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How to throw your own party: peer mentoring as infrastructure
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Read Sophia Kosmaoglou’s article on how to self-organise and set up and deliver artist to artist mentoring, How to throw your own party: peer mentoring as infrastructure.
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Sophia was one of the long-term advisors on the Artquest One-to-One programme. Artquest One-to-One’s saw Artquest staff and professional career advisors deliver 30 free one-to-ones online each month. We invited the advisors to each write an article that focused on some of the questions they were most frequently asked by artists. Sophia has written an article on how artists can give peer-to-peer feedback through one-to-one sessions and self-organise. Rosalind Davis has also written an article on how to write an artist statement.
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Image credit: Remiiya Badru, 2024, Rhumblines. Making Space, Poplar
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Highlighted opportunities
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Developing your Creative Practice (DYCP) supports individuals who are cultural and creative practitioners and want to take time to focus on their creative development. This could be for a period of research, time to create new work, travel (including international working), training, developing future ideas, networking or mentoring. Developing your Creative Practice encourages development by allowing artists and cultural practitioners …
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The Artist Materials Bursary provides financial support of up to £150 to help Outside In artists buy materials for their practice. We know that the cost of materials can be a real barrier to making art and this bursary aims to remove that barrier. The bursary can be used for any art materials and supplies that support your practice. This bursary is …
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The Hugo Burge Foundation is a new arts funding body. The grant funding is focused on three key areas: Creative Education, Creative Communities, and Creative Individuals The Creative Individuals Fund will have £50,000 available in 2026 and is open to individuals seeking support for the development of artistic projects or practice. Applications are welcomed from practitioners in all creative disciplines …
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The Future Generation Art Prize is a biannual global contemporary art prize to discover, recognize and give long-term support to a future generation of artists. All artists up to 35 may apply with their work without any restrictions concerning gender, nationality, race or artistic medium. The main prize winner receives US$ 100,000 split between a $60,000 cash prize and a …
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We Are Makers have launched a grant fund to support makers anywhere in the world who want to kickstart or upskill their creative practice. Now, having surpassed their fourth milestone - 2000 subscribers – they have opened applications for the fourth mini fund: £2,000 (or the equivalent in your local currency) shared between a maximum of three makers. You don’t …
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The Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University is seeking to appoint two contemporary practitioners to the Stanley Picker Fellowships in Art & Design 2026. Each Fellowship provides up to £16,000 and access to the material workshops, technical resources and expertise within Kingston School of Art and the wider University departments, to support a practice-based, innovative research project that will result …
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The Foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from professional visual artists who are painters, sculptors, and/or artists who work on paper, including printmakers. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis: there are no deadlines. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time and the Foundation will review expenditures relating to an artist’s professional work and personal expenses. The unrestricted …
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The Liberty Speciality Markets Art Award aims to elevate graduate artists by providing funding, training, exhibition and sales opportunities within a comprehensive two-year programme. Selected participants will each receive £1,000 for their work being exhibited in Liberty's London office, as well as the opportunity to sell their work. The artists will take part in a comprehensive professional development programme that …
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The ACS Studio Prize is now open, offering a recent graduate the chance to win £6,000 to contribute to the cost of an artist’s studio in a UK city of their choice. If you are a national of the UK, EEA, Australia or New Zealand and are an undergraduate or postgraduate university student on an accredited art course who is …
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FVU:LAB is delivered in collaboration with Nottingham Trent University and provides opportunities for four UK based emerging moving image artists to work with cutting edge technologies at NTU’s new Design and Digital Arts building. This can be either for a specific outcome, or R&D time to see if a specific technology is appropriate to incorporate into your practice or to …
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Professional visual artists anywhere in England can ask us a question related to their practice and get a clear, concise answer for free.
Includes information on arts-related legal issues through our Artlaw programme.
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Contact us any time: our small, part-time team of practising artists aim to get back to you within 5 working days.
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Applied: Insights
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Insight reports helps policymakers, funders, higher education, local councils and government make decisions on how to support working artists’ careers and access to work. They provide a deep, data-informed understanding of what it means to sustain and grow a creative career.
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Through focused snapshots in time, comparative analysis across data gathered from our Applied: Partnership, combined with other research in and around the arts and culture, Applied: Insights make clearer the key questions and situations that affect artists’ lives and work.
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Artquest Exchange
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Image: 'The Exchange' art collaboration Wayne Chisnall & Calum F Kerr
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Artquest Exchange is our free, professional network for visual artists anywhere in the world. Find artists around the corner or around the world to:
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- work with, get feedback on your work, and advice on your career,
- meet in new places when you plan to travel,
- extend your professional network,
- arrange temporary studio and apartment exchanges.
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Artquest Exchange is open to any professional artist to join for free.
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News
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Council funding down
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New research from Equity finds that council arts funding is down 55% across the UK since 2010.
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ACE news
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ACE and DCMS respond to the Hodge review.
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Conway Hall’s 2026 Ethical Award
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Glasgow's cultural sector
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