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Advice, information and opportunities for visual artists

Featured Opportunity

ING Discerning Eye 2020

The ING Discerning Eye is calling for entries for a brand-new edition in 2020. The show gives artists the opportunity to showcase their work in a unique virtual exhibition and win a range of prizes, i… Continue Reading ING Discerning Eye 2020

Barbican Arts Group Trust’s ArtWorks Open 2020

awards and prizes, exhibition, professional development, residencies and studios | October 30, 2020

Submissions are now open for Barbican Arts Group Trust’s ArtWorks Open 2020 prize-winning show selec… Continue Reading Barbican Arts Group Trust’s ArtWorks Open 2020
The Hopper Prize

grants and funding, international | November 17, 2020

The Hopper Prize was established to increase recognition of the work of visual artists and they are… Continue Reading The Hopper Prize
Residency & Exhibition Opportunities for Outside In Artists at The Art House

exhibition, grants and funding, professional development, residencies and studios | September 19, 2020

The Art House and Outside In are seeking proposals from individual artists who would like to develop… Continue Reading Residency & Exhibition Opportunities for Outside In Artists at The Art House

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Open Deadlines

Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants

grants and funding, professional development

National Lottery Project Grants is an open access programme for arts, museums and libraries projects… Continue Reading Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants
Truth To Power Cafe Open Call

professional development

In response to COVID-19, Truth To Power Cafe are creating a new digital platform through which peopl… Continue Reading Truth To Power Cafe Open Call
Palazzo Monti Artist Residency

international, professional development, residencies and studios

Palazzo Monti is an artist residency program based in Brescia, housed in a palazzo dating back to 12… Continue Reading Palazzo Monti Artist Residency

Featured Listing

SET

SET is a multifaceted arts and community initiative based in numerous centres across London. SET curates an eclectic and experimental arts programme alongside affordable artist workspace. SET projects… Continue Reading SET

Shipment artist-led, installation, interdisciplinary

Shipment is a moving, artist-led gallery that occupies a trail of liminal locations to present site-specific, creative projects. The gallery’s main go… Continue Reading Shipment
KitMapper digital, discount, moving image, photography

For artists who own or want to rent audio visual kit, a digital SLR, a PA system, or maybe even a 16mm projector. List your kit on KitMapper and you g… Continue Reading KitMapper
Art Licks artist-led, press

Art Licks launched in 2010 and has since grown to provide an essential platform and voice for the lesser-known and under-represented activities that f… Continue Reading Art Licks
New Contemporaries graduate show, visual arts

New Contemporaries is the leading UK organisation supporting emergent art practice from British art schools. Since 1949 New Contemporaries has consist… Continue Reading New Contemporaries
Art Monthly press

Since 1976, Art Monthly has been a leading magazine for contemporary visual art. Published ten times a year, it provides in-depth features, interviews… Continue Reading Art Monthly

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Featured How to Articles

What is an internship?

Until the 1970s the term ‘internship’ was used rarely outside of the field of medicine and, even in this context, rarely outside of the US. Today, the scale of internships in the UK has been called en… Continue Reading What is an internship?

Pensions for self-employed people employment, pension, self employment

Kay Linnell and Nick Wilson of Accounts Action Ltd shed some light on the different pension options… Continue Reading Pensions for self-employed people
Approaching gallery curators curator, getting an exhibition, network

How do curators operate within and outside of the gallery? Here we cover some points for artists to… Continue Reading Approaching gallery curators
Own Art: How and why do collectors collect? collector

This series of films, commissioned by Own Art as a way to introduce their programme, also gives an i… Continue Reading Own Art: How and why do collectors collect?
Rhian Solomon: on residencies interview, residency

Artist Rhian Solomon talks about some of her residency experiences, looking at ways to find and fund… Continue Reading Rhian Solomon: on residencies
When to apply for grants application, grant, publicly funded

Making grant applications takes a lot of time, and is highly competitive: avoid wasting your resourc… Continue Reading When to apply for grants

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Getting an Exhibition

Kirsty Ogg and Marijke Steedman: the gallery problem, or, what artists can do when their work doesn’t fit in galleries

Our sixth, final talk as part of System Failure discussed the strength of galleries on an artists ca… Continue Reading Kirsty Ogg and Marijke Steedman: the gallery problem, or, what artists can do when their work doesn’t fit in galleries
John Hansard Gallery: university galleries

In this video Ros Carter and Stephen Foster of John Hansard Gallery talk about the particularities o… Continue Reading John Hansard Gallery: university galleries
Castlefield Gallery: artist-focused galleries

Castlefield Gallery began life as an artist led space and is now an artist-focused gallery and agenc… Continue Reading Castlefield Gallery: artist-focused galleries
MOTInternational: commercial galleries

In this video MOTInternational director Chris Hammond talks about the gallery’s transition from arti… Continue Reading MOTInternational: commercial galleries
WW Gallery: approaching galleries and finding opportunities

Debra Wilson & Chiara Williams, the directors of WW Gallery put together the tips below, essenti… Continue Reading WW Gallery: approaching galleries and finding opportunities

Featured Projects

The New Lockdown: reopening attitudes amongst arts organisations in England

This slideshow requires JavaScript. In July 2020, as the UK Government published guideance to encourage arts and cultural organisations reopen at this stage in the COVID-19 / coronavirus pandemic, Art… Continue Reading The New Lockdown: reopening attitudes amongst arts organisations in England

Artquest and covid-19 / coronavirus

Artquest activity during the covid-19 pandemic

Resources and artist-led projects responding to the coronavirus / Covid-19 pandemic This page is no longer being updated: for the latest links, advice and information, see our temporary new home page.… Continue Reading Artquest and covid-19 / coronavirus

Black Lives Matter statement and resources

Resources, education, donations and links for Black Lives Matter and associated projects Artquest stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement (including Black Lives Matter UK) in calling… Continue Reading Black Lives Matter statement and resources