Its vital for practitioners to have high quality documentation of their work and exhibitions, whatever form they take.

An artist statement is a short piece of writing about your work, practice and wider intellectual concerns.

So how do you get to meet a curator? The bottom line is we look like everyone else and we rarely wear badges.

You are the world expert on your work. Only you know what drives your practice, what your research is, what makes the things you make interesting.

In addition to your costing for making work, another notion to consider when you are pricing your work is your own perceived value as an artist.

An artist biography (or ‘artists biog’) is usually a short paragraph about you and your career as a practitioner.

In order to make an effective request to a company, you should first of all think about why companies give; and more specifically, why they should give to you.