🪺I hope you had a break over the holidays, that your year got off to a great start, and that we will have many occasions to connect, collaborate, celebrate, rest, reflect and plan again this year 🧧
🥁 Among the highlights of my year that passed, was an exciting shift from collective work to partnerships. While still collaborative, the work now has more continuity and is far less stressful. In collectives, we address a group of people, often from a metaphorical pulpit, and the members in the room are different each time. Despite documenting discussions and keeping meeting minutes, much goes unspoken, unexamined, or unresolved, leading to miscommunication and missed opportunities or stalls in momentum and commitment within the group.
🚡Collectives nevertheless provide crucial sustenance for artists, and I’m dedicated to developing formats for collective ways of working. My peer support group is currently in the process of writing the constitution to clearly define our aims, values, and working methods. Wish us luck!
📌First up in events scheduled this year is another round of Artquest One-to-Ones, coming up in early March. If you want to be the first to hear about upcoming dates I recommend subscribing to the Artquest newsletter. Apart from timely updates on forthcoming Artquest events, you will also receive a monthly round up of opportunities and updates on policies that affect the arts, reports on artists’ working lives and other relevant news.
🪸Alternatively, you can book a consultation with me to discuss an upcoming project or ongoing mentorship. For further info and to book a free 15 min chat please visit the consultation page.
⚖️As you may know if you’ve been following for a while, I’ve been working on new courses, seminars and events series. The topics range from studio practice and critical studies to professional practice, curating and exhibition-making. The formats range from courses that last for a term to ongoing weekly events. With this plethora of options it’s been hard to prioritise and I could really use your help. If you have a minute to spare, please fill in the expression of interest form, to let me know which topics or formats you would be interested in.
⛷️See below for upcoming events and watch this space for new events and courses in the summer term. Take care, I look forward to catch up with you soon.
🖍️Critical Theory in Contemporary Art Practice✨
Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London
4 – 8 Aug 2025, Mon-Fri 10:00-16:00 BST/GMT+1
£820, 16 John Islip St, London SW1P 4JU
Develop your practice and extend your knowledge of critical practices, theories and discourses of contemporary art. This online/hybrid course integrates practice and theory and fosters experimentation and collaborative study in a community of peers.
🍒Art + Critique, Autumn 2024🚀
Critical & Contextual Studies in Art Practice Online
14 Oct 2025 – 3 Mar 2026, Tuesdays 18:30-20:30 BST/GMT+1
Pay What You Can £598 / £488 / £378
Develop your practice and extend your knowledge of critical practices, theories and discourses of contemporary art. This online/hybrid course integrates practice and theory and fosters experimentation and collaborative study in a community of peers.
🖼️Curating Contemporary Art, Winter 2025✏️
Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London
15 – 19 Dec 2025, Mon-Fri 10:00-16:00 BST/GMT+1
£800, 16 John Islip St, London SW1P 4JU
Develop your practice and extend your knowledge of critical practices, theories and discourses of contemporary art. This online/hybrid course integrates practice and theory and fosters experimentation and collaborative study in a community of peers.
📌Artquest One to One📢
Free one-to-one remote advice sessions for London-based artists
3 – 8 March 2025, 10:00-18:00 GMT
Book a free Artquest one-to-one advice session to get feedback about your work, build a strategy for an upcoming project, get practical career advice, discuss the logistics of operating as an artist and find out about other arts organisations and how they can support you.