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Art & Artist Development Organisations

Art Materials & Suppliers

Arts Information & Research Providers

Courses

Exhibition Spaces - On & Off Line

Equipment

Finding Someone Who Loves You.....Loves Art!!

Funding

Hanging, Framing & Protection

Incredible Craftspeople

Models

West London's Local Press & Web Partners

London's World Class Arts Education

Arts Council England is the national development agency for the arts. Between 2003 and 2006 we will invest £2 billion of public funds in the arts in England, including funding from the National Lottery.

This is a great site for information about all aspects of the arts including funding, regional and local projects as well as national projects in all disciplines.

This is a great site for arts organisations to get free help from the corporate sector if you say the right things!!...this is what they say;

"We recruit talented individuals from the corporate sector and match them with arts organisations in need of business expertise and a corporate perspective.  We do this through the following Professional Development Programmes"

Great advice for all artists, both professionally and commercially.  The largest UK agency for supporting artists and shaping and developing visual arts practice.  A must read for all professsional artists

Artquest: Free information and advice for London's visual artists and craftspeople.

Artquest's mission is to provide a comprehensive advice and information service to London's visual arts professionals at all stages of their careers.

Covering all areas of practice, Artquest provides information relating to the presentation and selling of work; research and development of new work; funding advice and funding sources and ongoing professional development and training opportunities.

The Artquest programme is funded jointly by Arts Council England London and the University of the Arts London and began in December 2002.

CIDA's mission is to "to provide the most accessible cultural and creative industries support in London"

This organisation will provide advice and support to both individuals and organisations in areas such as funding, marketing support to promote events and access to specialist consultants.  Plus lots more...

The Cultural Industries Development Agency, is a specialist support organisation for the creative and cultural sector. We offer services to individuals, new and existing businesses and not-for-profit organisations. Our services are open to all and our free services are currently available to people based in Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest.

CreativePeople is a national network providing information, advice and guidance to support all those who work in arts and craft industries in making the most of their careers.

New knowledge and skills can greatly enhance your ability to earn a living.

The CreativePeople network offers you a wealth of information on resources and events: workshops, conferences, courses, mentoring schemes, critical appraisal services and online toolkits. You will also find news about job opportunities and commissions.

This must be the easiest and cheapest way to protect artists rights. Simply pay DACS a one off, lifetime fee of £25 and they will help provide copyright protection for your work for life. The deal is that they charge you 25% fees of any copyright fees owed to you that they recover......couldn't be easier.

CreativeCapital is an advice and information service for artists and arts professionals who live and work in London. CreativeCapital is a network of arts organisations that offer expert advice to people looking for professional career development and up-to-date information on training, learning and other relevant services and resources in London.

Business Link

A FREE government funded organisation that will help advise new businesses (read..artists and art organisations) on almost any area of business.  Click on the link and see the nearest advisor in your area for a free appointment.

The information on the site is also very good indeed.

Creative Space Agency

The Creative Space Agency is an innovative service that links owners of vacant property with creative professionals looking for potential spaces in London in which to work, exhibit, perform or rehearse.

The services on offer through the Creative Space Agency include an up to date list of available spaces in London, handy fact sheets and regular training sessions to help creative professionals get the most out of the service.

The Seer

The free online directory and resource for all of London’s creative individuals, organisations and venues to find, receive and promote arts and creative information in London.

A south-east of England based arts organisation providing information for visual artist development, and opportunities to exhibit and work within the arts community.

Artifact is run by a consortium of academic institutions and libraries that offer artists free access to a  wealth of information on all aspects of the arts and in all mediums.

Artifact is an Internet Resource Catalogue (IRC) providing searchable access to a collection of high quality online resources and web sites. Gateways or hubs are built by subject specialists, who choose sites for their relevance to further and higher education teaching, learning and research in the arts and creative industries find and describe the resources. Each site is evaluated and catalogued by the Artifact cataloguers along with a description of the site and its key features.

Aimed at educational users, hubs are a good choice if you are looking for quality assured information.

The art world's source for income and exhibition opportunities. A searchable database and magazine that lists local and national juried artist competitions, grants, call for submissions, art jobs, art festivals, residencies, fellowships, & more... Also see comprehensive artist support services...

Art Industri promotes the work of students, amateur & professional artists and art galleries as well as encouraging the appreciation and interest in visual arts through a network of sites offering promotional tools, reference information and resource services to the art community.

The group of sites include free art directory listings, free webspace, free email accounts and online portfolio creation as well as the fine art e-card site, the creative & educational art kids site and the art icons and art movements reference sites.

Art Navigator - art resources directory for artists, dealers and art amateurs.

The leading international art search engine & art directory, present thousands of art galleries, art businesses and services in the United Kingdom, America, Australia, Canada & New Zealand.

