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Artquest

Advice, opportunities, and insight for visual artists

Artquest one to ones

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Opportunities

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

30works30days

See new art made every day in April by artists from around the world

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

ACS Studio Prize 2024
Opportunities

The ACS Studio Prize offers recent graduates a £6,000 prize to help secure a studio space in a UK city of their choice. This year, ACS has once again partnered with Gurr Johns International, to offer this year’s five finalists…

Locust Projects – Main gallery open call
Opportunities

Locust Projects invites local, national, and international artists to apply for the opportunity to access the space and resources to create ambitious, large scale new work in their new main gallery. Visual artists working in any medium and any stage…

Delfina Foundation – science_technology_society residency
Opportunities

Delfina Foundation have announced an international open call for its upcoming winter 2025 residency season under its recurring thematic programme science technology society. Applications are welcome from artists, curators, researchers, technologists, activists, writers, and thinkers who seek to explore how…