Hello and welcome to our new look newsletter, we hope you’ll find it lively, interesting and easy to digest. It’s intended to complement our website and there’s lots here to direct you to it so that you can find out more about our projects, as well as the latest events and opportunities, and news from the sector.
We hope you enjoy it!
We’re pleased to bring you the latest on our projects:
Make.Practice.Perfect.
We will hold our next annual event: Make.Practice.Perfect. at The Collection & Usher Gallery on Friday 24th March. Featuring provocations and discursive sessions, networking and interactive activity, the event will consider how we make art and maintain an art practice, where we turn for help in the process and practice of making art, if we are looking in the right places and whether we need look at all.
A booking link will be available soon.
Document
Our project artists are exploring professional development opportunities, our filmmaker Bill Newsinger is reviewing the already extensive visual material he has gathered over the last few months. We’re looking forward to seeing it!
Meet the Artist
Following hard on the heels of Joey Holder, we’re delighted to present the work of Daniel Sean Kelly, our latest Meet the Artist participant. Read his profile to find out more about his practice.
The Start of Something
Supported by our collaborative conversation project The Start of Something, Waddington Cultural Collective will hold Analysis of Process, a symposium exploring collaborative practice at The Collection & Usher Gallery in Lincoln on Friday 13th January
In Another Place
Early in 2017 we will invite expressions of interest from East Midlands-based organisations to take part in In Another Place, a region-wide project that will profile and promote their activity to new audiences, via a suite of commissioned adverts displayed expo-style across the region supported by a branding and communications campaign.
Find out what our national and co-networks are working on.
Steering Group Artist Member
We’re looking for an artist to join our Steering Group to strengthen the voice and representation of the artist within the Group and help ensure that CVAN EM is as connected to studio practice and the independent sector as possible. Find out more about the opportunity.
Annual Report & Network Survey
You can now read our 2016 Annual Report & Network Survey.
Write a Review
We would love to hear your thoughts on the visual arts activities that you’re seeing and doing in the East Midlands. You can now write a review of exhibitions you’ve seen or events you’ve been to and submit it to us to be published on our website.
For now, we wish you a Happy Christmas. See you in 2017!
CVAN East Midlands
Digital Art Commission, 1215.today – 30 Dec
Open Call for Submissions, Visual Art Open – 31 Dec
Residency Opportunity, Art Action UK – 31 Dec
Steering Group Artist Member, CVAN EM – 31 Dec
Grant for Photographers, Viewbook.com – 31 Dec
Open Call: Online Platform, Nonterritorial – 1 Jan
Creative Programme Assistant, NAE – 3 Jan
Lead Artist: Visual Arts, St Anthony’s Primary, 3 Jan
Commission Opportunity, Barbican – 4 Jan
Development Manager, ArtReach – 5 Jan
Executive Producer, ArtReach – 5 Jan
Call for Submissions, (International Postcard Show) Surface Gallery – 6 Jan
Open Call: London/Melbourne, Science Gallery – 8 Jan
Artist Commission, artsNK – 9 Jan
Company Assistant, Invisible Flock – 9 Jan
Membership & Marketing Coordinator, Design-Nation- 9 Jan
Head of Public Programmes and Research, Nottingham Contemporary – 9 Jan
Touring Programme Co-ordinator, Nottingham Contemporary – 9 Jan
Permanent Public Art Commission, Beam – 9 Jan
Learning Consultant, Compton Verney – 9 Jan
Artist Bursaries, Jerwood Visual Arts – 9 Jan
Creative & Digital Industries Network Manager, QUAD – 11 Jan
Visual Arts Technician – Exhibitions, mac Birmingham – 12 Jan
Artist Residency: The Netherlands, The Van Abbemuseum – 15 Jan