Art-shopper Art galleries in London, Manchester, Birmingham and the UK

A directory of artists and art related websites organised by subject.

Barrlu's Arts and Artists' Resource Center is a growing information, product and service portal for visual, literary and performing artists, and for students & friends of the Arts.

A great site offering advice on all aspects of art development including jobs in the arts, galleries, venues for hire etc....check this one out

This is a great site to find out loads of information about the arts scene across the whole of the UK.  Well worth visiting if you are visiting a somewhere on holiday or for a short break.

A visual art web site with a unique marketing concept. UK's leading artshop, auction and shopping web site.

IInformation and resources for artists and the arts industry. Includes services and products for art enthusiasts and collectors.

Complete art sales service incorporating a virtual gallery displaying original and resale artworks for sale to corporate and private buyers

The largest site for contemporary art, art news, art history, contemporary artist and gallery portfolios, online since 1995

Axis has been the leading database of contemporary artists since 1991. Their enquiry service allows commissioners, gallerists and architects and other arts professionals to contact artists with work opportunities. They also research opportunities and send them directly to artists.

You can access the information they hold on artists through both a general search engine and themed programmes. Axis also organises events, conferences, exhibitions, presentations and workshops to promote its artists and encourage the creation of new work.

This link provides you with the main contacts of the arts officers in all of the London Boroughs.  You will often find that many of the Boroughs have some fantastic venues for exhibitions, often in historical buildings and many even have outside space to display larger works.  We have used this many times.

This is a National Trust property in West London, just off the A4 in Hounslow, with a Robert Adam house set in acres of beautiful parkland and farmland. Look under 'events' for the exhibition section.  This would be a great place for large scale sculpture.

This is a great place to exhibit and events are usually well attended.  Built in the eighteenth century, this is a wonderful building with two exhibition spaces and would suit solo or group exhibitions.

Kaspar Swankey (blacksmith)

Iconoclasm...... biomechanoid...... futurist...... sci-fi...... eclecticism...... s&m...... strength...... paradox...... architecture...... cables and wires and power supplies...... oil refineries...... the Lloyds Building...... bridges...... cranes...... metamorphosis...... wit...... functionalism...... contradictions...... constructivism...... minimalism...... individual...... anatomical...... reasoned design...... progressive...... music...... ideas...... eternality...... quality...... shape the work of Kaspar Swankey.

Traditional ironwork makes me want to puke.

A fresh way to indulge your cultural interests and meet new people who share them.

art2heart offers cultured singletons the chance to meet new friends or potential companions at its high profile art events or through its discreet online profiling. Their events are informal receptions where guests can enjoy fine food and drink whilst appreciating the company of like-minded people in a cultural setting.

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is one of the largest independent grantmaking foundations in the UK.

We make grants to organisations which aim to improve the quality of life for people and communities in the UK, both now and in the future.

We like to consider work which others may find hard to fund, perhaps because it breaks new ground, appears too risky, requires core funding, or needs a more unusual form of financial help such as a loan.

We also take initiatives ourselves where new thinking is required or where we believe there are important unexplored opportunities.

The Courtauld Institute of Art is one of the world’s leading institutes for teaching and research in the history of art and conservation and was awarded a 5* grade in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise. Uniquely it houses world famous collections of paintings, prints and drawings in its Gallery, and also manages the Hermitage Rooms.

The Visual Arts Department specialises in fine art and textiles practice developed in a dynamic, critical and distinctive environment. We consider it crucial to see contemporary art as a continuing and transformative undertaking. We believe that an understanding of innovative contemporary art is best conveyed through critical discourse and direct interaction with those who are involved in developing an innovative culture of contemporary visual art in its diverse practical and critical aspects.

Particularly strong in digital communications and media.

Art and Design education at Kingston University has creativity at its centre and produces graduates who will go on to lead the creative industries, both at home, and abroad. Increasingly interdisciplinarity characterises work at Kingston: a project in the second year of the BA courses emphasises this approach and our new BA in Live Arts, confirms this commitment. As new communications technologies impinge more and more on the areas in which our students work, this opening up becomes increasingly necessary and will undoubtedly continue to do so for some time to come.

This covers Chelsea, Camberwell, Central St Martins, London College of Fashion and London College of Communication.

the world's leading educational centre for art, design and communication. Comprised of five of the world's most respected and innovative art and design colleges, University of the Arts London offers students an unmatched educational experience coupled with the dynamic social and cultural opportunities of London

Art and Design at Middlesex University has an International reputation for its excellence and innovation. We offer study programmes in all the major disciplines, at undergraduate and postgraduate level, plus opportunities for interdisciplinary work.

