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Artquest Exchange

Artquest Exchange is our free, professional, peer to peer online community for visual artists. Use it to find artists around the corner or around the world to:

find artists to work with, get feedback on your work, and advice on your career,

get to know artists in new places when you plan to travel,

find relevant content on our site more easily,

extend your professional network,

arrange temporary studio and apartment exchange.

Artquest Exchange is open to any professional artist to join for free.

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Artquest - visual artists development, opportunities, research

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Supporting visual artists at all stages of their careers through free access to information, opportunities, and resources. Research into artists' livelihoods.

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We Support and Profile Artists. Axisweb is a platform to support artists and profile what they do to foster a more engaged and diverse community of artists, commissioners and audiences.

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In tandem with our artistic programme, 198 works with local young people aged 13-25 with multiple and complex needs through our Creative Learning training and outreach programmes. Our programme of skills development, one-to-one support, advice and mentoring provides young people with opportunities t…

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What we do

Creative Shift believe in shaping a diverse creative industry and support underrepresented students to make a living doing what they love.

Join the Creative Shift community to gain access to industry contacts from diverse backgrounds, work on co-created projects and access funding to help kick start your creative career! You will have the opportunity to develop your skills and know-how within a collaborative environment with your peers and industry professionals. So whether you'd like to freelance, start up your own business or work in industry, our programme is tailored to support you on your creative journey.

Our projects mirror the future of the creative industries and the diverse voices that contribute to this. We want you to feel empowered to enter the creative industry as your most authentic self.

How to get involved

Follow our student-led creative network 'Connect To' on Instagram: @Connect2network for competitions, student created content and paid work opportunities.

Or email us at creativeshift@arts.ac.uk

Who we support

Creative Shift is dedicated to supporting students who meet the following criteria in line with UAL's Access and Participation Plan (PDF 350KB).

You must currently be a Home (UK) student studying on an undergraduate degree course at UAL and one or more of the following statements apply to you:

I am a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic student.

My parent(s)/ guardian(s) have not completed a University Degree.

I receive the UAL bursary.

I am a care leaver or care giver.

I am disabled according to the Equality Act 2010.

I have taken part in the UAL Insights programme.

Creative Shift will also consider students on a case by case basis when a referral has been made by UAL staff. Please refer students to us by emailing creativeshift@arts.ac.uk. Decisions will be made by at least 2 managers of the Creative Shift team.

If you need a reason to know why community is important for creatives coming into the industry, look no further than the Creative Shift. It's easy to get lost when starting off, but Creative Shift make sure that you get the advice, connections and support you need to hit the ground running. - Amos Eretusi, Founder: The Kusp

I wish I had something like Creative Shift when I entered the industry. The fact that there's space and support for you regardless of which creative field you want to explore is fantastic, because representation is needed almost everywhere and Creative Shift not only recognise that, they do something about it. - Abraham Abbi Asefaw, Co-founder: Pop-Up Agency

The huge range of support I received from Creative Shift built my confidence massively to be my own director and to push my practice forward. - Chantelle, Student: Central Saint Martins

I was missing a space where I could openly learn about other things happening in the creative world, or where I could share ideas that I had. Being part of the Creative Shift community, filled this gap: I was able to come learn, listen and share. By creating a welcoming, safe and supportive space, I felt encouraged to share my ideas and ask for help with realising them. - Renatha, Student: London College of Fashion

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Creative Shift: diversity in the creative industries

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Creative Shift believe in shaping a diverse creative industry and support underrepresented students to make a living doing what they love. Join the Creative Shift community to gain access to industry contacts from diverse backgrounds, work on co-created projects and access funding to help kick start your creative career!

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Creative Shift: Shaping a diverse creative industry to help you achieve your creative ambitions and make a living doing what you love.

