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/

Artquest Salon

Online semi independent artists’ forums with ongoing peer to peer feedback on your work and presentations by art world professionals. Run by Artquest. Artquest Salon bridges the gap between one off Artquest Crits and the independently artist run…

https://artquest.org.uk/project/advice-and-networks/artquest-salon/

Artquest Crits

Informal one off online group crit sessions for artists, facilitated by an artist career specialist via Artquest. Subscribe to our newsletter to be notified about registration opportunities as they happen. Artquest Crits let you: meet new artists, give…

https://artquest.org.uk/project/advice-and-networks/artquest-crits/

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/

Artist Moving Image Network

Fortnightly forum for artists, programmers and researchers in artists’ moving image. Meeting online and in person with artists across the UK, AMIN is free to join. Connect with peers, receive feedback on your work, and develop…

https://pavilion.org.uk/artists-moving-image-network/

Royal Society of Sculptors

Champions contemporary sculpture and the artists who create it. An artist led, membership organisation, they run an exhibition venue in South Kensington and a supportive membership community to sculptors at all stages of their career. Services…

https://sculptors.org.uk/