On this page you can find out more about all of our 2007 events. Select from the menu below or scroll through to read the whole page.
- Forum 2006/07 - October 2006-March 2007
- Art Practice Dialogue - 7 December 2007
- <<3 months in Berlin>> - September - December 2007
- Further 3 - September - December 2007
- Gaining Ground - 29-30 November 2007
- Time to find out about: The Visual Arts and Crafts - 28 November 2007
Forum 2006/07
October 2006-March 2007
Forum is Artquest's peer mentoring groups for established visual artists and craftspeople in London. Forum provides a space for established visual artists to engage in constructive, rigorous and critical discussion on their practice. In the 2006 / 2007 project, the Lead Artists were: Lucy Day and Julie Myers, Marianne Holm Hansen, Gary O’Dwyer. Related articles and events include the Setting up a peer-mentoring group article in the Manage your career section of this site.
Art Practice Dialogue
7 December 2007
Art Practice Dialogue was a one-day seminar exploring peer mentoring and dialogic practices in the visual arts, in the context of future peer mentoring provision by Artquest.
Above: Art Practice Dialogue seminar
Looking at the expansion of art practices using dialogue and interaction with the public as a strategy within their practice, Art Practice Dialogue considered the ways in which practitioners utilise peer mentoring techniques, dialogue and conversation both within their practice and for peer-level informal professional support. Artquest and our selected speakers explored both the practical and practice-based currency of artist networks, self- and group-critique activities and peer mentoring beyond the 'professional development' models and rationales handed down from agencies - including us.
Art Practice Dialogue showcased the work of selected artists who use dialogue within their art practice, drawing on these activities to inform Artquest about our future peer-mentoring provision. It considered dialogue in visual arts practice beyond the mainstream instrumental 'mentoring', 'networking', 'education and community projects' and 'social engagement' models prevalent within artist professional development organisations today; beyond the oversimplified binary of art practice and social interaction, looking at how artists and craftspeople work together and take responsibility for their own professional development in informal and ad hoc ways while adding these experiences to their practice.
The event was chaired by Claire Antrobus. Claire began her career as a curator at Yorkshire Sculpture Park before moving into policy and funding with London Arts Board, and later as Head of Arts British Council France. She is a board member of Autograph ABP and Igloo artists, and is currently a freelance consultant, based in York, working on professional development, social enterprise and creative industries issues including business and strategic planning, organisational development and funding and finance issues.
Other speakers were Jason E. Bowman (contemporary art commissioner, curator artist), Rona Lee (artist and lecturer), Nina Pope (who, with Karen Guthrie, run the creative organisation Somewhere), Paula Roush (artist and lecturer of digital photography and theory at the London South Bank University and the University of Westminster), Binita Walia (creator of large scale architectural glass for public and private commissions) and Shane Waltener (Belgian/Australian artist living and working in London)
<<3 months in Berlin>>
September - December 2007
Visual artist Jacqueline Brown was awarded the first <<3 months in Berlin>> residency, organised by Artquest in partnership with ACAVA, and lived and worked in the Milchhof studios in Berlin from September to December 2007. During her time in Berlin, Jacqueline sent Artquest updates about her work and the art scene in Berlin for the benefit of other artists looking to live and work in Germany.
Download the first Artists Despatch by Jacqueline here:
- Artists Despatch from November 2007 - Word document (83k)
- Artists Despatch from November 2007 - PDF (74k)
You can also download the second despatch by Jacqueline, A-Z Berlin, here:
Above: Milchhof Studios, Berlin
Further 3
September - December 2007
Artists Oliver Bancroft, Lara Saxby-Soria and James Richards were selected for the Further 3 moving image residency which ended on 4 December 2007. Further 3 was organised in collaboration with no.w.here and Film London Artists Moving Image Network.
The residency included membership of no.w.here and use of their equipment for one year and a series of professional development one to one sessions with advisors from Film London Artists Moving Image Network.
Gaining Ground: National Federation of Artists Studio Providers (NFASP)
Thursday 29 - Friday 30 November
Gaining Ground was the first national conference by the National Federation of Artists Studio Providers (NFASP) and took place at Spike Island, Bristol.
Developers, planners and arts funders are learning to value what artists have always known; that artists need a place to research, think, experiment and make work.
The NFASP is the new organisation promoting the activities of existing affordable studio organisations and helping to develop new ones. Gaining Ground was their first national conference: a timely opportunity to shape the future, share success, source information and practical advice and visit studio organisations.
Chaired by Peter Boyden with Gavin Turk as a guest speaker and a range of practical and inspirational sessions, it opened with a party and networking event.
The conference was attended by artists, studio organisers and those who support artists. It took place at Spike Island, in Bristol, one of the UK’s most dynamic and inspiring production and presentation spaces for the visual arts.
Artquest provided a limited number of travel bursaries for artist-led, non-profit studio providers from London.
Time to Find Out About: Visual Arts and Crafts
Wednesday 28 November
A networking / speaker event focusing on professional development advice for visual artists, designer-makers and crafts people. It took place at Freeform Arts Trust, Hothouse, London Fields.
Time to Find Out About Visual Arts and Crafts was an opportunity for visual artists, crafts people, designer makers and all other artists interested in incorporating the visual and applied art forms in their work to hear careers advice from four experts in the field of professional development.
Speakers were Nick Kaplony, (Artquest), Claire Gillespie, (Craft Central), Barbara Wheeler-Early, (Freeform Arts Trust) and Julie Beech, (Royal British Society of Sculptors)