{"id":606486,"date":"2026-07-27T13:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/606486\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T13:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:15:16","slug":"the-artists-information-company-the-uks-largest-artists-membership-organisation-relaunches-as-artists-now-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/606486\/","title":{"rendered":"The Artists Information Company, the UK’s largest artists\u2019 membership organisation, relaunches as Artists Now – The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

The largest artists\u2019 membership organisation in the UK\u2014The Artists Information Company (a-n)\u2014 has been revamped and rebranded, changing its name to Artists Now<\/a>. The move helps \u201censure that artists\u2019 voices are heard and shaping policy at the highest levels\u201d, says its chief executive officer, Julie Lomax. A new \u201cGreen Manifesto\u201d, conceived for artists, forms part of the rebrand.<\/p>\n

The organisation was launched in 1980 as a grassroots, artist-run newsletter. \u201cWe\u2019ve been supporting artists for over 45 years and were set up by artists, growing from a 500-copy a month newsletter\u2014there was no internet in 1980\u2014to a professional membership organisation with over 36,000 members,\u201d Lomax tells The Art Newspaper.\u00a0Annual membership for artists and other self-employed arts professionals costs \u00a338 annually; membership includes insurance coverage and access to an advice helpline, among other benefits.<\/p>\n

The membership organisation campaigns on crucial issues for UK artists, from fair pay to intellectual property. \u201cWe make the case for investment in artists and the visual arts through the All Party Parliamentary Group for Visual Arts and Arts and we\u2019re looking forward to what the new changes in government in the UK [led by the new Prime Minister Andy Burnham] will bring for culture,\u201d adds Lomax.<\/p>\n

Artists Now also offers guidance on budgeting, contracts, rates of pay and exhibition payments, bursaries and other legal and tax matters. \u201cThere isn\u2019t a day that goes by when I don\u2019t hear about the murkier practices of the artworld, consignments going missing or not returned, major galleries and museums not paying artists properly for their labour, commercial galleries owing artists money and late payments and more,\u201d Lomax says.<\/p>\n

The new Green Manifesto<\/a>\u2014developed through a collaborative research process led by the artists Tom Pope, Alys Scott Hawkins, and Melanie Wheeler\u2014aims to \u201chelp you to take active steps towards an environmentally responsible practice\u201d. The manifesto offers advice for artists divided into \u201ceasy\u201d, \u201cmedium\u201d and \u201chard\u201d environmentally-conscious changes. <\/p>\n

Lomax adds: \u201cWe have our own environmental policy and practices and wanted to rise to the challenge of how we support artists to make changes, without taking a top-down approach. The Green Manifesto is a call to action developed by artists for artists, you could say A2A, which makes it different, rooted in the reality of everyday artists\u2019 practice, realistic and achievable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new campaign keeps environmental issues in the spotlight. Other high-profile bodies raising ecological issues include the Gallery Climate Coalition which launched<\/a> a new consultancy earlier this year called Climate Action Services International (Casi).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The largest artists\u2019 membership organisation in the UK\u2014The Artists Information Company (a-n)\u2014 has been revamped and rebranded, changing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[267],"tags":[2038,365,362,256146,363,364,366,18,117,440,19,17],"class_list":["post-606486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-artists","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-arts-organisations","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116992129611728965","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}