Applied: Artist Workforce Data

Data and insight on artists’ working conditions, career barriers, and ambitions Applied addresses a crucial gap in data and insights related to artists in England — specifically, their working conditions, the barriers they face, and their…

Mental Health for Creative Freelancers

11 stories tackling the everyday mental health challenges of creative freelancers Mental Health for Creative Freelancers is the antithesis to run of the mill mental health advice. It is designed as a practical guide to…

Artquest was 20 in 2022

In 2022 we celebrated 20 years of Artquest Artquest 20th anniversary party Artquest’s 20th anniversary party was held on online platform Gather, a mixture of an ‘old skool’ video game and Zoom. Guests designed an avatar…

COVID-19 resources

Archive of selected resources and projects responding to the COVID 19 pandemic Check Government and NHS advice on the latest restrictions. When you leave home stay at least 1.5m away from other people and wear a mask in…

The Light of Day

Showcasing artists in England whose projects were cancelled or postponed due to COVID 19 pandemic lockdowns The COVID 19 pandemic affected all forms of artistic practice, with many artists unable to showcase work due to galleries…

Outpost Online

Free one to one remote advice sessions for London based artists from Artquest staff and freelance artist career specialists. Running from 2019 2021, Outpost Online was replaced by Artquest One to Ones. In 2020 we took our live…

From Leaving London To Lockdown Collaboration

To deliberately misquote Groove Armada, “Goodbye Nightclub, Hello Country”. Back in my 30s, I thought London and I would be married for life. But then as the years progressed, our relationship became more strained,…

TRANSMISSIONS

Online platform commissioning artists to share their work within a classic DIY TV show format during the COVID pandemic Initiated by Anne Duffau, Tai Shani and Hana Noorali and supported by a number of UK art institutions and commercially…

Practice and pedagogy

How can artists earn a living? They often support their practices through some form of teaching. This could be through workshops or academic context. How can this approach to livelihood inform practice and vice versa? Members of…

The Boyle Family

Mark Boyle interviewed by Henry Lydiate Henry Lydiate’s Artlaw Column appeared in the first issue of Art Monthly when he first met Mark Boyle and his family. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Artlaw and the opening…

Shamrock Organisations

Gustave Courbet’s huge 20ft wide by 12ft high oil painting, The Painter’s Studio (A Real Allegory of Seven Years of My Life), 1855, represents among other things his view of the (then) new role of the artist in…

ArtlawTV

A series of short films exploring the main legal issues that artists face. Each film comprises an interview with an artist about their work, with an overview of the legal implications of their practice by Henry Lydiate, art legal…

Collaborations

If two or more artists collaborate on a work of art, which one of them will own the copyright of the finished work? What if there has been a creative partnership between two artists and one of them wishes…