Queer Britain, Unlimited, House of African Art, PILAA.
We invite a panel of speakers who will discuss who and what we are representing across the sector. How is programming changing on a wider level to radically transform audiences’ expectations? We must ask big questions about the underpinnings of our society, the roots of exclusion, and most importantly, under whose terms of engagement will we change the future? The session was chaired by Dr Ope Lori from PILAA (Pre-Image Learning And Action) whose research reflects upon race and gender stereotypes and political narratives.

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Somerset House, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Sotheby’s Institute and Ameena M. McConnell.
How do curators make decisions? How does an idea develop into a fully realised exhibition? How can you ensure it is a success? In a world where attention spans have been reduced to three seconds, how do you captivate audiences and ensure that public engagement is high? What opportunities are there for emerging practitioners in an age defined by footfall and what is “Instagrammable”? This panel discussed the role of the curator in all its many forms and intricacies in the gallery world today.

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Arts Council England
What opportunities are there for artists to access funding and grants in 2020 and beyond? The demands for Arts Council England funding is high. What are the best ways to ensure your application has the highest chances of success? What are the current priorities for Arts Council England and does your project fit within these objectives? Denise Fahmy, Relationship Manager Visual Arts, Arts Council North, and Mirka Kotulicova, Assistant, Visual Arts, Arts Council England, lead a session on understanding best practice for writing an application to propel artists’ careers and access the industry.

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Hosted by Industry Professionals
These 1-1 sessions were for practitioners working across all different types of genres including drawing, painting, photography and digital media, sculpture, design and three-dimensional art, video, installation and performance. Our renowned industry experts provided advice from the worlds of publishing, curation, academia and business. These experienced individuals provided essential guidance on how to develop ideas and further artists’ careers, as well as providing vital insights on funding opportunities, applications and exhibiting work.

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Royal Institute of British Architects

The United Nations and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have stated that to address the climate emergency, we must immediately reduce our carbon emissions by 7.6% per year until 2030. The construction industry contributes 40% of the UK’s carbon emissions. Gary Clark (Chair of the RIBA’s Sustainable Futures Group and Principal at HOK) discussed how and why we continue to use the earth’s resources as a commodity and its affect the climate, highlighting the necessary actions to deliver a net zero sustainable future.

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Atlas Gallery, Creative United, Gazelli Art House, Photo London

What is the landscape of the commercial gallery world? How do artists and gallerists get started in a highly competitive market? How do you develop a roster of collectors and how do galleries decide who to represent? Do sales determine success? What role do art fair play in creating new collectors and buyers? How do galleries and fairs interact today? A panel of gallerists spoke about developing artists’ careers, whilst spurring on the art economy, engaging with the wider industry as an ecosystem of ideas.

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Hosted by Industry Professionals
These 1-1 sessions were for practitioners working across all different types of genres including drawing, painting, photography and digital media, sculpture, design and three-dimensional art, video, installation and performance. Our renowned industry experts provided advice from the worlds of publishing, curation, academia and business. These experienced individuals provided essential guidance on how to develop ideas and further artists’ careers, as well as providing vital insights on funding opportunities, applications and exhibiting work.

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Denise Fahmy, Relationship Manager Visual Arts from Arts Council North, and Mirka Kotulicova, Assistant, Visual Arts, Arts Council England, offered a series of unique and tailored advice surgeries. Each 30-minute session, offered on a 1-1 basis, gives individuals the opportunity to discuss the realities of funding applications and gain feedback on prospective projects, ideas and aspirations. Attendees could learn more about accessing the wider industry through the annual Arts Grants – open access funding programmes for practitioners and art organisations working in multiple media and at differing levels.

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Aesthetica Magazine, The Art Newspaper, Creative Review, British Journal of Photography.
Since the iPhone was released in 2007, journalism has transformed. Content has been reshaped in a myriad of ways including digital editorial, social media, podcasts and video content. A new visual literacy has also emerged where the image is just as powerful as the text, if not more. What does this mean for the way that content is produced and the journalists who are producing it? A panel of experts from British Journal of Photography, Art Newspaper, Creative Review and Aesthetica discussed the media industry today.

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Lottie Davies, Thomas Dukes, The Photographers’ Gallery.
Footfall for photography exhibitions is up year on year, events like Photo London and Paris Photo are experiencing surges in audience numbers. Photography has never been so present in our daily lives; it is the vernacular of our times and the most immediate form of communication. How are brands, agents, galleries and practitioners maximising and contributing to the evolution of visual cultures? What makes a good image and how far can it go in terms of likes, shares, followers and influencing the photography industry?

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Hosted by Industry Professionals
These 1-1 sessions were for practitioners working across all different types of genres including drawing, painting, photography and digital media, sculpture, design and three-dimensional art, video, installation and performance. Our renowned industry experts provided advice from the worlds of publishing, curation, academia and business. These experienced individuals provided essential guidance on how to develop ideas and further artists’ careers, as well as providing vital insights on funding opportunities, applications and exhibiting work.

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Denise Fahmy, Relationship Manager Visual Arts from Arts Council North, and Mirka Kotulicova, Assistant, Visual Arts, Arts Council England, offered a series of unique and tailored advice surgeries. Each 30-minute session, offered on a 1-1 basis, gives individuals the opportunity to discuss the realities of funding applications and gain feedback on prospective projects, ideas and aspirations. Attendees could learn more about accessing the wider industry through the annual Arts Grants – open access funding programmes for practitioners and art organisations working in multiple media and at differing levels.

