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Featured Opportunity

12ø Collective – 30works30days 2020

30works30days, is a month long project for artists where they are required to submit a new piece of work daily, every day for the month of April. If you fail to submit something on one of the days, yo… Continue Reading 12ø Collective – 30works30days 2020

artsdepot Open 2020 Submissions

awards and prizes, exhibition, professional development | June 1, 2020

For its 16th year, the artsdepot Open is inviting submissions from emerging and established artists… Continue Reading artsdepot Open 2020 Submissions
LUX Curatorial Fellowship

curating, moving image, professional development | May 1, 2020

The LUX Curatorial Fellowship is a new initiative which offers an emergent curator the opportunity t… Continue Reading LUX Curatorial Fellowship
12ø Collective – 30works30days 2020

professional development | March 28, 2020

30works30days, is a month long project for artists where they are required to submit a new piece of… Continue Reading 12ø Collective – 30works30days 2020

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Open Deadlines

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
Small Grants Scheme: In the Making

grants and funding, socially engaged

Small grants scheme, in the making, is a new funding programme for community projects that share the… Continue Reading Small Grants Scheme: In the Making
Culture Seeds

grants and funding, professional development, socially engaged

Culture Seeds is part of the Mayor of London’s draft Strategy for Culture, Culture for all Londoners… Continue Reading Culture Seeds

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

30works30days

30works30days: a 12ø collective project 30works30days: a 12ø collective project As part of our response to the covid-19 / coronavirus pandemic lockdown, Artquest is supporting 12ø collective’s… Continue Reading 30works30days

WFH Residency

The WFH Residency is a £1000 award to support artists during the covid-19 / coronavirus pandemic. This slideshow requires JavaScript. Artists are starting to report a collapse in work and higher level… Continue Reading WFH Residency

Artquest and covid-19 / coronavirus

Artquest activity during the covid-19 pandemic

Resources and artist-led projects responding to the coronavirus / Covid-19 pandemic Last updated 24 March 2020 – will be updated regularly Key messages from Artquest Stay at home – do not endanger you… Continue Reading Artquest and covid-19 / coronavirus

Festival of Alternative Art Education

PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO CURRENT PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERNS RELATING TO THE CORONA VIRUS, THE FESTIVAL OF ALTERNATIVE ART EDUCATION AND ACCOMPANYING EXHIBITION WILL BE POSTPONED UNTIL 25 JULY 2020 Festival… Continue Reading Festival of Alternative Art Education