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  • DACS celebrates one year on from the launch of the Smart Fund campaign

    Today marks a year since DACS alongside a coalition of arts organisations, launched a campaign for the Smart Fund which could generate between £250-300 million a year to better support visual artists and the wider cultural industries.

    29 June 2022

  • New Event Series Annoucement: Artist Narratives

    DACS is delighted to launch Artist Narratives, an online event series inviting leading female voices from across the arts to reflect on their practice and share their visions for the future. 

    23 June 2022

  • New to Artimage | Howard Hodgkin

    We're pleased to announce that you can now license over 500 images from the archive of The Estate of Howard Hodgkin through Artimage - DACS’ digital platform dedicated to sourcing and licensing exceptional modern and contemporary art. Our selection of images spans Hodgkin's whole career from the late 1940s all the way to his last paintings.

    1 June 2022

  • DACS convenes with organisations from around the world at IFRRO to highlight the rights of artists.

    DACS joined with organisations from around the world to participate in the mid-year meeting of the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO) in Oslo, Norway.

    26 May 2022

  • DACS joins the Gallery Climate Coalition

    DACS is proud to become a member of the GCC community and more broadly to work with our artists and artist estate members, and the wider visual arts sector towards collaborative solutions for greater climate security and equality. 

    25 May 2022

  • Art + Environment: True North – The story behind the image

    In 2006, photographer Gautier Deblonde joined a collective of artists and writers on a trip to Svalbard, an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. The trip was organised by Cape Farewell, and aimed to bring creative voices together to highlight the growing climate emergency. 

    The images created on this trip launched a new body of work True North, an ongoing series that Deblonde has developed with multiple return trips to the island since, in which he is exploring the changing landscape, the melting glaciers and collaborating with climate scientists who live and work in the area.

    DACS selected one of these striking images to lead our Art + Environment series. Here Gautier shares the story behind the project.  

    24 May 2022