Ask Artquest a Question

Introduction

London-based visual artists and craftspeople can use this page to send Artquest a question.

The Artquest website is free to use for anyone in the world, but our query service can only be used by professional visual artists and craftspeople living and working in London.

Before sending a query:

Make sure you have browsed and searched the website (using the grey box on the right side of each page).
Remember that Artquest can only answer queries from London-based visual artists or crafts practitioners. See About Artquest for why and Artquest's Networks for organisations who might be able to help.
Remember that Artquest cannot answer queries from full-time students. See About Artquest for why and enquire instead with your course tutors if you need advice.
Remember that legal queries must be sent via the Artlaw website.
Remember that updates to the Artquest site should be sent via the Submit a Listing page.

What happens next?

Your query will be read by one of our four staff who will decide whether to reply by email, by telephone, or to arrange a meeting with you if your query cannot be addressed any other way. Over 90% of queries sent to Artquest require only an email response. We aim to reply to all queries within 5 working days.

What can I ask?

We accept queries from any visual artist or craftsperson working professionally in London, in any medium, and about any issue. The Artquest website covers topics as diverse as benefits and housing, tax and VAT, artist rates of pay, UK and international residencies, studios, legal queries. Although the Artquest staff have, between them, over 50 years of experience in the visual arts and crafts both in the UK and overseas, our answers are never definitive. We are all practitioners happy to share our insights and learn new things from our contact with Artquest users.

* First Name

* Second Name

* Address

* Postcode

* London Borough that you live in

* Telephone (any kind, mobile or landline etc)

* Email address

* Tell us your query - be specific, accurate and give all the information required for us to answer. Include weblinks where appropriate.

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Artquest is made up of four members of staff (three of whom are part-time). You can select which of our staff responds to your queries based on your interests and their specialism. Read the information about our staff then select from the buttons below.

Stephen Beddoe
Stephen Beddoe is a fine art graduate of The Glasgow School of Art. Stephen has exhibited work nationally and internationally and has curated projects in a number of galleries and public spaces, as well as teaching in art schools in the UK and internationally. From 1995 to 1997 Stephen was Visual Arts and Crafts Officer for London Arts Board (now Arts Council England, London office) and from 1997 to 2001 was Commissions Manager for two agencies, initiating and managing large-scale public art projects, nationally and internationally.

Stephen's areas of expertise include: all areas of art development including arts funding, strategic development; project management and support; exhibition development; research and development for art in the public realm; art consultancy; business development; national and international art networks; seminar and conference development.

Simona Dell'Agli
Simona Dell'Agli is an Italian photo-artist interested in the social history of landscapes. She graduated in an MA in Photographic Studies at the University of Westminster in 2001, also producing a limited edition self-published photo-booklet who gone to sell more than 300 copies. You can see Simona's work on her portfolio website .

Simona's areas of expertise include: exhibition organisation; arts administration; marketing; the photography landscape in the London visual arts world; and is forever grateful to Arts Media Contacts for showing her the importance of a well updated mailing and press list.

Nick Kaplony
Having worked as assistant Curator at the Arts Gallery London Nick went on to join the Artquest team as Programme Co-ordinator in June 2007. Nick also works as Exhibitions and Education officer at the Pump House Gallery in Battersea Park and is a practicing artist and freelance curator/exhibitions organiser.

Nick's areas of expertise include: education and community projects; exhibition marketing; curating; the public gallery sector; funding applications.

Russell Martin
Russell Martin is a graduate from The Glasgow School of Art and has lived in London since 1998 where he initially worked extensively in gallery education. His self-initiated projects include the peer mentoring group Speakeasy which became a partial model for Forum, and the HÔTEL BELLVILLE and Way East artist's project spaces in Waterloo (2003-2004) and Hackney Wick (2008). He co-produced and presented two series for Resonance 104.4FM in 2006. He is also a co-founder and one of the directors of Rational Rec, the interdisciplinary social occasion working nationally and internationally to commission and present new works. You can see Russell's work on his portfolio website .

Russell's areas of expertise include: peer mentoring projects; setting up artist led spaces; education and community projects; funding applications and general presentation skills; artists networks.

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Stephen Beddoe
Simona Dell'Agli
Nick Kaplony
Russell Martin

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