Moving Image Salon
In Spring 2019 we arrived in London after 6 years of living in Portugal. We had initially moved away from the UK when we had an opportunity to live rent free in a beach house in a…
Christo & Jeanne-Claude
Christo Vladimirov Javacheff died on 31 May 2020 in New York City, a decade after his spouse Jeanne Claude Denat de Guillebon also died there: they were astrological twins (both born on 13 June 1935) and for…
Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants
Open deadline
National Lottery Project Grants is an open access programme for arts, museums and libraries projects. The fund supports thousands of individual artists, community and cultural organisations. National Lottery Project Grants supports a broad…
From Leaving London To Lockdown Collaboration
To deliberately misquote Groove Armada, “Goodbye Nightclub, Hello Country”. Back in my 30s, I thought London and I would be married for life. But then as the years progressed, our relationship became more strained,…
Things Have Changed
Covid 19’s devastating impact on the visual art world has required lockdown of artists at home; closure of art schools, galleries, museums, art fairs and auction rooms; and, in common with most of the rest of the…
Tattoo You
‘Where there’s a hit, there’s a writ’ is an old music business saying, which perhaps applies to legal responses in recent times to the rise in popularity of body art, tattooing in particular. In March 2020 landmark court…
Death of a Gallery
Blain|Southern’s sudden closure of its three gallery operations at London, Berlin and New York in February 2020 shocked the contemporary art world (Artnotes AM434). Apart from inevitable questions raised by Ernest Hemingway’s aperçu in The Sun…
Bogotá: The Sprawling Urban Jungle in the Clouds
When I arrived in Bogotá, I didn’t have many expectations. I packed in my job and studio in London on a whim and changed an existing flight I had to Brazil to…
TRANSMISSIONS
Online platform commissioning artists to share their work within a classic DIY TV show format during the COVID pandemic Initiated by Anne Duffau, Tai Shani and Hana Noorali and supported by a number of UK art institutions and commercially…
Being An Artist’s Lawyer
In April 2020 a unique event will take place in Los Angeles at Southwestern Law School’s Donald E Biederman Entertainment and Media Law Institute. As part of the Institute’s programme of Continuing Legal Education for California…
Bolton: Land of Opportunity
Two years ago, at a particularly challenging time in our lives my partner and I made big changes, I quit my teaching job and we moved to Bolton from London. Our aim was to prioritise being…
WFH Residency
£1000 award to convert the first COVID lockdown in 2020 into a ‘work from home’ residency Responding to a collapse in work opportunities during the first COVID lockdown, the WFH Residency paid artists to conduct a ‘working from…
Laundering
On 10 January 2020 new anti money laundering laws came into force in the UK that have wide ranging, game changing and undoubtedly controversial implications for the art market. The Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) Regulations 2019 are…
Peer mentoring for artists
A peer mentoring group is a regular gathering of artists who support each other. A group might talk about their art practice, their careers, or other professional or cultural developments. It is similar to the ‘crits’…
Legal Drivers
Banksy began his practice as a freehand street graffiti artist, subsequently using stencils to facilitate the swifter execution of work – and thus avoidance of detection and arrest for criminal damage or trespass to other people’s property. He…
Palazzo Monti Artist Residency
Open deadline
Palazzo Monti is an artist residency program based in Brescia, housed in a palazzo dating back to 1200. The Palazzo is an incubator for creativity and productivity, offering artists a chance to find inspiration, forge new…
Bilbao Rocks
During my five months on an artist residency in the Northern Spanish City of Bilbao, I have noticed a lot of artists. Being based in an artist residency centre this is obviously a risk. Considering the size of…
Tariff-Free Art Trade
On Friday 18 October 2019, while the UK House of Commons was preparing to hold the next day’s ‘Super Saturday’ sitting to decide whether to accept the revised UK/EU withdrawal agreement and political declaration that had been…