and work in cooperation with based collaborative projects with art gallery. WHAT: sell gift cards for all occasions in one another to produce a coherent community groups. WHERE: Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk. York art gallery. exhibition of work indoors and outdoors. WHERE: Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow. TO APPLY: send images of work, price list, TO APPLY: send samples to Amie WHERE: in the grounds and outbuildings WHEN: June 05. artist statement and CV to Joanne Antoniak, 17 Feversham House, York YO31 of a Georgian hall in North Norfolk. FEE: £4,000 to include materials. Nicholson, Chapel Gallery, St Helens 7PL, 07967 021809, WHEN: May - June. CONTACT: Katie Bruce or Alicia Vanner, Road, Ormskirk L39 4QR, 01695 571328, [email protected] TO APPLY: send up to ten images of site- 0141 229 1996. 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Applications are invited for a curator to develop a programme of environmental contemporary art projects at the National Institute for Medial Research. Responsibilities will include initiation of site specific schemes, organisation of art-science collaborations, liaison with patrons and support agencies and identification of sources of funding. You should have a degree in Art History or related subject with an excellent knowledge of contemporary art and experience of art project management. A post-graduate degree in curating is desirable. The contract will be for one year in the first instance at 2 days per week, with the objective of renewal for up to two years. Further information and a job description can be downloaded from the Institute web site at: www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/jobs. Alternatively, call 020 8816 2530 quoting reference APC. Closing date: 22nd January 2005

Development Worker RESEARCH FELLOW ROOTSTEIN HOPKINS FOUNDATION RESEARCH PROJECT Devon Artists Network is looking to appoint a freelance Development Worker to set up a Two year fixed term contract strong network and membership £28,022 – £34,134 organisation offering Devon visual artists support, professional Actual salary inclusive of London Weighting Allowance development training and opportunities. To start work in early The School is a small specialist Higher Education Institution of recognised excellence in 2005 learning and research. Following a collaboration between the School and the Rootstein Fee £15,000 Hopkins Foundation we are seeking to appoint a high profile Research Fellow of national and international quality, ideally with a higher education art and design background. for 100 flexible days The Research Fellow will actively research the history and work of over a year if you wish to be considered please the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation, focussing on awards made from email: 1992-2006. The work will take place within the context of an enquiry into [email protected] the value and impact of philanthropic funding in the support of the arts for an application pack Deadline for applications within the United Kingdom. 5pm 21st JANUARY 2005 You will have previous experience of writing for publication, producing illustrated research publications, knowledge of philanthropic funding WANTED: within education of arts and humanities. Technically competent, reliable You will also have experience of research project management, and the capacity to draw and intelligent technician on external resources as necessary. required to work as a full-time studio assistant for professional Further details and an application form are available from: international sculptor in busy studio in Kings Cross. The Human Resources Administrator,Wimbledon School of Art, Please fax covering letter and CV Merton Hall Road, London, SW19 3QA. to 020 7697 2188 Telephone: 020 8408 5539 Fax: 020 8408 5050 E-mail: [email protected] Closing date for receipt of applications: 21st January 2005. Interviews are scheduled to be held: 9th February 2005. Wimbledon School of Art is committed to the pursuit of excellence and the promotion of equality of opportunity. To advertise in Directory Directory Contact the Communications and Sales team on Directory listings for specialised services including, Accommodation, Casting, Courses, Equipment, +44 (0) 191 241 8000 For sale, Framing, Galleries, Holidays, Internet, Materials, Opportunities, Personal, Photographic, F: +44 (0) 191 241 8001 Posts available, Print, Services ,Studios/workshops, Suppliers. [email protected] Next deadline: 5 Jan for listings 10 Jan for display ads

