Liberty Art Award
Deadline: 29/07/2026
The Liberty Speciality Markets Art Award aims to elevate graduate artists by providing funding, training, exhibition and sales opportunities within a comprehensive two year programme. Selected participants will each receive £1,000 for their work being exhibited in…
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…
Wealth Tax
In the months leading to the UK’s Annual Budget on 26 November 2025, there was widespread public speculation about how best to tackle the evident black hole in government finances: whether government should cut expenditure, or increase tax…
How to throw your own party: peer mentoring as infrastructure
Art practice is sustained by the support that artists provide for each other – long before recognition and institutions come into view. In everyday exchanges, artists develop their practice through…
Fall of Freedom
On 21 November 2025, artists and cultural workers in the US are launching a nationwide ‘cultural celebration of art against fascism and censorship’. Operating under the banner ‘Fall of Freedom’ (FoF), they are joining cause with widespread…
Lifting the Veil
The Great Art Fraud was televised by the BBC in August 2025, documenting one of the biggest art frauds in art market history. British born contemporary art dealer Inigo Philbrick was the perpetrator, who emerged as ‘an…
Fake or Fortune?
On 29 July 2025, a landmark lawsuit ended concerning a living British artist. The principal claimant was Robert Fletcher, who was a correctional officer at the Thunder Bay Correctional Centre (TBCC) in Ontario, Canada, in the 1970s.…
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…
Lost in Translation
Plagiarism and copyright infringement are often misunderstood as being the same, but are not: they may overlap, but are separate wrongs. Plagiarism is a violation of ethical norms and policies, typically in academic and professional disciplines, but…
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…
Work with us: research and consultancy
Work with Artquest to make the arts more equitable for artists by finding out about artists’ working lives and lived experience. Artquest works inside and outside the arts to help make the art world more equitable for all artists. Our consultation and advice is backed up by evidence on how artists work to build better […]
Restore the Arts: impact, precarity, and action, in National Portfolio Organisations 2023-2028
15 years of austerity era standstill funding for NPOs is hobbling public programmes, thwarting ambition, holding back sector development and business model investment, while negatively impacting working conditions…
Artists Business Models
Helping artists, policymakers and employers understand how artists work, career development opportunities, and building equitable processes Artists and how they work are widely misunderstood inside and outside of the art world. Even artists themselves have difficulty in describing how the peculiar mix of non arts employment, artistic practice, freelance activity and funding combine to make an […]
Applied: data and insights in the artist workforce
Data, partnership and insight reports on artists’ working conditions, career barriers, and ambitions Applied addresses a crucial gap in data and analysis related to artists in England — specifically: While there are…
Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts
On 29 May 2025 Cambridge University Press published the sixth edition of Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts (LEVA), a foundational text in the field of art and law first published in 1979. At…
US Art Import Tariffs
President Trump triggered a global financial crisis in April 2025, when he issued Executive Order 14257 ‘Regulating Imports With a Reciprocal Tariff To Rectify Trade Practices That Contribute to Large and Persistent Annual United States Goods…
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…