Zeitgeist Arts Projects has emerged as a practical, vibrant, critically engaged arts organisation: "Putting diversity and practice at its centre Zeitgeist Arts Projects answers a real and growing need for artists to gain valuable support and guidance to be a part of an active professional, artist-led group, the opportunity to exhibit and a sense that they belong to a 'community of practice.” Grah
am Crowley, artist and former Professor of Painting at the RCA. Their pioneering talk: The A-Z of Surviving as an Artist has toured the country and is informed by Tilley and Davis' two different experiences of the art world, the joys and struggles of sustaining an arts career. The talk has been hosted by galleries such as De La Warr Pavilion and FirstSite, the Whitstable Biennale and a host of artist organisations in London, Liverpool, Cardiff and Maidstone as well as Southampton Solent University. They have also instigated online Twitter debates surrounding this question of Survival as an Artist, including at The ICA for Artlicks' second birthday. Tilley and Davis curate exhibitions of outstanding, new, promising, mid career and established artists: Collectible (2012), Discernible (2013) and The Zeitgeist Open, an annual open competition and The Zeitgeist Summer Exhibition for their membership body. These large group shows are significant because they provide a snapshot of what critically engaged artists across the country are doing in their studios now. Exhibiting artists are selected to bring attention and exposure to deserving talent and the shows result in an exciting cross-fertilisation of ideas and networks, gaining critical attention from wider public and art world audiences. "Flair, inspiring, can-do attitudes, elegantly curated exhibitions and an infectious will to support."
- Timothy Shepard
