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Artquest

Advice, opportunities, and insight for visual artists

Artquest Art Worlds

Read the latest Art Worlds article that explores the gig economy

Opportunities

Find opportunities and open calls for exhibitions, funding and more, and learn how to make better applications

30works30days

750 artists entered, 488 artists were left at the end of our April challenge

Artquest Exchange

A free peer to peer online community for individual professional visual artists, anywhere in the world. Find other artists to:

  • work and collaborate with, get feedback on your work, or advice on your career,
  • get to know artists in new places when you plan to travel,
  • find relevant content on our site more easily,
  • take part in our annual 30works30days challenge.

Find out more about Artquest Exchange, read the frequently asked questions and our code of conduct.

Rebecca Ryan, Neighbours, 2022
Rebecca Ryan, Neighbours, 2022

Research

Join us in researching the structures in the arts that impact artists working conditions, wellbeing and diversity, and help campaign for positive change.

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Each year Artquest works with hundreds of visual artists, as service users or freelance workers. We survey thousands more with our sector partners, and carry out formal and informal research into artists demographics, working conditions, barriers, ambitions and income.

All of our projects both directly benefit artists in their careers while finding out more about how they live and work. We use our research to generate insights into artists’ working conditions and the health of the arts workforce, without which the arts sector cannot exist.

Latest updates

The Zsuzsi Roboz Scholarship at Morley College London
Opportunities

This Scholarship is offered in memory of the celebrated painter, Zsuzsi Roboz. Funds have been made available to support contemporary figurative artists of promise working primarily in painting and drawing to study for one year at Morley College London, thanks…

Creative Bursary 2024
Opportunities

Creative Bursaries support students from marginalized groups who are experiencing financial hardship, and are looking to develop practices focusing on arts for social change. These unrestricted bursaries give agency to emerging artists, helping them to thrive in the arts. There…

The Peut Guard Artist Award
Opportunities

The Grange Projects welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (non white) artists based in the UK to apply for the 2024 Peut Guard Artist Award at The Grange Projects.The successful applicant will be in residence for a week,…