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 […]

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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 […]

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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…

Adaptations

Understanding how artists can adapt their practice for sustainable income on their own terms. Adaptations began as a pilot workforce development grant for three visual artists in spring 2021. It was intended to support artists find new sustainable ways…

The Value of Money

Artists livelihoods and value systems around money. This research from 2014 looked at how visual artists value and consider money in their practice as a measure of success. Professional visual artists operate in a complex and…