Wallpaper
28th April, 2021, by Harriet Lloyd-Smith
Artist Support Pledge one year on: is it here to stay?
There has been one year of #artistsupportpledge, the Instagram initiative that brought income to artists in times of turbulence, and art to collectors at accessible prices. We caught up with founder, artist Matthew Burrows to find out how ASP turned from short term solution to global movement.
https://www.wallpaper.com/art/artist-support-pledge-one-year-on
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a-n
24th April, 2021
a-n announce partnership with Artist Support Pledge
a-n x Artist Support Pledge is a new collaboration to support artists and find practical solutions to improving artists’ livelihoods.
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ArtReview
Alongside his painting, Burrows has long been interested in the fraught economics of being an artist – he has previously run mentoring schemes on just this. So when commissions, sales and teaching gigs were cancelled globally this year, he came up with a simple hashtag and proposal.
https://artreview.com/artist/matthew-burrows/?year=2020
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The Art Newspaper
28th August, 2020 by Gareth Harris
#ArtistSupportPledge—what happened next to the ‘lifeline’ that helped artists survive during lockdown?
Instagram scheme rallying art community in the wake of the pandemic has so far generated £60m
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The New York Times
12th November, 2020 by Scott Reyburn
A Pledge to Help Artists Becomes a Lucrative Lifeline
With galleries and fairs shut, a British painter created a campaign to help others sell their work online during the pandemic. Estimates suggest that millions of dollars in sales have been generated.
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Apollo Magazine
19th November, 2020
Apollo Awards, Personality of the Year
Matthew Burrows
When the artist Matthew Burrows launched the Artist Support Pledge initiative on Instagram in March, his family said that garnering 1,000 participants would be a ‘brilliant’ achievement. The online selling platform helping artists make a living now has more than 69,000 followers, has produced 447,000 posts and generated around £70m in sales.
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The Art Newspaper
24th March, 2020, by Lousia Buck
#ArtistSupportPledge: growing online marketplace to help artists generates £9m in one week
One positive outcome of the coronavirus crisis has been the rallying of communities to help those most vulnerable in the face of adversity. A prime example is the Artist Support Pledge.
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/blog/artist-support-pledge
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Artnet
19th March, 2020, by Naomi Rea
Emerging Artists Are Pledging to Support One Another During the Health Crisis by Buying Each Other’s Work Through Instagram
With the Artist Support Pledge, Matthew Burrows hopes to make generosity infectious.
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Studio International
Matthew Burrows – interview: ‘I think as an artist and I make as a painter’
18th June, 2020 by Anna McNay
Matthew Burrows (b1971, the Wirral) is a painter through and through, even though his strategies for approaching his work include numerous analogies to try to free himself from the weight of art history.
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Georgina Saunders
7th July, 20220 by Georgina Saunders
ACCESS TO ART: ARTIST SUPPORT PLEDGE
“Not just surviving, but thriving”. What started as an idea to help friends who were forced out of work, and unable to exhibit their art, has turned into a global community of artists and makers connected by generosity. British artist Matthew Burrows developed the Artists Support Pledge, an initiative which was launched on Instagram, back in March 2020 in the wake of the UK lockdown.
https://www.georginamaysaunders.com/consciousconsumption/artist-support-pledge
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Matthew Burrows MBE 