Meeting and working with curators
A curator organises exhibitions. They research artists who interest them and invite them to take part. A curator might also organise shipping art work, insurance, and promotion. Meeting curators who work with artists like you…
Artist residencies
Residencies are temporary periods of time for an artist to work on a project or develop new ideas. They are time out of your usual work to develop new art and ideas. Artists often use them to explore…
Invoicing
An invoice is a bill. You send an invoice when you work for someone and are self employed. Most employers will not pay you unless you send an invoice.
Make the most of your degree show
Your degree show is your first opportunity to make connections in the art world What is a degree show? A degree show is a public exhibition that happens at the end of an…
COVID-19 resources
Archive of selected resources and projects responding to the COVID 19 pandemic Check Government and NHS advice on the latest restrictions. When you leave home stay at least 1.5m away from other people and wear a mask in…
Networking for artists
Networking has a bad name. Many artists think it’s mercenary and exploitative. But your network is how you find out about the art world, get support, and find work. Think about networking as ‘making friends’. In the…
Automatic for the Beeple
Two inter connected lawsuits about the recent sale of a non fungible token (NFT) representing a born digital artwork were filed in July and September 2021, in the US and UK respectively. Both suits concern US…
Affordable housing
Private landlord housing in London is the most expensive in England. There are other housing options that are more affordable than renting. Often these are short term and may not be suitable for everyone. If you are homeless…
It’s a Wrap
Until 3 October 2021 a live stream from Paris shows the Arc de Triomphe entirely wrapped in fabric: a project conceived by artists Christo and Jeanne Claude over 60 years ago, which they developed and financed, but…
No Heirs Apparent
‘Millions of artists create; only a few thousands are discussed or accepted by the spectator and many less again are consecrated by posterity.’ So contended Marcel Duchamp in his talk on ‘the creative act’ in 1957 at…
Artist-led Marketing Network
Pilot project to redirect social network marketing budget to artist led groups to promote the Artquest programme In 2020 Artquest stopped advertising on social networks. This meant we had money in our (very tiny) marketing budget to…
ARTCRY
Open deadline
ARTCRY is a new fund supporting urgent artistic responses to current social and political events. The fund aims to encourage artists to create bold political work with funding in seven days to enable fast action. ARTCRY are seeking applications…
A Curious Act of Vandalism
In June 2021 an accused vandal, who admitted spray painting a publicly sited sculpture by Antony Gormley, was found not guilty of committing an offence of criminal damage because the jury accepted the accused’s defence…
Making Art In Cornwall’s Edgelands – practicing art in precarious times
Picture the Cornish art scene and you might imagine romantic splashy paintings of waves hung on walls of white washed galleries. That is one view, but there is…
Crypto Art Business
Free Comb with Pagoda, 1986, is a mixed media work on paper signed with Jean Michel Basquiat’s oft used pseudonym Lenny at the lower right. Bought in 2015 by a private buyer, the physical work together with…
A disabled artist in lockdown: Organise. Support. Create.
On The Island On the IslandWe experienceIsolation aloneTogether shieldedBy unwanted armsClashing aboutLike seas crashingSmashing againstExperienced isolationistsTogether aloneOn The Island During week two of the first lockdown, Boris Johnson promised to put his…
Don’t You Trust Me?
Artists and dealers rarely if ever discuss in public their professional business relationships. Much praise, therefore, is due to London based artist Alvaro Barrington and his gallery dealer Sadie Coles for recently speaking publicly about the…
The Light of Day
Showcasing artists in England whose projects were cancelled or postponed due to COVID 19 pandemic lockdowns The COVID 19 pandemic affected all forms of artistic practice, with many artists unable to showcase work due to galleries…