Contemporary Visual Arts Network North West (CVAN NW)
Contemporary Visual Arts Network North West (CVAN NW) is a network creating opportunities for artists, organisations and professionals to develop their practice, share ideas, knowledge and resources, and cultivate relationships. They provide…
Art Network North East
Art Network North East is an advocacy and development organisation for the visual arts. We work with individuals and organisations across the region to support existing activity, effect change where it’s needed, and raise the profile of…
Visual Artists Association
Paid for membership network for visual artists including:
The Audience Agency
Charity that provides knowledge, data and insight for cultural organisations to understand their audiences. Tools and resources help arts organisations segment audiences and build audience strategy, develop and evaluate programmes, and get training.
What’s Next?
Movement bringing together organisations and freelancers to talk about arts and culture in the UK. In support of their vision in which arts & culture are playing a vital contribution to creating an equitable society, What’s Next? encourages working together to take ownership of the civic…
Praxis: The Artists’ Union of Ireland
Trade union for artists across all disciplines in Ireland. The union is committed to giving artists strategic power in their places of work and to improving their living and working conditions.
Society of Authors
Trade union for all types of writers, illustrators and literary translators since 1884. Services and resources include:
Artist-Run Alliance
Non profit, artist led global network of independent artist run initiatives, promoting direct communication between artists, artist run groups and art lovers in their localities and around the world. Artists can find open calls and opportunities by artist…
The New English Art Club
Membership charity for artists who work mostly in painting and cover subjects including working from life and other traditional practices. An Annual Exhibition showcases members and early career artists at Mall Galleries in London. Emerging…
Castlefield Gallery Associates
Membership scheme for artists, writers and independent creatives working in contemporary art from Castlefield Gallery, Manchester. £60 per year (2023). Provides members with information, skills, opportunities, resources, promotion and critical dialogue. Regular monthly in person and online…
W.A.G.E.
Artist collective that seeks to regulate the payment of artist fees in the USA non profit sector. W.A.G.E understands the contemporary fight for non wage compensation as part of a wider struggle by all gig workers who supply content…
Creative Network West
Network of creatives in Hounslow and the surrounding area. Encourages new connections and collaborations, peer support and business development between artists and creative businesses. Projects include:
e-flux
Started by artists in 1999 e flux publishes critical discourse in art, architecture, film, and theory. e flux’s announcements deliver press releases of key exhibitions and events to an international public. Its online archive reaches back two decades, forming…
e-artnow
Email information service distributing selected announcements on contemporary visual arts. An artists’ initiative founded in 2008 in the Czech Republic, they provide an independent alternative to commercial email art news distribution. Over 55,000 worldwide readers in contemporary visual art…
The Space inBetween
PR, communications and press by former artist Binita Walia, for artists and arts organisations.
Public and Commercial Services Union
Civil service workers union, including a culture group working in the UK’s museums, libraries, galleries, heritage, cultural and sport institutions.
Prospect Union: Heritage, Culture and Arts sectors
Represents over 10,000 heritage, arts and culture workers across the UK including curatorial, conservation, archaeology and visitor services.
Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB)
Grassroots member led union fighting for justice for workers. Founded in 2012 by Latin American cleaners organising for better working conditions, IWGB believes that migrant workers are a vital part of the labour…