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Creative Shift, part of UAL's Careers and Employability, are dedicated to supporting students who are underrepresented in the creative industries. We offer additional mentoring, internships, funding and projects for UAL, undergraduate, UK, students whose parent(s) or guardian(s) have not completed a University degree.

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Creative Shift: Shaping a Diverse Creative IndustryThe Creative Shift team is part of UAL's Careers and Employability department. We are dedicated to supporting underrepresented students and recent graduates to make a living doing what they love and aim to shape a diverse creative industry.

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Prioritise your health and wellbeing over your work!

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Visit Us

MayDay Rooms is an archive, resource and safe haven for social movements, experimental and marginal cultures and their histories.
We are open: Wednesday-Friday, 11-6pm
Please contact us to book an archival appointment:
in-formation [AT] maydayrooms.org

Find us at:
88 Fleet Street
London
EC4Y 1DH
Tel: 0203 930 9297

Using the Space

We offer free organising and event space for unfunded activist and self-organised education groups, and we ask those who can afford to make a donation on a sliding scale to support the space.

The space is bookable from Monday-Friday and sometimes at the weekend.

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Join the MDR's Friends scheme to help us sustain our archive as a resource for movements today, to continue to programme events and outreach around our collections, and provide meeting spaces, all free of cost.
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April 25 @ 7:00 pm

From Spare Rib to Red Rag to Shocking Pink, activist periodicals of the 1970s-80s powered, connected and sustained the UK Women's Liberation Movement. As the socialist-feminist magazine Scarlet Women put [...]

April 23 @ 6:30 pm

Assembling together a variety of short documentary films from the 1970s, this event will highlight the often overlooked politics of and experiments with collective childcare historically and what reflections or [...]

April 22 @ 7:00 pm

Join us for the launch of the Exarcheia Anti-Gentrification Timeline - a project aimed at mapping anti-gentrification struggles that have happened in Exarcheia over the last three years. Recently, gentrification [...]

April 19 @ 7:00 pm

A talk by Ed Emery [Red Notes / SOAS] The decade-long experience of small-boat migration across the Mediterranean is known in North Africa as "harraga" - the burning of one's [...]

April 21 @ 12:00 pm

Join us over two sessions for a hands-on archival filmmaking workshop exploring the role and place of (institutional and community) archives in storytelling and how we can respond to [...]

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Archiving from Below

Since its inception, MayDay Rooms has been built on the principle of archiving from below, challenging the conventional institutional methods of gathering, shaping, and disseminating the history of struggles.

As we enter our tenth year, we are launching a reading and discussion group to address the practices of archiving from below and strategies of activating the histories of resistance .

The group is open to archivists, researchers, historians involved in both past and present organising, and anyone interested in radical archives. Our aim is to share our own approach, learn from each other, and collaboratively develop counter-archival practices that extend beyond mere critique.

For Peace!

We are collecting materials and stories from live and historical campaigns working for peace. We want to create an inspiring open-access archive showing a wide range of campaigns and movements.

Peace groups, demilitarisation activities, anti-militarist campaigns, feminist responses to war, anti-war mobilisations, pacifist education are just some examples of what we're looking for. We want leaflets, interviews, oral histories, newspapers, videos, films, banners, stencils to be made available online and in a touring exhibition.

No contribution is too small! We will favour campaigns active within our lifetimes, but would be happy to consider materials dating all the way back to the opposition to the First World War. The geographical focus is Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but we are also interested in international and transnational campaigns.

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Looking to start your own business? Or grow an existing one? Creative Enterprise Awards are funding and support packages to help grow new business ideas and nurture enterprising initiatives developed by UAL students and graduates.

Our graduates often go on to launch exciting new creative businesses or social enterprises and we'd like to celebrate this and support them in their first steps.

How to apply

The deadline for applications for 2020 has now closed.

If you are interested in applying in future you can read the guidelines and view the application form below.

The prizes

The awards are run in partnership with industry leaders and organisations. Apply for a grant of up to £5,000 plus a share of prizes including: showcasing opportunities, leading industry mentorship and specialist business training.

