Category: Articles

  • Performative Drawing

    Performative Drawing

    Zealous Stories: Performance winner, M. Lohrum, is an artist based in London and currently working across video, drawing and performance.

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  • 10 Questions with Guy Armitage

    10 Questions with Guy Armitage

    This year, Zealous celebrates its 10th Anniversary. In recognition of this momentous occasion, we’ve interviewed founder and CEO, Guy Armitage, to find out more about the company’s past, present and future. 

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  • Sharing Four Lessons from Running a Business

    Sharing Four Lessons from Running a Business

    Ten years have gone by quickly, and we are still learning. After a decade of building Zealous, we thought we should share some of our top lessons.

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  • Pricing your competition

    Pricing your competition

    Choosing to raise funds from your programme will need careful consideration and require you to balance the positive social impact you wish to have (access) with your ability to make enough revenue to run a successful programme (sustainability).

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  • We Are Not Ourselves

    We Are Not Ourselves

    Zealous Stories, Sculpture winner, Svetlana Ochkovskay lives and works in Portsmouth, UK. Her practice explores ideas of identity, belonging and otherness: encouraging new perceptions of the world by taking the audience to a visual other.

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  • Celebrating our 10th Anniversary!

    Celebrating our 10th Anniversary!

    It is humbling to see an idea I had ten years ago develop into a network of over 45,000 artists and arts organisations. And although we should use our anniversary to celebrate what we achieved, this feels only like the beginning! Here’s what to expect from our Anniversary year (and beyond).

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  • Establishing the perks for your competition

    Establishing the perks for your competition

    The only reason applicants will take the time to submit is that there’s something in it for them. Defining what’s in it for those selected, and understanding what you have available to you, could allow you to run a competition on a very tight budget, and still make a great success of it.

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  • Perfecting Your Artist Statement

    Perfecting Your Artist Statement

    Having a clear and compelling artist statement is essential for grant applications, exhibitions, open calls and residency submissions. To ensure you communicate what matters, we’ve compiled a quick and easy guide to help you tackle the daunting task of putting words to your practice.

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