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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. A new name, but the same challenge: 30works30days is now 30/30 and took place in…
BNC Mentors
Mentoring and events for New Contemporaries exhibitors from 2016 2023 As part of the New Contemporaries public programme, Artquest ran peer mentoring training and practice sessions held in ICA (London), BackLit (Nottingham), Gasworks (London) and the BALTIC (Newcastle).…
Promoting your art
Promoting your art is a key part of developing your career. Get it right and it will lead to more opportunities. If you don’t let people know what you are doing, your career is likely to progress…
Social networks and websites
An important part of making sure people can hear about you and your work is to be present on the internet. There are a number of different ways to do this. Choose the ways that work…
Networking for artists
Networking has a bad name. Many artists think it’s mercenary and exploitative. But your network is how you find out about the art world, get support, and find work. Think about networking as ‘making friends’. In the…
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…
Peer mentoring for artists
A peer mentoring group is a regular gathering of artists who support each other. A group might talk about their art practice, their careers, or other professional or cultural developments. It is similar to the ‘crits’…
Lifeboat
Studio residency, peer mentoring and career development award for MA postgraduates from University of the Arts London The Award Between 2012 and 2018 the Lifeboat award supported artists who had completed a postgraduate course at UAL in the previous…
Email newsletters and mailing lists
Many artists keep a list of professional contacts to send news about exhibitions and events. Along with social networks these are effective at telling your regular audience what you are doing. Email newsletters are a…
Crowdfunding for artists
Crowdfunding is an alternative way for artists to fundraise for their projects. Basics of crowdfunding Instead of applying for large sums from a funder, you ask for smaller pledges from many individuals. Artists run “campaigns” that offer…