Paying Artists aims to secure fair payment for artists who exhibit in publicly-funded galleries.

Our Paying Artists Campaign was launched in 2014 to secure payment for artists who exhibit in publicly-funded galleries. The campaign was developed with support from 2,000 artists, curators, funders, arts producers, museums, galleries, local authorities and other public commissioners.

Our Exhibition Payment Guide, first published in 2016, provides advice for agreeing exhibition payments for the benefit of the whole sector: for organisations to establish best practice, for artists to sustain their careers and so audiences can see art that reflects the full spectrum of human experience.

We’re working on refreshing our Exhibition Payment Guide, expanding it to cover best practice in commissioning a broad range of artistic work, and will publish a new Code of Practice to support relationships between artists and commissioners.