UK Visual Arts Support Ecology Summit with FRANK, CVAN, a-n and DACS
- 25 November 2025, 10am
- Online
Bring your ideas, experiences and solidarity to this collective moment of visioning and movement-building.
The UK Visual Arts Support Ecology Summit brings together artists, organisations, unions, and advocates to explore the pressing issues shaping the UK visual arts sector from studio sustainability, fair pay and hidden labour to the use of artists’ work in AI and copyright. The summit will look at the gaps and inequities in how the sector supports artists, and explore ways to build on existing practice or try alternative approaches to make the arts ecology more equitable.
The event is hosted by FRANK, CVAN, a-n and DACS.
Participants will join one focused breakout session below:
- Affordable studios and artist livelihoods | CVAN with guest contributors
- Hidden labour, fair pay and its unlevelled impact | FRANK Fair Artist Pay with contributions from DASH (Disability Arts in Shropshire) and SCAN (Scottish Contemporary Arts Network)
- Paying Artists – Towards standard rates for artists pay. Dive into the essentials of getting paid as an artist | a-n
- AI & Copyright - Explore how artists are navigating AI and defining what ‘responsible AI’ means in practice | DACS with guest speaker Beverley Hood, Artist & Lead of BRAID (Building Responsible AI Divides)
