Helping artists realise their dreams and students imagine their future:
http://www.AA2A.org
http://twitter.com/AA2Aproject

The AA2A project offers artists & designer makers the opportunity to undertake a period of research or realise a project using art college facilities eg. workshops, IT facilities, lending library, & lecture programme.  AA2A schemes aim to benefit students and Colleges through their interaction with practising artists.

FOR FULL ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA AND DETAILS OF HOW TO APPLY
visit http://www.aa2a.org/apply

Access is free, for at least 100 hours, between Oct 2010 and April 2011 and a materials/travel grant of £220 is usually available. Applicants must have at least one year’s professional practice and should be able to work with minimal technical support. Artists on AA2A schemes run from 2007 to 2008 or before can now reapply.  To read previous artists’ stories visit http://aa2a.org/publication - AA2A particularly welcomes applications from applicants with disabilities, from culturally diverse backgrounds and non-graduates

APPLICATION PACKS ARE ONLY AVAILABLE DIRECTLY FROM THE COLLEGES TAKING PART:

University of Cumbria      01228 888745     karen.graham@cumbria.ac.uk
printmaking, wood, metal, ceramics, textiles

Northumbria University  (Newcastle)     0191 243 7059       barry.nicholson@northumbria.ac.uk
printmaking, wood, metal, ceramics, digital media, photography, video, drawing, painting

University of Sunderland       0191 515 3606      ellen.dorans@sunderland.ac.uk
glass, ceramics

Teesside University  (Middlesbrough)      01642 384 045     K.Geldart@tees.ac.uk
printmaking, wood, metal, plastic, digital media, painting

Hull School of Art & Design        01482 480 970       LHoughton@hull-college.ac.uk
printmaking, wood, metal, glass, ceramics, textiles, fashion, costume, film, video, sound, digital media, photography, illustration, graphic design, painting

University of Central Lancashire  (Preston)     01772 893 959     jpcrane@uclan.ac.uk  printmaking, fashion

Bradford School of Arts & Media      01274 438 965    h.farrar@bradfordcollege.ac.uk  printmaking, ceramics, jewellery, textiles, photography, digital media, graphic design, painting

University of Huddersfield        01484 471 145        k.cowans@hud.ac.uk printmaking, 3D scanning, rapid prototyping, lazer cutting, textiles, video, photography, digital media, installation, project space, drawing, painting

Manchester Metropolitan University      0161 247 1122    c.coyle@mmu.ac.uk  printmaking, wood, metal, glass, ceramics, textiles, fashion, graphic design, photography

University of Salford       0161 295 5223       artsunit-amss@salford.ac.uk  constructed fibre, phonic art/sound, installation, drawing, painting

Liverpool Community College      0151 252 4319       john.keith@liv-coll.ac.uk  printmaking (screen), ceramics, fashion, printed textiles, digital imaging, multi media, photography, painting, drawing, liferooms

University Centre Doncaster      0130 255 3578       laura.zenbergs@don.ac.uk   printmaking, wood, metal, ceramics, textiles, fashion, film, video, digital media, photography, graphic design, painting

University of Lincoln        01522 895 239       peastwood@lincoln.ac.uk  printmaking, fashion, time-based media, digital media, video, animation, photography, installation, painting, drawing

Nottingham Trent University       0115 848 8652       susan.rhodes@ntu.ac.uk  printmaking, wood, metal, glass, resin, ceramics, interior textiles, puppetry, digital media, audio/sonics, video, photography, installation, painting, drawing

University of Derby       01332 593 113      j.falconer@derby.ac.uk   printmaking, wood, metal, casting, carving, glass, ceramics, textiles, digital media, photography

Loughborough University      01509 228 903      R.Dewing@lboro.ac.uk  printmaking, wood, fine metal, foundry, stonecarving, ceramics, textiles, digital media, animation, video, photography, installation, illustration, painting, drawing

University of Wolverhampton       01902 323 399       S.Hind@wlv.ac.uk   printmaking, wood, metal, foundry, wood / stonecarving, hot glass, ceramics, interior textiles, digital media, video, photography, illustration, painting

Birmingham City University          0121 331 5950         sue.rice@bcu.ac.uk       printmaking, plaster resin casting, video, photography, digital media

Coventry University        02476 88 7794 or 0247 688 8248      a.rogers@coventry.ac.uk  printmaking, metal, foundry casting, ceramics, textiles, lazer cutting, digital media, installation, painting, drawing