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The artists of the Studios invite you to join them at their studios in Limassol on the south coast of Cyprus. Studio space is available for as little as one month, and rent starts at £200 a month. This pays for studio SYMPATHETIC CHARTERED space, living accommodation ACCOUNTANT for all your tax and and utility bills. accounting problems. Call Allon on 020 8954 4556. www.limassolstudios.org or call 0113 274 3287 KINETIC ART. Designer/technician experienced in mechanical animation in and special effects can realise your proj- STUDIO/WORKSPACE/STORAGE Peckham, London. Natural light, high ects. Call Nick on 020 8537 2599. ceilings, two minutes from Peckham Rye ARTISTS BOOKSEARCH SERVICE. We station, parking also available. 110 to find out of print art books. The search is 2,000sq. ft units. Call 020 7635 0000. free. Send lists, artists, subjects interested in to Polytypic (Books Dept AN), PO Box STUDIO/WORK 4163, Cardiff CF14 1ZR. Tel/fax SPACE/OFFICE/STORAGE, 10x11ft 029 2033 7621 anserphone. approximately. Suitable artist, painter, designer, craftsperson, media (not music). West Hampstead NW2 London. Nearest tube Kilburn. £195pcm. Call 07966 154787. CUCKOO FARM STUDIOS, Colchester, Essex. From £50 month. Various sizes. Print workshop. Exhibition space. Group shows. Open studios. Parking. 2 miles To advertise in Directory call 0191 241 8000 station. Contact 01206 843530 www.cuckoofarmstudios.org.uk STUDIOS, OFFICES, STORAGE UNITS Transport to let Chelsea/Fulham. 24hr access, car parking available, 5mins F/Bway tube. studios to let From £45pw. Tel 020 7384 3714. EUROART STUDIOS, Tottenham, N ideal for craft and creative businesses London: full-time managed & promoted. Good natural light & security. 24hr Located on the unique heritage site of the Red House Glass Cone, access, parking. On site gallery. Wordsley, Stourbridge, West Midlands Tel 07802 502136/020 7354 4576, • separately metered electricity supply E: [email protected] • administrative facilities available on site PRINTMAKERS WORKSHOPS, West • retail display area in reception Yorkshire Print Workshop. Open access, • initial 12 month lease three presses, digital, safe etching, • space available ranging from 5 to 28.36 square metres courses, darkroom. New members welcome. Contact Gareth: • annual rents from £350 to £1525 (+vat) 01924 497646. For further information call 01384 815322 TO LET ISLINGTON, single storey self- or visit www.redhousecone.co.uk contained workshop. Short let. 850sq. ft. Very low rent. Please tel 01132 892771. STUDIO TO LET. Garden workshop/studio, 4.5m x 3.6m to let to The Harley Foundation Studios professional artist/craftsman, central Exeter, in New Year. £200pcm + electric- All Wheel Welbeck, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, S80 3LW ity. Phone 01392 256206. Drive Lifting The Harley Foundation is a Nottinghamshire-based independent charity support- STONE SCULPTOR is looking for studio SCULPTORS ing art and artists by providing subsidised studio space. The Foundation’s studio space in London (NW6, NW5, NW2, Experienced UK/Euro, On/Off Road complex is set in a rural location with excellent transport links. NW1, E8, E9). Sharing welcome. Please Haulier, Self Loading Crane, Packing ring Sabine on 07951 640881. Provided. Additional Goods in Transit As well as studio space the Foundation also offers: Insurance upon request. KEW STUDIO occasionally has spaces to Requestable extra services for Temporary ‰ Start-up studio rates rent for artists in friendly, shared, well-lit or Permanent Mounting ‰ Artist training opportunities studios. We have classes: life drawing, Complimentary Hire Service ‰ Opportunity to sell work in the Harley Gallery’s Craft Shop tapestry, etching, drawing and painting. Small Power Tools and Bits for Cutting and ‰ Annual Open Studio event Etching and open studio facilities also Drilling Concrete or Steel, Generator, Gantry and Handtrolleys ‰ Employment opportunities including teaching and demonstrations available. Opportunities for tutors to give PHONE KEITH BAKER For further information and an application weekend workshops. Tel: 020 8332 2122. FOR DETAILS form contact the Harley Foundation on on 07836 627520 01909 501700 or email NORTH TYNESIDE, COASTAL AREA. on 01454 260698 [email protected]. Well-established arts group seeks visual Email [email protected] artists to share affordable space. www.awdlifting.co.uk Interested? Ring 0191 252 6383 or 0191 258 1751 for information.

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