ARTISTS TALKING

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Welcome to Leeds-based artist Rebecca Catterall, the newest member of a-n’s Opportunities Development Team. This month, she joins artists Jo Coupe (Newcastle) , Michael Cousin (Cardiff) , Aviva Leeman (London) and the artists’ team at Castlefield Gallery Manchester led by Kwong Lee in researching and delivering the daily-updated Opportunities and jobs service on www.a-n.co.uk and selected monthly section in a-n Magazine. A ceramic artist with a workshop at Patrick Studios her work is included on the Crafts Council’s Photostore. She studied at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University gaining her MFA in 2002. During 2007, as part of a national and international exhibiting profile, she is showing at the 4th World Ceramic Biennale in Korea and the Carlin Gallery, Paris.

With over 83% of UK artists saying they are now regularly using our online service to research and identify the best work opportunities for their practice, Rebecca’s role is to bring her specialist UK and international knowledge of applied arts networks and opportunities into strategies to expand the scope and quality of information about commissions, residencies, selling and other professional opportunities for craftspeople and makers. Her work is on www.rebeccacatterall.com

Welcome also to Genoveva Kriechbaum, who joined our London-based CST team in March. A graduate of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, she completed her BA in Communication and English literature at Wheaton College, USA. Her art work focuses around film and photography, and her exhibition that documents the ‘Making of the Grand Mosque’ in Abu Dhabi over a four-year period will open in Sharjah, this September.

International connections

Manick Govinda author of a-n Collections: Radical positions and a-n Board member is an invited participant in the critical debates that accompany the launch of 8th Sharjah Biennial, that runs 4 April – 4 June. His publication reflects and expands on issues within the biennial’s theme of art, ecology and the politics of change.
www.sharjahbiennial.org/en/

a-n Director of Programmes Susan Jones is an invited contributor to the HE professional practice working group of the Socrates Thematic Network inter}artes that is charged with investigating and debating the relationship between training and professional practice. Meeting in Tallinn 27/28 April as part of the ELIA conference Towards strong creative disciplines in Europe with the focus on themes including Artists and Entrepreneurship, Urban Regeneration and Community Arts, Training and the creative industries. The working group includes HE academics and researchers from UK, Romania and The Netherlands and invites participation in their deliberations from international experts.
www.inter-artes.org