Assist
Placements for early career artists from under represented backgrounds to work as paid studio assistants for more established artists Assist provided up to £3,700 and support for established artists to employ early career artists. The project ended in March…
Artist residencies
Artquest has run international residencies in Berlin (2007 2011), Amsterdam (2010 2014) and Australia (2008 2011). More recently we have run research residencies in London (2013 2020). Artist residencies are always popular opportunities. Artists enjoy time away from their home situation, making new work or taking part in research for their future work. They take many different forms and […]
Digital Single Market
On 13 February 2019 in Strasbourg the EU agreed to introduce new copyright rules to create a fair, transparent and predictable business environment for users of online platforms. Key features of these rules include new exceptions to…
The Artists’ Pavilion
Temporary venues programmed by Artquest for artists to meet, play and talk, in Venice and London. The Artists Pavilion: 2019 Artquest and UAL’s Careers & Employability worked with a team of 12 students and curator Adelaide Bannerman.…
How to Proceed
It could be argued that the UK is experiencing a very gradual cultural shift. A decades long and relatively definitive trajectory has been ebbed slowly by episodes of both economic and civic uncertainty and we, as often…
Adaptation strategies of artist-led spaces
A panel discussion, hosted by nomadic artist led space Shipment, on developing sustainable business models for artist led spaces Artist led spaces provide vital access to London’s art world. Both the artists who run them…
Authentication
Works by African American artists have recently been achieving unprecedented interest in both museum and art market worlds, possibly stimulated by the critical success of Tate Modern’s 2017 show ‘Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black…
The Artist Researcher: artists and museums working together
Panel discussions on collaboration between contemporary visual artists and museums in the UK The talks, held in June 2019, were particularly aimed at smaller museums looking to broaden access and think differently…
Living Legacies
Two interesting new tools have recently been published to help artists plan their legacies. In October 2018 the UK’s Art360 Foundation launched a free app designed ‘to make archiving and cultural preservation skills available to all’, and the…
ART/WORK: a conversation
A conversation about capital, labour, the working practices of artists, and the future of work This conversation, programmed and chaired by Artquest, looked at the themes of the residency, the working practices of artists, and the future…
Almanack
Online articles drawing together the art world with wider social, economic and cultural issues The Artquest Almanack (2018 2020) was an online journal that drew together the art world with wider social, economic and cultural issues, setting the arts…
Love & Money
There has been an unprecedented amount of media coverage of Banksy’s Girl with Balloon (2006) shredding incident since it took place at Sotheby’s London’s evening sale of contemporary art on 5 October 2018. But none of this…
Bergen: Holding in the Gaps
EVA ROWSON (Bergen, Norway) is Curator of Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall – the live programme of music, clubnights, performance and more at Bergen’s largest gallery for contemporary art. Her work as an artist, producer and curator…
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…
Scarcity
On 3 September, the United Arab Emirates’ Department of Culture and Tourism announced the ‘postponement of the unveiling of Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi’, and promised that ‘more details will be announced soon’. No details have yet been given…
Style, Content and Plagiarism
‘Cultural appropriation’, ‘unethical borrowing’, ‘plagiarism’ and ‘rip off’ are recent headline grabbing media comments criticising a photoshoot of Rihanna published in Vogue Paris in December 2017. In July 2018, Twitter user STEVE JXSEPH @STEVEJXSEPH posted on…
Blockchain
It is a decade since the conceptual invention of ‘block chain’ technology, which envisaged the creation of a permanent and continuous digital list of records (blocks) of transactions linked (chained) using encoded cryptography to prevent modification of data. Implemented…
Jojo Taylor: Go Thee Rhino and Make your Dreams Come True
Whenever I feel like giving up, I take a look at a piece of photocopied paper, with a picture of a rhino on it and these words. Go Thee…