Do you any up to date information regarding VAT treatment on commission owed to individual non-VAT registered artists from galleries that may or may not be VAT registered themselves?
The legal and business situation discussed in the 1979 article posted…
What should I consider when deciding whether or not to sign a written agreement with a gallery?
In particular, should I agree to a 12 month notice period and a commission on sales at exhibitions outside the gallery? The wisdom…
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…
Can I illustrate a mass-produced object such as a toy in an artwork without infringing copyright laws?
The answer is highly complex but an indication of the issues involved is given by the following simplified comments on a highly complex…
Artists’ Livelihoods
How do artists earn money, how much do they earn, and what do they do to earn it? What are the motivations and inspiration behind being an artist? a n, Arts Council England, Artquest and our partners held…
Colombia: an interview with Juan Pablo Echeverri
Artist Juan Pablo Echeverri talks to Artquest about the art scene in Colombia and his own international practice.
Permission to Sell
Contemporary art sales are attracting increasing media interest beyond the usual art industry suspects, particularly from financial journals and commentators. There is a significant boom in both the number of sales and of the prices of works…
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…
Sarah Roberts: on developing practice in the face of deadlines
How can you balance the demands of deadlines with the needs of your practice? Deadline vs Live Development I’m not a ‘loans’ exhibitior, so a new exhibition means a new…
Laura Fowle: on artist opportunities
Can do / Must do : Lost in a Sea of Artist Opportunities Continuing to pursue my practice post University was a consistent challenge. I found it harder to define my work since leaving. One…
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…
Practice and pedagogy
How can artists earn a living? They often support their practices through some form of teaching. This could be through workshops or academic context. How can this approach to livelihood inform practice and vice versa? Members of…
Being an artist parent
What impact does being a parent have on your practice as an artist? How could the art world better accommodate those with young families? On a local, mundane level, the art world at best ignores and…
Georgia Gendall: on identity and resilience after art college
When you leave university you are left with a lack of space, a lack of tuition, a distant ache when you wake, and nowhere to go but the desk that’s next…
Sarah Roberts: on the challenges of installation art
Producing work that responds to a specific location presents particular challenges. In this article, installation artist Sarah Roberts discusses some of these. She shares her experiences after graduation on all things installation…
Alex Burgess: on managing time
I didn’t have a plan when I finished my Photography degree I took at Camberwell College of Art. And I suspect a lot of my classmates didn’t either. I did know a few things though.…
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…
Negotiation for artists
The value of artists labour is often unrecognised. This makes negotiation particularly important for artists. The guide below covers basics tactics of negotiation, useful in most circumstances. Artists can often fall into the gratitude trap. We are…