Hereford College of Arts       01432 845 366        w.tolley@hca.ac.uk   printmaking, wood, jewellery, ceramics, textiles, artists books, multi media, photography, animation, painting

Anglia Ruskin University    (Cambridge)      0845 196 2317       Cassie.Lynch@anglia.ac.uk  printmaking, digital media, photography, illustration, painting

University Campus Suffolk   (Ipswich)      01473 343 486         r.catto@ucs.ac.uk    printmaking, wood, metal, plaster, lens based and digital media, drawing - NB: U.C.S. is a pilot scheme and full artists grants may not be available

University of Hertfordshire   (Hatfield)       01707 285 327       ad-shortcourse@herts.ac.uk   printmaking, wood, metal, glass, ceramics, textiles, fashion, costume, digital media, film, video, sound, photography, graphics, illustration, painting

London Metropolitan University       0207 320 2800       v.pratt@londonmet.ac.uk   printmaking, mixed media, silversmithing, jewellery, textiles (furnishings), furniture, time-based media, photography

Chelsea College of Art and Design    (London)       0207 514 7914       l.paylor@camberwell.arts.ac.uk  digital printed textiles, digital woven textiles, ceramics (3D visualisation in clay - raw to fired), digital media (video and editing)

Camberwell College of Arts    (South London)    0207 514 7914       l.paylor@camberwell.arts.ac.uk  (NB: admin shared with Chelsea) printmaking, wood, metal, foundry, ceramics, photography, digital media, illustration

Kingston University    (South London)    0208 417 4238      S.Mulhall@kingston.ac.uk print, wood, metal, jewellery, stone, glass, ceramics, mouldmaking, textiles, extensive filmmaking & digital media, photography, painting

University for the Creative Arts  (Canterbury & Maidstone)     01622 620 113         jpainter@ucreative.ac.uk   printmaking, wood, metal, casting, digital media, film, video, sound, photography, painting, drawing

University of Portsmouth        02392 843 801         Claire.Bates@port.ac.uk    printmaking, fine metals, wood, glass, ceramics, fashion, textiles, digital media, photography

Plymouth College of Art and Design        01752 203 434       exhibitions@plymouthart.ac.uk  printmaking, metals (incl.fine), glass, ceramics, fashion/textiles, moving image, animation, digital media, games design, photography, graphics, painting

University College Falmouth   0132 637 0483      aa2a@falmouth.ac.uk    wood, metal, glass (hot and cold), ceramics, plastics, textile print, weave and stitch, digital production

If you cannot contact a college repeatedly, please let us know by email at  AA2A@wendymason.biz

Artists Access to Art Colleges is funded by the Lottery through ACE

More info/application forms at www.artspace.org.uk

Yorkshire Artspace’s new Starter Studio Programme is designed to provide start-up support to dedicated artists at an early stage of their career who are interested in exploring and developing their collaborative/socially engaged practice.

Yorkshire Artspace is offering a unique opportunity for 2 artists to join the programme in October 2010 with access to:

- A shared workspace at an affordable rent with 24/7 access.
- Start-up business support, advice & training.
- Mentor support from experienced practitioners.
- Shadowing/placement opportunities facilitated by Sheffield City Council’s Public Art Officer with planning teams in Parson Cross and other Sheffield neighbourhoods.
- Opportunity to develop collaborative creative project in Parson Cross.
- Dedicated time with the Resident Artist commissioned by Yorkshire Artspace to work in Parson Cross over the course of a year.
- Exhibition/Display opportunities.

If you have any questions or would like to arrange a vist please contact Rachael Dodd 0114 213 0111 or rachael@artspace.org.uk - More info/application forms at www.artspace.org.uk

An international contemporary art exhibition spread across the city’s gallery spaces. Free entry. Venues include Bloc, Millennium Gallery, S1 Artspace, Site Gallery, Yorkshire Artspace, Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery and the public realm.

Read the full programme online.

The skeletal remains of Sutton Scarsdale Hall continue to decay. A dilapidated wreck of a structure, you enter at your own risk. This decay needs to be resisted and Sutton Scarsdale needs to live again…

In the very heart of England, Sutton Scarsdale Hall is to become the Pavilion of Postcontemporary Curating, a new international art facility set in the beautiful Derbyshire countryside, dedicated solely to new curating.

The current hall is a perfect exhibition/performance space: lit from above, with high walls, neutral floor. As a functioning work of art/art centre, it should provide everything the contemporary curator requires, and be able to evolve as those needs change… Importantly it will facilitate new media production as well as old, it will have a library, archive, research facilities, studios and accommodation as well as a gallery dedicated to the history of the house.