The Royal College of Art is the world's only wholly postgraduate university of art and design - fine art, applied art, design and communications - offering the degrees of MA, MPhil and PhD.

There are some 800 students with an average age of 26. They are taught by 100 academic staff, all of whom are distinguished artists, designers and writers who practise and research.

The interpretation of each subject area is diverse and open; and students determine the form their work takes within each discipline. Each subject pathway encourages and encompasses work within the areas of film, video, performance, drawing, digital media, print, photography, or sound, alongside specialist sculptural, graphic, and painting practices.

Atlantis is a great store that offers a very wide range of artist materials including custom made frames. Probably one of the cheapest art stores in London

105 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3RY

This place is a real treasure trove with one of the most comprehensive stocks of various leafs and all tools connected with the gilding trade in Europe, combined with very knowledgeable staff who know every aspect of gilding and leafing work and know how to apply it to most surfaces

This is an amazing privately owned company run by Brian Sawyer who specialises in producing paints for absolutely any surface in any colour. Brian will use a colour spectrometer to match any colour given from any sample and then keeps the paint recipe on a database so that you can order in any quantities at all. We have even seen paint finishes for concrete!!

He is used by film studios and the automotive industries because of the unique service he offers.

Intaglio can be a bit on the expensive side but has a great range of etching tools and wood cutting tools as well as some very good own brand pigments and inks

John Jones is arguably the best framers in Europe open to the trade and public alike. The store also sells some of the best art equipment available and some fantastic art materials. Parking available. As with most things in life, you get what you pay for.....if you want quality visit this place

Purcell's offer a fantastic range of paper and if you buy in quantity they will even deliver

If you want to die and go to pottery heaven, then visit this great ceramic/pottery store selling everything from kilns to glazes

Lawrence stocks just about everything that you could want or ask for to do with printing. The staff are usually very knowledgeable and the prices are pretty good too.

This place stocks the most comprehensive and vast range of equipment and materials that covers all aspects of display, hanging, protection and mounting of art work. Open to trade and the public. It is also at least 25-30% cheaper than most art stores as it mainly caters for the trade.

Great and cheap way of wrapping your unframed works. Supplier to the florists, but the cellowrap also looks great when used to provide protection to your prints etc.

1 Hansard Mews, London, W14 8BJ

Telephone : 020 7603 8374

We have used many framers, but Chanan is a perfectionist and takes great care and pride in his work. If you really want a tailored service with someone who cares, we would feel recommending Chanan to anyone, and regularly send both artists and our clients to him, knowing that they will always be pleased with the results. For those of you that like box frames and know that getting a good mitre cut on the corners is difficult, Chanan is a real craftsman and makes your work look the business.

We saw these for the first time this year and thought that they were great. They are toughened plastic picture/canvas corners which come in various depths and keep your works looking great, even when some galleries don't handle your works the way would expect them to. They will take the hardest knocks and last ten times longer than conventional cardboard versions as well as making you look more professional to galleries.

This company provides a great solution to every artists nightmare….wrapping their works and transporting their works. Gary provides bag sizes made to order (in addition to standard sizes) that are like bubble wrap expect they are covered with a tough silver coating and can be used over and over again, unlike conventional bubble wrap that once used, looks like a dogs dinner and cannot be used again, especially if transporting to clients/galleries etc, these bags look great even after some serious punishment.

Supplied by Artichoke Print Workshop, this is a really amazing press. It does not have any stops and can print the full length and width of the bed. Even better, we have seen a woodcut made from MDF, which was eight foot long, put through the press to produce an amazing print of a bi-plane. It's mechanism is second to none as you can turn the wheel with one finger...it's that good.

An established family run business that will, if required make kilns to your specific size and requirements. The staff are very knowledgeable and very helpful

Mel and Colin operate arguably some of the best print workshops in London. There is a fantastic selection of presses and classes range from one on one to organised workshops.

This is a very well run and very well equipped specialist resource for every type of printmaking activity. The centre will arrange one off classes to refresh your knowledge, will run specialist courses for a group and now offers a degree courses in printmaking as well.

The College itself is a unique residential centre, offering postgraduate study in conservation and restoration (books, ceramics, clocks, antique furniture, fine metalwork, and buildings interiors and sites) and visual & applied arts (sculpture, painting & drawing, tapestry weaving and the making of early stringed musical instruments.   There are also two MA degrees: MA Conservation Studies and MA Visual Arts, accessible through postgraduate diploma study.

It took me a long time to find, but this is one of the few affordable gold, silver, bronze casting courses in London that you can attend on a part time/evening basis. Paul Jelley the course tutor has been teaching the subject for eons and is extremely knowledgeable.

The UK's  professional organisation for fine art models. Find out what shape, size etc that you want in your model and them find contact details to book them.  A great art resource.