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. A new name, but the same challenge: 30works30days is now 30/30 and took place in…
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…
Why I stopped making art
This is the story of why I stopped making art for years and how I rediscovered my passion. I’m not juggling it perfectly and haven’t given up the day job. Maybe you can relate. The…
A Complete Unknown
The 97th Oscar awards were presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on 2 March 2025 in Los Angeles, honouring movies released in 2024. Nominated in eight Oscar categories, A Complete Unknown is a…
Copyrightability
Many governments worldwide are currently seeking to keep pace with the impact – on their economies, infrastructures and industries – of AI developments and innovations. In the visual art ecosystem, two challenging issues are being faced: whether AI generated…
The Last Year of the Inequity Olympics
Artist and writer Alistair Gentry critiques the art world’s focus on marginal diversity gains while it ignores underlying issues of class, disability, and other systemic inequities. Precarious employment, underfunding, and a lack of…
Copyright and AI Consultation
The year is barely a month old and already 2025 is being variously described by digital technologists worldwide as: ‘A Year of AI Hype and Quiet Evolution’, ‘Maybe the Year of AI Legislation: Will We See…
Smarter Artists’ Funding
The UK’s Autumn Budget 2024 promulgated government’s fiscal policies and plans aimed at establishing economic foundations for its mission of ‘national renewal’ over the next five years. Many suggestions and proposals have been made in recent months…
Ladies Lounge
The history of modern and contemporary western art and law is punctuated with rare court decisions demonstrating extraordinary understanding of the content of artwork, and respect for the artist’s creative intentions. One such case was decided recently, and…
Drawing Connections: Four works from 30works30days by an artist with chronic illness
I need structure to function. I live with cystic fibrosis (CF) and I don’t have a job, so I’m used to creating my own structure. My daily routine…