Open Call Exhibition: Bulgaria, Process Space – 15 Jan
Visual Arts Technician – Art & Design, mac Birmingham – 16 Jan
Artist Residency, Wysing Arts Centre – 16 Jan
Artist Residency, Trust New Art- 17 Jan
Opportunity for Recent Graduates, Bloomberg New Contemporaries – 23 Jan
Frieze Artist Award – 10 Feb
Artist Open Call, Flour Magazine – 31 Jan
Call for Submissions, Intermedia: CCA Glasgow – 6 Feb
Contemporary Art Writing Prize, The Burlington Magazine – 27 Feb
Call for Art Writing Contributors, Young Artists in Conversation – 28 Feb
John Ruskin Prize 2017, Big Draw – 24 April
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Featured Opportunity
Steering Group Artist Member
CVAN East Midlands
Deadline: 31 Dec
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Ending Soon
Senior Lecturer Fine Art, Middlesex University – 16 Dec
Graduate Academic Assistant Fine Art, Middlesex University – 16 Dec
Connect/Exchange Artist Residencies, Metal – 16 Dec
Social Media & Digital Marketing Apprentice, Phoenix Cinema and Arts Centre – 18 Dec
Project Coordinator: STEAM Autism Programme – 19 Dec
What’s on
Derbyshire
teamLab: What a Loving, and Beautiful World, QUAD – until 5 Feb
Will Hurt: Configurations, QUAD – until 5 Feb
Minecraft Club, QUAD – until 21 Dec
Connie Liebschner, No. 3 The Spot – 17 to 23 Dec
Time and Tide Wait For No Man, Banks Mill Studios – 2 to 27 Jan
Leicestershire & Rutland
We Are All Neurodiverse, Threshold Studios – 17 Jan
Silent Signal, Phoenix – 15 Dec to 29 Jan
Passion2Print 2016, LPW – until 28 Jan
Where Shapes Come From, Phoenix – 10 Feb to 26 March
Lincolnshire
Analysis of Process (Symposium), Waddington Cultural Collective – 13 Jan
Soft Engineering, NCCD – until 8 Jan
Here and Now, NCCD – until 15 Jan
2020 Visions & Alys Power One and Many, NCCD – 14 Jan to 12 March
Euan Uglow / Sargy Mann, Usher Gallery – until 8 Jan
James E Smith, Usher Gallery – until 2 May
Northamptonshire
Our Woods, Corby- until 7 May
Free-Caracci-Institute, NN Contemporary Art – until 24 Dec
And Then…, NN Contemporary Art – 7 Jan to 25 Feb
Nottinghamshire
My Granddad’s Car by Sayed Hasan and Karl Ohiri – until 31 Dec
UNTITLED: Art on the Conditions of Our Time, NAE – 14 Jan – 19 March
UNTITLED: In conversation, NAE – 26 Jan
Dépossession, TG Gallery – until 21 Jan
Art & Theory Reading Group, Wollaton St Studios – 26 Jan
Rae Hicks, Trade Gallery – until 29 Jan
Talk with Barbara Walker, NAE – 2 Feb
Our Creative Futures and the Conditions of Our Time, NAE – 11 Feb
Richard Perry, Lakeside Arts – until 12 Feb
Victor Pasmore, Lakeside Arts – until 19 Feb
The Virtual Self, NAE – 24 Feb
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Featured Event
New work by Connie Liebschner
No. 3 The Spot, Derby
15 to 23 Dec
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Ending Soon
Derbyshire
An Alternative Utopia by Nick Hedderly, Tarpey Gallery – until 18 Dec
Minecraft Club, QUAD – until 21 Dec
Leicestershire & Rutland
Faiza Butt, Attenborough Arts – 15 Oct to 18 Dec
Northamptonshire
Freee-Carracci-Institute, NN Contemporary Art – until 24 Dec
Nottinghamshire
Nottingham Red Project, Nottingham Contemporary – until 17 Dec
Re:Surface, Surface Gallery – until 17 Dec
My Granddad’s Car by Sayed Hasan and Karl Ohiri – until 31 Dec
Nottingham Contemporary exhibition listed in national 2016 top ten
Nottingham Contemporary’s exhibition Monuments Should Not Be Trusted has been listed by The Guardian critic Adrian Searle as one of his top ten exhibitions of the year.Adventure … Sanja Iveković, Personal Cuts, 1982. Photograph: Sanja Iveković/Espaivisor Gallery
A Language from the garden, 2016, John Newling
Nottingham artist exhibits new work at National Trust site‘A Language from the Garden‘ by John Newling, opens at the National Trust’s Nymans in Sussex in January. This new work reflects on the stories behind the creation of the garden.
The exhibition continues until 31st May 2017.