At the half way point of the 2012 LIFE BOAT residency, Isabelle Gressel shares her experiences on how her work patterns have changed since graduation.

You might find it useful to join a studio group so as to build your network and put on a group show. Most studio groups have a notice board with opportunities, and members can pool their resources and put on group shows, taking advantage of each other's contacts and networks.

Blogs are an increasingly used tool for contemporary artists for gaining feedbakc about work and keeping up-to-date with developments.

The following tips have been written by Ami Clarke, founder and director of Banner Repeater, and should be useful for those of you who are thinking of opening an artist led space.

Curating isn’t what I anticipated would become a central tenet of my practice. I didn’t become a curator via institutional in-house training or graduate from a post-graduate curating course.