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Featured Opportunity

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2020 is now open for applications. Applications are welcome from individuals and collaborative groups of emerging and early career artists who are final year students, rec… Continue Reading Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021

exhibition, new graduates, professional development | March 1, 2021

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2020 is now open for applications. Applications are welcome from indivi… Continue Reading Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021
Developing your Creative Practice (DYCP ) Round 9

grants and funding, professional development | February 18, 2021

Developing your Creative Practice (DYCP) supports individuals who are cultural and creative practiti… Continue Reading Developing your Creative Practice (DYCP ) Round 9
Engage Micro grants programme

grants and funding, professional development | January 18, 2021

Ten micro grants of £500 and ten micro grants of £1000 will be made for grant activity which takes p… Continue Reading Engage Micro grants programme

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Open Deadlines

Black Artists Grant

grants and funding, professional development

The Black Artists Grant is £1,500 given out monthly to black artists in the UK, with each artist sel… Continue Reading Black Artists Grant
Cement Fields – Development Support for Visual Artists

professional development

Due to the ongoing impact of Covid-19 on the livelihoods of artists, Cement Fields would like to off… Continue Reading Cement Fields – Development Support for Visual Artists
The Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries programme

grants and funding, professional development

The Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries programme will support 50 salaried jobs in arts and cultural o… Continue Reading The Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries programme

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

Adaptations

Following on from our successful WFH Residency, Adaptations is an award for the next step. It will support visual artists seeking innovative authentic ways to adapt their practice for an age of physic… Continue Reading Adaptations

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