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:

https://www.watermans.org.uk/impact/creative-network-west/

Afterall ArtSchool

A forum to discuss teaching and learning art. Including art students and scholars, critics, artists and others. Programme includes essays, discussion groups, reading lists, and A/V references. A collaboration between Afterall, Central Saint Martins and the Museu de Arte de São Paulo…

https://www.afterallartschool.org/

Association of Women in the Arts

Aims to create a supportive community of professional women working in the arts. Open to women with a minimum of five years’ experience in the art world. Networking, mentoring and professional development. In person…

https://awita.london/

The Makers of Stuff Squad (MOSS)

MOSS are a collective of learning disabled adult artists from in and around Croydon. Turf Projects provide regular workshops for the artists to support their own artistic practices and work on collaborative projects. Previous…

https://turf-projects.com/moss

Habibi Collective

Habibi Collective is an open access resource, digital archive and curatorial platform for women’s filmmaking from South West Asia and North Africa.

https://www.instagram.com/habibicollective/

Gather

Video chat mimicking live space in fully customisable 2D interactive spaces. Free options with further pricing plans dependent on number of user and features. Can be used to facilitate online peer mentoring groups

https://gather.town/

Art / Work Association

Art/ Work Association (A/WA) is an association of artists and creative workers and a self generated programme of talks, screenings, seminars, reading groups, workshops and critical feedback sessions, conceived as a forum for peer exchange. A/WA…

http://artworkassociation.org/

Threads

Threads actively aides artist development through independent regular discourse and criticism. An artist led group, they hold regular peer led work in progress critiques and salons. They also produce exhibitions (physical & digital), screenings and festivals alongside an accessible toolkit…

https://www.threadskent.com/

Engine ChatChat

An informal peer critique network for artists in London, UK and beyond. For all artists at any stage of their career.

https://enginechatchat.tumblr.com/

Q-Art

Events and publishing organisation that asks questions of, and aims to break down the barriers to, art education and the contemporary art world. Working in partnership with art schools, museums, galleries and arts organisations Q Art ask questions, share…

http://q-art.org.uk/

Peer Sessions

London based nomadic crit group founded by artists. Inclusive and supportive crit sessions for contemporary artists, offering a safe place to discuss contemporary art at postgraduate level. Peer Sessions follow a silent crit model where the presenting artist…

http://www.peersessions.co.uk/