Artsadmin offers free one-to-one advice sessions to all UK-based artists at any stage of their career who work in contemporary performance practice.

Our advisory service was set up in 1998 and has since provided advice, information and guidance to over 5000 artists. Sessions can be one-to-one or in small groups for artists who are working collaboratively; we also offer advice and information by email and phone.

The content of advisory sessions is driven by the questions each artist brings, and tailored to their concerns. Common topics include project development, opportunities and contexts for developing and showing work; funding applications, marketing, issues around documentation and representation; networking, collaboration, and dialogue around artistic development of the work itself.

To book an appointment with one of Artsadmin’s advisors, please email advisoryservice@artsadmin.co.uk or call us on 020 7247 5102. We tend to book at least a fortnight in advance due to demand. To make best use of time, please see our Frequently Asked Questions before booking a session, in case your question can be answered there.

You are also welcome to download the Intro to DIY Peer Support Activity compiled by New Work Network and Artsadmin, which outlines a number of working peer support models.

Advisors

Manick Govinda is Head of Artists' Advisory Services. He has worked in the arts for 20 years. During this time he has developed strategic relationships with deciBel, Creative Partnerships, NESTA, a-n: The Artist's Information Company, and has undertaken project management for artists Franko B, Zarina Bhimji and Zineb Sedira. He is the editor of the following publications: Performing Difference, Research In Process, Curated Space, commissioned and wrote Radical Positions.


Nikki Tomlinson is Artists' Advisor & Producer with Artsadmin, managing a range of artistic development programmes and producing projects including Unlimited Global Alchemy and Future Editions human library, and co-curating Town Hall Artworks with Manick Govinda. She is also a choreographer, performer and outside eye; recent work includes Plainsong (2009-10), a duet with the cellist Hannah Marshall and Folk Dance (2007-8), a performance installation made during a residency at La Caldera in Barcelona. She has shown work in the UK and in San Francisco, Barcelona and Gran Canaria and regularly performs in other artists' work; in the past year she has performed with Jennet Thomas, Emma Leach, Rosemary Lee and Augusto Corrieri and assisted Mamoru Iriguchi as dramaturg. Nikki is a Trustee of Dance Art Foundation and a member of the SPACE Supporting Performing Arts Circulation in Europe Programme.

Cat Harrison is Assistant Artists' Advisor and Producer. She has worked at Artsadmin since 2008 in various roles including undertaking Artsadmin's year long producer traineeship. Cat has worked with many different artists at Artsadmin and has co-produced and managed Artsadmin's own projects from human libraries to films as well as working on the Town Hall Hotel Commissions, Artsadmin's Bursary Scheme, Talking Shop events and Weekenders. She has spoken at various institutions including Goldsmiths and Royal Holloway universities and the annual Culture Change and State of the Arts conferences. Cat has also worked as producer with several artists outside of Artsadmin, including Oreet Ashery and Larissa Sansour, Dick McCaw and Bryony Kimmings and makes her own work as part of artist collective non zero one.