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View the work created during 30/30 until 31 March

30/30 has just come to a close. Congratulations to everyone that took part. This year 680 people took part with 447 artists completing submitting an artwork every day for 30 days starting February 1st. You can see the work submitted on our website until the end of March.

Highlighted opportunities

Arts Council England - Developing your Creative Practice - Round 24

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 …

Outside In - Artist Materials Bursary

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 …

Hugo Burge Foundation: 2026 Grant Programme

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 …

Future Generation Art Prize 2027

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 …

We Are Makers: Mini Grant 4

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 …

Stanley Picker Fellowships in Art & Design 2026

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 …

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist Grants

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 …

Liberty Art Award

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 …

ACS Studio Prize 2026

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 …

FVU:LAB

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 …

Ask Artquest

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.

Contact us any time: our small, part-time team of practising artists aim to get back to you within 5 working days.

New Contemporaries open call

The New Contemporaries annual Open Call for artists is now live for application until 2pm, 30 March.

Selected artists take part in a major group exhibition at Focal Point Gallery and partner venues in Southend-on-Sea in June 2027. From September 2026 to June 2027 artists take part in our Artist Development Programme, structured across in person and online activity throughout the year.

The call is open to emerging and early career artists aged 21 and over, based anywhere in the UK. No formal training is required and there is no fixed route into art. This year’s selection panel includes Joy Gregory, Florence Peake and Abbas Zahedi alongside the New Contemporaries team.

Artquest Exchange

'The Exchange' art collaboration Wayne Chisnall & Calum F Kerr
Image: 'The Exchange' art collaboration Wayne Chisnall & Calum F Kerr
Artquest Exchange is our free, professional network for visual artists anywhere in the world. Find artists around the corner or around the world to:
  • 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.
Artquest Exchange is open to any professional artist to join for free.

News

New ACE report

The report finds that organisations claiming cultural tax reliefs earned 37% more income annually and 162% more from international activity than non-claimants.

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High-Growth Potential Firms in the UK’s Creative Industries

New PEC report demonstrates that the Creative Industries account for almost a tenth of UK firms classified as having ‘high-growth potential’.

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Something to listen to

If you're in need of something to listen to you might find you might find Creative Pep Talk a source of inspiration and advice. There’s over 500 episodes on everything from unlocking creativity to making authentic work.


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DACS UK artist resale right at 20

Twenty years ago this month, the artist resale right (ARR) was introduced in the UK, entitling artists to royalties from the secondary market sales of their work. how successful has the pioneering scheme been?

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