Collective data on artists’ working conditions, career barriers, and ambitions 

Applied partner logos: Artquest, New Contemporaries, Film London Artist Moving Image Network, Outside In, DACS

The Applied Partnership is a collaborative data collection and sharing initiative involving arts organisations that engage with a range of artists through their programmes

All project partners run open calls, memberships, and services for artists. After completing a submission, artists are invited to fill in some more optional questions chosen by the partners. Questions cover demographics, income sources, studio behaviour, career ambitions and success measures, and more. 

In this way we, as a sector, can gather standard data from a wider pool of artists on an ongoing basis, reducing the number of times artists are surveyed by sharing data between ourselves. All data is anonymous: none can be traced to individuals. 

Data gathered through the Applied Partnership is: 

  • Secure – data is stored on UK servers and separate from partner websites.
  • Anonymous – no identifying information is collected (not even IP addresses) making the project fully compliant with UK and EU data protection laws.
  • Optional – artists can complete some of the questions, or choose not to complete them at all. Completion of the form in no way influences or impacts their application. We routinely get a 75% response rate.

Partners 

Current partners, alongside Artquest, are: 

  • DACS, an artist-founded not-for-profit visual artists’ rights management organisation
  • Film London Artists Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), a network, commission, award, showcasing and online resources for artist moving image makers
  • New Contemporaries, an annual graduate touring exhibition showcase, mentoring programme, studio bursaries and residencies for emerging artists
  • Outside In, providing a platform for artists who encounter significant barriers to the art world due to health, disability, social circumstance, or isolation.

If you’re an artist-focused organisation interested in becoming an Applied partner, contact Nick Kaplony at Artquest to talk more.