If you have any questions or would like to book a place for an Artist Resource event, workshop or 1-2-1 session, call 01273 778646.

Artist story
Jo Lathwood
Weds 23 July, 7-8pm
Jo Lathwood was selected for a 'Coup de Pouce' residency with L'H du Siège, one of Fabrica's partners in Northern France. Her work is inspired by the notion of play; creating sculptures and installations that communicate and provide an entertaining experience to a wide audience. The talk will focus on the impact of the residency on her practice.
Read Jo's blog.
Jo Lathwood, 'work in progress' leaf and paper 2008

arc symposium: The Art Economy
Thursday 19 June, 11am-4pm
This day will provide an overview of the interface between public and private galleries and what is available for artists. It is aimed at artists who want to know about audiences, markets, building a profile and supporting their practice. Speakers include Lucy Bayley, Contemporary Art Society; Mark Segal, Artsway; Laura Henderson, Annely Juda Fine Art; Catherine Bertola, artist. Find out more about the speakers.
Tickets £10.
Booking form: download pdf

Fundraising and Proposal Writing Workshop
Tues 12 August, 2-4pm
Weds 10 December, 2-4pm
Held at Terence Higgins Trust, Ship Street, Brighton
Cost £7
This practical 'how to' workshop explores sources of funding for artists'
projects and ways of writing a clear, well-structured proposal. Led by
artist Emilia Telese this is a 'taster' version of 'Dodge the Shredder'. To
book a place call 01273 778646 or email the Artist Resource Manager

Dodge the Shredder
Weds 19 November, 10am-4pm
Cost £20
Dodge the Shredder is a combination of peer critique forum, funding strategy and proposal writing workshop for artists developing or planning funding applications in the near future, designed to help increase their chances of success when applying to galleries.
Led by artist, artist advisor and Artists' Networks Coordinator for a-n The Artists Information Company, Emilia Telese.
A well-structured and effective proposal can make all the difference when applying for funding for contemporary or ephemeral artforms, particularly time based, conceptual and media art.
Dodge The Shredder is a professional development workshop especially designed for early or mid career artists to improve their proposal writing techniques and adopt a 'dodge the shredder' approach to reduce the chance of rejected applications to galleries and grant giving bodies.
N.B. You will be asked if you would like your draft proposal to be used as a case study in the seminar.
To book a place call 01273 778646 or email the Artist Resource Manager

1-2-1 Surgeries
Susan Diab: Thurs 26 June
Paul Stanley (new arc advisor): Thurs 10 July
Catherine Bertola: Fri 25 July
Lee Simmons: Thurs 2 October
Fabrica in partnership with arc is pleased to offer 1-2-1 surgeries with artists Catherine Bertola, Paul Stanley and Susan Diab.
Artists wishing to apply should submit a current CV, artist's statement, brief summary of what you wish to achieve through the surgery and 4 jpegs of your work.
Please email this to the Artist Resource Manager Caitlin Heffernan at caitlin.heffernan@artistresource.org.uk
Susan Diab is a practising artist with a studio at APEC in Hove. Her work can be broadly described as installation, involving media from sound, through objects to public events. Mostly site-specific and often participatory, it invites viewers' responses and aims to bring forth a voice, in visual, aural or virtual form.
With a first degree in languages and a second in sculpture, she has been teaching for nearly 20 years, recently concentrating on professional development training. This represents her commitment to promoting ways to make it possible for artists to have fulfilling and rewarding careers in their chosen profession.
Paul Stanley is an artist and independent curator who has been involved in the development and running of artist led organisations such as Bankley Studios Gallery, Manchester and The View From Here, Glasgow.
In 2004 Stanley set up the art collaboration [deletia] which he now co-edits with Lynn Harris. [deletia] purchase ad space in various magazines and use this space for the presentation, preservation and promotion of art. Piggy backing on existing platforms allows us to create non-linear, ahistoric reflections on visual culture. A collective and accumulative 'snail-trail' can be seen at www.deletia.org.uk
During  November and December 2007 Stanley was artist in residence at USF Verftet in Bergen Norway.
Catherine Bertola studied at Newcastle University. She has undertaken a number of residencies and commissions, working with organisations such as; Locus+, Workplace and Vane in Newcastle upon Tyne, Beacon Art Project, Lincolnshire, Further Up in the Air, Liverpool and Triangle Arts Trust, London.
She has exhibited widely across the UK, including solo shows at International 3, Manchester (2005), Fabrica, Brighton and Firstsite, Colchester (both 2006). A monograph Lost Narratives, was published in 2005 by Art Editions North.
Lee Simmons is a freelance artist who makes temporary environmental interventions and works on relational projects. She often works on self-initiated projects, outside the formal arts infrastructure of the gallery and the commission brief.
She enjoys stumbling across objects, processes and people that interest her, and fuel a period of research, and then develops works in an organic way, often creating strings of linked projects. She has worked as a lead artist for the charitable organisation Art Monkeys, where she set up new cross art form projects, an artists' forum and helped sustain and develop existing projects with diverse groups throughout the Isle Of Thanet.