Non-profit

PILOT: is an independent not-for-profit initiative led by artists and independent curators, that provides a ongoing support network and annual large-scale independent forum for emerging artists who do not have commercial representation.
One hundred prominent and emerging curators, critics, artists and collectors are asked to nominate one artist who is not represented commercially. The project is designed to be a platform, and catalyst, where information is exchanged and contacts made between artists, curators, collectors and gallerists.

Founded in 2004 by Rory Macbeth, Colin Guillemet, Doriane Laithier, Elizabeth McAlpine and Matthew Poole.
For PILOT:1 in 2004, we had identified an increasingly widening and under-represented gap between the support offered to artists by the art education institutions and the commercial system of galleries and art-fairs within the UK. We saw that this gap was, and continues to be populated by a large number of independent artists and curators whose work has matured beyond the remits of the educational environment, but is not seen by the commercial system.
However, this is where some of the most innovative and exciting art work and research is being produced; and yet there was no independent not-for-profit large-scale forum to represent these artists' interests. PILOT:1 offered a new innovative model to begin to explore and attempt to fill this gap in arts provision.

Creating an ideal environment to support artists with space and time to take risks, challenging their on limits and collaborate,

The jatkaproject is a cultural projects site, which provides spaces for innovative
people connected to the rich craft culture of Czech republic. The JatkaProject is a
space, in which contemporary architects, artists and designers work, collaborate
between media, given a platform to network and promote themselves to an
international audience.
jatkaproject offers a space away from the impact of the markets commercial
strategies and pressures to develop innovative/contemporary ideas.
The site provides working, living and exhibition spaces for collaborative projects
are able to work on their ideas and concepts, also with the local machinery and
industry of craftsmanship.
The living quarters are placed on each end in the former stables of the butchery.
Connected through several studios, which join in the centre, through a large
heatable furniture, designed by German Architects Peppler and Tauber.
Through mediation between the different fields of art, jatkaproject is questioning
the validity of each creative practice standing alone. It is providing space for
productive interventions.