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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…
Invoicing
An invoice is a bill. You send an invoice when you work for someone and are self employed. Most employers will not pay you unless you send an invoice.
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…
Briefs and contracts for public art commissions
A commission will lead to a contract for an artist, to create something to a specified brief. That brief is set by the commissioner and can be very loose or very specific. This…
Setting a price for your art work
The price of your art work depends on past prices and the amount of work available There is no standard way to set a price for your work. Like all things for sale…
Artists fees
The fee you can charge for your time depends on how long you have worked professionally and the job you are doing There are number of online fee calculators if you are looking for a quick idea of…
Charlotte Marra and Patrick Goddard: on navigating the art world
The art world can be intimidating and complex to those who are new to it. What do emerging artists need to know it avoid its pitfalls? With little or no…
WMA Commission
The annual WMA Commission invites entries for proposals from artists and photographers to create new research based photography work in Hong Kong, focusing on the theme of transition. Project proposals must contextually relate to both the theme and to…
Sculpture Competitions
Some interesting and important issues arise around the enduringly popular artists’ competition format. Many sculpture ‘competitions’ contain this word in their title, but some are promoted as ‘prizes’ or ‘awards’ or ‘contests’. What exactly has an artist won…
Public Art and the Law
Architects’ collaboration with artists and craftworkers has been the subject of serious debate and some activity over the past five years. The ‘art and architecture’ movement in the U.K. started with the 1982 ICA Conference,…
Doing a Deal: Part 1
Selling work is the primary source of income for most commercially successful artists, and is the strongest aspiration of most of those for whom a market place is not established. It is no surprise that…
Artist’s Resale Right: Ten Years After
‘It is a well known melancholy truth that the tribe of auctioneers, connoisseurs, and picture dealers have monopolised the trade of pictures, and made it a matter of ridicule to purchase any modern production,…
What does creating an Inventory or Catalogue Raisonné involve?
The inventory should relate to all works of art, copyright (the artist should be aware that unless there is an agreement to the contrary, he/she will have retained copyright ownership in…
Global Thinking
Artists’ bargaining power in the global art ecosystem is weak or non existent because the vast majority operate as freelance solo practitioners and, unlike other creative artists, visual artists only occasionally collectivise to create common or shared interest…
Can I sell an artwork that uses letters from an existing font, e.g. from a word processing program?
There are two key legal issues to consider here: whether the work will infringe copyright and the terms of the licence under…
Merchandising Rights Time Bomb
When an artwork is mass produced in three dimensions by or with the artist’s permission, UK law substantially reduces the artist’s copyright protection in the future. This rule is a time bomb: it operates only 25…
Regulating the Art Industry
Nouriel Roubini is a leading world economist, renowned for predicting the world economic downturn of 2007/8 years beforehand. At the World Economic Forum event at Davos in Switzerland in January 2015 he made a significant public…
Enforcement
Henry Moore’s daughter Mary Moore together with Maggi Hambling recently attracted media attention by publicly voicing their concerns about the failure of UK based art market professionals to pay the artist’s resale right (ARR). Such non compliant dealers and…