Despite having a highly developed arts infrastructure, it is still incredibly difficult for artists in the UK to sustain a career from their art practice – is the infrastructure a barrier, asks Maurice Carlin.
As the recipient in 2016 of the Clore Visual Artist Fellowship supported by a-n, I had the incredible opportunity to visit India and met many people working within the arts in Bangalore and Kochi. My impression – from a limited view of this vast country – is that artists in India, where there is little in the way of institutional arts infrastructure, often create their own platforms out of an implicit understanding... Keep reading on a-n
As the recipient in 2016 of the Clore Visual Artist Fellowship supported by a-n, I had the incredible opportunity to visit India and met many people working within the arts in Bangalore and Kochi. My impression – from a limited view of this vast country – is that artists in India, where there is little in the way of institutional arts infrastructure, often create their own platforms out of an implicit understanding... Keep reading on a-n