VADS
Over 140,000 images from over 300 art and design collections in the UK, free for use in education.
D6: culture in transit
Artist residencies in Newcastle. Produces artist projects to redress sensationalism and bias around migration stories. Conferences, events and mentoring around projects and funding.
Film and Video Umbrella
Commissions, curates and produces artists’ moving image works, and presents them in collaboration with galleries and other cultural partners across the UK. Usually commission 5 6 new projects every year.
Digital Art Museum (DAM)
Online resource for the history and practice of digital art. Features selected artworks, biographies, and texts of the most influential artists in the history of digital art from the 1960s to now, alongside chronologies of events…
National Art Library
The National Art Library at V&A South Kensington holds the UK’s most comprehensive public reference collection of literature on the fine and decorative arts, including books, journals, exhibition catalogues, auction house sales catalogues, comics, and e resources.
Rijksakademie
The Rijksakademie provides a residency programme for around 25 artists from around the world each year. Open to young international visual artists with some years of professional experience after arts education. The initial work period is January to December,…
Visual Artists Ireland
All Ireland body for professional visual artists. Services include and advice line, discount schemes, equipment hire, opportunities listings, commissioning service, residencies, awards and live events for artists.
OF Open-Frames
Open Frames is an archive for performance based work, addressed to the public with the invitation to publish personal work.
Wellcome Library
The Wellcome Library, part of the Wellcome Collection, covers thousands of years of health and medicine across different cultures. Collections contain historical and contemporary books, artworks, archives and manuscripts exploring our personal and cultural relationships with health and…
The Print Space
Print digital C type archival large format photographic prints, large format professional Gicleé prints and CMYK proofs. Aims to be end to end carbon neutral.
British Council Collection
Public collection of works on tour or exhibited in UK Government offices around the world. To see a specific work, book an appointment with the Visual Arts Department to arrange a visit or search online.
Archive of Virtual Art
The Database of Virtual Art documents the rapidly evolving field of digital installation art. This complex, research oriented overview of immersive, interactive, telematic and genetic art has been developed in cooperation with established media artists, researchers…
TransArtists
Independent foundation for international artist in residence programmes. Listing of most European and many international residencies with deadlines and open calls.
Trinity Buoy Wharf
Established London Docklands spaces for over 500 live/work and studios, and for cultural events.
Art & Architecture Journal
The Art & Architecture Journal (A&AJ) is the leading UK magazine on public art commissions, projects, collaboration and architecture. A&AJ also organises a conference programme, eflyer information and the Art & Architecture Journal Press is a…
Historic England image bank
Over 300,000 images of England’s built heritage from lamp posts to lavatories, phone boxes to toll booths, mile stones to gravestones, as well as thousands of listed bridges, historic houses and churches.
Asia Art Archive
Collections of material on the recent history of art from Asia, available from their website and onsite library, located in Hong Kong.
Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online offers access to art reference works: the scholarly art encyclopedia Grove Dictionary of Art; and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, about the sale and collection of artists’ work and artists’ biographies. Also search Oxford…