Our partners include: B Artmonsky, The Dots, Holition, Cockpit Arts and Google for Startups Campus, with more to be announced shortly.

What we're looking for

An idea or business that demonstrates one or more of the following:

Creative businesses or projects with a positive social aim, or ethical practice

An original product or service that addresses a clear market need

Community engaged projects/interventions

An idea with good growth potential

Scope for international relationships/trade

A strong focus on technology (not limited to digital technologies)

A freelance or service-based creative business

An artist or maker with a commercial practise

Your application and pitch should include:

A business model that clearly identifies how the business will be sustainable

Evidence of your skills, experience and determination to succeed

Market Research

Demonstrate your plans and potential for growth

Open to current UAL students and recent graduates (within 2 years of graduation).

The Award categories

The award categories are:

Get support for your application

To help you prepare for your application, get support in the following ways:

Attend our Enterprise Programme of events throughout the year

Get one to one business planning advice

International students and graduates

International students and graduates who wish to set up a business in the UK after graduating will need to apply for a Start-up Visa. More information is available on our International Start-up Visa page.

Previous Creative Enterprise Awards winners

Hear how winning a Creative Enterprise Award in 2019 helped these 2 UAL graduate businesses.

Watch our film on how to prepare for a successful creative pitch featuring Carolyn Dailey, founder of Creative Entrepreneurs.

Want to set up your own business? UAL can help you apply for a Start-up Visa to stay in the UK after graduation.

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Looking to start your own business? Or grow an existing one? Creative Enterprise Awards are funding and support packages to help grow new business ideas and nurture enterprising initiatives developed by UAL students and graduates. Our graduates often go on to launch exciting new creative businesses or social enterprises and we'd like to celebrate this and support them in their first steps.

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Christie Berry, 'The Art of Others' Mead Award 2018. Photo: Ellie Radford

The Mead Awards have been generously supported by Scott Mead and The Mead Family Foundation since 2013. Scott is a fine art photographer, philanthropist and investor, based in London for over 20 years.

Careers and Employability manages the awards, as part of its work supporting UAL students and graduates to make a living doing what they love.

Mead Awards are designed to help UAL students and alumni develop their creative practice. You can apply with a proposal for any arts project which adds something new to your industry / discipline, and has a positive impact on your own practice. Your arts project can be in any creative discipline which is studied at UAL.

Mead Awards aim to help you learn and reflect through the application process. We will send a short individual feedback email to all applicants, at each stage. This tells you the main points from the shortlisting panel's discussions. We hope you will find this feedback helpful for creating future proposals, pitches and funding applications.

Projects are selected across these 11 subject areas, and across all UAL Colleges:

AI, digital and interactive design

Architecture / interiors, spaces, conservation

Fashion, design, tailoring, production

Fine Art, 2D, 3D, photography

Visual comms, graphics, illustration media, journalism

Film, TV, animation, sound

Product, industrial, 3D, jewellery, textiles, materials

Theatre, design, performance, acting, directing, writing

Research (Mres/Phd)

Business / management / enterprise, MBA

Culture, Criticism, Curation

To see the range of projects so far, download our past awards (see link above).

Mead Final Project Awards

This award supports UAL BA/BSc (Hons) undergraduate students who need extra support to achieve their final major project. You can apply for a minimum of £200 and a maximum of £2,500. To apply you must be a UAL undergraduate student starting your final year. Your proposal must show how the funds would help you complete your final major project.

We welcome applications by those in receipt of a UAL Bursary or Access to Learning grant. We recognise that finances are often a barrier for these students.

The deadline for applications by students who graduate in 2020 has now passed. Applications for students who graduate in 2021 open in October 2020 (deadline in November 2020). Please revisit this page in autumn 2020 for details.

