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The Art of writing about your work
About this article This article was written by Rosalind Davis one of the long term advisors on the Artquest One to One programme. Artquest One to One’s saw Artquest staff and professional career…
How to throw your own party: peer mentoring as infrastructure
About this article This article was written by Sophia Kosmaoglou one of the long term advisors on the Artquest One to One programme. Artquest One to One’s saw Artquest staff…
On Being an Artist and Running a Business
Being an artist is not my job, it’s who I am. I can’t turn off the part of me that’s constantly looking, listening and feeling the world, then thinking of ways to…
30/30
Challenge yourself and kickstart your practice: join us in our annual project to make a new work of art every day for 30 days. What is 30/30? 30/30 is our free annual challenge for members of our free Artquest…
Tender: Better Open Calls
Better Open Calls is a research project that looks at how arts organisations find artists to work with. It proposes and tests equitable processes for organisations to find and choose artists. If you would like to…
Alternatives to Art School
I’ve long dreamed of going to art school. Studying art in a lofty building, with ample studio space, and paints galore. But as a working class person, it’s hard to take a chance on an investment…
Why I stopped making art
This is the story of why I stopped making art for years and how I rediscovered my passion. I’m not juggling it perfectly and haven’t given up the day job. Maybe you can relate. The…
Drawing Connections: Four works from 30works30days by an artist with chronic illness
I need structure to function. I live with cystic fibrosis (CF) and I don’t have a job, so I’m used to creating my own structure. My daily routine…
Regenerative Artmaking in the Climate Crisis
Five years ago, as I turned 30, I began to understand the bouts of depression and anxiety that had ravaged my mental health for the preceding decade. It wasn’t only triggered by the unexpected…
Running open calls
This article talks about the barriers open calls present to artists. It suggests ways of running open calls to overcome these. Open calls are often used by organisations to find artists to work with. An organisation produces…
Selecting opportunities
Artquest, along with many other websites and independent organisations, list opportunities for artists. But how do you pick the one’s that are right for you? Opportunities could take the form of These are often competitive, selected through an…
Make promotional images of your art work
It’s important to have good images of your work. You’ll use these to send to curators and galleries who are interested in exhibiting your art. They could also be useful for catalogues, your…
Artist CV
A CV brings together your professional achievements as an artist on one document. Having a concise, up to date CV is vital. You’ll use it to apply for exhibitions and other opportunities. Curators will also consider it when…
Ask Artquest anything about your professional visual arts career
Artists in England can get advice and information from the Artquest team on any aspect of their art practice and career. Are you in the right place? How it works 1. Artists looking for advice: search our website Our website has been gathering the answers to artists questions since 2001. Every question we’ve ever been […]
Making Art In Cornwall’s Edgelands – practicing art in precarious times
Picture the Cornish art scene and you might imagine romantic splashy paintings of waves hung on walls of white washed galleries. That is one view, but there is…
Dialogues
The latest in our Art World’s series is a video by Catherine Wynne Paton that details her journey learning about other artists practises and forming a peer mentoring group. Catherine Wynne Paton is a conceptual media artist concerned with…
Conscious Isolation: Networking Together, Apart
Samuel Zealey and I set up Conscious Isolation right at the beginning of lockdown. We speak about and call upon what is important in these difficult times. Culture expands the mind and will bring us…
Moving Image Salon
In Spring 2019 we arrived in London after 6 years of living in Portugal. We had initially moved away from the UK when we had an opportunity to live rent free in a beach house in a…