Great Art Needs Great Infrastructure.
I work with artists and creative practitioners across artist management, creative strategy, environmental sustainability, mentoring, access support, and funding applications. Each service can stand alone or be combined, depending on your practice and current needs.
If this sounds relevant, please get in touch to arrange a conversation. My priority is finding the right fit rather than selling a service, so let's discuss where there may be genuine synergy between what I offer and what you need.
Artist Management
Managing relationships with galleries, collectors, curators, and institutions, identifying opportunities such as commissions and residencies, and handling studio administration, so that artists can focus on their work. This service allows for a longer-term role, shaping career strategy and positioning, ranging from hands-on daily support to the occasional steer or standalone project management.
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This supports artists with an idea that needs shaping, whether it is in an early stage, or ready to pitch. Practical, focused sessions working through the specifics of what the project needs and how to move it forward.
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Coordinating the practical delivery of exhibitions and projects, from budgeting and timelines to installation, fabrication, and working with technicians, contractors, and venues.
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Guidance on the direction and framing of a practice, including exhibition concepts, curatorial input, and long-term thinking around how and where work is presented.
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Day-to-day management of the studio's operational needs, covering scheduling, correspondence, shipping and insurance, and record-keeping across a practice.
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For artists working through something bigger over time such as a new body of work, a change of direction, or a major funding round. This is a multi-session engagement that builds continuity and adapts as the project develops.
Environmental Sustainability
This offers practical support for artists wanting to work more sustainably, from reviewing materials, packaging, and shipping to carbon auditing and aligning practice with recognised frameworks including the Gallery Climate Coalition, Ki Culture, and Julie's Bicycle.
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Measuring the carbon cost of materials, shipping, travel, and energy use, building a picture over time that shows where emissions shift and where changes will have the most effect.
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Building a clear, realistic picture of current impact, agreeing priorities, and setting achievable goals with regular check-ins to track progress and adjust as things change.
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Reviewing what materials are used, how they're sourced, and how work is packaged and transported, identifying practical alternatives that don't compromise the work.
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Helping artists engage meaningfully with sector frameworks such as the Gallery Climate Coalition, Ki Culture, and Julie's Bicycle, understanding what Active Membership involves and embedding it into day-to-day practice.
This is a one-to-one relationship supporting an artist's development. It is an opportunity to create space to think clearly about practice, review work, and get practical advice on building a sustainable career. Focused on developing confidence and direction, not acting on the artist's behalf.
Mentoring
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As part of a mentorship, there will be an honest look at where the work stands now, what's working, what isn't, and where it might develop including how it sits within the contemporary landscape and how to position it more effectively.
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Mapping short and long-term goals, identifying the steps to reach them, and building a realistic picture of progress with regular check-ins to adjust as things change.
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Working through the practical realities of sustaining a practice such as pricing, selling through galleries or directly, editions and online shops, database management, proposal writing, and managing time and money.
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A consistent, confidential space to work through self-doubt, creative blocks, and the pressures of a professional practice.
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Identifying the right exhibitions, residencies, open calls, and relationships for your stage of career, and thinking strategically about how and when to engage with them.
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Developing a clear, consistent, and authentic voice across artist statements, CVs, portfolios, and website and online presence.
Access Support
This provides clear and directed support for artists facing mental or physical access barriers including neurodivergent conditions, ADHD, dyslexia, and dyspraxia in submitting an Arts Council application. Working alongside you at your own pace, asking questions rather than providing answers, to help articulate your own vision. This is not bid writing or funding support, it is guidance on your own application. It is a service that is funded by Arts Council access provision at no cost to the applicant.
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Available to deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent people facing barriers when applying for funds or using the Grantium service, as well as those experiencing poor short or long-term physical or mental health. Arts Council England accepts self-ID and will never ask for proof.
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May include note-taking during development conversations, interpreting and writing up ideas in response to application questions, working through forms and budgets, navigating Grantium, checking grammar and spelling, and signposting to further support.
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Access Support remains available throughout the process, whether you take more time to reflect or decide not to submit at all.
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Step 1: Submit an Access Support Request using this online form.
Step 2: The Access Support Team reviews your request which typically takes 5 working days for Developing Your Creative Practice, or up to 20 days for a Project Grant.
Step 3: Once approved, you can begin working with your support worker.
Practical support in getting a project in front of the right funders by identifying suitable programmes, building a strong case for support, and ensuring the application is clear, compelling, and meets selection criteria. May include drafting from scratch, strengthening an existing bid, or identifying opportunities that suit the project's scale and ambition.
Funding Support
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Identifying which funders and programmes are right for your project, looking beyond the obvious options and finding opportunities that suit the scale, ambition, and timing of the work.
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Getting clear on what the project is, who it's for, and why it matters, building a case for support that is coherent, compelling, and tailored to the funder's priorities.
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Working through the true cost of delivering the project and presenting it clearly and ensuring the budget is realistic, justified, and properly reflects the value of time and labour.
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Whether starting from scratch or refining an existing draft, working toward an application that is clear, confident, and specific with the narrative and budget telling a consistent story.
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Critically reviewing a previous application to identify where it lost momentum, and making targeted changes to strengthen a resubmission.