What is an Artist’s Journey and Why Would You Want to Take It?

We are calling out for artists in collectives, studios and networks to tell us what is needed and what works.

How do artists come together, and stay together?

What are networks survival techniques?

What are the systemic failures that need addressing?

Are the current support systems adequate or too competitive and divisive?

Are there too many artists? 

In order to improve support for visual artists across the region, we need a deeper understanding of how artists support each other, stay, and thrive in Yorkshire and Humber. We are asking for your valuable help here in gathering this knowledge  through a short (2 minute) survey we have designed.

This information will be immensely helpful in many ways, and will enable us to design the right kind of support for artists. It will ensure that what we do is artist-led ,responds to real world and live problems, creates genuinely useful opportunities, and develops a safe space for critical debate.

The Artists Journey Conference

In the short term the survey will inform The Artist’s Journey Conference that will take place online on the 30th of June. Now in its fourth year, The Conference is a partnership between YVAN and Sheffield Hallam University. It is aimed at Fine Art Students, recent graduates and early career artists in Yorkshire, and we want to ensure that they know what kind of landscape they are going into.

This year The Artists Journey #4 will be with participants from artists networks across the Yorkshire and Humber region. There will be an opportunity to have an interview with one of our colleagues at Sheffield Hallam at the end of the survey and,  if you are interested, a chance to add  your voice to the event.