The White Pube Creatives Grant
Open deadline
The White Pube Creatives Grant is a one off £500 grant to be given out to a different working class creative practitioner based in the UK once every month. This grant has been set up…
Store-To-Own
The first Zero Art Fair in Upstate New York was scheduled to last four days in July 2024, but lasted only two, because nearly all the exhibited artworks were taken away by collectors – who paid no money to…
Adaptations
A practice development award of £2000 for an artist to trial new ways of working. Katie Surridge was selected for the 2024 Adaptations award. About the selected artist Katie Louise Surridge (1985) was born and raised in London. She…
PRIMER
Essential advice and information for artists in England starting out in their professional career PRIMER is an ebook for early career and new starting visual artists, whether graduating from art school or just switching career. It’s aim is to…
40 Years of Collecting
During 2024, the UK’s Design and Artists Copyright Society, DACS, celebrates forty years of operations. DACS is a not for profit share rights management organisation that champions, protects and manages the intellectual property rights of visual…
When I Paint My Masterpiece
Damien Hirst sculptures made by preserving animals in formaldehyde were dated by his company to the 1990s even though they were made in 2017, an investigation by the UK’s Guardian newspaper alleged in March 2024.…
Political Statements
The year 2024 has been described as being ‘the ultimate election year’, when more people than ever in history may vote in national polls for their governments and leaders: in over 70 countries worldwide, representing 49% of the…
DIY Residencies
Resources to inspire and guide artists to self organise their residencies An introduction to DIY residencies We exist in a time of funding cuts, oversubscribed, and structurally inaccessible opportunities. Data from our Applied research programme shows that 44%…
Ties That Bind
A recently filed lawsuit focuses on whether it is lawful for an exclusive trader of goods to sell only to would be buyers deemed suitable. The eventual outcome of the case may have significance for the way…
Writing to you from burnout, about my desire and inability to stop working
I was verging on unsurprised when I read, through Industria, that the average hourly rate paid to artists is £2.60. Out of a desire not to bum…
This Is Not by Me
Keith Haring’s last canvas painting continues to be the focus of intense social media controversy in these first months of 2024, triggered by an X tweeted image of the work’s purported completion using generative AI…
Freedom and Creativity
2024 started with publication of a seminal judicial decision confirming that UK copyright law’s originality test – for creating a copyright protected new artwork – requires the expression of personal creativity by the author; and that this…
The Gig Economy: Making It Work
This article is written following the analysis of four semi structured interviews with gig economy workers in the creative industries. Below is a word cloud of the most frequently used nouns from the interview…
Supporting Whitechapel Gallery’s open call for London Open Live
Building on our research, Artquest are supporting Whitechapel Gallery’s application and selection process for London Open Live. Whitechapel Gallery’s open call exhibition, The London Open, is back with an exclusive focus…
To Have and Not To Hold
In November 2023 art market media focused on an original street artwork attributed to Banksy, and particularly on doubts cast over the legality of the work’s fractionalisation scheme, its true authorship and provenance of…
Dealers/Agents/Advisors: Beware
During summer 2023, a saga began to unfold concerning the art business of a prominent contemporary art market professional, based in New York City. The story raises significant legal and ethical issues for the art ecosystem. Lisa Schiff…
Cash In Your Face
In August 2023, within hours of Donald Trump’s police booking photograph being published by the Fulton County Sheriff in Atlanta, Georgia, his campaign website was selling his mugshot branded mugs, T shirts, drink coolers, bumper stickers,…
Regenerative Artmaking in the Climate Crisis
Five years ago, as I turned 30, I began to understand the bouts of depression and anxiety that had ravaged my mental health for the preceding decade. It wasn’t only triggered by the unexpected…