Mead Fellowships

You may apply in your final year of study at UAL (either on an undergraduate or postgraduate course). Postgraduates may apply in their final year of MA / MSc / MRes / PgDip / PhD courses. You may apply as a recent graduate, if you graduated from UAL during 2019.

Fellowships are awarded for arts projects which demonstrate that they fulfill the Fellowship Award Criteria (PDF 83KB).

You can apply for funding of up to £10,000.

Your proposal must be for a single arts project (or piece of research). You must be proposing to complete this within the period September 2020 to July 2021 (after graduation). The art project cannot be completed as part of a postgraduate course.

You can attend an introductory talk for applicants:

There is a 3 stage applications process:

Stage 1 - applications
1. Download the Project Proposal form (Word 853KB) 2. Upload your completed Project Proposal form
Deadline 9am on Thursday 27 February 2020 (late applications are not accepted)

Applications are shortlisted in March 2020

20-30 applications will go through to Stage 2

Stage 2 - applications by shortlist

We invite the shortlist to attend a briefing in March 2020. They then submit a longer, more detailed application (deadline early May 2020). About 9 applicants are selected to go through to the final stage of the process - the Mead Fellowships pitch.

Stage 3 - the Mead Fellowships pitch

The Mead Fellowships pitch is in June 2020. Finalists give a short presentation about their project. This is followed by a brief Q&A session with the Mead Awards judges.

Fellowship finalists will be informed of the results by the end of June 2020.

What can Mead Awards be used for?

All costs must be related specifically to the project.

For example, your project may require purchases such as:

Art materials and making costs (including fees for engaging extra artists/makers)

Professional development and training

Specialist expertise and advice

Software, web hosting, web design costs

Licences and permissions

Small items of equipment

Promotional and marketing costs, printing

Exhibition space, venue hire

Language-related costs (e.g. translation services)

Travel and related costs (note: overnight accommodation is only permitted where absolutely necessary)

Essential books and publications

Fellowships (but not Final Project Awards) might be used for:

Work space/studio rental

Subsistence allowances (you will have to prove that this is absolutely essential to the completion of the project)

The awards cannot be used to pay for:

Tuition fees*

Living expenses*

Capital purchases (e.g. major equipment, vehicles, property ownership)

Elective study, degree placements and/or internships.

Applicants are required to provide a strong case for their whole budget.

Winners will have to provide evidence of where the award has been spent.

* For information about fees and grants, please visit: Student Fees and Funding.

General guidelines

Applications are open to individuals irrespective of their nationality or country of residence.

Please note recipients of the AHRC Scholarships are not eligible to apply, due to the terms and conditions set out by AHRC.

Only 1 application is permitted per named applicant. However, applicants can be named as part of a team in another submission.

Proposals may only be submitted for 1 award each academic year, either a Final Project Award or a Fellowship (you may not apply to both).

All applicants for the Final Project Award in 2018 will be eligible to apply in January 2020 for a Fellowship award (if applying as a 2019 graduate).

Fellowships are not offered for the completion of a project which was started during study at UAL (though the proposal may be for a totally new project which is a development on previous projects)

At each stage, the judges' decision is final and correspondence will not be entered into.

Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.

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The Mead Awards have been generously supported by Scott Mead and The Mead Family Foundation since 2013. Scott is a fine art photographer, philanthropist and investor, based in London for over 20 years. Careers and Employability manages the awards, as part of its work supporting UAL students and graduates to make a living doing what they love.

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Artquest Exchange

Artquest Exchange is our free, professional, peer to peer online community for visual artists. Use it to find artists around the corner or around the world to:

find artists to work with, get feedback on your work, and advice on your career,

get to know artists in new places when you plan to travel,

find relevant content on our site more easily,

extend your professional network,

arrange temporary studio and apartment exchange.

Artquest Exchange is open to any professional artist to join for free.

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Supporting visual artists at all stages of their careers through free access to information, opportunities, and resources. Research into artists' livelihoods.

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