News and events: Creator voices

DACS champions environmental responsibility with the launch of the GCC Artist Toolkit

The Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC) launched its latest initiative, shaped with the involvement of a number of DACS members – the GCC Artist Toolkit.

• 23 July 2024

Welcome to a new era: Supporting the UK's Visual Artists

As the UK welcomes the new Labour Government, DACS’ CEO Christian Zimmermann discusses how the UK’s visual artists can be better supported.

• 5 July 2024

DACS celebrates 40 years of protecting artists' rights

Artists, gallerists and politicians come together to celebrate 40 years of promoting artists’ rights

• 7 June 2024

On Assets and Values

For our 40th anniversary, Michael Dayton Hermann, Director of the Andy Warhol Foundation, wrote an essay about the importance of the artist’s legacy.

• 6 June 2024

Collectives: Reshaping the art world

What new models for artist support should we be calling for to give artists greater agency and influence?

• 18 June 2024, 6:30-8pm
• Shoreditch Arts Club, 6 Redchurch St, London E2 7DD

It is time to set a global standard on protecting artists and their work

For DACS' 40th anniversary, Adelaide Damoah wrote an essay, published by the Arts Professional, calling on the government to safeguard artists’ rights.

• 20 February 2024

Watch: AI & Creativity: Protecting Creators in the Age of AI

At the recent AI Fringe, part of the UK’s AI summit, DACS convened a panel exploring the potential impacts of AI models on creators and their IP rights.

• 3 November 2023, 2-3:30pm
• British Library, Elliot Room of the Knowledge Centre, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB

Artist's Spaces: Making Place - Artists and creative ecologies

How can artists, organisations and local communities work together to nurture sustainable creative ecologies?

• 30 November 2022, 5-6pm
• Instagram Live

Artist's Spaces: Voices from the Factory

Explore the legacy of Warhol’s Factory and its wide-reaching influence on contemporary artistic practice then and now.

• 16 November 2022, 5-6pm
• Zoom

Artist's Spaces: Innocence Lost - Johnnie Shand Kydd on photographing the YBAs in the 1990s

Honest and unfiltered, Johnnie Shand Kydd’s photographs of the YBAs on their trajectory to success in the 1990s take you back to a time before the art world made headlines. Artimage speaks to the photographer to find out what makes these images so special.

• 8 November 2022

Artist's Spaces: Nicholas Sinclair on photographing artists' studios

Nicholas Sinclair has been photographing British artists in their studios from the 1990s to the present day. The impeccably composed portraits offer a glimpse into the work and lives of the individuals behind today's greatest modern masterpieces. We talked in-depth to the photographer about his portraits, which are available to license through Artimage.

• 7 November 2022

Artist's Spaces: Growing Creative Communities

How can artist-centred organisations encourage creative communities to flourish and interact on a global stage whilst responding to local needs.

• 2 November 2022, 5-6pm
• Zoom