Artists in England can get advice and information from the Artquest team on any aspect of their art practice and career.

How it works

1. Search our website

  • Over 80% of the questions we’re asked are answered on our website.
  • Your answer might be among the 12,000 pages we already have.

Our website has been gathering the answers to artists questions since 2001. Every question we’ve ever been asked has been turned into an article, an audio guide, report, research or Directory listing.

2. If you don’t get the results you need, send a message to our team after the search.

We get back to most questions within 5 working days. Depending on the complexity of your query we might:

  • Email you back with an answer, links, or suggestions
  • Arrange a short video or telephone call to find out more and give information
  • Suggest another organisation to contact that can help you instead

What can I ask Artquest?

The professional visual artists employed by Artquest as our staff team have over 70 years’ combined experience. If you’re an artist working in England, we can give you tailored advice and information on any aspect of your working life. If we can’t help you directly, we can send you to other services in England that can.

You can ask us any question relating to your professional practice as an artist including:

  • Contracts and copyright
  • The public gallery sector and artist-led spaces
  • Peer mentoring
  • Funding applications – although we can’t support you to write an application.
  • Collaboration and co-operatives
  • Studio agreements

We might direct you to another organisations for more detailed information, such as:

We aim to get back to all enquiries within 5 working days, giving our small, part-time team a chance to research an answer and discuss your issue confidentially.

What can I not ask Artquest?

We are not able to give:

Who can ask Artquest?

Artquest works with artists at all stages in their career, working in any medium, anywhere in England. Our projects are open to all professional visual artists. Many of the artists using our services have been practicing for over 10 years, and are mostly over 35 years old.

Artists of all ages and levels of experience use Artquest. We work with:

  • new graduates
  • artists who did not go to art school / self-taught artists
  • artists at all stages in their careers and of all ages

Many of our projects are aimed at artists later in their careers. New graduates can access services from a range of different organisations and in many cases from the university or college they graduated from. Our Directory lists the main careers services for current students.

Start by searching our website

  • Over 80% of the questions we’re asked are answered on our website.
  • Your answer might be among the 12,000 pages we already have.

If you don’t get the results you need, send a message to our team from the search results page. We get back to most questions within 5 working days.

Other resources for artists

Our Directory contains listings for professional services for artists. See listings for:

See the full Directory for listings helpful to professional artists on dozens of career topics.

Our Artquest Exchange online professional network links artists with their peers. Search for artists with the experience you need, and ask each other questions. Artquest Exchange is open to artists anywhere in the world, for free.