Artquest

Artquest is the first port of call for visual artists and craftspeople when creating new work, trying to exhibit and sell work, manage your career or thinking about working internationally.  Perhaps you need a bit of training, or are looking for national and international opportunities?  We can also give you free online legal advice or show you people who can help with money and funding.  Artquest also has an extensive offline programme of conferences, seminars, networking events and residencies.  You can also find out more about Artquest and how best to use our services.

Artquest News

For full Artquest news, read our latest email newsletter on this site - you can join our newsletter list for free at the bottom of this page.

• Jotta is an online networking site with a focus on visual arts practice, operating across the creative disciplines. It also acts as a link between its community and businesses seeking to work with the very best in contemporary practice. Jotta's newly developed Marketplace system provides organisations and businesses with the tools to work with artistic talent. Artquest is delighted to be entering into a partnership with Jotta - watch this space for further developments in this collaboration.
• Mycake is an online book-keeping and benchmarking service for visual artists and craftspeople.  As part of Artquest's commitment to encouraging London's creative practitioners to become more self-reliant, proactive and professional, we've teamed up with Mycake to bring you the Mycake pilot project. Mycake is running an evening training session on 15 September 2008, from 6pm at the Harlequin Pub in Angel. More information is available on the Mycake page.
• Our latest online project, Artelier, has finished beta testing and will be soft launched in September 2008.  Artelier allows artists from around the world to arrange international studio exchanges for free.  More information on the Artelier holding page.

Ever wonder which pages are most popular on Artquest?  We'll be posting our latest top five pages here along with our least used pages to show the depth of information we have on our website.  Artquest regularly gets 20-25,000 visits per month, mostly from London-based users.

Artquest's top five pages (July 2008)

1. Opportunities > Deadlines
2. Training > Short Courses
3. Exhibiting and selling > Getting an Exhibition
4. Exhibiting and Selling > Venues
5. Creating new work > Studios

Artquest's bottom five pages (July 2008)

1. Money > Applying to trusts, foundations and charities
2. Working internationally > Visual arts residencies in Europe
3. Training > Gallery talks programmes
4. Manage your career > Self promotion advice
5. Working internationally > Global networks

As well as this webiste, Artquest also provides a free regular email newsletter advertising our events, conferences, talks and residencies - over 5,000 of your competitors have already signed up and have been sent to residencies in Berlin, Sydney and Madrid, benefitted from one to one advice sessions with and heard about our conferences before anyone else.

You can join for free below, and read the latest email newsletter on this site.

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