It will be a base for new ways of looking at art and its production. A sculpture, it will become part of the regional landscape and act as a beacon to advanced ideas and art praxis in the regional and international scenes.

With this call for entries, the Centre of Attention is seeking proposals for the re-imagining of Sutton Scarsdale Hall, Derbyshire into a pavilion of postcontemporary curating.

This call is open to architects, designers, artists, curators and others. All ideas, gestural, utopian or pragmatic are welcome. Proposals and concepts can be submitted as drawings, images or texts, by email to on@thecentreofattention.org

More information and images: www.thecentreofattention.org
The Centre of Attention: 020 8880 5507 or 07792 582 386

images (from left to right): Stills from: The Hyperborean, Chloë Brown; Adhãn, Haroon Mirza; Acrospire, Paul Morrison.

Presenting work by Sheffield-based artists at the Showroom Cinema, Sheffield

Tuesday 2 February 6pm
£2 (£1.50 conc)

Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum invites you to a home screening of The Sheffield Pavilion 2009, a screening programme and limited edition DVD of specially commissioned and existing video works by eleven Sheffield-based artists.

The Sheffield Pavilion 2009 was originally screened and distributed during the opening days of the 11th Istanbul Biennial at Büyük Londra Hotel, presenting the work of Sheffield-based artists and promoting contemporary art activity taking place in Sheffield, UK in an international context. It features an essay by artist / curator Ian White and is designed by renowned Sheffield-based design firm The Designers Republic.

The Sheffield Pavilion is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England

Yorkshire ArtSpace: Porter Brook Studios is in Sheffield City Centre (S1), and is available from May 2009. Next door to Persistence Works, this well lit, well serviced, low cost temporary studio base with spaces on the 1st and 2nd floor, will be available on a short term licence basis.

Yorkshire ArtSpace: Manor Oaks Studios in the S2 area of the city is available from Spring 2010. These brand new, purpose built studios at Manor Oaks farm are being developed in partnership with Green Estate, in line with their sustainable agenda.  The studios in this historical setting, close to Sheffield city centre, are particularly suitable for artists working in crafts or applied arts. 

Yorkshire ArtSpace: SOAR Works are new developments in Parson Cross (S6) in the north of Sheffield, and are available from Summer 2010. These new, purpose built studios are being developed in partnership with Southey Owlerton Area Regeneration.  All units are north facing and situated on the top floor with natural skylights.  This complex is situated with easy access to the M1 and the A61North and the studios are particularly suitable for more quieter visual arts practices.

All artists within these new complexes will be part of Yorkshire ArtSpace Society’s membership, with access to communal facilities at the main building at Persistence Works, such as the meeting room and reception, participation in joint events and initiatives and access to business support services. For further information, images of the spaces and an application form visit http://www.artspace.org.uk/studios.htm or contact Anita Lloyd on anita@artspace.org.uk or 0114 2761769.

Press Release: March 2009

As well as organising the Art Sheffield international biennial festivals in the city, Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum (SCAF) also organises projects which aim to promote the work of Sheffield based artists in international contexts. 

To date SCAF has organised The Sheffield Pavilion, an exhibition of commissioned artwork in book form which was launched and distributed at the Venice Biennale, Documenta and  Skulptur Projekte Munster festivals in 2007. This nexus of projects falling together offered a unique opportunity to symbiotically present the work of ten Sheffield-based artists and promote the contemporary art activity taking place in Sheffield in an international context.

The next such project - The Sheffield Pavilion 2009 undergoes a change in both form and context, moving from book to screening programme/DVD edition and from a launch at the Venice Biennale to one in Istanbul in September 2009 during the opening days of the 11th Istanbul Biennial.  The construct of the ‘Pavilion’ (a temporary structure used for leisure, entertainment or exhibition) has again been used to structure the project and the artists’ contributions. A nomadic pavilion is easy to pack up and move on to further seek its audience, it can respond to the migratory movements of the art world with equal levels of critique and complicity. 

As well as existing as an exhibited screening programme of specially commissioned and existing artists’ films, a limited edition DVD edition will be produced with accompanying essay by artist/curator Ian White and designed by renowned Sheffield-based design firm The Designers Republic. These will also be distributed at the launch and will be available by contacting SCAF.

Participating artists: 

Richard Bartle, Chloe Brown, Katie Davies, Hondartza Fraga, Steve Hawley, Esther Johnson, Tony Kemplen, Haroon Mirza, Paul Morrison, No Fixed Abode, Third Angel