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Organisations across the visual arts have come together to provide key policy recommendations for the next UK government to enact to help sustain and support the UK’s visual arts and artists. 21 visual arts organisations have collectively outlined a roadmap to better support and invest in the UK’s visual arts sector. This comprehensive manifesto comes…

On episode five, host Toby Tobias Kidd is joined by international independent curator and writer Fatoş Üstek. Fatoş was the curator of Frieze Sculpture 2023, and has previously curated internationally across large-scale events, exhibitions, arts festivals, and biennials, as well as directing arts institutions and commissioning artists in the public realm. She has recently released…

FRANK Fair Artist Pay is excited to announce the launch of FRANK Tools, which are developed to support the UK arts ecology, including but not limited to artists, public art institutions, commercial galleries, funding bodies and creative practitioners. FRANK Fair Artist Pay is a not-for-profit community interest company that is set to change the mindset…

For volume 2 of the Artiq Annual, Fatos Ustek speaks with Patric McCrae about the necessity for change and what we must do collectively to get there.

Artists Lindsay Seers (Kent) and Rune Peitersen (Amsterdam) share their ongoing efforts to establish a fair benchmark for paying artists, continuing this series of one-to-one livestreams as part of our VisualiSE programme.

Ima-Abasi Okon, Falke Pisano and Fatoş Üstek respond to five set questions on the subject of ​‘Fair Work’.

A curator, writer and leading voice in contemporary art, Üstek has been commissioning in the public realm for over two decades and has worked on a number of large-scale biennials and festivals. She previously ran the Liverpool Biennial and The Roberts Institute of Art in the UK, was a judge for the Turner Prize 2020,…

This week, Artsper had the opportunity to sit down with Fatos Üstek, the Turkish-born writer and curator whose innovative contemporary expertise has long been recognized on the international stage. Born in Turkey, Fatos is now based in London and has curated some of the world’s most prestigious exhibitions and biennials. We were delighted to hear…

Fatoş Üstek on why we must drop the fantasy of the lone ‘genius’ – doing so would open up a path towards healthier working conditions in the arts.

Lindsay Seers is a Kent-based artist and co-founder of a new alliance, Frank, which is calling for fair pay for artists. Her powerful film, ‘No Money is Included’, provides a personal perspective on this issue.