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Andrea Luka Zimmerman; Sara de Jong, University of York. Andrea Luka Zimmerman is an artist and filmmaker whose work is concerned with marginalisation, co-existence, waywardness, social justice, class and structural violence. Zimmerman has been shortlisted for the Grierson and Jarman awards, as well as the Aesthetica Art Prize. Her latest film is the Artangel-produced Here for Life. In conversation with Sara de Jong (University of York), Zimmerman explored how filmmaking engages with social and political spheres, asking questions about a sense of belonging, class and culture in the moving image.

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Aesthetica Art Prize, Arts Council North, Arts Council England, Jerwood Visual Arts. Funding and budgeting are some of the most important elements for practitioners to consider. What opportunities are available for artists? What are organisations offering in terms of pastoral and financial support? This session brought together some of the UK’s leading organisations to discuss their key initiatives, as well as how practitioners can engage with these opportunities in 2020 and beyond. Speakers discussed different routes to consider and gave details on how to apply for the next wave of bursaries and grants.

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Hosted by Industry Professionals
These 1-1 sessions were for practitioners working across all different types of genres including drawing, painting, photography and digital media, sculpture, design and three-dimensional art, video, installation and performance. Our renowned industry experts provided advice from the worlds of publishing, curation, academia and business. These experienced individuals provided essential guidance on how to develop ideas and further artists’ careers, as well as providing vital insights on funding opportunities, applications and exhibiting work.

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John Keane. John Keane is a renowned political artist whose work continues to address the most pressing social and political issues of our time. His sustained artistic inquiry into military and social conflicts around the world has extended from Northern Ireland to the Middle East, where he was commissioned as the Official British War Artist of the 1991 Gulf War. His paintings depict displacement, war, terror, politics and the environment. He is using one of the oldest forms of art but in new ways. He discussed the ethics of representing a war zone, as well as his impressive career, reinterpreting the definition of painting.

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Artes Mundi, Aesthetica Art Prize, Fabrica, Parker Harris, Liz West. This practical session explored the various avenues for career development, gaining gallery representation and understanding the routes into exhibition programming. Are Art Prizes the best route for practitioners to reach wider audiences? What are their benefits beyond the prize money? This informative session brought together key representatives from a range of art prizes, galleries and agencies, as well as individual artists to speak about the best ways to navigate the complex and competitive art world as a practitioner today.

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Hosted by Industry Professionals
These 1-1 sessions were for practitioners working across all different types of genres including drawing, painting, photography and digital media, sculpture, design and three-dimensional art, video, installation and performance. Our renowned industry experts provided advice from the worlds of publishing, curation, academia and business. These experienced individuals provided essential guidance on how to develop ideas and further artists’ careers, as well as providing vital insights on funding opportunities, applications and exhibiting work.

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Denise Fahmy, Relationship Manager Visual Arts from Arts Council North, and Mirka Kotulicova, Assistant, Visual Arts, Arts Council England, offered a series of unique and tailored advice surgeries. Each 30-minute session, offered on a 1-1 basis, gives individuals the opportunity to discuss the realities of funding applications and gain feedback on prospective projects, ideas and aspirations. Attendees could learn more about accessing the wider industry through the annual Arts Grants – open access funding programmes for practitioners and art organisations working in multiple media and at differing levels.

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Acute Art, ArtAngel, Serpentine Galleries, Northumbria University. Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality technologies provide new forms of interpretation and experience. The development of immersive curation, including apps, projections and mapping, has created an accessible route for increased audience engagement. Acute Art and Artangel spoke in conversation with Charles Danby, Northumbria University, about the intersection between art and technology, and its potential for the future with regards to wider dissemination of cultural and artistic output beyond the gallery.

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Cornelia Parker. Cornelia Parker (RA, OBE) is world-renowned. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1997 and was the first female figure to be appointed the Election Artist for the UK General Election in 2017. She has exhibited internationally with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, V&A, Tate, the British Council and the British Museum, and, most recently, MCA Australia. Cornelia discussed the conceptual, political and physical elements of her practice. She touched upon the use of materials in sculpture and large-scale installation, exploring their meaning in a world of mass-consumption and geological fragility.

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Hosted by Industry Professionals
These 1-1 sessions were for practitioners working across all different types of genres including drawing, painting, photography and digital media, sculpture, design and three-dimensional art, video, installation and performance. Our renowned industry experts provided advice from the worlds of publishing, curation, academia and business. These experienced individuals provided essential guidance on how to develop ideas and further artists’ careers, as well as providing vital insights on funding opportunities, applications and exhibiting work.

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Denise Fahmy, Relationship Manager Visual Arts from Arts Council North, and Mirka Kotulicova, Assistant, Visual Arts, Arts Council England, offered a series of unique and tailored advice surgeries. Each 30-minute session, offered on a 1-1 basis, gives individuals the opportunity to discuss the realities of funding applications and gain feedback on prospective projects, ideas and aspirations. Attendees could learn more about accessing the wider industry through the annual Arts Grants – open access funding programmes for practitioners and art organisations working in multiple media and at differing levels.

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