Iceland: recycle, rethink & redesign
Birta Rós Brynjólfsdóttir is a recent graduate of Iceland Academy of the Arts. Fresh faced, with an enthusiasm for designing a more environmentally conscious world, she and her collaborators have been making moves to reduce…
Sculpture in the City 2018
The City of London presents an opportunity to submit work to the 2018 Sculpture in the City cultural initiative, which places works in the EC3 area of the city. Entries must be pre existing sculptures…
Art Worlds Margate
It’s Monday morning and I’m walking along the seafront, waves crashing to my right and seagulls squealing overhead. I’m not on holiday; I’m on the way to my studio. I moved to the coastal town of Margate,…
Collectivity, collaboration and experimentation in Budapest
I was first drawn to Budapest as a tourist, a love kept me coming back, and then I met someone who spoke the same artistic language and we started our first project, a non…
Idea/Expression Dichotomy
This year marks the centenary of the creation of a work widely accepted as the most influential of the 20th century: Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, 1917. This readymade and its reception heralded the transformation of modern and contemporary art…
Wash-Out
A week is a long time in politics: rapid and unforeseeable changes can transform the political and economic landscape. During one week in April 2017, UK politicians made significant changes affecting the financial prospects of the UK’s public facing…
Workweek Prize
The annual Workweek Prize (2013 2019) awarded £1,000 to a critical, risk taking project taking part in Art Licks Weekend. The festival was organised by Art Licks, a not for profit platform that supports artists, curators and project…
California: driving around LA with Orlagh Woods
I arrived in Los Angeles in the sunshine and heat of August, and was struck immediately by the sheer size of the city, which sprawls in every direction along its network of freeways.…
A Landmark Case?
Can the integrity of publicly sited sculpture be damaged by siting another object close to it? Think of landmark works such as Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North, 1988, or Andy Scott’s Kelpies, 2013: would their integrity…
The ICOM Code
A new series of professional development courses aimed at mid career curators and museum professionals was recently launched by Whitechapel Gallery in partnership with the Art Fund. Under the portfolio title Inside the Gallery: How To, each…
Artquest Rates
A discount scheme in support of artist run workshops and the artists that use them. From 2015 to 2020 we worked with some London artist led workshops, services and facilities to provide discounts to artists and encourage informal…
The Artists Fund
Providing small grants to artists for transformative action in practice The Artists Fund was a community interest company led by Artquest, DACS and a n the Artists Information Company. It provided one round of small grants to…
California: an interview with Frankie Carino
Arizona born, Los Angeles based Frankie Carino has been carving out a name for himself as an artist tearing at the traditions of photography, disobeying its materials and testing its presentation techniques. Lively, young…
Secondary Sales Risks
Caveat emptor is usually translated as ‘let the buyer beware’. Its common use in law and business connotes a doctrine that still operates today, especially in the increasingly lucrative market for secondary sales of contemporary art: caveat…
The Source
Open source resources for art school tutors to teach professional development to undergraduate fine art students Resources here have been made and tested by artist tutor Edwina fitzPatrick and students at Wimbledon College of Art and Andrew Marsh…
Projects in 2016
Projects in 2016 carrying into 2017 were: One off projects in 2016 were: The Work of Art: one to one conversations with artists in their studios, talking about the economic and professional reality of their day to…
Projects in 2015
Projects ending in 2015 were: Projects in 2015 carrying into 2016 were: One off projects in 2015 were: System Failure Six conversations in 2015 about the relationships between artists, galleries, funders, regeneration, education, and families. Six stimulating and…
Projects in 2014
Programmes ending or continuing through 2014 included: One off projects taking place during 2014 were: The Real World (2009 2014) A series of talks that looked at the practical, political and philosophical considerations of an artists career,…