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The half day seminar ‘Artists – Innovators?’ is aimed at artists and the organisations that support them. It will examine the results of the report ‘The Art of Innovation: How fine arts graduates contribute to innovation’ and its implications, looking at how artists work in London and how they are supported. With presentations of the findings by Professor Kate Oakley (Co-author of the report) and a panel discussion with Stephen Beddoe: Artquest Programme Manager, Anna Harding: Chief executive of Space Studios and Nicolas Roope from Hulger followed by a Q&A session.
Artquest was recently part of the advisory group for this NESTA funded project led by Central Saint Martins Innovation and involving DCMS and the London School of Economics. ‘The Art of Innovation: How fine arts graduates contribute to innovation’ outlined how and in what ways fine artists impact on the economy. You can read the full report here.
This is a FREE seminar but booking is essential as places are limited and demand high. Artquest are not administering booking for this event. To request a place please email George Dickson on g.dickson@csm.arts.ac.uk
Artquest’s Artelier project – the offline, online social network encouraging local, national and international networking and reciprocal studio exchange – was successfully launched three weeks ago.
Artelier's mission is to encourage visual artists and craftspeople to meet online, then meet offline through local, national or international visits or reciprocal studio exchanges. In this way, Artelier seeks to broaden and deepen collaboration and practice across all disciplines.
You can use Artelier to:
Already Artelier has signed up over 80 artists and 10 partner organisations on to the site. Artists from Canada, Germany, France, Portugal, USA, the Czech Republic, Belgium, Ireland and across the UK have all signed up. Partner organisations include residency programmes, galleries and artist-led project spaces.
Access to Artelier is by invitation only to make it safe and guarantee only artists use it. To request an invitation from Artquest, email artelier@artquest.org.uk with your website address or a current CV and wait for your email invitation.
Visit the Artelier website form more information.
Last month MyCake and Artquest invited it’s subscribers to take part in a short survey to build a picture of visual practitioners financial practices and needs. The results of the survey have started coming in. Read a taster of the statistics so far. There’s still time for you to complete the online survey here, and contribute to this valuable research (and be in the running to win an iPod shuffle). The final results will be appearing on the Artquest website in the coming months.
MyCake have also released the first Benchmarking figures from their users, allowing visual artists and craftspeople signed up to MyCake to anonymously compare their incomes and turnovers with their peers.
Read the MyCake page to find out more about how crafts practitioners are managing their money.
Recipient of the 2008 <<3 Months in Berlin>> residency Michelle Deignan writes about her experiences on the ground in one of Europe’s most buzzing art scenes. Read her latest article on life as an artist in Berlin.
Meanwhile our OZ 2008 recipient, Jaye Ho, has just touched down in Sydney to begin her residency there. Before she left she worked with Australian artist Maria Ionico to produce new work. See what Jaye produced and catch up with her dispatches from down under on the OZ page.
The Artquest / SPACE Value Added conference took place on Wednesday 12 November 2008 and was attended by over 70 delegates.
The conference looked at the roles, participation and economies in contemporary visual practice through a series of presentations by commissioners, artists, public art consultants and socially engaged practitioners.
All the presentations and dialogue sessions at the conference were recorded and are now available online via the Value Added microsite
If you have any comments or feedback about the conference, please contact Simona Dell’Agli at simona@artquest.org.uk.
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As ever, our Artlaw site contains the latest offerings by Henry Lydiate – covering Damien Hirst’s recent very successful credit-crunch-crunching Sotheby’s sale - www.artquest.org.uk/artlaw/money/beautiful-inside-my-head-forever.htm
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